Bring it on! :P
Dec 162011
Nov 272011
I hope you had an amazing holiday weekend! Mine was excellent, and I’m sad to see it over. Boo to that part! Anyway, here are a few of the highlights:
Plus, I caught up with family and friends. And I hit a new distance record in running for me — 5 miles. Woot! :) I got to play lacrosse some. Oh! And I applied for school to get the math degree mentioned in my bucket list. Yay!
The big thing I did this weekend though was to take time and reflect upon the year and mull over the direction I am going. I’ve got my graph paper out and will be building my Character Tome, thank you Nerdist for that idea! I’m still fussing with what to call it. So far I’m leaning towards Project Vohm. And I just got sidetracked while I was writing that thinking of a visual map on the wall made out of scherenschnitte. Ooh, that could be fun. But also perhaps a little too time intensive. :P Regardless of how I set up the map, I plan to have something sketched out by the end of the year so I can hit the ground running in the New Year. Woooo!
I also took some more time to reflect upon what I’m thankful for. It’s been a difficult year so it was nice to pause and think about positive things. I’ve tried all month to write a post reflecting on the things I’m thankful for, but it ended up being to hard to write. So I’ll just share a clip from the ramble I posted on Facebook on Thanksgiving:
“I kept meaning to write a blog post about what I’m thankful for but then I just kept getting all weepy…I’m a spaz like that. So I’ll just sum up, thankful for family and friends. Love you all! Thank you for all your love and support. Thankful for the happy expansions to our family this year too. Woot! Also thankful for finally finding doctors who actually understand PCOS and are nice too. And for music that makes me feel alive like Zoe Keating’s magnificent cello playing. And thankful for discovering the zen that comes in running. And so damn thankful to be able to use my lacrosse stick! I can go on and on. I’ll end with being thankful for the quite moments with Ruki. Sure, she’s included in family too already but so what. :P”
Rambly yes. But fitting too.
So, all in all, one awesome weekend.
Hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend! :)
I’ll leave you with a song by Robyn that I found myself hitting repeat on a lot while I was running:
Enjoy!
Oct 312011
Happy Birthday to my Ruki, who turns 5 today. She came to live with me a few weeks before her 2nd birthday and my life was forever made better by that. :) Here’s a pic from this morning which shows my typical view when I first open my eyes. Doesn’t matter what direction I’m facing either when I wake. She always sits right in front of my face and roars out a meow that says, “Get up, woman, and feed me!” Heh. :P
Oct 062011
I got a new toy for Ruki this week. It’s a fishing rod with an Angry Bird dangling from it. Here it is just sitting innocently next to me:
But Ruki’s on to it and knows it’s trouble. She stares intently at it, watching its every move. And then a feather flitters and she activates Flurry Attack Mode!
Take that Angry Bird! Huzzah! :P
Sep 252011
Ruki and I are both moving slowly this morning. Well, okay, maybe Ruki is moving a whole lot slower than I am:
She’s had such the exhausting morning, of course. There was some eating, and some laying in the sun, and a few short naps too. Oof…so tiring just thinking about it. Heh. :P
Have a happy Sunday! :)
Sep 112011
“Can’t reach bed. Too far away. Sleep now…”
:P
Oh, Ruki. She makes it seem like a few inches more is way too much effort.
Sep 012011
Today’s lunchtime wanderings took me to I Heart Plastic and Kid Robot. I Heart Plastic’s website is down, but I linked to it there anyway. I acquired some new goodies for my desk:
Aren’t they cute? What’s awesome is that I got the mystery version on two of them. For those who aren’t familiar with these plastic figures, which one you get is a surprise. They list all the ones you might get on the side of the box, except one always has a question mark in its spot. I got two question mark figures. The jumping brain has a clear side filled with glitter. Must be where the magic stuff resides. :P And the other is from the Speaker Family. It’s the green guy with no neck. As for the other pieces, the little guy in the middle is a brief zipper pull. And the two wooden figures behind him are Ottis and Otto, and looking at that Stolle’s Neighborhood site, I’m definitely gonna need more of those! But I think my favorite may be the wooden Jibibut on the end. Yay! I can’t wait to set them up on my desk next week. :)
And since you can see Ruki’s ears over the top of the figures, here is what she’s doing this evening. Lounging on my coffee table. It’s a favorite spot for her. Occasionally she peeks up over my laptop to see what I’m up to or to try to steal a pen or my dinner.
That’s that for this rambled post. Hope you are having a wonderful evening! :)
Aug 262011
Ruki is so tired today from all the napping she’s done. What a hard life she leads. :P
Apr 042011
A battle raged on when one kitten discovered one evil chair!
Ruki just wanted to sleep. Would Evil Uncomfy Chair let her? Of course not! It decided to be extra uncomfy out of spite. The nerve! (Though, really, look at it, does it look comfy to you? No, right? Kitten has some odd ideas of comfort.)
Kitten fought back. She rolled back and forth. Flopped onto her belly, then over again onto her back. She rolled so hard, Chair slide across the floor:
Nothing would get Chair to ease up though. So she started her Wild Rabbit Foot Attack and kicked with all her might:
But Chair would not give in and Kitten tired out. Finally, she had to admit defeat, poor thing. She just stuck her legs out into the air and gave up:
Awe, poor Ruki. Kitten is so unhappy. I suspect this victory will be short lived. Indeed.
Until next time when Ruki battles Annoying Loose String. :P
Mar 292011
I’m not really sure what the appeal of the coffee table is. Doesn’t look all that comfy to me, but Ruki sure seems to like it:
And, that stack o’ paper must be super soft or something because she won’t give that back to me either. Guess I won’t be editing more tonight. :P
