Archive for June 2009
Seizure Kitty!
June 30, 2009 | 
Author What could a title like that mean? Yeah, one of the cats had a seizure this morning!! Our little princess Beans!!!!!
I wasn’t home, so the hubbs had to take care of it…and he did a wonderful job! Funny how in a pinch, he can deal, but in general…no.
I got a call around 9:45 or so…and he tells me that Beans just had a seizure. My heart dropped. O.M.G!!! Not another one! We already have an epileptic dog…I cannot handle another epileptic animal! So thinking…”ok I will need to blog about this later” I asked for the details. Here’s what he told me.
- seizure was around 10 seconds total and happened at around 9:30am
- started with her screaming crying
- she was under the bed and she peed herself
- she was frothing at the mouth
- pupils were dilated/eyes huge
- paddling and twitching
- he picked her up and washed her off and she seemed ok
- little to no post ictal period
I had him call the vet and ask what to do. They said keep an eye on her and if she has another to call again and bring her in.
I was thinking in between calls and looking some things up online. I guess feline seizures aren’t as common as canine. I was thinking about environmental issues…any changes…could she have gotten into anything. No, things are the same as usual…food is the same…Topaz got into the trash over the weekend so she could have gotten into that, but being that she’s a tiny thing it probably wouldn’t be effecting her a few days later. I asked my husband to look around for anything that she could have gotten into.
While debating on whether to take her in just for some general blood tests (she was kind of sneezing this past week and has had diarrhea for the longest – and yeah, we’ve done numerous stool samples – no worms or parasites) my husband tells me that he found “two bright orange pills under the bed that were chewed on”. The only orange pills we every have had in the house are Motrin. Unfortunately, he flushed them….Arg! Men! So I don’t know for SURE what they were…but bright orange to me is Motrin.
So I have him call the vet again…they said if she chewed the pills then the seizure could have been from that and to keep an eye on her. And to no drop any more pills! heh…yeah, no problem there!
We’ll be keeping a pretty good eye on her for the next few days and will be praying this is a fluke thing and not a regular thing. I honestly cannot handle more than one epileptic animal!
And funny thing is, she seems more lovey now…don’t know if I am just noticing it, but she’s been coming to us…usually she’s one to hide.
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New Blog Look (again!), MJ Tribute @ NKOTB Concert @ DTE & Dog Baths!
First let me talk about the new blog look. How sweet is it? I LOVE it. My favoritest scrappy artist made it and it’s for sale in her store!! She has another one too, that’s super cute, but of course the Twilighty one was for me! I am still tweaking it a bit, so there may be a few changes but I think I will stick with this for a while. I miss my pear with the princess cap, so I may bring it back and put it on the side. When she tweeted about this earlier in the week, I knew I HAD to go and snatch it up! I love her blog style and well…it’s Twilight! So, thanks to Miss Flergs for deciding to sell WordPress themes!
Moving right along…now I should probably put some explanation about how yeah, yeah, I still like the New Kids…whatever. I still like the freaking New Kids! I follow them all on Twitter, I listen to their new album in my car constantly, and had I been able to, I would have gone to their concert last night at DTE!!! What of it?? lol AND, I would have been dancing, screaming, squealing and crying like a little girl!! So what? So I like the New Kids…so, I also like P!nk, and Eminem, and Paramore…I’ve written before that my music taste is all over the place. I like what I like…what can I say.
Anyway, here’s a little video of what I and anyone else who wasn’t there…missed. A little tribute to Michael Jackson! I know my sister would have appreciated this with me!
It is SWEET…and it was HOTT here yesterday so those guys had to be DYING! How nice of them to do this tribute…I don’t care what anyone says. I loved MJ back in the day, and yeah he got a little weird and wonky, but he was and always will be “The King of Pop”. RIP Michael.
