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Other than that it is all WoW, Mclaren worshipping and eating chocolate.  I did have my birthday and we went to see Bright Star which was really good. /sigh for tragic love. Good movie go see it. Speaking of new movies, New Moon will be out soon and it looks like a real movie!!

I made sure to go home for the 4th of July because my family has always done the 4th together. I don't really feel like they do much else together but this is like a special time. I almost feel like I am a part of a family then and that is something since all the rest of the time I feel quite removed from them. We went to a ball game to have it be rained out and then diverted to Roamingwood. It was a tiny private lake in the Hideout. I was reintroduced to mosquitoes there. Incase you were wondering there aren't any in Miracle Mile. It was a pretty show. That night in the world of WoW we downed Maly for the first time. Woot woot!

Philadelphia is a 2 hour drive on the turnpike and my sister has never really been so David and I packed her in (and I promptly fell asleep because I could not do EST hours) and took her to her first trip to Philly. Baby lemurs awaited us.
So that was my trip home. Three days isn't much. I miss my sister dearly, even if she is a mercenary--out to get anything she can get me to buy for her. I would like to go home again soon, but there is DC in November and Olympics in February. Not to mention that I want out of this place and that requires first and last months rent and moving expenses. I have dreams of dishwashers and washer and dryers.

So to do a quick catch up... I play WoW still... A LOT!!!! Most days for atleast 12 hours. We have up to the General done in 10 man Ulduar, Lord Jarraxus in 10 and 25 man ToC.... No 25 man Maly:(. We have Kolo downed in 25 Uld but no IC and Auriaya handed us our asses last night. Mand and I started new toons. Two Draeni, a hunter and shaman. I like the shaman but it isn't Ali and I don't think I want to give up on Ali. I bought a mount on ebay the other day... it hasn't arrived yet. I hope the guy wasn't a fraud because it was expensive. I promised Mand that I would ride it instead of my kitty. I won't disappoint him.:)

This last past weekend was a hard one for us, the vet gave us the news that Nicky's test results came back that he was worse and that we would have to make some hard decisions. We brought him home to spend some time with him before we had to do the unthinkable. He was listless and so unsteady on his legs. He had little appetite and seemed to want to be doing things but lack the energy to do so. Thursday we bought a new kitty tree and Nicky sat on it once, all the other kitties avoided it but Friday he seemed to struggle to so much as hold his head up. Then he would cry. It killed me. Saturday we just kept him comfortable. We gave him his medicine and IV and I wanted a picture with him.... I'm so selfish. We got the picture but he started crying in pain and we laid him down and decided that he would be better off being put to sleep. We drove out to the critical care hospital and had a few last minutes with him.... I miss the stupid pain in the ass cat so much. I will never forget going out to get the mail in Chico and finding him. Or how he would attack your ankles. How Kai Kai hated him at first, although in the end they were best pals. The pizza, grapes and doritos he would eat. The christmas tree he over turned after it took us like 20 minutes to decorate it. The car ride down from Chico when all he did was bellow. Playing stairs with him in Long Beach. His reaction to Frankie... it wasn't good. Him being on a leash in the hall in Long Beach and the kid coming running and him bolting out of it. He always loved being outside. All the Skipbo games he sat down on the board of, stopping playing. I will never clean the windows and I will leave his nose prints for ever. Waking up with him on top of me after years of him treating me like I was a lowly girl. The way he would wait for David to get out of the shower and then climb all over him. I could never replace him and the paw prints they gave us at the vet hospital aren't nearly enough.

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It is so stupid that the video on my Iphone works portrait style and you can't view it here that way but I will let it stay. Turn your head to look at it.

I have been up for 2 hours and I am soooooo lazy. I did play with the kitties and take pictures of them for this post but I feel so completely at loose ends. Haha... it took me those 2 hours to prepare to write this which should come about organically. Next I will be practicing to shower. 

Things on the home front are quiet. Nothing is going not that is a big deal aside from me cycling, but we have a new med dosage for that. I am looking forward to having D home for the long weekend. I feel like we haven't had time together in a really long time. Nicky is doing better. He is eating 6 or 7 times a day. We started him out on that TessBrianna suggested and from there he just dug in. I still don't see him putting on weight though. He is painfully thin and when I have to hold him down for his IV I worry that I am going to hurt him. But he is getting stronger and he fights fiercely. I don't blame him. I wouldn't want IVs in my back either. In other news we are going to take Deami to the farm this weekend I think. I feel so horrible but he is really not a social cat. He has so many attitude problems. I can wait for years and it won't change. I don't know what to say to Mr. Martin. I will have to tell him the truth but I'm not looking forward to it.

