But I can't stop the rain.

Brett's MRI was a bust. They didn't find anything. Now he has a appointment with an orthopedist Tuesday. If that doesn't work, it's off to a sports medicine doctor. I don't know where else from there. Where's House, when you need him? Of course he would run a bunch of expensive tests, but he might find out quicker than all these doctors.

Brett's already getting tired of seeing doctors. Can't say that I blame him, but we have to find out what's wrong with him. I'm afraid of him calling it quits because of money. He said he would rather limp around in pain for the rest of his life, instead of draining our money to were we couldn't get a house. That kind of shocked me. I didn't know he felt that way. Then I wondered if it was because of me. I started re-evaluating my priorities. Was a farm more important than stopping him from being pain. If it took all my savings I would give it to make him better. We would work something out from there. He is more important to me than a farm or a house.

This whole thing is really starting to wear on him, along with all the other crap that's been happening. I feel sorry for him. I wish there was something I could do to make it all better, but I can't. I feel bad having him walking around looking at houses tonight, but it seems that he's going to still be in pain for awhile so putting it off isn't going to help. I just hope we have a good night, then we can go home and he can get off his leg by laying in the Steiner Recliner and surf the net on Lappy Gilmore, his new laptop. He's having to walk with a cane now. It's like I've got my own fuzzy House hobbling around.

That's all for now. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

The rain does have an end.

I figured I would let everyone know that my life isn't all shit. Other than having my Brett Brett and fuzzy children. There are good things that happen every once and a while. Brett got his new laptop so he is happy about that. I was able to set up wireless on mine so I can move around the house with it, but for some reason my reception goes down some in my bedroom. I currently have my laptop on my stomach while I'm in bed. Hey it works for me.

Brett's car is running better than when he bought it, so he is very pleased. I have a feeling a oil change is due soon for me. I'm afraid of what they will find when I take it in. But for now that is all behind us.

We go to look at some houses tomorrow, hopefully that will go well. I would like for things to continue to look up. Maybe we had enough lows that we have earned some much needed highs.

Well I need to get to sleep. I can't sit up all night typing and watching anime, as much as I want to. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

The Real Folk Blues

Search for that song online. It's Cowboy Bebop's ending theme. You don't have to speak the language to get the feel of the song.

Yep that's how a feel right now. Becks is still not making good, we ended up getting stuck between them and the dealership. Stressed beyond belief, I called the Wookie. He fixes cars, more as a hobby than anything, but I trust him to know more about cars than I do. After a short explanation of what our current problem is. A fuel filter. After a question and answer session, he told us to trust the dealership. They are less likely to screw us over and know the most about the car. So we are back where we started. I doubt we will get any money back from Becks, but I'm tired of being jerked around and our savings drained due to sheer greed and stupidity.

Now comes ass rape number 2. Our insurance went up $30, along with a doubling of the copay amount. How much farther do they want me to bend over? *sigh* I did add Aflac's Cancer coverage. To keep us from another possible screwing, because if we don't have it, one of us would probably get it just out of the world's mere spite of us.

I know I sound bitter, but I'm tried of getting pushed down in the mud and kicked while I'm down. It's stressing Brett out too. We just got him to where he was feeling better and now he's stressing about all of this. He feels bad and keeps apologizing that I have to give up money for his car. He still thinks our savings is my savings. Yes it's in my account, but it's there for emergencies. I just would like for it not to be gone by the time we get a house.

Speaking of houses. We really can't skirt the edge on mortgage payments now that our pay has been fleeced by insurance. So our slim options are even slimmer.

He head honcho is going to be in town Tuesday and she wants me to work on my energy. Even my boss isn't clear on what that means. I sure hope she doesn't fire me because she doesn't like me. That will probably be the the straw that breaks the camel's back. Looks like I'm going to have to turn myself into a totally different person for the day. I hope I can make it through.

Well I'm going to get to cleaning up. She doesn't like the front area messy. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

No pickles.

Well today was interesting. Getting up at 5:30am tends to foreshadow that. I had to take Brett to get an MRI on his knee. Of course it happened to be pouring outside, so thanks to the leaks in my car, it was raining inside and out. We get there early, and that goes ok. I treated him to breakfast at Bob Evans, then we head home. He grabbed some Zs and I just snuggled with the cats till it was time to take his car to the shop.

Ok, so far it doesn't seem to be a interesting day, but just wait.

We dropped his car off at the dealership repair shop, since no one else can tell what's wrong with it. They are overly polite, not being use to that we were a little surprised. We head off home and an hour later we get the diagnostics call.

