Kuna Tuna

Well we had to put our beautiful orange tabby Kuna down yesterday. He had been getting thinner for the last little while but we had attributed that to the fact that it was summer time. But over the last week he really wasn't looking all that great and over the weekend he went downhill quite quickly. He has had this obsession with eating plastic bags over the years and when he was 10 months old he actually had surgery (we thought he had a blockage) but it turned out to be a very expensive 'air exchange' instead. We had decided at that point that he had used up the entire vet fund and that all the cats were SOL now because of him. This wasn't really true of course. Perhaps that was why I didn't take him to the vet sooner though and I'm wishing that I had. But we went yesterday and were ready to give it a shot and see if the fluids would help make him feel better before doing any x-rays or any of that kind of thing. You know how vets work, everything is SO expensive. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself though if we didn't at least try. One thing that I was adamant about was getting blood work done. Then that way we could find out if there was any underlying conditions going on. Well sure enough, there was. His kidney's were deteriorating and he was slowly dying. Eventually he would go on his own, but we couldn't let him suffer like that. So we had an amazing cuddle with lots of pets and kisses and my hubby even gave him some goodbye from his feline brother and sister at home with a lick on the head and a bite of his neck - it may seem silly but it pretty much broke my heart right there. It was really hard to say goodbye to him, but it was what needed to be done. I still can't believe he's gone. He was only 3 years old.
So rest in peace Kuna. You were an amazing kitty and you will be forever missed.

Love you
xoxo

Tuesday rant

My husband has a magazine subscription to Men's Health and has been getting it for that past 8 years or so. It's a great magazine and I like reading it too. I even have my own subscription to Woman's Health, although you'd never know it to look at me. Anyways, I'm sure you've noticed that magazines like these have numerous inserts designed for potential future customers and how if you sign up now, you'll receive this free gift or get this amazing deal, you know what I mean??? Well, what I want to know is how come he's been getting this magazine for umpteen million years and has never received anything??? Where is his free gift for being a loyal subscriber??? Why is it that only the new customer's get to take part in these fabulous deals and get the free gifts for signing up?? It's not fair and I call bullshit!!!
I want my free stuff, damn it!!!!

My very own 'unicorns'

One of my favorite things about summer are the deer. Now I know there are a lot of people out there who curse the beautiful beasts for sneaking into their gardens and eating all their flowers or veggies or even pot plants. I lots 75% of my hollyhocks to one myself this year and my poor Mother has had one destroy most of her garden. Despite this rather annoying flaw, I just love deer. To me they are like my unicorns. I cherish them and love them and want nothing more than to get close to them and pet them and love them and love them and love them!!! Silly perhaps, but to me they are amazing. Since being back on the island we've had quite an assortment of deer stroll through our yard (we have our garden fenced in, so they're more than welcome to be in the yard, just not in the garden) and I like to feed them - apples, carrots, lettuce, other treats from the veggie garden, etc. They LOVE apples. This year I have had 3 bucks, a small female, and a mother with two adorable spotted fawns (seeing the fawns is the best, especially twins!!!). Usually it is the bucks who like to come and relax at the end of a hot day.


Well tonight I almost had my dream come true. I didn't get to actually pet the handsome buck, but I called him and he walked right up to me and sniffed the apple in my hand - while I was holding it still!!! It was AWESOME!!!!


Anyways, just wanted to share some pictures of my 'unicorns' with you - Enjoy :)

scared jitter bug

I had one of those scary experiences this morning.
I had plans to go to town today to get the boy weighed and to run around looking for birthday gifts for my nephew and niece so that my mother-in-law could take them with her when she leaves for Alberta tomorrow. Well it turned out I didn't need to go, as my husband was going to go in my place, which was great, but I still needed to get some presents together. So I left the baby at home with my mom and I drove like mad down to the Cove to buy cards and tissue paper and a couple of books. Then I flew like mad on the way home only to pass my husband on the way. So I turned into the next driveway, which happened to be on a VERY dangerous corner, and then backed out as quickly as I could. Well it wasn't quick enough or maybe it was. But just as I was about to put the car into Drive, another car came flying around the corner (as most cars do) and luckily for me he was able to slow down enough not to hit me and I somehow took myself out of 'froze' mode and drove away as quickly as I could. I swear if I hadn't of started driving then he still would have bumped into me. I'm just so lucky that he actually saw me, because if he hadn't - he would have really hit me and it would have been HARD!!!!
I finally made it home, got everything together and was able to sit down and relax. Then it occurred to me - what if I'd had the baby with me?? What if I'd had the baby with me and he'd hit me? The impact would have been at the baby end of the car and even though the car seat is in the middle of the backseat, the end result would not have been good. Probably devastating in fact.
So now I'm just grateful that the baby wasn't with me and that I wasn't hit in the first place. But I'm still left feeling a little jittery about the whole thing. Scary scary scary.

