Hemi

My cat Hemi does this every night! 2 AM. One minute he is all cute and sleepy, the he gets some wild hair up his butt and take off out the room. In the process he manages to bang the door 5 times and piss off Phillip, my other cat. 

His favorite thing is the closet at the end of the hall. He will play with the doors until he has moved it enough to get a paw in and wiggle it open so he can get in. While in there he tries to climb the shelves, and fails. Then rummages through the bags. By the time he is ready to get out he has moved the door so much that it closed again. Ugh! Bang bang bang! He's stuck. Now everyone is awake. I hear my step-mom get out of bed, "Hemi, you moron! Stay out of the closet!"

Thump thump thump, crash, plop. He's back on my bed, ears back acting like he has done nothing. Over me, onto the night stand and up onto the desk. Crunch crunch crunch, I guess that adventure made him hungry. Slurp slurp, dip dip. He's in the fish bowls! "Hemi will you be quiet?!"

Thump, thump, plop. Now he is curled up in a ball on my legs. Finally! Quiet, until 6 AM.

Trains

100 feet from my front door are train tracks, and there are always trains going by! When I first moved in they would wake me up all the time, but now that I've been there for two years its not so bothersome. The only thing that sucks is when I get stuck on the WRONG side of the tracks.
Like today. I was coming home from a meeting and I got stopped at the crossing, 50 feet from my driveway! You literally go over the track and turn left and your in my driveway. Its so frustrating! Luckily this was a short train but we have had trains that take 5+ minutes pass.
Last summer when my family was having lunch in the back yard I counted 300 train cars before I lost count. Now that is a long train! My little cat Hemi does not like the trains. Whenever we hear one he comes bolting through the dog door all puffy. Little dork. The goats just stair at it until it passes though.
It also sucks when I need to leave for work and the cars are backed up blocking my way out. Either way its a lose lose situation.
All in all, I hate these tracks!

Tires

So while my boyfriend Ryan and I were at the beach a week ago he noticed the tread on my front left tire was starting to show. I didn't know what that meant but I assumed it wasn't good. I've only has the tires for two and a half years so there is no way this should be happening. I looked online and these tires have a 65,000 warranty on them. I went and checked my mileage on my car, 72,000, when I bought my car it had 29,000 miles on it, so I thought, yay! Im covered by the warranty! I went to the place I got the tires and had them take a look. The guy said I would have to buy new tires because a. my alignment is off and b. they dont have record of them being put on my car. He said their records show it was put of a truck at 120,000 miles. How they get my Neon and truck confused is beyond me. Plus I was in there about 4 months prior getting my oil changed and my tires looked at and they didnt notice anything then. I told them I was going to wait until my dad got home to come back with me. I called him and he said what they were telling me was a load of bull and to look in his files at home for the reciept. I found it and sure enough the reciept says the tires were put on a Dodge Neon at 32,000 miles. What morons! My dad will be home this weekend and hopefuly we can get this all figured out!

Non-Dairy

So for the past four or so years I have been lactose intolerant and it sucks! It was really hard to get used to the diet change and to remember to take one of those little white pills that helps digest the dairy. It came on slowly then all the sudden I couldn't do any dairy. Major bummer! The past two years it has gotten better, or maybe I'm just better about my dairy intake, I don't have to take a pill for cereal or a small bowl of ice cream anymore, unless I've already gone overboard in the last 48 hours. Its so much better than being sick all the time!
About a month ago I started going to the gym so I decided to start taking whey protein. I figured one scoop of whey with water instead of milk wont hurt me. Wrong! I looked around for alternative proteins and seeing as I cant have soy and didn't want to take creatien, I thought I was screwed. That is until I found out that the makers of Muscle Milk make a lactose free whey protein. How is it lactose free? I wondered. The guy in GNC told me they add the enzyme needed to digest they dairy, just like in the pill I would take. Awesome! I hope there's enough in it to help me! I went to Costco, because it was like $60 cheaper there, bought a 4 lb bag of the vanilla cream flavored whey and tried it out.  Guess what. It works! I don't have any tummy problems with this whey! Thank goodness! Now I can make sure I'm getting the proper amounts of protein after my workouts! Happy day.

Obsession of the Day

My obsession today is sandal wedges! I don't actually own a pair, yet, but I will before spring! I look at them every year but haven't loved them enough to invest in a pair yet. Today I was at Marshall's and saw a SUPER cute pair of kelly green wedges but they were $40, and I am a poor college student, so they are still at the store. I really like to wear heals but since being in culinary school my feet have gotten so used to being in Dansko clogs that heals KILL my feet : / Wedges are much easier to wear so I'm hoping I wont die in them. I have some really cute skirts that I never get to wear because I don't have any shoes that look good with them and I feel like a hooker when I wear them with stilettos so I just don't wear the skirts. But you know what goes with the skirts? Wedges! They also look really cute with jeans. Its a whole world of possibilities with sandal wedges!

P.S.
Both shoes shown are from Target! Which just happens to be my favorite store : )

Buffy The House Chicken

Buffy on the Couch

My Dad and Buffy

So this is Buffy, shes a chicken. During the summer when we are out by the fire she likes to hop up in our laps and take a nap. Weird little chicken. But yesterday my Step mom went out to the chicken area and found her pinned under a fallen fence, when she lifted the fence she say that Buffy had prolapsed, meaning her insides had been pushed out her bottom. Laura picked her up and brought her into the kitchen and gently cleaned her off and put some Preparation H on her bum and put her insides back in. This all happened while I was at school so when I got home at 5:15 Laura said, "We have a sick chicken" I asked what happened then looked at the couch and saw a bundle of blankets. I said, "Is there a chicken on the couch??" And sure enough there was Buffy chilling out in my Buzz Lightyear blanket. I sat down next to her and she poked her head up and made one of her little chicken noises. Laura took the blanket off her and she stood up, rearranged her feathers, got a bite to eat and laid back down and went to sleep. Silly Buffy. We made up a box for her to sleep in in the house to make sure she was OK in the morning. Today we kept a eye on her to make sure everything was working properly, which it is, and sent her on her marry little way back with the rest of the chickies. She is one happy little birdie!

Kitty Girl!

Oh my Phillip. I love waking up to this ball of fur every morning! If you cant tell, she is sleeping on my pillow, as always. Yes, I said she. I dont often wake up to her still sleeping, normally she is giving herself a bath. And let me tell you, she is not a quiet bather! I dont know what she does but it wakes me up! And she takes forever! When she notices in awake she is all in my face and wont leave me alone untill I give her some love, After that she will happily hop across my nightstand on to the desk to enjoy her morning crunchies and take a little, or a big, sip of water from the fish bowls.Since she has started to drink from the fish bowls my other cat Hemi has taken a liking to it, which means I am constantly having to refill the bowls!it doesnt hurt the cats so why not. They wont drink for a normal bowl of water if I set it out though, weirdos.