Well, I hadn't done anything with this blog in ages, so I posted some kitten pictures (put them up for the same date they went up on my personal blog) and updated the layout.
Many thanks to Holly Kravetz over at Seth and Holly for finding Shabby Blogs. I love their stuff! It makes making a blog pretty so much easier.
So, not a lot of news on the family front. School is over (and thank goodness) and with it is my job. I'm currently looking for some positions around town, keeping my ear to the ground and all that, just waiting for the right one to come along. Nathan is waiting on pins and needles for Dollar General training to start. Any day would be great, guys! In the meantime, he's setting up a website at GenreAdventures.com. You should check it out if you have a moment. I'll have him post details about it later though. ;)
Keep your eyes peeled for the news and pictures - we've put a deposit in for a new apartment, and we're just waiting for the guy who is in there now to move out. It's a basement apartment, two bedrooms, 1 bath, nice sized (and separate) kitchen and living room, and comes with a washer and dryer! I'll be so excited to not have to go to the laundrymat anymore!
I'll update again as soon as we have unpacked a couple boxes, but I don't know if there will be much news until then.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Kaylee Fantastico Adkins
Well, you've seen the cutest cat ever (that would be Jack Bauer, pictures below). Now meet his little sister, Kaylee Fantastico!
I would have more pictures, but she crawled under our LP cabinet to take a nap. She's really annoyed that Jack keeps trying to smell her butt. :P
I would have more pictures, but she crawled under our LP cabinet to take a nap. She's really annoyed that Jack keeps trying to smell her butt. :P
New Kitten
So I will admit to having had some doubts as to whether or not Kaylee and Jack would co-exist well. At least, in the early days.
Boy was I wrong. Yeah, there was some hissing and growling for a couple of hours. Jack was not happy. There was a THING in HIS bathroom. And it looked like the THING that guards the fishes in the glass of the cabinet. And he was not having it.
But then he got close enough to smell her.
Jack is a cat that loves smells. And he loves smelling girl cats. When I come home from visiting a friend with girl kittens, he loves on me like there is no tomorrow. He just can't wait to rub up on my arms, lick my hands, and sit in my lap.
And after he got a smell of her, Jack was a changed cat. He wandered around with her butt in his face for hours, trying to figure out who she was.
Kaylee, for her part, is a girl with some Moxy. She huddled in a corner for about an hour, then got adventurous and played with one of her bell-balls. That was the sound that first alerted Jack to the fact that there was a living critter in that bathroom. And then, she just kept finding high ground to view him from. At one point, they were playing with each other's paws underneath the bathroom door. And once Kaylee realized that he wasn't going to eat her, she started exploring.
Jack gained a healthy respect for her size, and claws, and she realized that this huge cat was friendly, and still a baby himself, and nothing to be scared of.
And now they're chasing each other all over the apartment. :)
Sometimes Jack gets a little overzealous - and when he does, Kaylee squeaks, and he backs off. I've never seen anything like it. He gives her this inquisitive purr/meow, and like he's saying "Oops, did I do that?" and then goes to sit down somewhere until Kaylee starts playing again. And Jack doesn't play with his toys anymore - he watches Kaylee play with them, and then plays with her.
It's like when an child finally gets a baby sibling.
It's adorable.
I love my kittens.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Kaylee Fantastico
Well, you've seen the cutest cat ever (that would be Jack Bauer, pictures below). Now meet his little sister, Kaylee Fantastico!
I would have more pictures, but she crawled under our LP cabinet to take a nap. She's really annoyed that Jack keeps trying to smell her butt. :P
I would have more pictures, but she crawled under our LP cabinet to take a nap. She's really annoyed that Jack keeps trying to smell her butt. :P
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
World of Warcraft
has eaten me. Literally.
LOL I do, like, nothing else online anymore. I have a decent offline life still, but I spend all my time playing as either a pixelized gnome or a pixelized tauren.
Tina Void (Tinyvoid) is a warlock, formerly of Gnomergon, whose home residence now lies in Dalaran. She and her husband, Gervais, managed to escape the great city when the gnomes lost it to Mekgineer Thermaplugg's betrayal.
Tina, convinced that Gervais, who had been studying with the great Mekgineer, had had some part in the destruction of their home, left him, and her home country behind, fleeing to the north. It was there that the Master Jewelcrafter met with the wizards of the Kirin Tor in Dalaran. She took up the study of arcane magic for a short time, but found it an unsuitable companion for her need to avenge her fallen home city, and found herself falling in with the fel-based magic of the warlocks in the underbelly of the city.
