Yawn

I'm so tired today. The kittens have run me around all day. I have to give them meds which is tough and they are just so energetic. I've been working on the party a lot and also my anthropology final is next week. I hope I get a good grade. The last 2 exams I got an A and a B. then I start my Business Law class in the summer. The books are so expensive and my financial aid app. got declined. It makes me sad. It's so hard for people to get an education and so hard to get a good job without a degree. I already have my computer science degree but that field is very very full. I've been applying for lots of jobs and also taking in some more cat sitting. James hates it but it's an easy way for me to make money. I have work tomorrow and it kinda sucks. the body shop is driving me crazy. I wish they would give me all my hours or lay me off. Honestly! Then I could look for something else. But I shouldn't say that. I need my job so we can keep up with the payments here and etc.

My sister gave us tickets for Dane Cook for our anniversary. It's going to be really fun. He's so funny. I hope we can also stay at a B&B somewhere for our anniversary. We need some time away. Besides the lake we haven't gone anywhere else since James was out of work. We're going to Morro Bay in October to play golf and do the touristy thing. It's pretty much my favorite place to go. We're already saving up for it since we had to get a sort of pricey hotel. Everything was already booked and I'm not sure why. There's supposed to be good weather there at that time.

Once we get past my parents' party which has been so stressful because it's a SURPRISE! and we're trying to make it really nice - I can relax a little before classes start again. Then I have to work on Rachel's shower which I haven't done too much on yet. I want it to be fun and simple.

I can't believe we are having our 3rd anniversary already. We've been together for 6 years and only been married for 1/2 of them. Pretty crazy. I think I'm going to look online for some kind of fun overnite thing for us to do before it's too late.

Random

I can't wait to go home today. I feel the beginnings of a migraine. Oh well. Tomorrow night is the Women's Club function, then Sunday we are helping my parents with yardwork. I have been busy this week. I'm trying to find another site for Rachel's shower (might not have enough room..), had a midterm on Monday (super hard)....and all kinds of other stuff. I am at work right now and feeling eh. I am glad to have a job but at the same time I really don't like it here. The painter who works here is always hitting on me and eventually it gets really really annoying. I don't even think I'm really that interesting...I guess being married does that to you LOL. I don't try to get people's attention and I dress modestly. Oh well. Enough about that. Today I had to use my lunch to go get James from work, take him home, and then get back here. His truck still isn't ready yet. We bought it and it has been smogged 2 times and didn't pass.

I have a bunch of homework to do this weekend. Our class is almost over. It has been a great class, I will miss it. We were discussing burial practices the other day regarding the Bara of Madagascar, and then we started talking about cannibalism and Buddhism. It really is a neat class. Anyway she said that one of the basic tenets of Buddhist living is the thought that, "Attachment is the cause of all suffering"......I've been thinking about this for the past couple days. It really makes sense to me. Maybe that's why I just try not to get attached to things...if I lose something, oh well. I don't obssess over cars, things, etc. I give things away all the time even if they're worth money. I just don't make a big deal of it.

Now that I wrote a bunch of random stuff I probably have to get back to work. Although I don't have anything to do. :(

Bleh

I want to go home so bad. I hate this job. I don't want to complain because at least I still have a job...but I hate it here. The painter is always bugging me, he's kind of a perv. My boss gives me hella shit even though she's never here...it just sucks.

I have studying tonight and the baby kittens to clean up after and weigh. They are so cute!

I wish it wasn't so windy out today. I usually take a long walk on my lunch but it's so windy it stings my eyes. Hopefully it really does get nice soon.

:(

So tired....

I went up to class today and it was cancelled...so instead I went to the grocery store. I hate shopping so it is something I put off. We are finally done unpacking and neatening up. Moving is so so stressful but we're almost done. The apartment is clean and hopefully we'll get some of our money back...we can definitely use it. James is getting laid off again tomorrow...I hope he gets another short call or gets some side work. Times are really tough, I've been applying for jobs everyday and never get any responses, it really sucks. I'm working towards a second A.A. degree to maximize my potential (hopefully!) in Paralegal/Legal Studies. It would be nice to find a second job soon.

I have to go mail something and then take a walk, I've been lacking on my workouts lately and I can feel it!

:)

What is an animal's life worth?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/16/moneytales031609.DTL

I was reading this article today on SF Chronicle and it kind of upset me. Someone had commented "It's nice to see that this woman...yada yada...helps the animals, but would she do the same thing for fellow human beings?"

Now everyone is entitled to their own opinion...and here goes mine....Domesticated animals are basically helpless. When someone refuses to spay/neuter their cat or dog, and said pet goes out and creates a litter, that is the fault of the humans. Animals don't have control over their instincts.

Regarding humans: if you are a human, and you don't have health insurance, you're homeless, etc....I have compassion but at the same time...we are in control of our situation. If you are homeless/jobless because you're a junkie...basically that's nobody's fault but your own. If you're homeless because your house burned down your situation may be different.

Also humans don't tend to have a lot of gratitude. When you give a bum a dollar, they usually mumble "thanks", say nothing at all, or look at the dollar and then look at you like YOU are the asshole. In my rescue experience, animals show lots more gratitude and understanding....when I took in kittens last year who were starving, weak and dirty, they purred and purred when I washed them with a warm cloth, dropper-fed them, and played with them. They realized that I was helping them and they showed appreciation. Humans very often don't act like this. That's not to say all humans OR all animals but in most cases....when you help a human, they often just keep putting their hand out instead of getting their shit together.

Now this woman may have gone a little far...she found a cat that had been hit by a car and was suffering by the roadside. She took it to the vet and paid for it to be kept alive. I would definitely pull over and pick up a cat or dog that had been hit and left to die....and take it to the vet, but depending on the cost I might have to opt for euthanasia. Regardless I would never just leave a suffering animal by the side of the road...that's just awful and deplorable behavior on the part of us humans.

That's my big speech for the day...I hate it how people always act like compassionate animal lovers are nutcases....it's a generalization that's mean and untrue (most of the time).

OMG so tired

I am so tired. We painted our new place yesterday. Actually we started on Wednesday night...auntienette & Erik really helped me a lot yesterday. Then my mom and sister came at night. It is so much work. the people who owned it before were a little weird and really messy. Tonight we're renting a UHaul and then moving more of our stuff, and I have to go to Jo-Ann's to get curtain fabric. No curtains at all. It is lots and lots of work.
I really like it though. It's really cute, lots of windows and a good size yard spot.
I can't wait to leave work, only an hour and 20 min. Then it's off to go get the uhaul and start running around :)

OMG I so hate moving

I hate moving...even though the end result is good it's such a pain in the ass. We have so much stuff not to mention that we have the cats & bird to bring. UGH. Yesterday I gave away 6 huge black bags of stuff to Salvation Army and I'll probably have more bags by the time we are ready to leave here. We have to patch up the walls and stuff so we can maybe get some of our deposit back. I doubt they will give us any though. That's how apt. people are.
We have to paint the new place because the bedrooms are in real weird colors...dark like goth bedrooms and that's not good for me. But of course that means we have to prime since the walls are so dark.
I am totally procrastinating. I have homework to be doing plus packing. LOL