Several have emailed me about wanting to send Lee "things: from Amazon and overstock dot com. They will be living in a hotel for quite sometime and have no place to store stuff. Money would be better and you guys have heard Lee talk enough that you know she will get the best bang for the buck....

I was there for three days and nights. Came home on Friday. Persia was happy to have me back full time :) Yesterday morning he called, he needs his dressing changed. I drive 25 miles to his house and our friend of 35 years is sitting there with him watching television. What, you couldn't ask...

Oscar has small cell lymphoma. That's about all I know right now. The emergency vet says it's very treatable with steroids and chemo, and she could live a couple of years. My therapist says I need to take a hard look at Oscar's quality of life and whether it makes sense to put her through...

I have a cousin who is a nurse and she sent me 30 ways to know you are a nurse. Some funny ones but didn't figure most would want mt to post it here.

We had gasoline in my area with no limit at $2.88 a gallon today. Strange how this got a lot people excited. I had to wait 15 minutes in line. They sold out in 1 1/2 hour. I was able to fill up my truck today and not go over $100 it cost me $75 today saved $25 bucks what am I going to do...

Dag nab her little britches, Miranda is home! I was feeling really hopeless last night and cried myself to sleep. Around midnight, a little paw came pawing at the covers for me to lift them and let the cat in. Expecting to feel Caliban, I stroked the little body that slipped in, and instead of...

We experienced temps in the 30s F here in North Carolina last week. This was very uncomfortable for us all as the heater is based under the house and none of us were able to go under to make sure the pilot light was on. So we got cold. I got up in the middle of the night to shiver my way to...

We can't even buy safe toys for our pets now. :-( http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20091207/consumer-group-zhu-zhu-pet-toys-are-unsafe?ecd=wnl_day_120809

I know there's no advice any of you can give on a medical issue, but I hope you don't mind if I "talk" about it a bit. Between my illness / injury / pain meds I have been steadily losing weight - and either unable to eat of just not absorbing the calories I eat. A year ago I was up to almost...

Sweltering (for England) night last night at 21 degrees C, 69 F. Somehow I thought my three masters might scatter to cooler climes. No such luck :-( Bandit maintained his usual vigil lodged against my feet. Pericles kept station in his customary place beside my stomach. Snowball for some obscure...

Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow (the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing...

.... dangle *him* in the jaws of a croc... *please*... The way some celebrities use their kids as props in their act makes me want to puke. A stunt too far methinks... I never did like Irwin, and now I know why! Cheers, helen s http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3364117.stm

So, I went to see the kittens in person today, and did bring a camera and did remember to charge the batteries, so here are even more kitten pictures. And yes, the big scary hoomin who is about to eat one of the kittens is yours truly. Go...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_925133.html Wills accused of shooting cat Prince William has been investigated by police after a woman claimed he shot her pet cat. Jeshiera Art filed a complaint saying Wills, 21, fired a gun outside her home near Balmoral - and her cat has not been seen...

Tomorrow he starts his *big* examinations... between then and July is the biggest test of his young life - his GCSE examinations. This decides what he can study to age 18 and then on into university. Tomorrow he has his German oral examination. Any purrs of any language which can be spared, will...

We need purrs. My daughter called last night and she had fainted at work, this is the second time in about 2 months. So this time they found an abnormal EKG so they admitted her. She normally has an inverted T-wave just like I do, which is usually not a big deal, except this time it was different....

Apropos of all the discussion of wake-up techniques . . . how about 3 AM piano-playing? Actually, I think he finds this so entertaining in itself, that he's just doing it for his own amusement. Waking me up is just a delightful bonus. :P Theresa My Blog:...

She just got her final grades for the spring semester: straight A's. That gives her a 3.90 for grad school. :-) Yayyy Patty! -- "No, I could sleep, but I must not; death is too near; he must not steal up on me. These fifteen years I have been making ready for him; I will meet him awake." Maria...

Now tell me, all you ladies out there. If a frog jumped over your foot at 3.15 am, what would you do? How about 1] scream, and 2] wake your husband to deal with the frog? Yes, seems right to me too.

In September I lost my Manx kitty Banana Simian to a virulent form of cancer. Folks here were quite supportive. My big orange tabby Moe Lester has had a really high breathing rate for some time - a constant 100 or 110, even when sleeping, and I finally ran him in to have the vet take a look. They...