Do you know how expensive it is to get a cat de-clawed in just the front in the Milwaukee area? No? Well, I'll tell you. Around $250. Not that I'm complaining. I can eat light for a week or two so that my little Pooh Bear can cuddle with me once more, and so the other cats don't have to shirk around corners because they're afraid of getting mauled. I'm more than willing to be a little tight on cash for a week or two so there can be more peace in the house. But can Keeper? It appears as though E. is of the mind that getting Pooh Bear de-clawed would not be the best choice. I know Keeper is not at all thrilled about spending over $200 on one cat (understandably).
Over the past couple weeks, it have been quite interesting to me to see the differences that Keeper and I have. None of the differences have been particularly bad, just... different. We've been discussing painting the house and redoing the floors. We've also been slowly getting rid of excess furniture. We finally made a list of all the big-budget things that we want to do (including getting Pooh Bear de-clawed, redoing the house, the wedding, etc.), and it's going to be quite a feat to accomplish all that we want to accomplish.
We're going to be starting on the bathroom this weekend. We're going to be priming the walls and cleaning the bathroom top-to-bottom, and I'll hopefully start on drawing the cityscape on the walls for us to paint (hopefully this weekend, but probably next weekend). We also want to redo the flooring in the bathroom, but I think we're still deciding on what to do with that. We might go stone, or might do hardwood... Or maybe just a new linoleum. We haven't for sure decided yet on the flooring in the bathroom. After the bathroom, we're going to be moving on to the foyers (bathroom foyer and main foyer of the house), and painting them a lovely green. For the foyers and the kitchen, we're going hardwood. It's going to be wonderful! After the foyers, we're gonna do the kitchen, and I think we're going to be painting the kitchen in a cityscape again. I don't think we're 100% set on that yet, but that's the plan so far. The living room and the bedroom are gonna be the easiest, I think... So far, we're only planning on painting them, but we might get new carpeting too. It's going to be a pretty huge project. I'm pretty excited to be doing it all, especially with Keeper. :)
It's a lot to put into motion, and I'm really glad we're actually starting something this weekend! I just hope we can figure out how important it all is to us, and figure out how we're going to go about doing everything we want to do. It's going to take a lot of time, and quite a bit of money, but I'm confident that we can handle it. I just really hope we can get on the same page about Pooh Bear, and soon! It's not going to cause any fights or anything, but we do need to decide whether to go through with it or not, and we need to figure out how to go about doing all of the things we want to do.
Hm. I'm venting too much here. And none of this was at all in any negative tone. I think I'll go back to adding to my list of books for the rest of this shift. And then I get to home to E., and play some Wii and make some lasagna. I think I'm also going to add my list to a new page on here. I'll have to play with formatting and whatnot to fit it all. That might take a few days, so keep checking back! :)
Also, here's my new set-on-repeat-and-zone-out song:
16 September, 2011
08 September, 2011
Five Cat Samba
Well, it's certainly been a while since I posted here.
Sorry about that. A lot has been going on.
To start off with some great news, I'm back in school! I've begun classes once more, going for a Technical Communications major. So far, it's been going really well! It's going to be a lot of writing, but I think I can definitely handle it. I'm going to be focusing on a more graphics-prone side of the field (so, website design, letterhead designs, logos, etc.), and I think I'll do really well.
Keeper has also started classes once more, and we're both going to be relatively busy this quarter with our class and work schedules. But I'm sure we'll still find time to invite over a few friends every once in a while and have some fun. :)
In case you haven't read my previous posts (from a month or more ago), we now have FIVE cats. FIVE. Let's read that again: FIVE cats. It's rather crazy! Savannah has adjusted incredibly well! In the past month, she's gone from hiding in the bedroom almost nonstop, to coming out into the living room and completely chilling with everyone else! She's even begun playing (that's right: playing!) with Bolo! She sleeps between Keeper and I almost every night, which, upon talking to Dad H. about this behavior, she never used to do this at her old house. She even usually comes on the bed a little before bedtime, to lay down between us, purring, while Keeper reads bedtime stories! It makes me quite happy to know that she enjoys living here.
