TGIFriday!

I'm conflicted about the title of this post... on the one hand, I'm really glad that this crazy, stressful, sleep-deprived week is over; on the other hand, I have so much to get done at work that I feel like I could use either a clone or an extra day or two for the next couple weeks just to get everything done! Oh well, que sera sera.

Last weekend while Delilah and I were at Ericka's being nerdy and WoWing, her eye got all crazy swollen and icky looking and I had to take her to the kitty emergency room. Everyone there was amazingly friendly and super helpful and we were in and out a lot more quickly than I'd expected but the news wasn't quite what I was hoping for. She'd been a little sniffly and had a runny nose for a few days but I assumed she had an upper respiratory infection as is common in a lot of shelter/fostered kittens and had maybe just scratched her eye with her claws. However, it turns out she has FHV-1 (Feline Herpesvirus Type 1) and Chlamydiosis. Both of these are affecting her eyes and are chronic conditions that could have been prevented had she been properly vaccinated so the best the vet said I can do it to give her medication to help control the symptoms, which are a lot like conjunctivitis and if left untreated can result in loss of sight! She's already looking a lot better but even over the course of just a couple days I can see that sometimes it doesn't bother her at all and other times the white, inner lining of her eyes covers a big portion of her eyeball and causes pain. She's got drops for her eyes that she gets every hour, an ointment in them every six hours and a pill that I crush up and give her with food twice a day and she has been such a little trooper. I don't know if she just knows that I'll give her a treat when I'm done or if it makes it feel better but she doesn't even struggle anymore and (for the most part) she's FINALLY adjusting to the little cone she has to wear to keep her from scratching at her eyes.

So with that, I leave you with adorable kitty pictures-- I love how she keeps getting her paw stuck in her cone!

Hey there, Delilah...

I've been meaning to write this post all week but it's been a crazy week at work AND at home so these pictures will have to suffice for now... this is the newest inhabitant of my apartment and she's pretty much the most adorable, awesome kitten ever. Expect to see lots of pictures in the future... :)

Random Musing

I had a random thought today that felt worth sharing....

For a long time, I always had someone to (presumably, at least) help keep me accountable-- not to any one thing in particular, just to everything... in a big, general sense. I came to rely on that so heavily, even though it's obvious now that the accountability I needed to be held to wasn't always there, that I've just assumed for the last 6 months or so that I needed to find someone else to help me with it... Thinking about this yesterday made me realize two things that make me pretty happy:

1) I don't need to have someone else to do it for me, I'm learning to not just hold myself accountable to the standards I've set for myself and my life but also to enjoy being the one to do it.

2) I have some really amazing friends that, should I fail at holding myself accountable (at least in most situations, ones they could know about), wouldn't hesitate to point it out to me, even if I might not like it. Having people like that in my life makes me feel incredibly lucky (this seems to be a common theme lately, haha!)

Ok, that was it! I'm really enjoying this whole blogging thing... :)

What a weekend!

This weekend was amazing and crazy and bizarre and so many other words... I loved it! I just feel like writing a quick recap so I don't forget about it. :)

So Friday night Ericka had heard about what we thought was going to be a cool MJ tribute in the Tower District so around 9 or 930 we headed to where it was supposed to be and it turned out that it was... a restaurant-- and a pretty small one at that-- playing MJ songs over the sound system... not so much what we were hoping for! We spent all of about 2 minutes in there before we decided to head over to Avalon/Babylon instead. The band there was interesting, to say the least, but at least they were playing good 80s songs, even if I'm not sure how I felt about their renditions of them! Billy and Ericka whooped me at pool for a while until Nanda got there, and then all three of them whooped me... I'm a horrible pool player!

Anyways, the funniest part of the night was when the guy who was there with his friend (who tried to hit on Ericka, haha) came over and introduced himself to me at the bar and I realized that not only had I met this guy before, but we'd actually hung out quite a bit... The summer after I graduated high school my old friend Melissa and I met him and a friend of his at Blackbeards randomly and he and I quasi- sort of kind of dated or something. It was too funny, we both remembered such different, random things about when we met/hung out the first time and we spent most of the rest of the night/morning talking and catching up and stuff. It was good times... very, very drunk good times... Oh! Despite the random awesome-ness of running into Darren again, my favorite part of the night came just after last call when Ericka rushed over to me with a jager bomb already dropped in the cup and when I asked about it (because neither of us really needed anything else to drink at that point!) she told me "They said it was closing time and I panicked!"... I love that girl. :)

The rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful. I spent Saturday recouping and catching up on the first season of True Blood (which I finally finished-- yay!). We BBQ'd, Rockband'd and swam at Ericka's Saturday night and both Darren and his friend that was at the bar with him (why can I never remember his name... was it Dave?) came over and hung out. JD and Jenny were in town too-- every time I see Jenny now it feels like I haven't seen her in forever... it makes me sad! E and I need to work on convincing them to move back to Fresno. ;)

And not weekendy but still something good... yesterday was the best Monday I've had in months! I spent most of my day working (right through lunch, so I got to go home early!) on reconciling our bank statement with my boss and the feeling of figuring it out after so much work was so rewarding! I'm such a nerd sometimes, but I really do like my job. :)

Alrighty, it's time for lunch-- today is positively CRAWLING by!

The Little Things

Whether my life is calm and quiet or crazy stressful and full of drama, there are so many little things that make me happy and trying to remember that and be thankful for those small things has been something I've worked on really hard over the last year or so. I'm going through a calm period right now and sometimes when that happens I just don't know what to do with myself so this morning on my way (late-- oops!) to work I made a mental list of the little things that are making me happy right now and felt the need to document it. Here's my list...

* Bagelfuls for breakfast in the morning.
* My voicemail boyfriend, Duncan.
* My awesome pink iPhone case.
* How funny and fun to spend time with my friends are.
* Pandora.
* How much I love my apartment and living alone.
* Hour long phone calls where nothing important is said.
* Making it through another Monday.

What little things make you guys happy?

4th of July

First things first-- the highlight of my 4th of July this year was that, unlike last year, it didn't leave any permanent scars! I'm so going to post a picture of the aftermath of last year's neighbors' fireworks show (I tripped on the way home from it, it had nothing to do with the fireworks) when I get home....

This year was pretty low key and relaxing, it was just right... Nielda, Ericka and Clint and I lounged around at Ericka's for a while in the afternoon watching True Blood (which is amazing in it's own special way) and Rockbanding until Billy got home and then the girls swam while Billy and Clint did the manly thing and BBQ'd burgers for dinner. After dinner we did our usual game of Loaded Questions, which never fails to be a good time, before it got dark enough to break out the fireworks Clint brought over.

The guys did a great job making our own little fireworks show! Ericka found out that the little things that you throw at the ground that make a little snapping noise make a spark when you throw them and we amused ourselves for a while throwing them at the guys' butts and then giggling like 5-year-olds. After our fireworks were done Nanda made it over we took the show on the road and wandered Ericka's neighborhood watching other people's (sometimes illegal) fireworks too-- I'm still really happy that nobody at that corner house set themselves or anyone else on fire!

The pictures are sparse this year, our group photographer was MIA (Jenny and JD were tubing in... Lemoore, Hanford?) so I think there's one of me, Ericka and Nielda watching fireworks and a couple of them with their roman candles... maybe someday Nielda will post 'em on Facebook so I can steal/post them... someday!

All I wanna know is...