First of all when we took the car to Becks by home for a tune up, they put the wrong coolant in the car. This isn't some fly by night place, they came recommended by my dad, because he knew them. Well they FAILED! It turns out that the problems with the car are nothing related to the codes pulled from the car. A couple weeks about we spent $100 bucks for them to find out what was wrong with the car. Their diagnostics, that it was a faulty EGR valve. The same one that was replaced back in January. Brett asks the tech 3 times, is there anything else that could be causing this problem. They said no. Pissed off, Brett tracks down a new EGR valve and replace it, and gets a refund for the so called faulty one. The problem keeps happening, getting slightly worse. Brett goes to Auto Zone and gets the codes pulled on the car. It says a number of things, like a bad EGR valve and O2 sensor. I finally had enough and we take the car to the dealership, because they would know that type of car better than anyone.

They said it was exhaust valve leak, a problem with the starter, one of the engine mounts collapsed, and it had the wrong coolant in it. None of these things Becks caught in the inspection. Fail 1!

Becks is known for their mufflers and exhaust, and they didn't catch a exhaust valve leak? Fail 2.

Becks flushed the coolant when they did the tune up, so they put the wrong coolant in the car. Fail 3.

Brett calls Becks and tells them that the dealership said that the coolant was wrong. Asshat at Becks pull the paperwork and says they used the right coolant, (the coolant is supposed to be blue, and it was green) and that sometimes dealerships can put one over on you, and that if you shine a light into the system, it can make the coolant look green. Asshat says they put the right coolant in but if we wanted to bring the car in they would flush it and put coolant in it again. Brett calls the dealership back to get that the wrong coolant was put in the car in writing and double checks to make sure that the coolant was indeed wrong. The dealership tech that it was no problem getting that in writing and they just drained to coolant to flush it, and it was indeed green. Ok, what color blind Fuckmook, tech can drain coolant from a car, see that it is blue, then turn around and put green coolant in? (the color tells the type of coolant) Fail 4.

Tomorrow we pick up Brett's car and get the paper saying that Becks fucked up. Then we are trotting ourselves over to Becks with paper in tow and demanding the money for the diagnostics and the coolant flush back, because they have now cost us $1450 in repairs on the car that should have been caught earlier. Who knows if the fucking EGR valve was bad in the first place, which "needed replaced" when the car was in the shop for the tune up, so these problems could have been there and they didn't notice. We will simply tell them that if they don't refund the money that we will file a complaint with the BBB. We are also going to inform them that we are no longer going to take our vehicles there and neither are my parents. That's 4 cars they will never work on again. Lest see if they hit Fail 5. Fuckmooks.

Getting back to the timeline of the day, my mother decided to come over and bring her friend from up north. I by the way hate this friend of her's and can not stand the woman. They come in and fawn over the Roar, and Shank hides. Shank hates my mom, because she torments him and calls him fat kitty. Shank lets Brett hold him so my mom's friend can see him. He knows he's safe from torment in Brett's arms. They chatter on and on, telling up horrible stories. Then they left. Only to have my mom call me during my "yearly exam", embarrassing the hell out of me.

We are going to see a couple of houses Thursday, and one we were excited about already has an offer on it. Which sucks ass. But I did research on it. What they have is a First Right to Purchase agreement with the owner. Which means they put in a offer, but they won't commit to buying until they sell their house, if they can sell their house. It's not solid. If little ol' me comes along and likes the house, I can put an offer on the house, if the owner likes the offer and accepts it, then the people with the agreement have a set time like 24-48 hours to give a definite yes, we will buy it, or they fore fit their right to it. Then the place is mine. Muahahaha! But seriously there is hope in that situation, or the owner can tell us to fuck off. And the people with the agreement might go ahead and buy the place. But there is hope, and if people don't want to buy a place till their sold, they might not have enough money to own both and be forced to give up their right to it.

Well I've been up since 5:30, so I'm going to bed. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin


Yes I know that the picture has nothing to do with what I wrote in the blog, but they are cute and I wanted to show them off. ;P

Life is a boat.

Sometimes it's calm waters, other times some idiot comes by and rocks it and you end up falling in the drink.

But seriously I love the song 'Life Is A Boat' by Rei Fu, it's a good song. I'm loving my iPod. I listen to it at work, and I listened to it during the Indy Car race yesterday. I also listened to it on the way home. I was still buzzing good after drinking nearly a bottle of wine and Brett's parent's house so when Caramell Dansen came on Sakura I started dancing to it in the car. Eventually Brett told me to stop, because it was distracting. They should consider the Caramell Dansen dance a workout routine, because it wears you out an used a lot of your muscles.