Her training, feeding her rage and her need for revenge, was finally completed, and she returned to Dun Morogh, intent on delivering Gnomergon from the hands of the troggs. It was at this point that she discovered Gervais, on a mission of a very similar nature. The two became wary allies again, and have spent countless hours attempting to eliminate the troggs and the traitorous Thermaplugg.
Over the course of their adventures, Tiny learned the truth about Gervais' involvement with the destruction of their home city, which was none. After some time ,the two reconciled, and now live together in Dalaran, and have turned their attention from their ruined homeland to the frozen reaches of Northrend, and the destruction of the Lich King.
Nettlebloom Winterhoof, of Thunder Bluff, is a druid of great promise. From the inauspicious beginning of her father's death and her mother leaving her with tribesmen in Mulgore so she could adventure the rest of the world, Nettie (as she prefers to be called) has risen in esteem with the druids of Thunder Bluff and Moonglade, becoming quite a force of her own.
For Nettie, the world is a large, beautiful, deadly, spiritual place, filled with many races and many kinds of wisdom. While of course she reveres the great Earthmother, she believes that there is much to learn from the other races of Azeroth - both of the Horde and of the Alliance. She is particularly enthralled by the Night Elves' goddess Elune - seeing many parallels between that deity and the Earthmother.
Nettie was, of course, very glad to see her mother, Namirah, when she returned just after Nettie finished the Rites of the Earthmother. Their reunion had every possibility of being completely awkward, but the two have bonded well since Nami's return. After meeting her mother again, Nettie set out on an adventure of her own - attempting to collect and compile information from the other races of the Horde, that may someday be useful to the Tauren. Nettie has reservations about the closed-mindedness of some of her tribesmen, but hopes to find a way to convince the ever proud race that there is much to learn from the other races of Azeroth. She is currently concerned with the Bloodthistle of the Eversong Woods.
Over the course of her exploration, Nettie has joined forces with some of her Azerothian brethren in an organization called The Hand of the Flights. it's leader, Ranokal, was charged by Alexstraza, the great Aspect of Life, with protecting the interests of the dragon flights in Azeroth. Their immediate mission is to investigate and, ultimately, destroy the Lich King, whose scourge are causing such distress and decay to the land. Nettie, a healer, who searches for balance in all things, found herself immediately drawn to the idea of a world without the Scourge.
In accordance with her officer position within the Hand, Nettie found herself seeking out a Tauren who she had met, briefly, though an old friend named Palehoof. Eliath Stonecrusher is a Tauren Shaman, known for being a Spirit Walker - a being capable of sending aspects of his spirit to different locations than his physical self to complete various tasks: herb gathering, secret meetings, and surveillance being three that come immediately to mind.
What is soon to come in Nettie's story? I could tell you, but that would ruin the suspense...
LOL I do, like, nothing else online anymore. I have a decent offline life still, but I spend all my time playing as either a pixelized gnome or a pixelized tauren.
Tina Void (Tinyvoid) is a warlock, formerly of Gnomergon, whose home residence now lies in Dalaran. She and her husband, Gervais, managed to escape the great city when the gnomes lost it to Mekgineer Thermaplugg's betrayal.
Tina, convinced that Gervais, who had been studying with the great Mekgineer, had had some part in the destruction of their home, left him, and her home country behind, fleeing to the north. It was there that the Master Jewelcrafter met with the wizards of the Kirin Tor in Dalaran. She took up the study of arcane magic for a short time, but found it an unsuitable companion for her need to avenge her fallen home city, and found herself falling in with the fel-based magic of the warlocks in the underbelly of the city.
Her training, feeding her rage and her need for revenge, was finally completed, and she returned to Dun Morogh, intent on delivering Gnomergon from the hands of the troggs. It was at this point that she discovered Gervais, on a mission of a very similar nature. The two became wary allies again, and have spent countless hours attempting to eliminate the troggs and the traitorous Thermaplugg.
Over the course of their adventures, Tiny learned the truth about Gervais' involvement with the destruction of their home city, which was none. After some time ,the two reconciled, and now live together in Dalaran, and have turned their attention from their ruined homeland to the frozen reaches of Northrend, and the destruction of the Lich King.
Nettlebloom Winterhoof, of Thunder Bluff, is a druid of great promise. From the inauspicious beginning of her father's death and her mother leaving her with tribesmen in Mulgore so she could adventure the rest of the world, Nettie (as she prefers to be called) has risen in esteem with the druids of Thunder Bluff and Moonglade, becoming quite a force of her own.
For Nettie, the world is a large, beautiful, deadly, spiritual place, filled with many races and many kinds of wisdom. While of course she reveres the great Earthmother, she believes that there is much to learn from the other races of Azeroth - both of the Horde and of the Alliance. She is particularly enthralled by the Night Elves' goddess Elune - seeing many parallels between that deity and the Earthmother.
