It’s a beautiful day outside here today, the sky is a clear blue, the sun is shining and you can see for miles.  It is a little on the cold side it hasn’t made it up to the 50′s yet but I think we might just make it today.

We’re working hard to get our house on the market to get it sold and get out of California to the warm climate of Nevada.  Isn’t it always the case you work hard on fixing up your home just the way you like it and then decide to move on!  We’ve been told that with everything we’ve done that the house shouldn’t be on the market very long but with the way the real estate market is these days I’m not going to expect it to sell quickly.  We’ve even gone the extra step to have a home inspection done (we didn’t want to have any surprises).  I would really recommend this to anyone who is going to put your home on the market.  Luckily we came through okay; the inspector told us that is everyone would do it up front that they would be well informed as to what a potential buyer might try to come back on them with.  I guess only time will tell.

Still haven’t gotten a new kitten yet, I’ve been looking at getting a Ragamuffin this time and they appear to be few and far between.  Not that many breeders and they only have about 4 to 5 kittys a litter.  If anyone knows of any breeders please let me know I’ve been searching the internet and can’t find that many. 

Have a wonderful day!

(This was originally started on August 2, 2006 and I was not able to complete.)  Today is a very difficult day for me so I thought I would get on here and see if putting it down in writing helps. 

I have to take my 11 year old Himalayan cat (Digger) in to be put to sleep this afternoon.  He has a very rare form of a lung cancer (there have only been 3 known cases in 26 years) is what the vet has told us.  This is the first cat I’ve ever owned that was raised from a 7 week old kitten and he’s been my baby.  With losing my 2 sons to a house fire when I got him I’ve treated him as a part of the family.  This is really taking it’s tole on me today.  They discovered this about 6 weeks ago and gave him between 1 to 2 months, it’s a very speedy disease I’m told.

Well it’s 12/18 and I wasn’t able to finish my note above.  He was put to sleep and it’s still been pretty hard on me.  I can’t believe that I would miss him as much as I do…it’s a little bit tougher right now since Wednesday the 20th is the anniversary of the house fire that my 2 sons died in.  Some Christmas’s are worse than others and this one seems to be a tough one coming on.  I’ve been sitting around crying wondering what they would look like and how they would have turned out.  I know I need to keep busy so I don’t sit around and cry all day while I’m home alone.

I wish each of you reading this the Very Merriest of Christmas’s and a Great Holiday Season for those that do not celebrate Christmas. 

Yeah I know long time no blog!!  A lot has been going on in our lives and I’ve been too busy to sit and put my thoughts down.  I’m still getting my daily dose of Xanga though and reading everyone’s entries that I subscribe too, so at least I’m a little up to date.  We’ll see with my writing if I still have any subscribers left

We’ve been thinking of moving from California and relocating to Nevada.  We’ve found a couple of beautiful homes and will be making a decision very soon.  Once area we’ve looked at is the Summerlin area about 25 minutes from downtown Las Vegas and the strip.  A very nice area but still pretty busy.  Last week we did another trip and went north to a small community called Mesquite, it’s about an hour north of Las Vegas and about 30 minutes outside of St. George, Utah.  The home we found there was awesome and on a golf course to boot.  It won’t be built until sometime next summer which would give us plenty of time to sell our home and make the move….lots to think about.  California is just getting our of control and we need a change.

Hope this finds everyone well and I’ll try very hard to keep updating, but if I don’t know that I read your blogs daily.

It’s turning out to be a fairly nice day today, at least it says that it’s 50 degrees outside.  I know us west coasters are pansies but we can’t take that cold that the east coast does….brrrrrr

Finally got the walls in the family room painted and faux painted them in leather technique….I’m pretty impressed with myself and how it turned out.  I did a green, the bottom is a ‘glass shop green’ and the top is a ‘bermuda grass’.  Mixed with the faux finish it is not dark at all.   The pictures are a little hard to see but here goes.