Yesterday I went out with Ma (Brett's Mom) we drove by a house for sale that I wanted to look at. After that she drove me by one other place she saw and then we went to the book store and Target. At Target I got one of those big bag purses. It's white with big pink flowers on it. Ma said that it wasn't too fru fru. When I asked Brett about it, he said there is nothing wrong with girls having fru fru stuff. I do like the purse though. It's big and it doesn't look like I have as much stuff anymore. I could keep my makeup bag in there and still have a ton of room. That would imply I wear makeup on a regular basis, and I don't.

Ok, first we had Mad Cow Disease, then Bird Flu, now we have Swine Flu. For goddess sake, what's next Equine Flu? And you got to wonder how these things just pop up. If they were there all along and can spread so quickly, why haven't we attacked by it long before now? They say if you exhibit flu like symptoms that you should notify your doctor right away. Great, I bet every doctors office is flooded with calls of people thinking they have the Swine Flu.

Then there is the trend in Japan of wearing a surgical mask, to keep germs out, or in. Now Mexico has adopted it. I read an article about how it's almost a fashion statement in Japan, and they aren't sure it helps anything. Maybe it's like a placebo to these people, since they think they are protected, then they don't get sick. I really don't know. I saw a girl walking down the street the other day with a colored surgical mask. I'm all for following Japanese fashion, but I don't think that will catch on, and if you are doing it just for a fashion statement, well you've got problems. But of course growing up, there were some pretty weird fashion statements. *shudders*

Brett goes in for his MRI tomorrow. We've got to find out what's going on with his leg, before he turns into House. We are stopping by J's to get his earrings taken out. They really haven't been out since they were put in. This is going to be fun. After the great earring extraction, we are going to drive by a couple of house options. I'm currently waiting for my mortgage lady to call me back and let me know what Mortgage Insurance is, and why do I need it. Because that thing is making possible Mortgage payments that are livable, turn into OUCH. And I will have a real hard time convincing Brett to go with OUCH payments. And if that doesn't work out, then we fall into the desperate level of things. *sigh* Why is this never easy. If this keeps up we are going to end up living in a van down by they river. If we can't find anything with acreage, then we will have to looking into a cheap enough house where we can still afford to board Katelin. I would really hate to ask a family member for money to help with a down payment on a place, just so we can afford the payments. I'm betting on the van down by the river. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Sometimes the breeze isn't enough.

Well I finally got all the accessories for my iPod in the mail. I checked them for all the problems that people seem to be having with them, and they look ok. I ordered a new battery for my lappy so I can take it around the house. I'm also getting Brett a laptop of his own. I'm jealous that he will get this neat new laptop, but there is no reason for me to get a new one. Mine works just fine.

I have 1 follower! Yay! It's my friend Tokyo Cowgirl. It's good to know someone reads my blog from time to time.

Today was nice. We opened up the windows and the cats ran from window to window smelling the breeze. They eventually wore themselves out. The picture is of Rory asleep at the window. I enjoyed the windows being open, but the breeze died down and wasn't strong enough to cool the house so we relented and turned on the air.

The people that my aunt hired to mow the lawn showed up unannounced. He lost my number, so I gave it to him again. They scared our resident bunny that lives under the deck. I like the bunny. I get a kick out of seeing him just sit out in the yard like a little statue. He actually calmed down and ate while we watched him today. I keep wanting to get pictures of him, but he's just out of range for a good picture all the time.

I'd say the kittehs are about ready for bed, and they are going to wake me to feed them at 6 so I better scoot off to bed. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Grumbly in the tumbly.

So I've went from eating till I was stuffed and snacking when I was a little hungry, to eating small, proper portions and maybe eating a apple between meals. Lets just say my stomach is a little upset with me. It doesn't think yogurt is enough for breakfast and green tea isn't a good subsitute for coffee and coke. So 3 hours before lunch it starts talking to me and I wish lunch time would hurry up and arrive. Then when it does I wolf down my plain chicken patty sandwich and 15 pringles. My stomach is still asking where the rest of the food is. Yep it's going to take awhile for my stomach to adjust. I'm most likly going to have to go out and get a salad after we get to J's tonight. I don't think I can last until after their JITBR recording.

I'm loving my new iPod. Brett is jelous of it. I forgot I loaded Caramell Dansen on it, so when it came up on the rotation I started laughing, and wanted to get up and dance to it. I would get a lot of weird looks if I did that at work. But I have Sakura hooked up to a pair of computer speakers so I can move around while I work. Also it's more distracting having music directly in one ear while you are trying to talk to someone.

