Tuesday, 07 July 2009

• What's Up With Me, BTP

  What's up with me, BTP?

  Well don't fall over. Yes, it's me. And I'm online. At least for today and tomorrow. Then life gets crazy again.

  I don't have any one thing to write a post about, but I thought I'd let you know what's going on. Here goes...

  The Gift

  We came home last night (we were away for 4 days) to find a mailer tube on our front doorstep. It was addressed to Big Toe People! How thrilling. Yes, it was the fruits of "The Make-It Game" or the pay it forward game. Click here and look at the first work of art...it's now mine, thanks to the generosity and talent of Rojobe. My husband and I love it. Rojobe did it while traveling in China. It's going to go beautifully in our "Japanese dining room" (named that way for the dining table, but the rest of the room is Japanese, Korean and Chinese art). I wish we could have Rojobe and his lovely wife to dinner so they could enjoy his work in our home. What an amazing gift we've received!!!

  

  The Kitten

  My dogs and I came home from our morning exercise walk to find a tiny little newborn kitten in our front yard. Its eyes weren't even open. I thought it was dead at first. Because our dogs are cat chasers, I got them inside as quickly as I could...but not before they sniffed it. The kitten responded to our dogs as if it were looking for its mom. I skipped pilates to figure out what to do. I put it in a cardboard box with an old Tshirt from our rag pile. I gave it a sushi dish of milk. It was too young to eat on its own. It cried a lot while I got ready for work, and my extreme-cat-chaser, Midori, was worried. She hopped up on the bed and sat over the baby as if to take care of it. When it cried a lot, Midori whimpered. Oh, I can't wait to have children of my own. Midori is such a good nanny dog. There was no cat chaser in her at all, just compassion. On my way to work, I tried to drop the kitten at our vet's. I thought they'd take in a helpless one like this. They wouldn't take the kitten. I understand that now. But I was on my way to work and couldn't hang out long enough for them to teach me how to do the every-three-hours feeding and how to help it go potty?!?! They said they'd keep it just today until I got off work, then teach me those skills, and then I'm on my own. I'd like to throttle the owner of the pregnant cat! Instead, I guess I'll go door-to-door in the neighborhood to try to figure out whose cat it was and possibly find this kitten a home. It can't live with us...first, because I'm about to start every-other-day drives to civilization and won't be able to give it regular feedings and secondly because Steve and I and his entire side of the family are allergic to cats. Kitteh needs a home. It's so cute...a teeny little gray tabby that can rest easily in my hand.

  

  The Absentee Xangan

  Yes, that's the other item I need to tell you guys. I'm going to be woefully behind on your lives. Starting Wed/Thurs, I'm supposed to expect to drive up and down to the doctor in civilization to have my fertility monitored closely. Yes. I will be gone a lot and listening to a ton of audio books.

  

  Kids & Fireworks

  We had a wonderful 4th of July with one of my brothers, his wife and two little boys (the kids who look like Japanese anime). I'm not really into fireworks. I actually cried at a DC fireworks display when I was in college because I realized how much money went into it and how many homeless people there were in DC. I now know that there's no price to national morale, but I never really recovered a love of fireworks since then. But. We saw an amazing fireworks show on that trip. Try watching something like that with a 3yr old and a 1yr old and you'd love it too. I love seeing the world through little eyes!

  

  The Tortilla Chips

  I can't believe I'm going to tell this story, but here goes. Friday night, I went to the WalMart grocery store with my sister-in-law. They live in a lake district with lots of camp grounds and lake houses and such (my bro is a park ranger). The store was really picked over. Go figure, the Friday night before everyone's 4th of July celebration. Mmy sister in law wanted a package of ground pork sausage for one of our breakfasts. She had trouble finding it until she noticed a huge refrigerator case, nearly empty, with 2 packages of pork sausage left. Now repeat that experience for half the grocery list. So later in the shopping, my sister in law got inspired to make homemade salsa. Yum. I offered to hunt up some of the ingredients for her, and she sent me to get the tortilla chips. There's 1 brand my brother and she like, so she told me the name and I went on my quest. I searched the chip aisle back and forth a few times. Nuthin'. Then I spotted it. In a nearly-empty section, there was one bag. It was on the top shelf. Way at the back. Now I'm tall, but I could barely reach the top shelf, let alone the back of that shelf. But I had to have that bag. My brother's salsa is too important to go without. I noticed the shelves looked really solid, so I tested it to be sure it was firm. It was strong, so up I went onto the second-from-bottom shelf. The bag of chips was so far back on the shelf that I had to lean across the top shelf before my fingertips reached it. With the front of the wire/metal shelf in my armpit, I got a grasp on the corner of the bag. Just at that very moment, the shelf I was standing on gave way. Yes, I fell. The wire shelf scraped the heck out of my armpit...like skinning your knee except it's not my knee. There was only one person in that aisle when it happened. She was a pretty little blonde lady who pretended like she didn't see a thing. I felt like such a fool...I should have seen that coming! I walked quicklly with my head down and the chips in hand until I found my sister in law. I was SO embarrassed, but darn proud of those chips!

  

  Rain

  We had rain last week. So much that my boss sent me home early. I thought it was so lovely when I pulled into our driveway that I got out and took pictures of the crepe myrtle archway in the rain.

  

  So...is there anything up in your life that you'd like to tell me about? Comment here or tag me with a post.

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