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Had an 'interesting' morning, where I was left with this.

Courtesy of my mum's cat Romeo.

My boy Chaz has for awhile now been having issues with his mouth, I thought it might have been one of his teeth but with a hole in his heart and his age there really wasn't anything I could do. Thankfully he wasn't having any trouble eating, and only occasionally appeared bothered by it.

He came running out of my room this morning batting at his face with both paws. I put him in my mum's lap so she could hold him as I tried to get a look inside of his mouth. Romeo has always had a stronger predatory nature than the other kitties, at least that's why we figure he keeps harassing my two boys [Romeo: the sick must be put down for the good of the group] on the other hand he's always been a little freaky.

Whatever the case might be, he panicked and launched himself at Chaz, thankfully my hand was in the way. I say thankfully 'cause its better I deal with these puncture wounds than Chaz...we've done that once before already I'd rather not repeat it. I'll be taking Chaz to the vet tomorrow to check for infection in his mouth, hopefully he'll be fine now that the tooth fell out on its own.

Current Mood: sore

\o/ we finally have some snow!

I know most people don't like snow and I'm sure if it was keeping me from getting somewhere I needed I'd dislike it too. But for now I'm just enjoying how it makes everything look and feel more Christmassy to me. Unfortunately since the snow stopped falling we've been getting some rain which is making everything look rather slushy but there might be enough snow for it to hold out against the rain.

I feel very out of focus today, I've been cross-stitching but I'm feeling like I'm not getting anything done. This feeling doesn't have anything to do with the patterns, its just the way my brain is choosing to process my day.

Here have some pictures my sister took with my camera this morning of our kitties enjoying her old comforter which she most certainly did not put in the dryer for 20 minutes to make it all nice and toasty warm for said kitties. Nope! Definitely not!

In this picture you can see Dodger is pretending to be a blanket for Romeo

I'm actually quite happy with this arrangement, it means for the vast majority of the day the kitties happily sleep. However this isn't so good for my sister as she takes both Romeo and Dodger into her room at night and Romeo can be very energetic at night ^_~

I'm really wishing I lived closer to a Micheal's or if not that, that I actually had a craft store with a decent supply of thread. The only one in my immediate area is in Cobourg and they charge .79 cents for their floss while I can get it at Micheal's for .49

I'm always really disappointed at how little selection of colors the one in Cobourg has, and its like that every time I go in there. The woman who owns the business keeps telling me that she's waiting on a shipment but for how long? I'm not all that pleased with how that business is run anyways. I have asked to be called with an order I put in comes, but I haven't heard back. I went in there to ask if they could order in patterns for me [I was hoping to avoid having to go all the way to Peterborough] the owner wasn't in so the girl took down my name and number and told me she'd have the owner call me. Never happened. The point is mute now as I have my Pattern Maker.

Merry Christmas

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: Nero Wolfe Mysteries

Yesterday I finished my work on the Romeo cross-stitch but decided to wait until this morning to get a picture since unnatural light tends to make the colors look more orange.

So here he is in all his glory, I've included the original photo for reference.

I love looking at the pattern from a distance suddenly I can see everything as it is, what was just a mess of colors to me is now definition to his face, highlights from the sun those little nubs on his face where his whiskers grow.

I'm quite thrilled and also rather depressed. I don't feel much like working on Kiba I've started the pattern but as I said it isn't my pattern so its not as much fun.

Current Mood: accomplished

As I've mentioned on a few occasions I'm using a small desk lamp to back light my black linen making it a lot easier to stitch. And despite my claims that I would never stitch on black again, I already know that's a lie, I've already got another pattern planned.

Romeo really likes this little lamp as it produces a lot of heat. If he isn't sticking his face into it or warming his toes under it. He's trying to lie down. So I moved it up to the top plat form of this little kitty tree and tipped the head down so it was closer to him. I think he liked it.

And he's a picture of the progress I've made on the Romeo cross-stitch as of tonight. I've completed 2/4 pages and the last two aren't even full pages.

Won't be much longer until I'm done!

Current Mood: working

So I promised Shuffles that I'd share a progress picture of Romeo at some point in time tonight. I have a very hard time putting this pattern down. I feel like its going a lot faster than the patterns I've bought in store.

I started November 12

I'm quite pleased with the results so far. I still don't have the rest of the colors I need but I should be getting all of them tomorrow [wouldn't it just figure that some are sold out?]

Current Mood: artistic

Today's been kinda good.

My cross-stitching pattern maker came in the mail and I've created my first pattern [I've got a lot of them in mind] But I told my mum months ago that I'd cross-stitch a picture of her kitty Romeo. She picked this picture

I thought it would look rather striking against black fabric. So this is the first pattern I'll attempt on linen [lady at the store thought I was crazy]

Also the pattern for Kiba [white wolf] came today as well. Now I have lots to do but not all the thread I need. I managed to pick up more than half of the thread for Romeo and Tuesday I'll get the rest along with supplies for Kiba.

Despite the fact that I've been keeping busy my moods have been down, frustrated and discouraged I guess. Still haven't written a word...not sure managing anything would help me all that much right now. Just thinking too much, I must learn to shut off my brain.

Current Mood: creative

I'm still feeling hugely blocked in the writing department, a few vague ideas bobbing around in my head but nothing concrete. It might just be that I can't really think of how to start anything or that I haven't taken enough time to do it. In either case at least the cross-stitching is keeping me busy.

Here's the progress as of today.

As I said yesterday I only have the water left to do and then it'll be done. My aunt is planning on framing it so I wouldn't have to bother completing the back like I was originally planning.

Oh look! it's two kitties, who are pro at looking comfy when they sleep.

Romeo was curled up under a blanket with my sister.

Went out for a walk today...and was a very bad kitty! I stopped in on my sister at work and she got me to by and shirt and hoodie, which I love! But probably shouldn't have bought right now *hangs head* But I love them &hearts!!

At

seregil's suggestion I went looking for decent pictures to take of autumn that I could share. I was also hoping to catch some of the filming that's started up again for Happy Town but either they're done again or just for the weekend so I'll check back next week.

Needless to say I didn't find much that wanted to take a picture of, so you'll get dead/dying salmon.

Pictures taken 'cause the fish are just so big!

That is all ^_~

Current Mood: satisfied

Been another blah day for me, kind of good but not really...I guess the fact that it hasn't been horrible should be seen as a positive but it doesn't feel like much.

Parent's are up north camping which means I've got some seriously needy kitties on my hands. Romeo can be especially annoying when mum's gone and he wants people to pay attention to him. I don't mind letting him sleep in my lap but inevitably Heero comes and wants my lap and I can't deny him.

Oh and check this out. This is my young cousin Griffin showing off his dance moves. He learned them from watching Micheal Jacksons music videos, he's surprisingly good.

I was a bad kitty a few days back, I ordered the complete series of M*A*S*H all 11 seasons were on sale for $140 that's around $12 a season, a deal I couldn't find anywhere else. It also comes with a lot of bonus materials that the single seasons don't have. [I'm really glad I didn't by anymore than one single season] I'm especially looking forward to this, as the episodes are absolutely butchered for TV now, since we have more commercials now than back when these originally aired, so it's like watching an entirely new episode!

And speaking about TV, why do people come and talk to me when I'm clearly trying to watch something? I can divide my attention between multiple things, but I've learned I can only really retain one verbal conversations. I don't have a problem following both a verbal and literary one though. Good times! Oh well I really like to try and be there for people who want to talk to me, so it's mostly okay