So we are going to get Brett a Laptop of his own, so I don't have to share mine anymore. I know, I should be better at sharing, but it still gets a bit annoying. So we are going to use tax return money to get him his own laptop and he can surf the net in the Stiner Recliner. I think that will make him a very happy Brett Brett. I'm going to get a new battery for my laptop, so it can actually be disconected from the power plug. The old battery is toast, so my portible computer is pretty staionary. I'm not surprised I've had the thing since 2002.

Staying up till midnight messing with iTunes, is starting to catch up with me. A nice nap sounds really good. I wonder if anyone would notice if I crawled under my desk and went to sleep. I would have to take the phone there with me, but I could deal with that. Need to find things to keep me awake, that doesn't involve poking myself in the rear with a strait pen every 5 minutes. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

I haz iPod!

Yes, I finally have it! When we got home tonight there was a little box on the front porch addressed to me. It contained my new iPod. I named it Sakura, because it's pink and pink reminds me of Cherry Blossoms.

It took for frikkin' ever to get everything set up. I had to try several times to upgrade iTunes, because the version Brett had was too old for it. It finally got done a few minutes ago, and I quickly synced in all my Anime songs. 3 hours worth. I'm sure to drive the people at work crazy now. But I'm happy. Now to bed because I'm going to be tired as hell tomorrow.

Oh and by the way crab wrapped in bacon is awesome. I guess everything does taste better with bacon. LOL! Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

A shoelace eating shoe.

Seriously I have one. My mom got me a pair of big clunky black dress shoes when I was in middle school, and I noticed from the start something was wrong. My laces were being warn through on the right shoe. Like it had been slowly chewed through. It continues to this day to chew through laces and I keep replacing them. Why? Because I'm cheap and they are decent shoes, and laces are cheap. It's just a bad grommet that's wearing through them, I'll be fine. They have yet to eat my feet.

Going to a china buffet with SM&JM tonight. Excited about that. The Chinese, not so much. Not really in the mood for it, but I'm sure I can find something I like there. It will be nice to catch up with them none the less.

Wearing my new work pants, haven't hemmed them yet, that's why I'm wearing the clunky shoes. It's nice to wear pants that are a little loose on me. Maybe I've lost weight, or just forgotten how it feels to wear pants that fit. Don't know.

Well I'm done for now, I have to get things cleaned up to leave and then stare at the time on my computer until it reaches those magic numbers. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Ticking the time away.

I have found that time seems to move slower when you can't snack on things. I do have a snack though, a apple. I just don't feel like diving into it right now. Work seems to be dull and slow with Brett not here too. Poor guy is still sick. But I truck on.

Once again the Internet seems silent. All the people I follow aren't saying much and rarely saying anything. I've been trying to get a hold of Tokyo Cowgirl, but she's most likely too busy right now to get back with me. So I continue to search for life out on the net and annoy you all with my excessive blog posting.

Congrats to LF on her engagement! At least that's what I think that picture of a engagement ring meant. I didn't hear any more from her. *sigh* I use to talk to my friends all the time, now they hardly have time for me. They say when you get married you have no time for your friends, well my friends have no time for me. I only have a few that are married too. Brett and I are to go out to dinner with SM&JM tomorrow. Let's hope Brett feels up to it. I haven't see SM for a while. She's so busy with work and school. That girl just keeps going back for more degrees, but as she says, she loves money, so you have to work that hard to get lots of money.

LL texts me from time to time, mostly just asking me how I'm doing. It's good that she cares enough to check in on me. KM seen my blog, so she's still alive out there. LOL! That is one girl that you never know where she's going to be. She goes where the wind takes her.

I tend to talk to Nea more than most, mainly because she and J come over for JITBR recordings. But it's good to have someone to hang out with.

I've been trying to find out what a real day in the life of a foreigner in Japan is like. And also what a day is like in the life of a native in Japan. I get slight views from the blogs I read and sadly enough anime. But it does nothing to walk me through it. The video day in the life of videos by lonely single men do noting for insight. One guy was eating cereal right out of the box, that only portrays a bachelors life. Not what I'm looking for. *sigh* I will continue to search.

