When we got back, Lilly was all shy. She'd come up and bump us, wander away and rub her nose on something else, and then come back to bump us again. But when we woke up Monday morning, it was to a very affectionate cat who had brought us all kinds of toys in the night and was now all over laying on us and washing our faces for us. "You're still here! Thank goodness!"
Speaking of Lilly, Jeff and I are thoroughly smitten by her. Yes, we still miss our Mattie cat, but Lilly is so stinking cute. We are so pleased to have her! One of her favorite past times is bringing us toys. Every night we take her toys out to the living room. Every morning we wake up to at least one toy on the floor by the bed. Sometimes there is even 1 or 2 up on the bed with us. When we both leave, we almost always come home to a few toys up on the bed. It's very cute!
Just as an FYI, we thought we'd post a save the date announcement. April 10th is my birthday. It's on a Saturday that is after Norwescon and currently doesn't have anything planned. I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do, but there will likely be a birthday go out to lunch followed by a party at my house. I'm even thinking of making marshmallows and getting out the chocolate fountain. In any case, if you are interested, I'm giving plenty of advanced warning. There will also be more announcements as the date comes closer... :-)
He also has a channel and several other JoCo songs that are fun to watch!
2. Lilly. We still miss our Mattie cat, but Lilly is a sweet kitty that is a good fit for us.
3. Doing something about the anxiety I didn't realize I had until recently.
4. Making 21 reminder phone calls. In a row.
5. Gaining a little control over the hungries
6. cello!
7. Hanging out with good friends
8. fresh bread (I LOVE the smell as it bakes!)
9. trying (and liking!) new foods
10. my new pizza peel (used for putting free form loaves into the oven)
Life is a little stressful, but generally good right now. Hope things are generally good for all of you too!
Meet Lilly, the wonderful new addition to our family! She's a 2 year old Maine Coon mix and an absolutely adorable kitty. I think she'll fit the cat shaped hole in our lives very nicely. She's still a bit shy, but we have a feeling that she'll warm up very nicely.
Thursday night, Jeff found a listing for Lilly at the PAWS on Greenwood and 85th. We tried to go over on Friday morning before work, but they don't open until 2pm on weekdays. I went back over to PAWS after they opened, but Lilly was on hold until 3pm with another couple. I went into their cat-quarium and visited with the volunteer while petting kitties.
Around 3:15, the couple were no-shows/no-calls and they let me meet Lilly. She was such a sweet heart, and I fell in love. Since they wanted Jeff to meet her before we took her home, we put a hold on her until this morning. Good thing we did because the original people tried to come in! I felt kind of bad, but the PAWS people told me I shouldn't.
Anyway, Jeff and I went in this morning and he fell in love with her as much as I did. We got some Mud Bay coupons as part of the adoption and stopped by to get some food and litter. They were excited and asked us to bring her in. She was oohed and ahhed over. :-)
So now she's alternating between hanging out in the bathroom and exploring the new place. We're very excited about our new Miss Lilly cat!
1. Jeffrey
2. Cello (and lessons with Betsy!)
3. Maine Coon kitty therapy (at Betsy's)
4. Getting a diagnosis for my anxiety issues and starting treatment. I think I may even be seeing a small difference. :-)
5. trying out new recipes
6. listening to music on my iPhone while doing chores
7. getting a few things put away
8. a nicely quiet day
9. hanging out with friends
10. seeing some sunshine today
Jeff and I just went. There was NO line (although we went fairly close to opening). They had both flumist and shots. (Jeff had flumist and I had a shot because of my asthma)
Do yourself a favor and go get vaccinated! :-)
1. Jeffrey. Wonderful, wonderful Jeffrey
2. Purring kitty snuggles.
3. A beautiful sunny day with the mountains out. Twice in a row!
4. A live Christmas tree!
5. A fun visit to Portland to see friends and family
6. Finding new restaurants (La Bonita and Pix Patisserie in NE Portland. Go! They are highly recommended!)
7. The ability to donate blood to help others
8. The willingness to help others
9. Cello!
10. Creativity
I did not get everything I needed done today, but I think I got the most critical bits done. Maybe I'll have more answers soon.
I hate the Sweet Adeline take on show biz and decision timeliness.
( whine, whine, whine )
In other news, I'm thankful for a successful show last night and a quiet day today.
We'll be performing at the Historic Everett Theater this Saturday at 7:30 pm. In addition to our chorus, this show will feature 3 fabulous quartets. We are very excited to be hosting The 2009 international quartet champion, Moxie Ladies as well as Mojo and Livewire. They are all fabulous singers and it will be a FUN show! Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. They can be bought either on our website (www.voicesnorthwest.org), or at the door. (The website also has the theater address as well)
In addition, I have 2 free tickets. My in-laws bought tickets but aren't able to come now. If you would like to come see our show, ping me and they're yours! :-)
This is me switching from someone who used to love and rave about Clearwire and tell all her friends and family to try it to someone who dislikes Clearwire very much and is warning everyone to stay away. Stay far away. Only choose Clearwire if there is NO other choice!
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dolphinchatter!Hope it's been a grand day and that the next trip around the sun holds many great moments!
So, to continue in that vein, here's more of the saga...
( cut for those who are tired of the whine without cheese routine )
So I'm back to the same erratic service with lame ping times (mostly in the 1800-2000 ms range) and slow speeds (.3 to .7 down) that prompted me to call the tech in the first place. And no WoW. But with some hope that someone is going to at least look at things now and there may be a solution at some point...
I suppose that .28 Mb/s down falls with in the range of the "up to 1.5 down" that you advertise, but it isn't useful for anything. The printer driver I'm trying to download is going to take hours. I'm getting anywhere between 7 and 50 KB/sec (with a 30 KB/s avg) on the download.
Add that to the constant packet loss (1% loss is a good day. Bad days are anywhere up to 10% loss) and your lack of helpful customer service (is unplugging the modem for 40 seconds really a long term solution?), and I'm ready to start looking elsewhere.
I'm sorry Clearwire. The concept was beautiful. I loved being able to take my internet with me and use it where I needed it. But I need constant service more than I need portable service.
Anywho, here is my Amazon Wishlist.
Anyway, I just erased a long rant. Instead, I'm going to say that it looks like Clearwire is not a good choice in my area for playing WoW. Or even sometimes downloading my work files...
Unfortunately, our lovely new place (have I mentioned how much I'm liking it here?) appears to be too far from the phone central offices to get DSL. And FIOS hasn't yet hit the area either.
That leaves us with staying with Clearwire and seriously thinking about deactivating my WoW account or moving to Comcast and hoping they don't suck as much as I keep hearing about. We probably would only be getting internet and not channels as we don't really watch TV and can't really afford both.
sigh. This isn't really a choice I want to be making right now.