Pretty steady day of work yesterday. Around 9pm we had 3 kittens come in as an emergency. Apparently their mother had been hit by a car, and they were left abandoned, wet, cold and hungry. When they came in they were in pretty bad shape. Their temperature wasn’t even registering on the themometer.

So the Dr., myself, and one of the technicians wrapped them up in warm towels, rubber gloves filled with warm water, and fed them kitten formula while trying to rub them and get their temperature up.

The person that found them apparently went back for a fourth kitten that he thought was dead, but was in fact alive. It was in pretty bad shape but once we started warming it up and trying to get it to eat it seemed to improve a great deal.

They were all in pretty good shape when I left besides being dirty, having lice, and just overall miserable. Hopefully they made it through the night. I believe the Dr. took them home so she could get up every 2 hours to feed them.

I also realized when I clocked out last night, that today when I got to work, it’s allllll overtime. Very nice.

I’m one of the lucky people that gets a free copy of Expression Engine for switching from Movable Type. This baby costs $150 for non-commercial use, so it’s quite a gift!

I’m still trying to figure out whether that or WordPress would be better. Or if I just want to stick with my current version of Movable Type (which I doubt I’ll do).

Decisions decisions. Any advice?

Two more pictures of My Son that I think turned out cute:
My Son glowing

Happy dog

First try, it’s not very good because I didn’t use my good mic. It tends to drown out a lot when I do. So I actually had to use a pillow between me and the mic so I didn’t blow out my own speakers when I hit the high notes *snicker*. My mic just can’t handle it when I wail.

Again, first try, don’t be too critical just yet, some distortion towards the end:
Simple Man

My day off:

Sleep is a rarity for me lately, so, although I missed the morning sun, I slept until 12:30. It felt nice to not have to wake-up to the sound of a blaring alarm clock. I actually hate waking up to them, they scare me. Sometimes my body tends to wake me up ahead of the alarm clock to prevent that from happening.

I did some web work that has been backing up. It feels good to accomplish a few things, I just wish I didn’t have so much to accomplish.

It was very sunny today, but while the sun was bright, the sky was thundering. It’s been a while since we’ve had a thunderstorm, which is disappointing, because I love them.

While I was walking around outside, enjoying the thunderstorm, I noticed a large patch of peppermint chocolate mint that I planted about 2 years ago. It’s grown rather large, and is slowly making it’s way over to another herb patch of mine, which has me worried since mint tends to take over things. But either way, I cultivated a small pile of leaves in the hem of my skirt (yes, I wore a skirt) and enjoyed the cool breeze from the thundering clouds. My Son came up to me every few minutes with a tennis ball, wanting me to throw it. Of course I had to wrestle him for it because he’s too proud to just give it to me.

I also love the warmer weather because I hardly ever wear shoes.

I brought the mint leaves inside and steeped them into some tea for later. I took out some fish from the freezer and put it in the oven to thaw. Then using one of our cast iron skillets, I cooked them with butter, a few pieces of garlic, and some old bay seasoning.

Now I haven’t cooked fish since I was about 16 and living with my mother. But I impressed myself with how damn tasty this fish turned out to be.

It’s been a while since I’ve gone fishing too, which is something I’d like to do with my dad and sister this summer. Unfortunately Steph will be in Germany by then, otherwise I’d take her too. Perhaps Vinnie will go, but he doesn’t really seem the outdoorsy type.

Later on I think I’ll swing with My Son on our porch swing that my dad has fastened to the limb of the big oak out front.

Just a nice lazy day.

I want you to post in here something they would like to do with me someday.

Then post this in your journal to find out what I want to do with you.

Ugh, annoyed.

I don’t want to pay for MT, there’s no way I can afford it, but don’t know whether I want to switch to Wordpress or pMachine. It sucks that MT is going to start forcing people to pay for their program. As much as people love it, it just isn’t going to happen. I’ll switch to whatever is free and functional, I just wish I didn’t have to learn a whole new system. I really do love my Movable Type
Also annoyed at the fuel prices. Before, it took me $40 to fill up my gas tank. It took me $30 to fill it halfway today.