I'm getting a Ipod. Yes, I've caved to being one of those people that has to have a certain tech device. I don't need every tech device, I'm just tried of switching out cds, and I don't want to buy a whole cd for just a few songs, plus I can get J-pop on the Istore. I was going to get a red one, but you can only get it from Apple, so I went with the pink Nano. It was cheaper, so I could afford to get a few cheap accessories, by what the reviews say, could either work perfectly or break on the first use. But like I said they were cheap. If they break I can always fork out the money for the official versions from Apple. I'm supposed to get it tomorrow if all goes well. Then I can load it up with music and not have to worry about switching cds again, unless I'm in my car of course. Not high tech enough to have the ipod hooked up to the car yet. Too much trouble.

Well that's all that I have for now. I need a refill on my tea and to get some more things done. Later! Savvy?

-Aislin

My healthy creations series part 1 'Cream of Mushroom Skillet'

I've decided to try to post my food creations on my blog, in case people would like to try to make them. So is born the My Healthy Creations Series. These are made with methods I learned making healthy meals for my mom. My dad was making food from a low fat cook book, and he and I were suffering for it. So we developed ways to make food healthy but also filling. So I'm passing on what I can to all of you. Here it goes.

'Cream of Mushroom Skillet'

You need a deep cooking skillet
A pound of ground beef
A can of low fat cream of mushroom soup
2 bullion cubes or a cup of beef broth
Veggies of your choosing
a small box of pasta of your choosing
2 cups milk.
1/2 cup of Merlot of cooking sherry
1/4 cup chopped onion

Ok, brown the ground beef in the skillet and drain it, then using hot water rinse the meat to get all the grease off of it.
Then return it to the skillet and add the chopped onion and the Merlot/sherry. Season to your liking.
Then add the veggies you want and cook on medium covered, stirring occasionally.
Then when the veggies are mostly cooked, add the pasta, cream of mushroom soup, milk, broth or cubes, if you use the cubes add a cup of water.
Stir together well and continue cooking on medium, this time uncovered, stirring occasionally.
When the soup has boiled down about half way, reduce heat, cover and cook for about 15 min stirring occasionally.
It should be done after the fifteen minutes. But you can cook it uncovered a little longer if you want the soup to cook down more.
After it's done, let it sit 5 minutes, then dig in.

If anyone tries this recipe, let me know what you think. Now my kittehs are saying they want to go to bed. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Amid thoughts of plum wine.

Plum wine is pretty good. Of course I got some cheap ass kind from a overpriced "Wine Specialty Shop" Not going back there. It's Beer Mecha or CVS from now on. But the plum wine was a nice change and went well with laidbackness of tonight.

Well I've started eating properly. I'm not going to say eating healthier or dieting, because I'm not. I'm just changing a few decisions on food. Preparing it differently and changing my portions. I still can eat what I want, I'm just going to do it more wisely and not in excess. The doctor advised Brett to do the same so that's what we are going to do. It worked for my mom, I know it can work for me. But of course after I moved out, she went back to old ways, and her old weight. I read where someone said that Japan they have the right portion size, that's why it's so easy for them to stay fit. Of course the walking everywhere doesn't hurt either. But America is a place of huge portions, and we can get them for cheap and we think we are getting a deal.

That seemed to ring true. There are value meals where you can super size it. $5 foot long subs. Nothing comes in small portions here. But just because you got all that food for a good price, doesn't mean you've got to eat it in one sitting. Yes it would be nice and I'm more than guilty of it, but today we went to lunch at subway. I got a foot long and some chips and ate half of both. Of course I could have wolfed down the rest before you could say, 'are you going to finish that', but I felt that it was enough and I could save the rest for lunch tomorrow. So packed it up and took it home. I had leftover fish and fries for dinner. My stomach is saying it could go for more, or maybe a nice snack, but I don't need it. It's just going to take my stomach time to get use to smaller potions. I'm not starving myself by no means, I'm just stretching out good food ;).

Well I need to skitter off to bed, but first I leave you with kitteh pictures.

The little ones snugging with Brett while he naps in the Steiner Recliner.

Here's another pic of them, Shank is starting to doze off.

A close up of the Roar. Sorry about the black blob in the corner. Brett didn't want me showing his chest on my blog.

She's a sleepy little Roar.

And of course we can't forget the Shank.

Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Why does Japan get all the nice weather?

Ok it's raining there too, but it's warmer. Where did all the nice warm weather we had last weekend go?

21 Polo Horses Dead In West Palm Beach

This is very tragic, I heard about it as we were heading out the door to work this morning. Here's the news article.

The mystery of the shrinking pants.