D just told me that I won't be able to get to Comic Con this year.:( Here is where I whine. I never want to go anywhere and the few places I want to go never work out and I am so sick of it. I get dragged to all these bullshit places I never want to go to and I hardly complain at all and then the 2 or 3 places I want to go don't work. Like TBS is in Anaheim on the 6/3 and I won't be able to go because of traffic. It fucking sucks. /end whinge, sorry for the tantrum.

WoW has been fun. I got a sea turtle mount the other day. I love it but it's not a traveling mount really. Well not on land. It is good in the water. I have been working on 50 pets and now I've decided I want 50 mounts too. I'm at a pitiful 12 right now. I'm at 42/50 pets though... that is something. D says I need money to get mounts and it just bums me out some because it makes me realize that I have questing that I can do now but soon it will be nothing but instances and lets face it... that isn't going to bring in all that much. I am going to have my income slow down. I don't know what to think. I do need to do more instances though. I have been doing runs with Mandarb (D), Annäbell, Laureena and Mclaren. I love Mclaren. Next to Anya he is my favorite person in the game. Of course he doesn't know that and it is best that way... I think he would be freaked right out and hide.

I read two trashy romances this week. It's nice to read. I miss it. I have been picking romances because they don't require a whole lot of work or thinking. I have Fragile Eternity here and I am thinking I am going to start it on Tuesday. It's a lot thicker than Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. Interesting. I can't wait to get back to Seth and Aislinn. I still haven't finished The Vampire Diaries; The Return/Nightfall. I was a little turned off with the direction it was going and I hate Bonnie and so much of the book is from her perspective. Why not Stefan... it is called the VAMPIRE DIARIES. I also noticed on my calendar that Carpe Corpus comes out in two weeks!! New Morganville Vampires. Oh Shane I hope you don't spend the entire book in jail with your dad. I am happy and unsure about where Rachel Caine will go with Morganvile in the next few books. I liked it when Amelie was the unknown evil. I don't like the Bishop story line. I really hope it ends with this book. I also hope that Shane and Claire get a little make out action... she is 17 now. Shane always impied that 17 was the dividing line. Oh Shane... Shane, Shane, Shane.

So I think I want to make some wishes and mayne anyone who reads this could combine their good thoughts and help make my wishes come true, I wish I could go to Comic Con for Thursday and see the New Moon Panel. I wish I could get BlizzCon tickets. I wish that Anya gets WotLK soon so she could hang out with us in Dal. I wish Mand gets a chance to do what he really wants to do. I wish T would come back because I need a break from being in charge. And I wish that I could do more things by myself so that Mand could raid and I could do more than sit and twiddle my thumbs.

Oh and this,,,

I think he's feeling better. This morning he was out in the livingroom window.  He's still painfully skinny, you can feel all his bones when you pet him and he only ate a really small dollop of baby food today. I know he is supposed to be eating the special diet food but he doesn't like it and I want him to eat. He wasn't on the bed when I woke up at 5:30 so he isn't clinging to us like the last few days. And last night when we gave him the IV he was squirming and pushing with his back paws, he is getting much stronger. The vet recommended that we buy a fountain for him so he has constantly fresh water... he never uses it. $50 and he drinks out of the water dish in the kitchen. Frankie and Deami are the only two that drink out of this one. I'm exasperated! --But all things aside I am feeling better about things. Less scared. I was really worried about him dying. I want to believe that they are all going to live as long as me. It freaks me out to think anything different. They are my babies in lieu of having the real thing. In my mind the are damn near immortal.

Today is Sunday and as usual I am up before D and I want to be a child and jump on the bed and wake him but he has been really tired lately so I refrain. I would like to do a few chores today. Nothing much just small things. Tomorrow I have therapy and that means the day will be shot. And oh how therapy is going to be rough tomorrow. I have a shit ton of neurotic devices to bring to the table... all the downtime when Nielle was here that caused me to shut down. What's going on with Nicky. My not talking to Dr. Scott about the sleeping issues... although some of those have corrected themselves.  And I see Dr. Scott this week and I never got my SMA-12 done and lithium level done. We will have to do that tomorrow morning. It looks like I will be going into work with D tomorrow.

