Sheet Marks & Kittens

Well its 2:00 am and I'm wide awake!! Laid down super early (which I do quite often actually) because my body decided to kick into severe hurt mode at 6:something last night. Went to sleep just like a baby. That happens quite a lot too. Woke up around 10:00 pm thinking that my night would be starting. Went back, took a shower and watched a interesting show 'ghost stories' and then 'I survived....", then back off to sleep. Wonderful!!! Well do I need to tell you that its 2:00 am and here I am? Typical. ha ha ha Hit the bathroom (really wanted to know that huh?) and just like a woman I had to check out myself in the mirror. Just like I was expecting to see something other then a baggy eyed, hair messed up beauty. ha ha ha Then there it was...........the dreaded sheet marks running along the side of my face!!! I haven't had sheet marks in ages. They are terrible because it seems like they take forever to get rid of. I've heard that means your dehydrated. That amazing considering I'm one for keeping something to drink in my hand all the time. Anyway since I'm awake I figured I'd grab my baby computer (that's what I call my netbook) and type a few words. Soon as I got up mamas dogs heard movement and as usual I checked in on them and there they were, standing there, ears perked up and ready to go out. So here I sit in my usual chair in the sun room with my baby computer perched on top of a book (which fits its exact by the way), a few dogs sitting along side and behind, a few dogs laying on the floor, and me typing away. :) You know, there for a while I really didn't care if anybody read my blog but I wonder would anybody find it interesting? My youngest son has read it and signed on as a follower. Bless his heart I know he probably did it so make me feel good. ha ha That was nice of him. He's a sweet kid. I bookmarked it in my mothers computer and I gave my address to my hubby but I really doubt they have read it. After they seen how long my bogs were I'm sure that was enough to send them running. To be honest I don't see them reading them. So do I worry they read about me talking about them? Nah. Even if they did they can always say that I'm truthful. :) I said this blog was my outlet. Am I always right in how I see things? Probably not but its the way I see them anyway. I call it like I see it.

Well mama will probably come home from my brothers tomorrow. Last text I got from her was asking could she have a kitten. Crazy woman!! We live in a two bedroom bungalow with seven dogs and one cat now! I love kittens as much as the next person but we are pretty much full when it comes to the pet kingdom around here now. I wouldn't take nothing for the ones we have but we really don't need anymore if we can help it. I hope she doesn't come home all bummed out cause I said no. We'll see. I don't think she has taught about how much cost would be involved either. With having it fixed and declawed and shots it would add up fast. I've heard it said that declawing was inhumane but Chewy is declawed and I think it was a good idea. I had heard that they didn't give them anything when they declawed them but I made sure that was a myth with my vet before I had it done. To have them fixed (spayed or neutered) is beneficial for them as well as us. With having them declawed is an option you should only take if you are willing to keep them inside and away from harm for their lifetime. They would end up getting seriously hurt or killed if they were outside!! It has to be a lifetime commitment for the owner so you better make sure you can commit before you have it done. I was willing to take that commitment on so Chewy was declawed. After he was declawed I filled his litter box with shredded newspaper until his feet had healed up. With sore paws they find it misreable to push around litter. Plus it can get into the wounds and cause infection. Its more work and you really have to stay behind the litter box because newspaper doesn't absorb odors very well and it gets 'used' up fast! But its worth the effort for your pet. Cats love to 'knead' furniture. Have you ever visited a home and the sides of their furniture looked like it had been through a meat grinder? Stuffing showing? Well I wanted to avoid that so declawing was the route I choose. I have never regretted my decision. Like I said earlier though...if your going to have a cat declawed be prepared for that lifetime commitment. Anyway....back to mama. I don't think she though of all that would go into having a kitten. If she comes home bummed out I'll remind her of that. Maybe it will make her feel better. Mama and I are at that stage where at one time she called the shots and now she's living with me so I pretty much do. I'm not saying that she has to get everything 'approved' by me. Not by any means. This is her home too, but somethings we all have to agree on. I remember thinking that I would one day be able to have all the animals I wanted!! A child's way of thinking I suppose. Now that I'm older I realize that a home can't hold but just so many. Pets can be a major financial responsibility. If done right. Vet bills can run as high as doctor bills can now-a-days.
Well my youngest son is pulling a double today. Seeing as he's a night owl and didn't get much sleep last night, I bet when he does get home and lay down he'll be down for the count! ha ha ha His car has been needing a battery so he's had to get a jump to get to work and another jump to get back home. So last night he just stayed up all night (he does that regularly anyway since he usually works second shift) and this morning he went back to work to get his check at 7:00 am. He wanted to get a battery before he went to work. That having to get somebody to jump you twice a day is the pits. Been there....done that when I was younger. So about the time he gets all that done and lays down its time for him to get back up again. He usually gets off around 9:00 pm but since the other cook didn't come in he was stuck to pull graveyard shift!! I know his eyes had to be batting by midnight. He'll be one tired puppy when he does finally come dragging in. He's wanting his own place so bad. I know with him being a young man and all he really wants his own space but with him starting college in august and working full time I wish he could hang in there and see how hard it will be maintaining paying for a place. I recon I just feel like he would have it a little easier being here then worrying about paying more bills and trying to go to school and all. Maybe if he does find something it will be with other guy room mates who will be sharing in the living costs. I think the whole moving out is stemming from wanting to live with his girlfriend. Shes a sweet girl but I just don't see what the rush is. He goes and spends his off time at her place. Why rush into a live in relationship. He's been there a few times before and its like 'playing house' before you actually get there. The dating is the fun part. I think sometimes thats what makes relationships go down the tubes. People are wanting to pretend marriage. I'm not saying that I'm better. I lived with my hubby a year before we got married. We dated a total of three years. Dating is just so much fun. When you live together you enter into another deminision of your relationship. That when you go from fun to serious day to day survival mode. Thats where the marriage part kicks in. During dating you get out and do more, have more fun. When you 'settle down' you learn all the differences of each other you didn't know before. Thats not a bad thing, no, but I do think it pays to learn a lot about each other first. The dating part helps you learn things in a slow way. Living together you learn everything so fast you don't really have time to adjust. Your going from leaving your day to day stress at home to go out and have fun to both of you taking the same day to day stress out with you. To be able to handle that well you need to have built up to that point. DATING!! Thats your building point. Nobody wants to 'build' up to anything anymore. People want to jump in with both feet and expect them building blocks to be there. A lot of times it isn't. Enjoy your dating time. You got plenty of time to settle down. Would'nt it be nice if us 'older' (I don't mean ancient) people could make the 'younger' (I don't mean babies) people understand when were trying to help them? Well I suppose I'll surf the web for a bit. If I can get reconnected that is!! Good ole Time Warner! Roadrunner my eye! If I have a nickle for everytime I was dis-connected I would be a rich woman! Good night or good morning. Which ever you want to call it. :) For everybody who enjoys finding typos.....enjoy it blog!! :))))