On Vacation!!

We're having an awesome time! We are in the Netherlands, and have visited Germany as well, to see some faboo Roman ruins. Like, totally.
Here we are at the Porta Nigra which is one of the 5 standing gates remaining in the world from Roman rule.

#410. Socks.

Ok, here's the situation. I made socks, and they're pretty, but not very good. I used a real cable on one of the blues, then a mock cable on the other, just to see what would happen. Well, they washed and one is a mite...stretchier than the other. Gah.

The orange multi-color ones I made are sweet all round but too small.


The lavender one, yes one, was great, but then I can't figure out how I did it to duplicate it.

I'm fucked. However, since these are gifts I LOVINGLY crafted then I'm sure I won't get complaints. Still, I'm kind of embarrassed that I spent so many hours on them and they are not perfect.

There will be them that say (ok I've been watching too much Firefly and I'm talking like a Joss Whedon character) that I should just be happy because after all the orange ones were the first socks I ever made in my life, and I have to learn as I go. Well, whatever. I want perfection, now!! =)

Got a camera, and I've been busy.

I have been knitting socks, finally. Wahoo! Plus, some cat-blogging.

UPDATE: Bill has told me that it is not cat-blogging unless I say their names. Well, the cutie pie up top is D'arby, and the big gray ghost is Xerox. So =P , Bill. ;) and, because you got involved:

fuck Kos.

One more shining example of why I barely read the damn site. The damn site being the Daily Kos.

to wit:
"Email makes it easy for stupid people to send stupid emails to public figures. If they can't handle a little heat in their email inbox, then really, they should try another line of work."

Ok. He's talking about Kathy Sierra, and that she was targeted by explicit death threats and photoshopped pictures, too SICK to post, of her with nooses next to her head, and panties over her face. She cancelled a speaking engagement and shut down her techie blog where she discussed such "controversial shit," as Kos called it, as UI formatting (woo, so controversial) because of the threats.

What Kos has done is downplay a real threat and put it behind a smirky post that deals with the blogger code of conduct, which pretty much everyone recognizes as crap.

Kos you're a prick.

let's lighten this motherfucker UP, I say!!

It's grey and gonna fucking SNOW!! In April !! I'm feelin' like crap on a stick, and here's somethin' to make us all feel a little better. (read= we're not LARP-ers!!)
I do, however, have a pair of boots of escaping. Well, not exactly. But I do get a +10 bonus to sneaking.

#406 - Dante's Test - Courtesy of Michiel, a much bigger sinner than I.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

#404 Not a mystery anymore.

Yep, this is my 404th post. I don't know if that counts the hookup post that I deleted, hm.

So I'm kind of upset about cat food. I got a call from my vet's office to tell me the cat food I've been giving my pets has been poisoned. Five months ago my cat died from what the vet said was poisoning of some sort. We couldn't figure it out. I'd had him eight years and never got into stuff or ate plants. We had to put him down because his kidneys were irreparably damaged. Now, the vet's office says that the poisoned batch was at the beginning of 2007, but Mojo died at the end of September, only scant weeks after giving him the new prescription stuff. I think they're wrong. If it looks like a duck, etc.

My other cat became deathly ill in early January and is still recovering. He has yet to gain back the weight he lost. The vet bills for both cats equal almost $3000. Thank goodness my boyfriend has a credit card, or I don't know if Xerox would have made it through, because I sure don't have a "cat fund" sitting around in my bank account.

I think that someone has to answer for this! It's not a mistake to put fucking RAT POISON in cat food! Mojo was the most adorable and sweet-natured love slut you'd ever meet. He didn't deserve to die like that. He was so weak all he did was purr in our arms as he got the lethal shot. Xerox went through Hell to survive his illness, which included ten days of subcutaneous fluids, two antibiotics, and pain and suffering. The vet never was able to diagnose him, either, even after three days in the hospital.

I just keep going over the conversation with the vet where he said Mojo had been poisoned and the damage to his kidneys was done over time. I always thought it had something to do with the changing of the food, but never that it was because some bastard (deliberately or not, I don't care, Mojo is still dead) put rat poison in the PRESCRIPTION cat food!

I don't know what I'm going to do. I have to call the vet tomorrow so they can report it to the FDA. I sent in my information for the class-action lawsuit as well. I believe the companies are going to reimburse for vet bills and I'd like to see that off the credit card if possible. I really want to blame someone for Mojo dying, but that won't make me feel any better. There's no winning situation here.

(UPDATE: I phoned the vet who hooked me into the pet food company's consumer line and they were very concerned that I get rid of any remaining food, and got my information so they can contact me later. The woman apologized about ten times during the conversation and I thought she sounded like she was crying. Maybe it was just me who was crying, I don't know. )

I'm Sorry.

I just want to let everyone know that I apologize for the insensitive remarks I've left on this site. As a (now) former Atheist and (now) former member of the ACLU I just have to say that you were all right. After further thought, there is one God and it's not Muhammed. Jesus is Lord. I had to kick out Bill yesterday after a big argument about Libertarianism and Godlessness. He's not the man I thought he was. I can't live in Sin anymore. I've taken a job with Bob Roberts University as a liason to the disabled community. If I can do an outreach program then maybe God will stop punishing sinners by giving them disabilities. My first action this morning (after morning service at the Church) was to renounce my volunteer duties at Planned Parenthood and NARAL. I peeled the NOW pro-baby killer sticker off my bumper and I've decided to volunteer with the WI Republican party. Go Cheney in 2008! God Bless and Keep You, Sister Shelley