In some rather unfortunate news, Keeper and I have decided that Pooh Bear needs to be declawed in front. She's become something of a terror to the rest of the cats, and I can assure you that neither Keeper nor I particularly enjoy having needles in our legs when she tries to cuddle with us. When I first got her, I didn't think that her nails would be too much of an issue. However, even after living with her for a year, she simply refuses to let either Keeper or me trim her nails. While I think that declawing her in front will cause her to not enjoy some activities that she currently enjoys (i.e. claw-hugging the bottom of the climbing tree thinger we have, clawing our legs to no end when trying to cuddle, lashing out at the other cats when they appear too close to her personal bubble, etc.), I know that she'll still be able to enjoy much of her life without the claws (especially mousing, cuddling, eating, etc.).
I have taken to making a list of every book that I have read that I really enjoyed, as Keeper made the mistake a couple weeks ago of asking me "What's your favorite book?"... In asking me that question, he told me that it couldn't be a book series (after I responded "Kushiel Series"), and it had to be more than 50 pages (after I revised my response to "The Monster At The End of This Book"). Talk about a difficult question. Since he asked me that damn question, I have been going through Borders.com, page by page, looking at titles and covers and authors, trying to find my favorite book. Alongside the pages, I have an Excel spreadsheet in progress, which currently has two sections (Books I've Read/Loved, and Books I Want to Read) of three columns (Book Title, Series Title, Author). I think I'm up to over $1000 in books at this point. I haven't done any pricing for any of them, but I'm hoping to have my own library some day, and this list is at least 500 strong with books and series and authors now. Maybe I'll post the list. Probably not today, or tomorrow, or this week. Keep your eyes posted for a couple of new pages, though! :)
Sorry about that. A lot has been going on.
To start off with some great news, I'm back in school! I've begun classes once more, going for a Technical Communications major. So far, it's been going really well! It's going to be a lot of writing, but I think I can definitely handle it. I'm going to be focusing on a more graphics-prone side of the field (so, website design, letterhead designs, logos, etc.), and I think I'll do really well.
Keeper has also started classes once more, and we're both going to be relatively busy this quarter with our class and work schedules. But I'm sure we'll still find time to invite over a few friends every once in a while and have some fun. :)
In case you haven't read my previous posts (from a month or more ago), we now have FIVE cats. FIVE. Let's read that again: FIVE cats. It's rather crazy! Savannah has adjusted incredibly well! In the past month, she's gone from hiding in the bedroom almost nonstop, to coming out into the living room and completely chilling with everyone else! She's even begun playing (that's right: playing!) with Bolo! She sleeps between Keeper and I almost every night, which, upon talking to Dad H. about this behavior, she never used to do this at her old house. She even usually comes on the bed a little before bedtime, to lay down between us, purring, while Keeper reads bedtime stories! It makes me quite happy to know that she enjoys living here.
In some rather unfortunate news, Keeper and I have decided that Pooh Bear needs to be declawed in front. She's become something of a terror to the rest of the cats, and I can assure you that neither Keeper nor I particularly enjoy having needles in our legs when she tries to cuddle with us. When I first got her, I didn't think that her nails would be too much of an issue. However, even after living with her for a year, she simply refuses to let either Keeper or me trim her nails. While I think that declawing her in front will cause her to not enjoy some activities that she currently enjoys (i.e. claw-hugging the bottom of the climbing tree thinger we have, clawing our legs to no end when trying to cuddle, lashing out at the other cats when they appear too close to her personal bubble, etc.), I know that she'll still be able to enjoy much of her life without the claws (especially mousing, cuddling, eating, etc.).
I have taken to making a list of every book that I have read that I really enjoyed, as Keeper made the mistake a couple weeks ago of asking me "What's your favorite book?"... In asking me that question, he told me that it couldn't be a book series (after I responded "Kushiel Series"), and it had to be more than 50 pages (after I revised my response to "The Monster At The End of This Book"). Talk about a difficult question. Since he asked me that damn question, I have been going through Borders.com, page by page, looking at titles and covers and authors, trying to find my favorite book. Alongside the pages, I have an Excel spreadsheet in progress, which currently has two sections (Books I've Read/Loved, and Books I Want to Read) of three columns (Book Title, Series Title, Author). I think I'm up to over $1000 in books at this point. I haven't done any pricing for any of them, but I'm hoping to have my own library some day, and this list is at least 500 strong with books and series and authors now. Maybe I'll post the list. Probably not today, or tomorrow, or this week. Keep your eyes posted for a couple of new pages, though! :)
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