10/2/03

Okay, it’s just cold. All of a sudden this week it’s like freezing. I’ve turned the heat on and I have to wear my sweater in the office again. It’s always freezing at work. I’ll have to put Clyde’s heater back in his fish tank this weekend when I come in to clean his bowl. Bettas are tropical fish that need their water between 74-80 degree’s. If I don’t use a heater in his tank, even when the heat is on at work his tank doesn’t get much over 72.

Sally did something kind of funny the other day. Monday evening hubby and I had leftover lasagna for dinner. Well, I had left the room for a minute and hubby had turned his back to the lasagna. I think he was getting a spatula from the drawer. Next thing I know hubby is laughing. Our cat Sally was standing over the lasagna “covering it up” with her paw, y’know like cats do in the litter box. I didn’t know whether to laugh, or be offended, lol. Apparently Sally thinks my lasagna smells like something that needs to be covered up! 🙂

Last night we had soup for dinner, we’d purchased some organic soups to try. I had corn chowder and hubby had this tomato soup concoction. He didn’t like it though so he ended up dumping it and making normal Campbell’s tomato soup. I’m sitting on the couch and look up to see hubby walking very slowly and carefully towards the living room with a bowl of soup filled right to the edge, the soup just fit in the bowl. I tried to stifle it but I busted up laughing. Next thing I know hubby is laughing and heading slowly to the closest flat surface available (the mantle) so he could put his soup down without spilling. Then he reminded me that it was very mean to make him laugh when he’s trying to carry a very full bowl of hot soup! He ended up standing at the mantle eating for a minute to make the soup easier to carry. 🙂

I’m hoping my copy of “The Sixth Sense” I ordered shows up today. I love Amazon.com. I ordered a used DVD copy of The Sixth Sense for $7.49. I check there for all movies and CD’s I want now. They closed all the used CD places we used to go to around here so I’m really glad amazon.com lets people sell used stuff. There was a really cool used CD store in Tulsa, much, much better than any here I’ve seen here in CT. That’s where I got most of my CD’s when I lived there. I don’t mind buying used at all, new shit tends to be way overpriced anyway. I’m cheap. 🙂

The kittens have really gotten to be a lot of fun, they’re personalities have formed and they’re becoming individuals. Kitten 1 really likes hubby; he also tends to be somewhat of a loner. It seems every time everyone is asleep Kitten 1 will be wide-awake. Kitten 2 is pretty mellow and very sweet. He’s also really curious and likes to attack clothes. Kitten 3 is psycho kitten; he likes to run around and “poof” up at everything and everyone. He charges all around the room, he’s gotten really hard to photograph. Kitten 3 also purrs every time you go to pet him, as soon as your hand touches him he’ll start purring. Kitten 4 is a little sweetie, she has her moments where she likes to run around and go psycho but she loves to climb people and curl up and stuff. Kitten 5 is a loner; he’s also extremely bold. Sally was in the room and growling at him, the other kittens backed up but he just kept going towards her like “Hey, play with me!!” He eventually made Sally worry enough that she left the room. Sally is kind of afraid of things smaller than her, she’s even terrified of our hamster! Kitten 5 also tends to run around and go psycho a lot too and likes to pull himself along the ground on his back.

I’m not having any luck getting any of the kittens interested in solid food. I have two things I’ve been trying to get them to try. I have some KMR kitten weaning food and I have some canned kitten food. They’re not interested in either. They’re getting close to 5 weeks now and it’s high time they started supplementing their mother’s milk with real food. If they haven’t sampled the kitten food by this weekend I’ll probably lock Sophie out of the room for a few hours to make sure the kittens are good and hungry when I try to offer them some kitten food. Might help if we have hungry tummies. 🙂 We’ll see.

Anyway, I should probably get to work now; it’s nice to actually have work to do for once! 🙂