Oh Where Oh Where has Analee Gone?

I am alive and well. Although I have been mega busy, yes mega. And so since my cognitive ability is failing quickly because of many things on my mind, I enjoy little update blogs. I have a lack of creativity at the moment.

I found 5 gray hairs
So I have been studying pretty hard here to make it to then end of this on-line course. The mid-term is due tomorrow which is a big task and not really a midterm at all because it is due a week before the class ends. But he final is due when the class ends. Sooooooo, mid-term? No, 3/4 term. So I have been a tad stressed.

She's Going Going Gone
Um... I fell down the stairs on Tuesday, head first. It wasn't pretty. But I caught myself and didn't die or break anything. It is pretty amazing. I just scraped my legs up pretty bad and was sore for the rest of the week but Tuesday... not so much a good day.

4 DaysI wish it said like 10 days because then I would not be as freaked out as I am. I have 4 days till I move to Abilene. And my to do list is frighteningly long. I really don't think I am going to sleep this upcoming week, I will be packing and forty other things that need to get done before I leave. Just a little scary.

We have a date!!!So my exciting news is we have a date that David comes home! YAY! When they leave the Gulf maybe I will be allowed to announce it. The other bit of great news is that they get to go to Singapore and Hong Kong on their way back. We didn't think they would be able to and David is very excited about getting to port there. What a great treat for them. Also, we have plane tickets for our leave, which unfortunately will be spent in Abilene. So it is getting real that they are coming home. I am ready, but also nervous and anxious and scared, and excited it really feels like just before my wedding.



So that is basically my life right now. Work from 9-3, homework from 4-6, dinner, homework until 12 or later, sleep, repeat. This week I will add in vet, laundry, pack, and freaking out. :) When will it be over?

UpDate-o-rama

What has been going on with you Analee? Well.....

Rigby is fine.
Unbelievably the kitten acts like nothing ever happened. Much to my horror he jumps and runs and wrestles with Abbey. I know when I ask him, hey does your leg hurt baby? He says, whatever, and runs away.

School is interesting.
I finished Canterbury tales, hooray! They are pretty awful. Mostly I have to turn in e-journals (mini-essay tests), post a discussion essay, then respond to my classmates discussion posts. The responses have been challenging so to speak. Ask me sometime about how much fun it is to be in a class with boys... and reading Chaucer... cause it isn't...fun...at all.

My move to Abilene is fast approaching.
Only a few more weeks till I make the change to Abilene, which is kinda scary. I didn't get to stay in Houston long enough. I love it here. But I am really excited to get to hang out with Leah, Michael, Mav and Zekie Poo. Also, I got my apartment! YAY! Which is a a super big weight lifted off my shoulders. My mom is making piles of things for me to take up there. (all of my stuff is in storage in Washington) Everything I am taking is going into hospice care, these will be its last few months before... the dump.

David is alright.
I think we have finally hit the fatigue that comes with a deployment of this size. He just wants to come home, he doesn't want to be over there anymore, he misses me and home and the kitties. So if you can spare a couple, just pray that he gets a burst of energy to make it through the last half of this cruise. He was in port not too long ago, so we got to talk. Which was nice because it had been two months since our last conversation and it was time. I have some really exciting news which I can't announce on the blog just yet, for safety reasons, but stay tuned for a fun announcement.

Life is GOOD!
It has been a hard four years of my life but things are good right now. And it blows me away that I am to a happy place. God is good. And there are bumps and dark places in life but God promised a rainbow, and a new day. I am happy to feel happy.


P.S. The birdies have flown the nest. A week after my attack I looked again and they were gone. Fast little learners.

When children get in BIG trouble and don't tell their mommys.

By now you all know how much I love my kitties. We had a little situation this week with Rigby.

I was just holding him and squishing his little paws, they are extra squishy. And I found a lump on his leg. I asked him, "What is this?" And he says "Nothin'" "Does it hurt?" "Nope" So I start to freak out. I found a lump on my little kitten and it isn't hurting him so I think it is a tumor. Sunday night I am a mess. I am crying and praying all night. (I lost Juni while David was on his last cruise and I could only think I was going to lose another one.)

Monday was awful. I had to go to work and worry about him the WHOLE day. So mom and I went to the vet after work and the vet says "Hmmmmmmm. It isn't hurting him so I am not sure what it is. Lets take xrays." (and by the way, who was the best kitty in the world at the vet? Rigby!)

When the vet comes in he says "Well, it looks like this little guy has a broken leg!" Yes, my little kitten is walking around, jumping, running, going up and down stairs with a broken leg. It wasn't even just a fracture, the small bone in the leg is not in the socket at the foot joint, and there are chips of the socket just floating around! We are all surprized, including the vet, because Rigby is showing NO sign of pain.

I went into the vet with all my checkbooks and credit cards ready to save this little cat's life, and when I heard the broken leg thing I am thing, "Yay! But this is going to cost me." But the vet said, I don't think we are going to do anything for him. He is not in any pain, and a bandage would only hinder his movement. So we left there with a almost healthy kitten.

So how did he do it? Don't know.
When did he do it? The vet said it was not a fresh break, some healing had already begun.
So what does this mean long term? He is going to live his little life with a broken leg and athritis. But he did get a talking to about getting hurt and not telling me.

Lesson Learned

Um so yesterday I was attacked.

Yes attacked, by momma bird or possibly daddy bird. I was just LOOKING at the baby birds, well I was saying "Goodmorning Birdies!" And all of the sudden I was attacked from the rear... in my rear. I screamed so loud, because
1. I was startled, what touch my butt?!? and
2. It really hurt.

So I took off and did one of those where you move faster than you thought you could, jump higher than you knew possible, I was at the door in one leap. It was so scary because there was no warning, no caw caw or anything, just the nip, peck, bite or whatever. She was circling for another assault, but of course I was inside pretty darn fast.

No worries, I will not catch the bird flu. She didn't break the skin. But I am thinking no more birdie updates for a while.


Oh and David sent me a picture of him on snoopy team, that is the look out job. He could have been here on the look out for birds on the war path.