Happy Holidays to All

It is only a couple of days before Christmas so just a quick entry to wish everyone who celebrates it a very Merry Christmas. So many different holidays happen at this time that if I leave one out, please forgive me:

Merry (or Happy) Christmas
Happy Kquanza
Happy Hannukah

and Happy New Year.

I am hoping that everyone out there is staying as healthy as possible and is trying to be safe as the weather decides what it is doing. (Cold, wet, snow, ice, ect in parts of the world.) To the squirrels (you know who you are) have fun over the holiday. I'll talk to you soon.

As we enter the holidays...

So tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US and surprisingly today is very, very warm. MAybe a bit too warm. I really think it is nature's way of creating a false sense of happiness. Sigh. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it's here because the snow isn't that far away.

Friday will be 'Black Friday' as it is called in the retail business. It is the official start of the holiday shopping season. Now the truth is it actually started several weeks ago, but for some reason the 'official' start isn't until Friday. And as someone I work wit put it, it is going to be a lllooonnngg two months. (Well okay, just over a month, but it will feeeeeeellll soooooo much longer)

Anyway, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!! Don't eat so much that you can't walk. And if you are traveling, please be careful!

Some photos I came across.

While I have been trying to get my new photos of the cats to load onto the blog (and for some reason having trouble..hhhmmm...) I came across these photos from April 2005. These were a couple of pictures I took at a gaming convention in East Peoria, IL called Spring Offensive. I used to work a lot at Spring Offensive, helping run registration, games, organize the thing, other stuff too. But over the last few years, work has had me too busy to spend much time there.

The woman in the wheelchair in the first photo is Sue Kinsinger. Sue was known by a good number of people as 'Mama Sue' since she kind of became everyone's second mother. She died in June of 2005 after a very long, painful battle with cancer. In fact, my pictures where the last taken of Sue - she died about six weeks later. We all miss her a great deal.

The second photo is a piece of artwork at the college the convention was held at. I am a very big fan of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, so of course, I felt like these 'rings' looked a lot like Stargates. From what I heard, I was far from being the only one to feel that way. But I'll let you believe they are whatever you think they are. There is no wrong answer.

One Year Later

Here are pictures of Ivanova and Delenn from last year. A bit bigger than the previous pics, but still not at their current sizes.

Two Little Girls...Who Aren't Quite So Little Anymore.

These are Thad's girls, Delenn (on the left) and Ivanova (on the right) back when they were still young kittens, about two years ago. They are named for two characters on "Babylon 5"

Both are half Maine Coon, which means they can continue to grow for another two to three years before being considered 'full grown'. Currently Ivy (Ivanova's nickname) is about 12 - 13 lbs, Lin-lin, (as Delenn is known) is about 19 lbs. And they are not considered - believe it or not - by the vet to be overweight. They are about right for their breed. I should have more recent photos soon. Hope you like.

Just a quick add on.

For anyone who might actually be reading these silly things I've written...I have placed a couple of links on the side to some websites belonging to friends of mine. They are wonderful people and don't be afraid to drop them a line or two if you want. Very friendly.

Wow, I may learn how to do this blog thing yet. ;-)

As the weeekend begins

I haven't posted for a while, so I guess I should put something up. The weekend is beginning and I have to say I'm looking forward to it. Not just because it's the weekend, but because I am offically on vacation from work starting tomorrow. Yea!! That gives me time to start checking out some things with my computer (like how to get my scanner to actually scan pictures to my mainframe so I can maybe, possible, hopefully one day post some here. And I can spend some time catching up on other blogs and sights I like to read. Not to mention CLEAN THE HOUSE!! NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!! Never that.

I should spen this week also writing e-mails and call my sister as I haven't talked to her in a long time. I think about doing it a lot. But she is a school teacher and since I work third shift, she's art work whenI'm awake and by the time she gets home,I'm asleep. When I'm at work, she' s asleep. Kind of a bad little cycle there, but it happens.

Okay, I'll post some more tomorrow, or the next day. Sometime soon anyway. Maybe I'll get some pics up too. With luck. Bye for now.

Beginnings......

Okay, so...I'm new at this and will be making a few mistakes. Can't be helped I'm afraid. So just hang in there and we'll all get through it.

First a bit about me (without giving too much away)

I grew up on a small five acre farm just a mile outside the Village of Danvers in central Illinois. And yes, village is the right word to describe it. All together (counting the surrounding farms) there was a population of about 1000 people - and, heck, that may have even counted some of the animals.....

I was (and still am) a bit of a geek. Math, science and history were my favorite subjects in school. Geek, geek, geek. Love animal too. My family has had many different pets share our lives over the years. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, a duck (who thought he was a dog) even a couple of birds. Right now there are several cats (five) who share the house with myself and my boyfriend. They range from ages two to eleven - and all get a long most of the time. Some days we have our moments...

As soon as I can find them and figure out how to do it correctly, I'll post a few pictures of the 'girls'. Untill then...it was nice to 'meet' everyone!