I was off work today because I didn’t feel well yesterday (and with the swine and Legionnaires’ in my city, one can’t be too cautious!) so I also took today off, since I can’t afford more unpaid time. It was such a nice day…not too hot, but hot enough…out that we decided to give the pups a bath outside! So it wasn’t too long before we had a couple of drowned rats on our hands. LOL
Topaz got a good brushing after the bath and we tried with Onyx, but she’s not as cooperative when it comes to the brush and water! She loves to swim in the lake, but a bath? forget it! She’s out.
True Blood Marathon!
So like I wrote in my last post, my husband and I had never seen True Blood on HBO because we don’t have that channel. I kept hearing how it’s "Twilight for Adults” and how many of the Twilight loving bloggers who I follow are now watching True Blood and are really liking it. Curiosity got the better of me and we ended up buying the first season on DVD.
We started watching it last night and got through the first 3 episodes! I’m already hooked and will be calling our cable company tomorrow to order HBO! My husband is hooked too…which I knew he would be!
We stopped for a break (he had to run and get some hamburger for the dogs’ breakfast) and we’re on Episode 8 I believe. There are 12 in the first season…I figure we’ll make it through another 2 tonight. Part of me wants to just stay up until we’re finished with Season 1, but the rational part of me knows that staying up all night is no good and will talk myself out of pulling an all-nighter to finish it.
The only thing about the show that I don’t like is that it always seems to end with something huge happening. I can totally see myself being mad every.week about this! I get mad when shows leave you hanging when they end! Although, it keeps you watching because you NEED to see what happens next! NCIS ended their season with some huge cliffhanger ending…oooh I am still mad about that!
So i can add True Blood to my obsessions. lol *sigh* At least I’ll have something to watch during the summer! I didn’t have anything on Sunday nights. (I think that’s the night when it comes on)
I think, also, that I will start listening to the “Sookie Stackhouse” series by Charlaine Harris. I have 3 of the books, #1, #2 and #8 and I actually have an audible credit that I’ve been sitting on. Maybe I’ll wait till after I listen to the first two books to use it to get the third…if I like the first couple. Right now I’m finishing up Eclipse for the 3rd time…squeeeeeeeee…and will go on to Breaking Dawn when I’m done…so it will be a week or so before I would get to it. Hmm…but audible is having a good sale right now…LOL
Ok…lol so I just got the 3rd and 4th book and another one that I had on my wish list. I love Audible!
Anyway, I’m gonna hop on Facebook for a few minutes while waiting for the hubbs to return from Meijer….then it’s back to the vampires!
New Printer, Wedding Shower Invites & True Blood
My little sister is getting married in September…so we’re planning another shower for August. My mom wanted to go a different route with these invites because my little sister, K, has different tastes than my other sister, A, does. (we had A’s shower last year and her theme was Frog Prince)
My mom bought a few different magazines to look through to look for ideas for K’s shower invites and she finally found one that she really liked. I am not sure of the name of the magazine, but it was a scrapbooking invitation one. it had a lot of examples and then had where to get the materials for it and what to do. Well, I told her I could copy any design in the book as long as we could find a similar vintage picture.
The site where the picture came from was listed, so we went there and luckily the same picture was available for digital download! So we bought the sheet, and got started. The vintage picture came from www.lunagirl.com.
And here’s the completed outside of the invite!
I am a horrible scrapbooker and I am not sure where I got the pieces from, so I will have to go back searching to give the proper credits…and I will definitely make sure that I do so!
In the middle of printing them…well actually I got about 10 done, my printer died!!! My mom owed me a birthday present, so off we went to Best Buy for a new one.
Here’s my new little baby…an HP Photosmart C6380 All-in-One:
It’s WIRELESS too!! woo hoo! I can finally print from my laptop. And omg, the ease of not having an extra cable to hook up! I didn’t need to spend the extra money on the new cable or spent the time under the desk hooking it up.
The new printer prints SUPER fast too! It just FLEW through the invitations! It’s SOO noisy though! Sounds horrible, but does a great job, so I am pleased with it.
Thanks Mom and Dad for my HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY Birthday gift!
