WOTW, Senile cat, WE
This weekend we made our second consecutive trip to the movies, this time to see War of the Worlds. I thought the movie had some amazing visuals, a lot of “look at that” moments that kept me entertained as I wondered about how they did certain things. The amazing, epic scenes of destruction helped to cover up what was really an average flick altogther. I enjoyed it more than Batman, Ali did not. Oh well, I’d give this one a B- to C+, only Fantastic 4 to go, I heard that one has gotten some really horrible reviews but I’ll risk it anyway.
Buttons, the diabetic, on the verge of death several times cat is really getting on our nerves. We think she has feline dimensia. She does all this stupid stuff, has a strange look on her face and is basically just becoming a big pain in the ass. Since her latest near death episode, we started giving her wet food twice a day to supplement her dry food that seemed to make her throw up all too often. She used to anxiously await me putting down the wet food. Now, she gives a casual glance over somedays and instead continues to eat the dry food. She has some ridiculous hang up about drinking water from her water bowl which I change daily. She almost refuses to drink out of it, instead she would much prefer to lick dirty shower water off the floor, drink out of the tupperware container that catches spilled water from Nicki’s water bottle or drink from the bowl of water we have for the dog in the bathroom for overnight. She is obsessed with it. Over the weekend Nicki decided to wake me up at 2am to go to the bathroom. I stumble to the door to let her out, and in rockets the cat, like she was sitting there with her nose jammed into the opening like she was waiting the instant the door opened to allow her access to the water sources. This ridiculous obession, combined with the early morning timeframe enraged me. I angrily grabbed the cat and initially was thinking about throwing it across the living room. I instead just threw her onto the nearby sofa as I yelled at her to stay the F out of the room, like she understood. It’s like the cat doesn’t care if my foot is at the door and the dog is standing guard, she will try to bolt past to get to the bathroom. It is maddening. Yesterday I was disgusted to see a chunk of cat litter adhered to the dryer that is about 2 feet from their COVERED litter box. How it got there I don’t know, I just uttered “F’in cats….” as I left the utility room.
The weekend was a busy one. Because of Dennis, we didn’t mow the grass last weekend. 2 weeks of not mowing during wet season is a recipe for a mowing marathon. The grass in spots was 8 inches high, requiring me to mow very slowly and sometimes hit the same patch more than once. It sucked.
On Saturday I also helped the new neighbors move a Murphy bed from the old neighbor’s place. (they sold and are moving) It was a big piece of furniture that we had to disassemble to get out. The installers wanted 600 bucks to move the bed two doors down. So we did it ourselves in 2 and a half hours and saved them a wad of cash. It wasn’t all that hard, just took some sweat dollars.
After we went to our neighbors place for dinner the other weekend we felt like we lived in a double wide. Everthing was so high end in comparison to our stuff. So that helped nudge us into looking into getting some new countertops. Ours are low end white veneer that are functional but not much else. We are interested in getting corian countertops. We got some quotes from Lowe’s and Home Depot for them. Because of the huge kitchen island, it is going to cost a lot of money. Even though Lowe’s has a free sink promotion, Home Depot was actually a couple hundred less because they charged significantly less per square foot for installation. We want to go with a color called “Silt”, sounds nasty huh? It is a darker color with more gray than anything, with various browns mixed in. It will break up the all white kitchen nicely while matching the browns that are found everywhere else. My gameplan currently is to wait for a HD 10% off anything internet coupon I signed up for and then use that to help offset the big chunk of cash this is going to cost. I’ve had various people recommend granite over Corian since they cost about the same. Ali and I agree that although granite is nice, it would stick out in our house like putting on rhinestone sunglasses. The rest of the house isn’t upscale so we don’t want the countertops to be so out of place with everything else.
That is all.