New Family Members

If you’ve read Harold’s post we now have 2 new members to our family.  In case you didn’t see his post, here are the pictures that he took, including our oldest 2.

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Alexis.jpg

14 + years/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Reggie_Miller.jpg

13+ years/male

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Sakura.jpg

4 months/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Drew_Brees.jpg

4 months/male

The kittens haven’t really slowed down enough when a camera has been in reach.  They are fast little buggers!

Harold  so totally surprise me.  I’ve been pestering him since Aurora passed saying that I wanted another kitten, a feisty one like Randi & Aurora were.  Reggie & Alexis are totally different from those 2.  And when we lost Aurora, it made me mourn Randi’s passing from 2 yrs before all over again.  So I wanted another cat as ornery as they were.

Well, my husband is a softy when it comes to animals, especially kittens…..grin  And he just fell for them, even though he was only going to get one.

Yes, I’m the one who named Drew……..grin  It just seemed obvious to me.  =)  It is weird as hell to have two feisty kittens in the house again….it is has been 13yrs.  They have no fear.  It doesn’t bother them when they are hissed or growled at by Reggie & Alexis, they just stare at them and back away.  They don’t know the work NO yet…..lol  And correcting them doesn’t faze them in the lest.

Drew has seemed to have become my baby, while Sakura has become Harold’s.  Which works, she seems possessive of him and reminds me of his late cat Randi’s orneriness and carries herself like she use to.  She is the trouble child, that is for sure…..grin…but we are loving it.  Drew loves to follow me and sleep in my lap a lot.  They play hard and fast, but they also chill out good and crash hard.

Alexis & Reggie are slowly getting back into their normal behaviors.  They aren’t growling & hissing as much.  But we have been trying to give them as much love as they let us.  Reggie has yet to cuddle on Harold like normal, but you can see he wants it….but is too annoyed at him to do so.  I will say, there is nothing like having kittens (even 4 month old ones) to make your older cats look huge in comparsion.  It kind of weird.

We have an appointment for Drew & Sakura next week.  The shelter said that they needed follow ups to their surgeries within 10days.  We are taking them to the vet that Harold really liked when he took Reggie.  What is cool is that they honor that visit as part of the shelter program, even though they weren’t on the list.  The shelter has it arranged with certain vets that your 1st visit to them is free.  So we get to establish their primiary care physian with the one we like, even though we were going to take them there regardless.

Our kittens came with those shoulder chips in case they get lost.  So all I need to do is to register them this weekend.  We just need to remember to bring pictures of them to the shelter in a few months, they asked to see how they are doing.

With having Drew & Sakura around, if they aren’t on our laps or playing (where we can hear them), I get worried on what they are up to….lol  For the 1st time in 2yrs I had to get a 3rd litter box going…….at least it isn’t 5……lol  I had to do that when we had Randi, Aurora, Reggie & Alexis because Aurora was picky as hell even though you kept it clean.

They have totally distracted me from work and I am behind…..icks.  I got some of caught up and I really need to write this, it has been awhile.  I really need to balance our books after this so I know what is going on.  I have a few errands tomorrow, but I really need to work around that and apply for health insurance.

I adopted 2 kittens today.

 

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I went to the local shelter yesterday and adopted two 4 month old kittens, a brother and sister. The intention was JUST one, but my heart was broke the second I walked in and I honestly I couldn’t decide on which one I liked better so I got both which was $150 and donated another $50 to the shelter.

Her name is Sakura (Sa KUR a) which is Japanese for “Cherry Blossom” she seems to be the dominate of the two and very feisty, she’s smoky in color, but has tiger stripe lines and a lighter undercoat, so she’s very unusual in appearance and loves to be handled, so far she has tried to ripe my necklace off as well as my earring, which of course she missed and got all ear.

His name is Drew Brees and no, I did not name him, Pauline did and she did it in 1 minute of seeing them, it took me an hour to settle on Sakura(I was debating on naming her Sushi but Pauline said no.) He is mostly gray and very feisty and LOVES to growl as he plays, I mean constantly growl like a dog. They both LOVE those fake mice and in the 5 hours since I brought them home have played with those damn fake mice and that stupid cat tree we have had for 15 years more than all the other cats we have had combined over 15 years, totally amazing to see.

So for the first time in 15 years we have 2 kittens and wow, what a difference it is.

Reggie (Who has terminal cancer) is getting closer, and I knew if I didn’t get another cat now, I wouldn’t be able to for a long time after him and that made me worried about Alexis since she has never been alone in her life so I decided to get one and of course, I’m a idiot and got 2.

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Alexis.jpg

14 + years/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Reggie_Miller.jpg

13+ years/male

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Sakura.jpg

4 months/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Drew_Brees.jpg

4 months/male

So far neither Alexis or Reggie seem amused at all and Alexis has been hissing which is pretty unusual for her, so we are giving them more attention and put the “wonder twins” in a locked room for some time to give Reggie and Alexis their space.

How Do I Feel?: amused amused

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Life & Observations

I spent the last week getting my work done, visiting and playing catch up with everyone.This weekend was a bust.  I did get all of our stuff unpacked and washed.  I really need to pick up dishwasher soap tomorrow, just used the last of it tonight.  Kind of stressing over the gym tomorrow…..just because I hadn’t done it all last week due to being out of town, but also can’t wait to get back into it.  Felt very strange not to be going.  But I will say it was so kind of nice to eat without counting my calories last week.  Even treated myself to my beloved chocolate sundae with strawberry topping at DQ.  I’m a major DQ addict.

At least a few of my teams won, even though my Purdue was beaten.  =(  Saints & Colts won, my Bears lost. I did get a walk in today and one late last night.  I may need to do more night ones, it was kind of nice.

I’m wondering when did it become a crime to be educated?  Most of our founding fathers were self taught and many of them felt very consious of the fact that they didn’t have “proper schooling”. It was the goal of families to get their kids educated as much as possible.  When did being uneducated made you more of an American?  The Class War Before Palin  I think the GOP as made it so, so the educated rich ones can get away with abusing and using the uneducated.  The less you know, the more they can abuse you.  You are nothing but sheep being lead to slaughter.

Why is everyone surprised that the rheotic of McCain/Palin  is fanning the flames of racism?  Rep. Lewis clarifies controversial remarks about McCain, Palin  Palin enjoys the culture wars (Palin heightens rhetoric on abortion ) and the dirting of people with code words and sneaky smearing.  She is a female Rove….disgusting.  McCain is going to really regret this.  Deep down, I don’t believe he is a racist, I think he is desperate and has sold out.

Can someone explain to me how she can claim that she has been cleared in the report ?  Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False “There was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired,” Palin said.”  Is it me or did she just admit that she abused her position?