9/29/03

I hate the slap in the face that is Monday morning. You know, when you get to come back to the one place that makes you want to shoot people. Downtown to the office. Between all the idiots that can’t drive, the pedestrians that don’t look and the overly social morning people that work in this place I’m going to go insane! In addition to that, I’m here for no reason, it’s not like I actually have any work to do.

We went out to eat last night, out for mexican, mmmmmm. Anyway, when it came time to leave there was this woman blocking the damn isle with her chair. There was just enough room for me to barely squeeze through. I was pretty pissed because not only did she not bother to move but everyone at her table watched me squeeze through there and didn’t bother to say a word. My skinny-ass husband barely fit through there and I’ve got a big butt so I really barely fit. She was also making it difficult for the wait-staff to get through with trays of food. She was just chilling sideways in her chair with it way out, talking to her friends. No consideration for other people whatsoever. No need at all for her to be scooted back that far.

It really bothers me that so many people in this world have no consideration for others. This is why everyone is so pissed off! Every time I leave the house I’m treated poorly by several people. Honestly, I think if everyone would take the time to be more polite and considerate this world would be a better place. The most important rule in the world to remember is to treat others as you would like to be treated. If everyone would do this we’d have fewer problems.

I read an interview with Anna-Varney, the person behind Sopor Aeternus. She lives by one simple rule, the rule that you should treat others as you would like to be treated. That rule covers all the bases. You wouldn’t want to be killed so you shouldn’t kill. You wouldn’t want someone to steal from you so you don’t steal from others. You wouldn’t want your spouse to cheat on you so you don’t cheat on your spouse. You don’t lie because you don’t want to be lied to. You don’t yell at the cashier because if you were the cashier you wouldn’t want to be yelled at. It’s so simple yet it covers all the bases. Even the simplest things such as pulling your chair in so someone can get by. Would you not want someone to do the same for you?

Anyway, off my soapbox.

Sophie’s kittens are going to be able to get out of that room they’re in pretty soon. We’ve got a piece of plexiglass over the bottom part of the doorway. I thought for sure this would keep them in, heh, they’re starting to figure out how to climb it. I can’t make it much taller because as it is Sophie already has to jump to get over it. I think by the end of the week I’m going to have to just let them explore the whole house on their own. We’ve got a couple things we need to fix, places where they shouldn’t go for now so we’re going to take care of kitten proofing those. They have depth perception now, kittens don’t have depth perception until 4 weeks, so understandably I was worried about them being around the stairs. But now they’re jumping up and down and going all over the place so I think they can handle the stairs. I mentioned in last nights entry that we’re keeping a kitten. I failed to mention which one though! That’s because we haven’t decided. 🙂 I really kind of want to keep the female, she’s becoming my buddy, but we’re just going to keep the last one left. We’ve found at least one home, possibly two. If our neighbors would admit they want one we’d have three homes. They’re in love with the grey kitten. I have a feeling if he isn’t adopted by the time we’re back from our vacation they’ll want to take him home with them. I’m trying to find the kittens homes with people I know, preferably people I know that already have cats and that understand the importance of keeping their cats indoors. As a last resort I’m going to post something up at work. It’s really important to me to know that these kittens are going to excellent homes though so each person will be casually asked a few questions before I commit. All I require is that the person understand the value of spaying and neutering and the value of keeping their new cat indoors. Pretty simple. Having had cats before or currently owning cats is a plus. I’m devoting a lot of my time into these kittens, my Husband and I spend several hours a day with them and it’s showing, they’re becoming well socialized, fearless, little cats. I understand now, why breeders are so picky about the new homes their cats go to, I’d be the same way. 🙂

I can’t wait until the kittens get to meet Sara. lol I’ll have to have the camera out for that one. The camera appears to be working again by the way. Anyway, Sara is really submissive, she was on the floor submitting to a Dachsund in Petsmart. Everyone got a good chuckle out of that, look at the huge Golden Retriever being submissive to the little tiny Dachsund. *sigh* I’m just waiting, I’m sure Sara will be down on the floor when she meets the kittens, lol. I wish she’d gain some confidence. She’s fine around us, the only time she gets submissive is if say, hubby walks through the back door and immediately heads over to her to take a toy out of her mouth or something, that’s the only time she gets submissive around us. She’s pretty confident around us otherwise, she’ll even play keep-away with her toys and stuff, her keeping them away from us of course. It’s just around other people and other animals that she’ll get on the ground and pee herself. My mom thinks she’ll outgrow it, we really hope so because it’s hard to take her places. Like when we go to people’s houses and stuff we always have them come outside to meet Sara because she’ll pee as soon as she realizes there’s a new person or dog. Then she’s fine after that.

Anyway, I’m down to about 900 characters so maybe I should close this and get to work. Or um, get to reading comics and the news being as I have no work to get to. 🙂