You know what I need?? A vacation!!! I want nothing more than to escape this beautiful little island and go somewhere that nobody knows my name. As much as I love it here, there are some days that I don't want to have to say hello to 20 different people just to go and get the mail. And there are days when I don't feel like putting real clothes on to go to the store, but you just know on those days when you're wearing your ratty pj's and shirt with a hole in it you'll run into someone and while you're standing there talking to them you're feeling like shit for looking like a scrub. Or at least that's how I feel anyways, lol. So as much as I love it here, I wish that there was more anonymity sometimes. Even when I go to the other side of the island for groceries I still see people that I know. But don't get me wrong - it is nice to run into people that you haven't seen for awhile or those that you really enjoy seeing on a day to day or week to week basis. Maybe there could be a hat or a pair of glasses that you could put on for days when you don't want to talk to anyone or don't want anyone to know that it's you...do you think that would work??? Might be kinda nice!!!
But I think realistically, a vacation is probably a more likely option. Especially since I don't think it will go over very well for me to ask everyone else to leave in order for me to have a holiday ;)

Stress is the devil

Stress.

I hate stress.

Stress sucks. But unfortunately, I can't seem to escape the stress these days.

There are a lot of things going on in my world right now and I feel like I'm all in knots all the time and I hate it. I've never had an ulcer before but I feel like I'm going to get one. I'm lucky in the fact that it's not my own drama that I'm caught up in, but I'm not sure if that makes it any easier. What's going on is a MESS, and it's ugly and it feels like we are the only ones that are on the right side. But I guess that's how anything goes right? No matter which side you're on, you're on it because it feels like the 'right' side. It just seems like everyone is missing the point and not really seeing who is truly at fault. But of course, there are always two sides to every story and words and tones and feelings are misconstrued. However, that still doesn't make this any easier or better or make the problems disappear.

I just hope for the sake of everyone involved that things get sorted out sooner rather than later. Damage is being done and on a selfish note, an ulcer is brewing.

This sucks!!!

I hate days like these

I'm having one of those rough days today and I'm really wishing that I had of just stayed in bed.

There is some stuff going on with a family member that isn't so great and he had some legal business in town today and unfortunately it didn't go very well. It could have been worse, but it also could have gone way better. So that hasn't helped things much. Then later this afternoon I was getting things ready for dinner tonight (I'm going to make potato salad) and as I was sitting in the living room, I all of a sudden got this whiff of smoke and went running to the kitchen to find that my potato water had evaporated and my potatoes were now burned to the bottom of the pot. About ten minutes later my son was playing in the living room and fell on his face and started to cry and when he moved his hands away, there was blood everywhere!!! Turns out he jabbed his soother against his tooth that was just about to come through. Well it's through now!!! Poor little guy.

It has just been one of those emotionally draining days. I hate days like these!!!!

I think tomorrow I will stay in bed :P

Through the looking glasses

I think I forgot to mention it, but my little guy got his glasses last week (it only took a week for them to get here instead of over 2) and so far it's been going pretty good. He wears them without any problems about 80% of the time. But then he'll go to rub his eyes or touch his face and remember that he's got these things on and he'll proceed to take them off. Problems tend to arise when he is sitting 'idle', so when he's in his highchair or in the car are the worst. I don't even tend to put them back on when we're in the car after he's taken them off because I can't regulate him and the last thing I want is for him to rip them off and then wreck them by scratching or breaking them. If there was more room in the back seat then one of us would sit back there with him and watch him like a hawk.
Anyways, on the whole it is going well and he looks SO cute with them on!!!!