Well yesterday my biggest accomplishments were washing work clothes and washing enough dishes for dinner. That's pretty sad unto itself, but after such a relaxed weekend, I put on my most comfortable work pants only to find they weren't comfortable anymore. Instantly this raises the question, did my pants shrink, or did I balloon up this weekend? The thought of jumping up another pants size and not being able to fit into my larger pairs of pants makes me want to run out and by Alli or something similar. But I'm trying not to panic. I did eat a lot of salty stuff over the weekend. I also drank and didn't hydrate well enough. I also drank a lot of water before bed last night. So I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Not saying I don't need to lose weight, but I just can't afford to buy bigger clothes.

Financially we need to cut out the fast food anyway. The whole thing of being convenient, is a bad excuse and a further sign of me being lazy. Also, I'm drinking way too much pop, because it's again convenient. I'm hiding behind convenient way too much. I may not have the drive to work out everyday, but there are other things I can do to keep my weight down. I need to wash the dishes tonight and start cooking dinner again. I know how to cook healthy I've just been too lazy and been using Brett not being hungry as an excuse not to cook. I'm noticing a pattern of convince and excuses. These are apparently bad things in my life and I need to get rid of them.

Didn't mean to turn into a whine fest or my own personal pep talk. I'm sure you all find me odd. But I always seem to be at war with myself. I know what I want or need to do, but let excuses or being tired get in my way. Before my meds I would sit there and try to will myself to do something, like get out of bed, and nothing would happen. My meds bridged that gap between my brain and my body, I just have to put that to good use now. I don't know how many people have that problem of needing to be motivated or inspired to do something. But for 2 strait weeks I kept my room clean after I cleaned it and organized it. I would clean out the litter pan every night, sweep the litter and carpet fuzz from the pedestal up off the floor and even wipe down the sink after I used it. Then I stopped. I don't know why, I just slipped back into lazy.

It's so easy to slip into lazy, thinking I'll do it tomorrow, or if I had this it would be different. But it isn't different. Lazy is lazy and that's what my dad has been trying to tell me for years. Of course he takes his go to attitude too far which made me shy away from it, but the principal is the same. Yes, you could do it tomorrow, but it might be worse tomorrow and take twice as long, or something will come up, or you'll sleep the day away and not feel like doing it. I took not being forced to do things to my advantage when Brett and I moved in together, but there is no one to follow behind me and pick up the slack on my busy days. I just have to motivate myself and get it done.

Ok, I'm done with this long winded blog. I don't know how it switched from weight to laziness, but I feel better for posting it. I wish I had more exciting things to post for you. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

A day of sun and snoozing.

It was such a nice day today. It started out a little chilly but it warmed up nicely. I opened up the windows and the cats loved it. Though we have people living around us, it was fairly quiet, except for the douche that lives across the street that thinks the should keep the bass blaring and rev his hamsterwheel engine an obscene amount of times.

After a nice shower, I headed out to the store, then to whitecastle to get some sliders for dinner. Shiner got a few fries out of the deal. I really hate shopping on Saturdays, but sometimes you just gotta. Brett made fun of my organic milk that I bought. I bet if I put it in a normal milk jug, he wouldn't notice a difference. Is it so wrong to buy organic stuff. Pretty sure that cow that gave the milk, gets treated a lot better than most of the normal dairy cows.

Don't have that many complaints today, it was nice and a good day. And other than getting flipped off by an asshat on the way home, there really weren't any bad spots. I took a nap with Shiner while I watched racing stuff with Brett. My meds are still causing the shakes, but it does make me buzzed on smaller amounts of booze, so that's a plus I guess.

My aunt decided that she can't get the mower to start, so she hired someone to mow the yard. the guy is nice and he spared the flowers growing by the deck, which is good because the tulip by the door finally bloomed and is a pretty red-orange color. I was going to put some clothes out on the line to dry, but I didn't get to it today. Shopping wears me out. I don't know how people without cars do it. I usually fill my trunk up with stuff. They must have to go to the store every couple of days. That would suck.

Brett would like me to stay up for the F1 race with him, but I don't know if I'll last that long. I might pass out on the couch before that. His car is acting up and we are trying to figure out why. I already dumped $100 into a bad diagnosis, I just hope he can find out Monday.

Well Shiners going to be wondering where I ran off to here soon, so I better go join her on the couch. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

A cat's leap of faith.

