Posted by Christina | Posted on 24-04-2010
Category : Daily, Family, Friends, Furbabies, Randomage, School, Visual
The semester is almost over. One week to go. Finished a final paper, finished a grant proposal, and finished a presentation. Now all I need to do is edit and fix up my three short stories and study study study for a final exam. I can’t wait for it all to be over so I can start to catch up on my life. That would be nice. First order of business will be spring cleaning. My room, desk, and closets desperately need it. I have a vacation scheduled towards the end of May and my bigger vacation scheduled in August. In August my mom, my room-mate and I will be driving to Atlanta Georgia mainly to visit the world’s largest aquarium. I booked a four star hotel (which I am sure we will never want to leave), and we are figuring out our other sight seeing plans.
You see, because I have only been outside the state of Michigan once, and that was to Toledo Ohio when I was little. We decided against flying because it’s such a hassle and by driving we actually save around a thousand dollars. I’m not too sad about it. I’ve never been on a plane before and I’m sure I would need to Valium or something. My brother has agreed to take care of my cats while I am away. On my first vacation in May, Mat will be taking care of them. I’m hoping to be up north for at least four days during that vacation and the coming home for the last three days to just relax and do whatever. The whole point of going up north is to be totally by myself. My uncle has a cabin up there and there is nothing around him but woods for miles. I want to be cut off. Literally. I want to fill my car with my cameras, painting supplies, books and writing junk and just take off. I want to have a few days where I have absolutely no obligations. Freedom.
I can’t wait.
Oh, and here’s a sneak peek photograph of what I’ve been pointing my lens at so far this spring:
Posted by Christina | Posted on 06-01-2010
Category : Daily, Furbabies
Pluto had the snip-snip on Monday morning and he stayed overnight at the vet’s and I picked him up Tuesday morning. For Zoe you would have thought it was the end of the world. She kept pacing back and forth and meowing and waking me up throughout the night. I couldn’t exactly explain to her that he would be home soon. And since he has been back home he has been a horrible influence. I’ve been trying to stop him from running around too much or jumping on things so he can heal. But no. She just zips by him or tries to bat at him to get him to play. He seems to be okay though. He has been very cuddly and lovey since he got home. He weighs almost 6 pounds and it almost the same size as Zoe. They are thinking he will be twice her size when he reaches a year old. Oy.
Posted by Christina | Posted on 05-12-2009
Category : Bitch, Daily, Furbabies, Randomage, School
Yesterday my short story was critiqued in my creative writing class. Originally the story was my NaNoWriMo story, but I failed that once again this year. The critique went really well. I wrote a sort of sci-fi western without realizing it. Which was great because I love Serenity and Firefly. My favorite part was getting all the copies of my story back and seeing how many people drew little aliens on them. One person drew a UFO and the beam of light pulling up a guy. They were great.
Aren’t they cute? They are doing this right now.
Pluto is not far behind in size compared to Zoe. Next month he will have hit the 6 month mark. Two nights ago I gave him a bath for the first time. I wish I could have snapped a photo. He look liked a big wet rat and he didn’t like it at all. But the next day his fur was all un-matted and is super soft. Next is Zoe. But I’m going to wait a few days since his bath was such an ordeal.
I know this post seems all over the place, but then again, so is my life at the moment. Sadly in fanlisting news, I was not approved for the fanlisting I wanted. Oh well. I am bummed, but I guess I will just try for a different one.
In school news I am terrified about my final exam for my Lit class. Mostly because I have no idea what to expect. I’m also a little nervous for next semester. I have only writing classes. Three of them. I will be doing nothing but writing…all the time. Let’s hope I do not get writer’s block. That would be brutal.
Posted by Christina | Posted on 07-09-2009
Category : Daily, Furbabies, Randomage, School
This is my life. I now write about “kittens and more”. Dear Goddess. Someone help me.
Well, even with my hectic schedule I am proud of myself for being completely committed to being a trend whore. Case in point: http://pookieface.tumblr.com/
Ah yes. I have to keep up on these things. I mean really, twitter, wordpress, stumble, tumblr, last.fm, flickr, facebook, phirebrush (when it was around), message boards, NaNoWriMo…and tons others I am sure. I cannot think of all of them off the top of my head. There should be a career in this. Online trend whoring. I’m not sure why I would get paid, but I think I should be getting paid.
Life has been busy with the new kitten and classes have started again. Therefore, I have no life. I cut back my credits. Originally I was going to be at 9 credits, 3 quarters time, but when I saw the syllabus for my last class of the day I realized that wasn’t going to work. I dropped my Gender Studies class. The syllabus was scary. So now I am half time. I am taking American Literature and Intro to Creative Writing. The American Lit class is scaring me a bit, but I think I will be okay. I hope.
On the kitten front, he seems a little bigger to me every day. His eyes are changing color. When I first got him they were blue, now -====they are grayish green. I hope they turn green. That would be pretty. 7777777[-======
Damnit. He just stepped on my laptop. You can tell. He’s getting braver when it comes to playing with Zoe and he’s getting into more trouble. I have no experience with children…but I would guess that having an eight week old kitten is a little like having a child. ————————————————————————————————– Apparently he likes the dash key. Now he’s chewing on my room-mates sweater. Le sigh.
Posted by Christina | Posted on 27-08-2009
Category : Furbabies, Uncategorized
Pluto is a seven week old kitten that I now take care of. As I mentioned in my last post I got him from a co-workers daughter. He’s pretty adorable, when he isn’t chewing on cords or clawing at the couch cover. There has been a lot of debate over his name. At first I named him Cloud. But after saying it for a day, it didn’t seem right. Pluto actually has a story behind it between my room-mate and I. A few weeks ago I was driving to the library with Mat to drop off some books. By the library for whatever reason there is a sign that has painting or photo of Pluto in the background and has some info on it (even though it’s not a planet any more). I haven’t actually gone up to the sign to read it. Anyways, while we were driving by it I said “Why do they have a sign up about Pluto? Why a sign about Pluto?” But I pronounced it Pahluto, both times. He thought this was hilarious, and laughed for quite a long time. So when I realized the name Cloud wasn’t working for me, I said to Mat, “What about Pahluto?” We both decided it was perfect. I pronounce it correctly and only incorrectly when making the cute baby voice at the kitten. I call him Luto for short as well.
Mutti, Vati, some friends and others make a face when I tell them his name. I think it’s perfect. Frankly the more people that dislike it, the more I’m sticking with the name. Vati calls him Cloud and Mutti calls him many things. When I didn’t have a name for him I was calling him munchkin.
My biggest concern was how Zoe and him were going to get along. My vet warned me that at first Zoe would probably hiss, swat at and then run away from him. She said this could last up to a week or two. I was very nervous about this. I put Pluto in his crate and let Zoe approach him with the cage bars between them so she couldn’t hurt him. For the first two days all she did was hiss and bat at him. And then something changed because overnight they are now best buds. She’s still a little too rough when playing sometimes, so I have to separate them at times. He’s really not scared of her anymore because he will stalk and pounce on her. Zoe has become a little protective of him as well. For the past few nights she will lay right outside his crate until he settles down and falls asleep. It’s really sweet.
Okay I’m done. You are all probably tired of reading about my cats. I’m becoming a crazy cat lady.
