cait.

I'm feeling better tonight. Maybe it's because I spent the day snuggling with the absolute best cat anyone could ask for and eating pumpkin pie, but I'm ready to purge myself of negativity.

Also, I just spent $55 on food, and food always makes me happy.
I got yummy extras like marinated artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes, wheat bran to try out, textured vegetable protein to make sausage patties, dried mangoes (my favorite snack). I went to Fiesta Mart, which is a hispanic grocery store, but they have a surprisingly good selection of health food! There's a bunch or Tofutti products (picked up mozzarella cheese for pizza), veganaise, and frozen vegan ethnic food among others. Every time I go there I find something else I didn't expect. It makes me excited.

I taught Pip how to shake. It took three completely frustrating days where he wouldn't listen to me at all and refused to do anything, but now he shakes right away! Sometimes he even anticipates it and puts his paw up before I ask. I made this video because today he's been doing "shake" SO GOOD but I was worried that when Jesse got home he'd get distracted and wouldn't do it as good. Little victories like this make me really happy because it makes me think that you CAN teach the dog something and he WILL listen to me if I keep at it. It gives me some hope! And makes me not hate him.

I did my hair with this tutorial. I can't even braid my own hair (seriously), but I was able to do this. I'm so proud of myself! I normally just pin the sides up because I don't know what else to do. It was for our special pizza date night that we do every Saturday. Now it's Monday and I'm a total zombie because I screwed up half of my statistics hw with stupid mistakes and stayed up until 6am fixing all of it. yaaay..... Only two more semesters of this junk.
Hopefully I finish everything and we go to the nickel arcade tonight and I get to do my hair all nice again.

Jesse bought me this awesome vintage sewing machine to continue crafting while I'm here this summer.

Ain't it just adorable?
More pictures here.

I felt bad at first for having him buy me this, but now I feel it's fair payment for trying to take on his beast of a backyard. There are 5 food thorny weeds growing ALL OVER, and vines that have gotten so bad they're starting to climb in through the back door.
Check out this post if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Shit's ridic! But we both really want a vegetable garden, so I'm happy clearing it out so long as it means I get a garden!

http://www.kittycait.com/2011/05/100th-post-giveaway.html

I also had to remake my facebook page because it disappeared and took all of my followers with it :( This is the new link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/KittyCait/193528544026346

In FIVE DAYS I am moving to Portland, OR for the summer! Three whole months away from Texas. I am so excited. The plan is to move to Portland after I graduate in Spring 2012, and this 3 month time will be sort of a trial period to see how living together works. If it doesn't work out, I can just leave and go back to Texas without worrying about changing my life to move, or breaking a lease or anything. I'm a little nervous that it might not be the way I want it to be, but I think it will end up juuuust fine :)
Other than that, I had the most ridiculous morning walking through a massive massive thunderstorm to get to and from my anatomy final, but ended up going to the store to get supplies to make some more earrings, as well as cute little sweater clips/guards! I'm really excited about those. I kind of went overboard and made 3 with fabric covered buttons, and ordered the supplies to make 3 with vintage cabochons, and two with metal bows and pearls. Sooo.. I'm basically going to have sweater clips out the wazoo. I hope people buy them!
Also, when I get to Portland we're going to be picking up a beautiful light green/blue vintage sewing machine in a cabinet for me to do my sewing on while I'm there. SO EXCITED. It's gorgeous, works, and is only $50 with the cabinet. I'm planning on oiling it up all nice (oh baby) and painting the cabinet a nice light pink.


Just some cute little glitter heart earrings. I'm thinking about doing a giveaway for a blue pair but I'm scared like.. only 3 people would enter it.

Yesterday I brought Leeloo into the shelter and the woman there made me feel like total shit about it. She was so much different than the woman I spoke to on the phone. I started crying and I asked her if she had a tissue anywhere because I was starting to get snot all over myself and it was embarrassing and she was just like "no". It was just really, really rough. She told me that if they weren't going to put Leeloo down, then they're going to have to put another cat down in order to make room for her. That was NOT what I was told on the phone. Like I said, it was just an extremely rough day for me. I also had an exam today and while I was studying last night I had a complete nervous breakdown. I think the exam went ok, not an A but definitely not an F.
Just a rough night. I don't know if I want people to comment on this entry because I kind of don't want to have to relive that experience. I miss Leeloo a lot and every time I think about it I start to get upset all over again.

I found this little girl while looking for some plant fertilizer in the gardening section of Walmart late last night. I went out there and heard this noise that sounded like a bird squaking, turned around, and saw this little black kitty rubbing all against my legs. She was so friendly that I just couldn't turn her away. I scooped her up, and walked all through Walmart with her in my arms to get to my car (it was late at night so all of the exits were locked except the farthest one). Now she's living in my bathroom until I can get her tested for FIV/FELV. She must weigh about 5 pounds, totally tiny. I've been trying to get her to eat more but she doesn't seem that interested. She could definitely stand to gain another two pounds or so.


Looking at her ears you can see she's been outside for a while. I took her to Emancipet, a really fantastic low-cost vet clinic, and they aged her at about 3 years old. I'm currently planning on taking her back in on Thursday to get spayed and get her vaccines and tests done. I can't keep her, and I've been asking around to find someone who can, because I don't want to stick her in the shelter. Tomorrow I have a potential home coming to look at her. They'll either take her tomorrow, or she'll stay here with me another week to get spayed and vaccinated and then I'll drive her down to her new home in San Antonio. I really hope this place works out for her. She's such a sweetheart that she deserves a great family. While Emanicipet offers free spay and neuterings, I am paying for the vaccines and tests out of my own pocket to make sure she is healthy before going to her new home. Money around here is tight, so it's a bit of a stretch for me to try to cover these things. If you buy anything from my Etsy store, it's just going to go right to taking care of this cat and would really help me out a lot.

I am so thankful for my cat. He provides me all of the love I need but cannot get from anyone else.