Lands him right on my sleeping husband. Yes Shank was using Brett as a trampoline last night. No clue why, maybe he thought he was taking up his space, or he's just feeling better. I don't know but he kept leaping from the pedestal to the bed, even after Brett got up. It shook the bed so it started ticking me off. Maybe I should explain. My oldest cat Crookshanks, Shank for short, weights 16lbs. He is no longer a fat cat, that's all muscle. He's a little bulldozer. And my bed is a antique Iron bed with the original box springs. Which makes for an ultra bouncy bed. Now factor in a 16lb cat jumping on it from about 3 feet away and you get a very bouncy bed and a not so happy me. He's a little fart.

We are bringing Shiner home for the weekend. I feel like a divorced parent with weekend visits. But she just can't stand to be alone. Mom tells me she is green from running in the yard after it was mowed, so she gets yet another bath. I don't want green dog in my bed. Then I will have green sheets, and that's not fun. Since it didn't rain yesterday and it won't till next week, I can pick up doing the laundry and take an actual shower, not just a run and scrub. I need to get caught back up with the laundry, and we need a long dry spell to do it. It's supposed to be nice out, so I might save the electric bill some and hang some clothes out to dry on the line. Never did that before. Kind of looking forward to it.

It seems the more I blog the less everyone else does. But if I don't for a while there is a bombardment of other bloggers. It's just weird. Also, since I have this new fancy blog, I've noticed I still haven't gotten many visitors. That sucks, but I hope more people will visit soon.

I'm feeling better today, I think it was getting out in the sun after so many days of gloom. Even if all I was doing was trudging around a soggy yard, picking up sticks. Rory really liked me opening up the sliding doors so she could smell the smells through the screen.

As for the house hunt, still hunting. *sigh* It's the Chinese hell of house hunting. Sorry, I watched Big Trouble In Little China last night. Well that's all for now. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Susie F'ing Homemaker.

She, I am not. It's really disappointing. I have a good cleaning ability and when I clean I go all out. But I can't seem to keep my house clean and I'm embarrassed by it. A woman who can clean my sister's house top to bottom, do her laundry and dishes. Take care of the cat pans and bird cages, can't manage to keep her house looking decent. What's wrong with me? I don't even feel like cooking anymore.

I'm getting so tired of not being able to find a good house for us. I'm starting to get a little desperate. I really have no clue what to do. It's like I have a wall in front of my face and I can't see what I'm supposed to be looking at.

I'm just not in a good place today, and I'm not sure anything will bring me out of it. I don't even if or what to make for supper. At this point I just don't care. I might just lay on the couch till Brett tells me to go to another room so he can sleep.

Sorry for the mopey post. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

My Keitai.

I'm adopted that term, because it sounds better than Cell or Cell Phone or even the snooty Mobile Phone. But that's not the point.

For years this little piece of tech has been my main line of communication. Well because I worked weird hours. When Brett and I moved into the apartment, we used our Keitai as our normal house phone. It just saved money that way.

Now that we are in a house with lower rent. we have a land line. Well it's more of a pain than a comfort. Because our number is one digit off from comcast, we have calls for them at all hours. Though our phone was to be bundled with our net and TV, it wasn't so I have to pay at separate bill for that, which isn't cheap. And we still end up using our cells most of the time. We don't make many calls and we have people call our keitai's most of the time. I'm really thinking about of dropping our land line. It's just an unneeded expense.

I have a smartphone. Not a blackberry, cheaper than that, but my next one might be. But I can watch videos on it, download songs and use them as ringtones, and I have a GPS map on it. The map has got me unlost on several occasions. I have a picture of Shiner on the screen and that has never changed since I got it. It eats battery power when you use the net and videos, but it's a good phone. As of recently, it's taken on a new function. My alarm clock. I have a normal one, but it's old and when it has working batteries, it lost time and the light didn't work on it. It's just better this way.

The funniest use of it to date, is Brett and I's sleepy communications. He is napping in his Steiner Recliner, and I'm snuggled up in the bedroom with the cats. But when he wakes up and needs to say something to me, he will text me to say it. It's a little funny to tell you the truth. It's not at all different than when I lived with my parents and my mom would call my cell from the house phone when I was upstairs in bed and she was downstairs.

The main point is. For a long time, my keitai has been a integral part of my life, and though some can live without one, I can not. That is all. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

Hurricane in a wine glass.

Well I just plunked some mega money getting Shiner and Shank's teeth cleaned. Now Shank is walking around the house like a drugged up hobo and it's freaking Rory out. Owning animals is never cheap, but it is amusing.

No work today because of the vet appointments so that is yay. I can only imagine the mess that we are going to run into when we return to work tomorrow. Well there is only 2 days left in the week so that's good I guess and the guys are going to be doing a Jerks in the Back Row recording Friday so that will be fun.