So I haven't really given an update to WoW lately. D and I are 80's and have been for almost 2 weeks. I have my JC at 420 and my mining is maxed. Fishing is at 383, cooking at 122 and FA is at 213. I got my Master at Arms for 4 weapons lvled to 400. Anya, D and I have been collecting pets and I have 33 of them... 17 away from the Shop Smart, Shop Petsmart achievement. I am working diligently. I have a game boyfriend who is endorsed by D, his name is Brimm/Brimw. A million years ago he gave me a pet cat in Deadmines and he gave me a mech squirrel last week. I adore him. Today we are going to run Dire Maul... hopefully Anya, D, Brimm, Garvey and me. I would also like to run a lower level instance in Northrend. And I want to work on Iratze and Killsunday. It's a lot of things to do. =/

The last few days have been hard ones. Nicky wasn't acting normal over the weekend and a trip to the vet had devestating results. It would seem he is having kidney failure and is just not himself. A very sick kitty and only at 25% of his kidney function. I am worried sick. If something happens and he doesn't pull through this will be my first major loss since April and that didn't go well for me. Nicky walks around crying which isn't like him and I just wonder if he is in pain or not. He won't eat... I even tried to give him pizza which has always been a favorite of his but nothing. It's made me see that we have to get rid of Deami. I just keep wishing it was him which isn't right. He should be with a family that can give him what he needs and love him the right way. I thought that was me but all I am doing is keeping him because I can't imagine anyone wanting a moody cat that refuses to use the litter box. We'll take him to the outdoor shelter. It's no kill and like $500-700 release fee. They will find a nice place for him. And Nicky... I don't know. I almost think I will have to cancel going home for him. I don't want to be too far incase he needs me. And neither Nicky or me is used to him needing a girl. He's a boy's kitty. Girls are just good for occassional attention. But I've been on the floor most of this morning when he cries. It's breaking my heart.

Meanwhile Nielle is still visiting and today we went to La Brea Tar Pits. I have been fascinated by them since I was in middle school and when I found out I was coming to LA it was one of the first places I wanted to go. Of course now that I live 7 or 8 blocks from them I never go there but I still hold fanciful ideas about it. Today we walked down and did the Lake Tar and museum route. I think it was the most thorough walk through I have ever done of the museum. I got some smooshed pennies and a magnet about the saber tooth cats. It was enjoyable. We also walked to Pit 91 to see the current investigation. It's pretty gross but oddly compelling. I had the staggering thought that all the scientists there passed chem and physics and suddenly my amazement for them grew in leaps and bounds. As we were leavine Nielle wanted to put her finger in the asphalt to see what it would be like. We found her some seepage in the lawn and she stepped in it which I promptly informed her that she wouldn't be allowed in my apartment with that sandal anymore. Then she found a stick and a more liquid puddle and she played for a minute. Black sticky stuff doesn't do it for me. I'm a party pooper.

From there we started further east to Mulnomah Falls but along the way we encountered a few other falls first. They were some of the highest I've seen other than Niagara Falls, obviously not as wide but so beautiful.

Then we finally got to Multnomah. Really impressive, the mist starts hitting you about 100ft from the falls. It's really built up with a restaurant and hiking trail and netting to keep debris from hitting you. It's the cat's meow.

Today, finally, we drove north to St. Helens... And went first to Bella's House. I got a thrill out of standing where Rob may have stood. Vicariously living through rocks on the ground... being a rock he might have stood on. I know Heather just got that look on her face that she gets when she hears crazy fangirl talk. Not far from there is the house that supposedly was the Italian restaurant. It didn't look right to me though. But it was the address that I was given by the girl on TwilightMoms so it MUST be right, right? *raises eyebrow* We parked and walked from there heading down 1st St in the direction of the dress shop, but we came across the alley first. It's small. And it opens up to Twilight locations heaven. The parking lot that Edward saves her in is to the right and to the left is the bookstore. And everywhere around me there were people talking about the movie. Two teen boys and a gaggle of teen girls and mother. I was oddly in my element and out of place. The dress shop is a beauty salon 2 or 3 more doors down from the alley. More fans... TwiMoms from the looks of them were there. And the gaggle of teen girls showed up talking about "Karen Stewart". Atleast they had Rob's name right.

After that we left Oregon and went to Kalama, Washington... where I found something that really made me excited at my last destination. But before that I want to mention that Kalama has three Frontage Streets that all run parallel to each other so it was hard to find Forks High but after trial and error we did. Other people were there trying to ruin my pictures and recounts of what happened where but we powered on and I found where Justin and Bella talk on the walkway her first day. The parking spots for the Cullens and the stairs they use to walk up to the school. Where Bella parked. Where Edward parked the day he took Bella to school. AND D FOUND WHERE THEY WALK UP TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN!! My favorite part of the movie... I wish I had the Carter Burwell piece to crescendo as I walked up the hill. Okay I'm a dork.

My title today comes from a man that walked behind us at the zoo. I don't get some people.