Nettie was, of course, very glad to see her mother, Namirah, when she returned just after Nettie finished the Rites of the Earthmother. Their reunion had every possibility of being completely awkward, but the two have bonded well since Nami's return. After meeting her mother again, Nettie set out on an adventure of her own - attempting to collect and compile information from the other races of the Horde, that may someday be useful to the Tauren. Nettie has reservations about the closed-mindedness of some of her tribesmen, but hopes to find a way to convince the ever proud race that there is much to learn from the other races of Azeroth. She is currently concerned with the Bloodthistle of the Eversong Woods.
Over the course of her exploration, Nettie has joined forces with some of her Azerothian brethren in an organization called The Hand of the Flights. it's leader, Ranokal, was charged by Alexstraza, the great Aspect of Life, with protecting the interests of the dragon flights in Azeroth. Their immediate mission is to investigate and, ultimately, destroy the Lich King, whose scourge are causing such distress and decay to the land. Nettie, a healer, who searches for balance in all things, found herself immediately drawn to the idea of a world without the Scourge.
In accordance with her officer position within the Hand, Nettie found herself seeking out a Tauren who she had met, briefly, though an old friend named Palehoof. Eliath Stonecrusher is a Tauren Shaman, known for being a Spirit Walker - a being capable of sending aspects of his spirit to different locations than his physical self to complete various tasks: herb gathering, secret meetings, and surveillance being three that come immediately to mind.
What is soon to come in Nettie's story? I could tell you, but that would ruin the suspense...
Friday, May 14, 2010
Hubby's Mountain Man Beard
LOL. I asked him to grow it out because I hadn't ever seen him with a beard before.
I think he's super adorable. Of course, being that I married him, I should.
I think he's super adorable. Of course, being that I married him, I should.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jack Bauer
So yes, this is a picspam of the most adorable cat in the universe, Jack Bauer. He is a six month old gray tabby that my husband and I adopted about a month ago. He is impeccably clean, all the time, and spoiled rotten. He's also learned what it means when Mommy gets the camera out - and has started posing for us.
And yes, that is a photo shoot towards the end. He was being cute. I couldn't NOT take the pictures.
And yes, in that last one, I think he was mentally telling me where I could stuff the camera. :P
And yes, that is a photo shoot towards the end. He was being cute. I couldn't NOT take the pictures.
And yes, in that last one, I think he was mentally telling me where I could stuff the camera. :P
Jack Bauer Adkins
So yes, this is a picspam of the most adorable cat in the universe, Jack Bauer. He is a six month old gray tabby that my husband and I adopted about a month ago. He is impeccably clean, all the time, and spoiled rotten. He's also learned what it means when Mommy gets the camera out - and has started posing for us.
And yes, that is a photo shoot towards the end. He was being cute. I couldn't NOT take the pictures.
And yes, in that last one, I think he was mentally telling me where I could stuff the camera. :P
And yes, that is a photo shoot towards the end. He was being cute. I couldn't NOT take the pictures.
And yes, in that last one, I think he was mentally telling me where I could stuff the camera. :P
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Frustration - Another Poem
I wrote it in 2004. I published it online in 2007. I just keep pulling it out when I am in a position where I am overwhelmed and frustrated.
Frustration
I wish I had the words in me
To put on paper
The silly, happy kind of hope I feel
When you look at me
I hate that I can't phrase
My thoughts correctly
When my cheeks flush because of you
And I can't meet your deep eyes
I want to verbalize to you
The chronic shivers
I get when you speak aloud
And when you are watching me
In passing thought I want to scream
The annoyance that you
Bring onto me, more often than I thought true
When you catch me with a blank eye
I wish that I could wet your cheek for once
Instead of mine
With tears I've cried when you pass over me
With that apathetic smile
What I can't decide if or not
I want to affect you with
Is this quiet, creeping, pulsing despair
That I feel when you are gone
Frustration
I wish I had the words in me
To put on paper
The silly, happy kind of hope I feel
When you look at me
I hate that I can't phrase
My thoughts correctly
When my cheeks flush because of you
And I can't meet your deep eyes
I want to verbalize to you
The chronic shivers
I get when you speak aloud
And when you are watching me
In passing thought I want to scream
The annoyance that you
Bring onto me, more often than I thought true
When you catch me with a blank eye
I wish that I could wet your cheek for once
Instead of mine
With tears I've cried when you pass over me
With that apathetic smile
What I can't decide if or not
I want to affect you with
Is this quiet, creeping, pulsing despair
That I feel when you are gone
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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