Life is a little nicer since Brett can start drinking again. He's no longer walking around grumpy when people are drinking. And he is drinking very responsibly. So I rewarded him with 2 mondo bottles of wine. I got Captain Morgan 100Proof (which is very, very good) and a jug of Bacardi Hurricane. That's good too, and because I'm a lazy bitch right now, We have no clean normal glasses so I broke out a wine glass to drink it in. I know that's just weird, but it took me nearly an hour to scrub burnt on Begal Bite off the pizza pans so I could cook pizza for dinner last night. I just didn't feel like finishing the rest of the dishes.

The house search goes on. I'm so frustrated. I really don't know what to do. I know it will be really hard to convince Brett to go out and see anymore houses, and with every disappointment, my drive for it is diminishing. I wonder if we are ever going to find a place, and be stuck in limbo forever. My mom is as cold as ice. Her suggestion is to sell Katelin. Like that is even an option. It's so easy for her. If I told her that she would be just fine if she just got rid of the dogs, she would be furious at me. But that's just how she works.

I'm really not looking forward to going to work tomorrow, but that's just my defeat talking. I might go to bed early tonight. It might make going to work easier tomorrow. But for now, I'm going to find out what to do with a drugged up kitteh. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

*Bangs head against wall*

Grrr!!! Another house that's a bust. It was ok for us, but all wrong for Katelin. I'm starting to think that there isn't anyplace out there for us.

Wine, pipe, and a good script.

Well yesterday was the same as any other day. Brett and I got home tired and all blah. After giving my dad a call warning that a storm was coming up from the east, I plopped on the couch and watched some recorded NCIS. Brett took a shower and called JM back. And for once I tried not to listen in on a phone conversation. Don't get me wrong, I trust my man, I'm just naturally that curious. So I didn't know when he started talking to me. Rule #1 of talking to me while I watch TV, say my name first. I'm too tuned into the TV to realize someone is talking to me. For 23 years my dad had trouble remembering that rule. Poor man, many things didn't get done because of that. So after Brett realized I wasn't hearing what he was saying, he got my attention and told me that we may be going to dinner with JM and SJM Thursday. Woot! Haven't seen them in a while. I'm excited. So after that little bit of fun, I went back to watching my show and keeping a eye on the lights which would dim from time to time. They were working on the lines, so I was afraid we would lose power.

As fun as that all was, I finished up the day with Chicken Pennie, a glass of wine, and a pipe of chocolate flavored tobacco. While I read Brett's script for the comic we are making. Yes I smoke a pipe, and I also smoke cigars. But we will only smoke pipes indoors, because they have a pleasant scent as opposed to cigars and cigarettes. But anyway, it was a nice evening, but I wish the wine buzz lasted through the night instead of me waking up at midnight and not being able to get back to sleep until 3 in the morning. *sigh* The cats didn't help much. Rory knew I was tired and not to be messed with this morning, so she stayed back and watch Shank try to wake me up. If cats could laugh, I'm sure she would, because Shank was dangerously close to getting thrown across the room. I just didn't want to get up this morning, and he was annoying the hell out of me. Needless to say, we were late for work, but we eventually got there.

Well we are going to go look at another house tonight. This one looks like it might work. It's only 9 years old so it shouldn't have any big problems. Our mortgage agent already sent us a good will statement to let us know how much it would be a month, if we gave full price for the place. I'm not really getting my hopes up, because we have been disappointed too many times so far. Mom seems excited though. We'll see if the place impresses us. I really hate house hunting. Its full of lies and half truths.

When we get home I'm to work on character drawings for the comic, so far I've only did a rough sketch of one character. I need to get to it.

Brett is making me take my meds like I'm supposed to. I hate to though. They give me the medicated shakes.

Well I think that is all for now. Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin

A new start to blogging!

Hello all! Welcome to my new blog! I am shedding my past and moving on to the future. In this blog I intend to share my art and events in my life. I will say what I want in my blog and it is your choice to read it. Meaning if you are offended by what I say or don't agree with what I say on my blog, simply walk away and never visit my blog again. I will not tolerate flaming on my blog. And like my friend Tokyo Cowgirl, if you do choose to try to flame my blog, your name, offending comment or e-mail, and your e-mail address will be posted on my blog to show the world how much of a dickhead you are.

Ok now that, that's out of the way I hope you enjoy reading my blog, as I enjoy writing it. This isn't my first blog, the one I'm stepping away from is on Livejournal. You can read my old blog posts there.

Until next post! Laters! Savvy?

-Aislin