Once it’s all back together I’ll take some more picture’s and see if they will turn out better.  It’s hard with the faux finish for it to show up. 

Everyone take care and I’ll get around to everyone’s site I missed later on today.

Well finally doing better today, the steriods are starting to work.  At least I think I make the effort to go and have my nails done today. 

The weather is so cold here though, I know I live on the west coast but when it’s in the 30′s it is cold to us.  And that cold weather plays havoc on my asthma, if you didn’t know, cold is terrible for asthma.

This is short hopefully I’ll get around to some additional sites and say hello to everyone. 

Sorry I haven’t been on much again I’ve let a bad asthma attack sneek up on me and ended up pretty bad.  Now I’m on steriods, antibotics, cough medicine with codine and feeling pretty lousey!

I’ll get to everyone’s site soon, need to go crawl back in bed.

Good Morning Xanga…

We went to Sacramento yesterday with a friend.  He had to take some french doors to his sisters house for storage, we have the pick-up you know

After we dropped them off and went and ate we headed for this great place called “Three Women & and Armoire”.  This is one of the best places to look for antiques at very reasonable prices.  I believe they obtain this from estate sales, junk yards and re-finish and sell at amazing prices.  I found this wonderful antique solid mahogany curio cabinet that was awesome and $695.  Anyplace else you wouldn’t be able to touch this from under $2000.  No, I didn’t bring it home.  We still are working on the house and I wanted to be sure it was the right size prior to splurging.  I figure if it’s not there when I’m ready it wasn’t meant to be.

On to the topic of my MIL….she had another chemo session on Friday and all went very well.  She saw her Oncologist as well and he indicated from the last blood test that there were less cancer cells in her blood….the chemo is working.  Now since I didn’t go to the doctor’s appointment I cannot say for sure that is what was said.  Unfortunately, sometimes the family does not interrupt statements accurately….I will make sure that either my hubby or I attend the next one.

We are getting excited here my nephew (ChattyCat’s son) will be arriving late Friday evening and we are both looking forward to seeing him, as well as the rest of the family.  I will be on-call starting midnight tonight the 11th on 7×24 so not sure I will be able to leave the house.  I have to be 15 minutes within the phone and my laptop in the event I get a page.  Generally that means I do not leave the house.  We’ll see how things go.

I had a haircut and color last night…if I didn’t say anything I’m really a blonde (no, not one of those scattered brain ones either)  but I have gone red, or should I say burgundy.  This is the second time she has colored it (every 8 weeks we have decided on) and she really went dark this time.  If your not aware when your a natural blonde and go that dark it has a tendency to wash out.  Everyone in the salon thought I would walk in with pink hair.  It did hold the color pretty well but I didn’t realize just how much had washed out until she was done.   Anyway…it’s fun and I love the change!

I’m searching for a couple of good packages to Hawaii for sometime next month.  My hubby has decided to have his re-constructive surgery probably around March, so he wants to take a couple of weeks and go for rest and relaxation prior to having this done.  This will be a scary surgery, we have been told a minimum of 10 days in the hospital with at least 4 of those in ICU.  There are several series side affects and they need him there in the event any of them occur. 

If anyone knows of any good prices I would appreciate the info.  Take care and I’ll get to everyone’s sites as soon as I can.

Hey all thought I’d take a minute to say hello, my day at work is done…the laptop is turned off and my PC is working now

My MIL had a very good appointment last Friday with her chemo…this was her third treatment and so far she is doing great.  He is not getting sick or has not started to loose her hair either.  One great success was she gained 2.4 pounds.  This is her first weight gain in over 7 months, it has all been weight lose. 

She is very excited that her grandson will be coming up on the 16th of this month.  Cathy…we need to talk girl, we got an earful on Saturday.  Joe offered (to his Dad) that we could pick Ryan up at the airport on Friday night since it was late and he doesn’t like to go to the Oakland airport.   We were with the response we got….

Catch up with everyone later

I can’t believe she’s gone