I have two nigh four-month-old kittens who are getting old enough to be neutered and get all their shots and microchip and so forth. I called the vet we used once, Banfield Hospital at a PetSmart -- whose customer service and "bedside manner" were excellent , and which we appreciated emotionally. I happened to post the price quote for their services in my journal, and a friend in another city...

Goodness, I almost forgot.  Happy birthday to my dear and far away friend traceroo  , whom I haven't seen in far too long.  May your day be filled with happiness and sunshine... and kitties.  :-)

Today must have been fated for nice people! Happy Birthday to animehealer   and traceroo  ! My world is a better place for having both of you in it!!!!

I noticed something this morning.  Well, I notice things most mornings, but particularly this morning.  When one is forced to "not eat or drink anything for 12 hours before the exam" it inevitably happens that when one wakes up in the morning, and in this instance "one" would mean Me and Me has no idea why the whole 3rd person thing is happening, but me digresses.  Right, where was Me.  AH, the morning...

As requested by traceroo  , here are some pics of our place. This one is Mira staring at her kitchen design.  Yes, folks she designed our kitchen :)  And I love her for it! Post Kitchen Completion: Living room (2 pics of various stages and then the completed one with Mira sitting on the sofa) I wish  had better pictures.  Will have to take some.

I gotta say that I am soooo happy that the poopy-ness of Finnish TV is offset by the mag-mag-magik like qualities of the Internet and being able to obtain American and British TV shows.  The dull-drums of the HAY-ULLISH beginninginlateNovemberandlastinguntilJanuarybutfeelslikeaneternityhereinthefrozentundraofFinland(TM) hiatus of US TV is ending this week!  WOO-it is like heaven with a touch of Unicorn...

So another year has passed. What follows is discussion of the past year, the year to come, and a severe level of navel gazing. Last year I had the following resolutions: 1. Produce More, Consume Less I did pretty well on that one. I've written probably upwards of 300K words this year, though only 100K of that is paying work. Certainly a lot more than the year before. 2. Eat Better: ...

Call me crazy (most of you will), but I am actually happy to be back at work.  Seroiusly.  The company holiday shindig was on the 18th of December and during that day, I worked from home.  The next day I worked from my home office as well, as is my habit every Friday.  Then, due to the official public seasonal holiday being observed the 24th, 25th and 26th of December (gotta love a country that says...

So I recently reconnected with an old friend (shout out to Trace ) who convinced me that all the cool kids were using live journal. Being the sheep that I am I figured I would give it a try. Okay I am not really a sheep..more like a goat I would say. I already have a blog..but it seems as though it just isn't robust enough for me right now. Kinda boring and can't be arsed to actually post anything...

  Often times, I fill out memes, and then don't post them, because there really isn't much reason to. But yesterday, I spilled half a bottle of cream soda on my keyboard, and half the keys are sticking, so filling a long, pointless questionaire was more work than usual. I'm thinking, now that I'm finished, I should maybe work on fixing the keyboard issue. Hello, first off what is your name? Hortence...