Yesterday was such a long day…my mom got here at 9am and left at 12:30am!! I barely slept the night before, so I was totally wiped out by the time she left! Of course I had some time to tweet a little and play some Farkle on Facebook…ugh, my new addiction!! So dumb…but this morning the dogs got me up around 9:30. I got up, fed them and got online for a bit and then around 12:30 pm I laid back down to sleep. I ended up sleeping till like 4! I was sooo tired!
My husband and I were going to dinner with his folks tonight, so I got up and got ready and we headed to Buca di Beppo and amazingly, we got there before they did! We had a really nice dinner…they have the BEST food there! YUM! We got this Pizza called Pizza Angelo.
Pizza Angelo
Tender chicken breast, mozzarella, roasted corn, fresh mushrooms, fresh thyme and Alfredo sauce topped with Parmesan potato chips.
It was SO good! Sounds weird, but soo yummy! We also had a great salad. It was a good time!
My husband’s parents gave us a Costco card for gas or groceries or whatever and the hubbs wanted to go fill up his tank for tomorrow so he went up there tonight. Of course, he went in to look around and they had the first season of True Blood. I’ve heard it’s the Twilight for adults and that it’s loosely based on the Sookie Stackhouse books…which I have a few of on my iPod, but I haven’t listened to any of them yet and I’ve wanted to see the show, but we don’t have the cable channel that it comes on.
So, he bought the 1st season because it was like 15.00 cheaper there than it is in any other store! Costco rules! Anyway, tomorrow we’ll start watching that! I will have to write about it after we’ve watched a few of them.
I think it’s funny also that some of the other Twilight fans who’s blogs I read are also going to be watching True Blood for the first time!
Ok…gotta go help the hubbs check for kitty poop under the bed…fun job…NOT!
By George, I Think I’ve Got It!
haha…silly title…
Anyway…I think I finally have the blog the way I want it!! I’ve been working on it pretty hard for the past couple days. I couldn’t seem to get the titles to go bye bye on the sidebar…but after much googling and trial and error, I finally got it. Then I plugged all my little graphics in and viola! Blog is all pretty and finished!
And how cute is the little pear RRS icon thingie?? LOL I am obsessed, I know!
I actually need to do the dishes and clean the house because tomorrow my mom is coming over to work on shower invites for my other sister who’s getting married in September. We have to design and then print them. I’m trying to talk her into using a scrappy kit because Lord knows I have a mess of them, but we’ll see. My mom has some vision of how she wants the invites to be. I wish she’d share them with me.
I wanted to post a little something to test out everything and make sure it’s working right before I throw the towels in the dryer, turn the Twilight Soundtrack on the iPod and start the dishes.
Normal blogging to commence later!
Getting There…
Well, I am getting the hang of this WordPress thing. It’s not that different from Blogger…well in some ways it is. I’ve been working it out though.
I added some bling to my background! It was missing something. I also need to give credit for the kit I used. I think most of the things came from the same kit…and the writing for “as always…Heidi” is my own handwriting! I made a font out of it not too long ago…pretty cool, huh?
Last night…er, or early this morning I guess…I was determined to change the font size for my blog post titles as well as the page title…and then also the tabs at the top of the page…GOOD LORD! It took me forever to figure that out!
I was totally in the zone and needed to figure out how to do what I was trying to do before I could go to bed. Needless to say, i finally got it…and went to bed with the birds chirping! It will just mess me up for work next week. I did get some sleep during the day…but here I am again, tweaking away!
I think it’s just about done though. 
New Blog Address!
Dreamhost was having a killer sale this past week! A WHOLE year of hosting for less than $10.00. HOW could someone pass that up? So i decided to take my blog off blogger and move it to my own domain and use WordPress.
I am working out the kinks, but I hope to have things up and running as I want them very soon.
I may also move Topaz’s blog here, but I’m not sure yet. Depends on how this move goes. All the archives are moved…and I will be putting a link at the blogger site today.
I’ve just been playing around with the settings. I don’t know CSS very well, but can generally flub my way through it.
I hope also, that I will blog a bit more. We’ll see about that.
So anyways…if you’re a follower of mine, please update your bookmarks to
http://www.peargirly.com/blog/
Thanks!
