My wife is being subjected to me "cooking" most of the food at the moment. She burned the palm of her left hand on the fireplace which managed to get far too hot and almost pour smoke in to the house eventually setting off all the smoke alarms (which required turning of the power so I could go around and disconnect them all). I say "cooking" since generally it involves heating up premade stuff or my usual making easy breakfasts and lunches. I suspect there may be some eating out coming around as well. In fact we are doing that for thanksgiving, going to a local place for the traditional dinner (although we will substitute the pumpkin pie) on Thursday so that is one less meal to make.
Even with all this I don't think we are going to die from food poisoning from my attempts to make food. I still need to decide what to do tonight (or what to reheat from the precooked stuff in the freezer) which means another decision that I'm not very good at making. Not good as in when I do eventually come up with an idea it usually isn't that great. I really have no idea what to do with food, I could just eat the same thing over and over and be alright about it. When I used to eat breakfast in the office it would be the same thing every day, some form of bowl of cereal. Then when we had a cafeteria it would be the same sandwich over and over again. They used to know exactly what I wanted when I went in since I had it so often. It is one less thing to think about and decide on. Then again maybe I could decide that my wife and I should eat poutine for dinner every day :| .
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Sad Times
It has been sad around here recently with Andy no longer being with us. Getting over not having her around any more has been hard even though she was with us for just two years. We put her stuff away over the weekend and not having that large habitat on the chest of drawers in the bedroom makes it seem empty. That and not hearing her rustling around or running in her wheel at night. The cats though have been super attentive as well, when we sit on the sofa at least one and up to four of them will sit with and around us on the sofa. They have made it easier by being there with us.
On to something else though, dwelling on Andy makes me too sad. The weather here is so much colder now, it has been frosty every morning for like 5 days in a row now. Considering we never had that in California it is great to see weather again. Proper amounts of rain, temperature changes and a definite different feeling to the world around you during different parts of the year. Sure it gets cold and my wife got blankets for us to keep warm under in the evening but to be honest its great. I've missed this.
Other than that I have been looking after the neighbours pets the last few days. I had them come around in a panic the other day since they were just about to go on holiday (like the next day) and their pet sitter had pulled out. So twice a day I'm walking over to feed the dog and cat they have. I've only seen the cat running across the house a couple of times but every time I go over there the dog is so happy to see me. It clearly loves attention like most dogs, they require someone to be there. Fortunately I've also managed to keep it quiet so my wife doesn't hear barking. We shall see if I can finally tempt the cat out but no luck so far. From what I've seen it is quite small.
Anyway, I need to get on with a bit of work and make some lunch so off for now. I have no idea when I'll next write on here, maybe when things feel a bit more normal and we aren't quite so sad.
On to something else though, dwelling on Andy makes me too sad. The weather here is so much colder now, it has been frosty every morning for like 5 days in a row now. Considering we never had that in California it is great to see weather again. Proper amounts of rain, temperature changes and a definite different feeling to the world around you during different parts of the year. Sure it gets cold and my wife got blankets for us to keep warm under in the evening but to be honest its great. I've missed this.
Other than that I have been looking after the neighbours pets the last few days. I had them come around in a panic the other day since they were just about to go on holiday (like the next day) and their pet sitter had pulled out. So twice a day I'm walking over to feed the dog and cat they have. I've only seen the cat running across the house a couple of times but every time I go over there the dog is so happy to see me. It clearly loves attention like most dogs, they require someone to be there. Fortunately I've also managed to keep it quiet so my wife doesn't hear barking. We shall see if I can finally tempt the cat out but no luck so far. From what I've seen it is quite small.
Anyway, I need to get on with a bit of work and make some lunch so off for now. I have no idea when I'll next write on here, maybe when things feel a bit more normal and we aren't quite so sad.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Thank You Andy
We did something last night we have not had to do for almost 14 years. Say goodbye to a pet. I found Andy dead in her little nest last night while going to bed. She had obviously died in her sleep. We took her out and buried her safely in the garden. We had her for two years so obviously we have grown very attached. Saying goodbye is so hard.
So thank you Andy for being the cutest little hamster who loved to run, sort food in to piles of types and build huge nests to snuggle down in to. You were so small but have had a big impact on both of us. We love you little one, rest easy.
So thank you Andy for being the cutest little hamster who loved to run, sort food in to piles of types and build huge nests to snuggle down in to. You were so small but have had a big impact on both of us. We love you little one, rest easy.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Eye Stabbing
My wife went for another eye stab this morning. She gets dilated and her retinas checked and the last few visits they have injected her eye with medication. This means numbing it, holding it open with a device and then literally injecting with a needle in to the eye ball. She is so brave to have that done. I know the needle doesn't go directly in to the eye but she ends up half blinded from brightness since her eyes are fully dilated in daylight, in pain from the injection and blurry vision from it as well. No way I could go through that.
Our new cat Archer has settled down a lot and recovered from his fungal thing he had going. He is even seemingly playing with Lucy a bit with them chasing each other around and batting at each other. No claws or hissing yet so we have to assume it is play, it is just like Lucy and Daisy chase each other around and they are sisters.
The weather here where we live now is so much better or at least more varied. We have had sunshine, rain, foggy days and varied temperatures. Much more like I had when growing up and definite seasons here with all the leaves and clear weather turning at the end of summer. Much more preferable I think. Sunshine for most of the year is nice but it comes with heat problems and much higher skin problems from all that sunshine. Another point for this house over our old one with its location.
Our new cat Archer has settled down a lot and recovered from his fungal thing he had going. He is even seemingly playing with Lucy a bit with them chasing each other around and batting at each other. No claws or hissing yet so we have to assume it is play, it is just like Lucy and Daisy chase each other around and they are sisters.
The weather here where we live now is so much better or at least more varied. We have had sunshine, rain, foggy days and varied temperatures. Much more like I had when growing up and definite seasons here with all the leaves and clear weather turning at the end of summer. Much more preferable I think. Sunshine for most of the year is nice but it comes with heat problems and much higher skin problems from all that sunshine. Another point for this house over our old one with its location.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
What We Do For Nice Stuff
Yesterday, in order to get some nice stuff to eat for Christmas, we drove the 130 or so miles to the nearest shop that carries a lot of English food. It took over 2 hours, fortunately the vast majority of it simply driving down the freeway, so we could visit one specific shop and get the exact things my wife and I like to have at Christmas. All those little things you like to eat that make it a special time. Even with all that driving I didn't give a damn. We got so much good stuff that it is all worth it. We will have everything we want come Christmas from food to presents. The thought of driving all that way for all that time didn't bother me at all since I knew the result what be worth it.
It is strange to consider what we do for the things we really want. Normally I don't enjoy long drives too much after having done so much driving in my life so far. This though I did without a second thought. The reward from doing it so greatly outweighed the bit of annoyance getting the physical act of going and getting the stuff took that even now I really have forgotten it as it were. Weird that really, all that driving and doing stuff but it just became something that was largely automatic and so easy for me now. I was such a nervous driver at first all those years ago, not having a car of my own and borrowing my parents whenever I wanted to drive somewhere. Now though it is something I can almost do in my sleep since I've had so much repetition of it.
Anyway, good to know that we can go through so much for what we want. Luckily though being with my wife and getting the things we want is pretty easy now. My wife is so great to be with that I consider myself lucky to be the one to do it and the slight annoyance of working is pretty bearable now I can do it in the comfort of my own home. It made all those years of hard slog, commuting, dealing with idiots and doing crap I really didn't enjoy worth it in the end.
It is strange to consider what we do for the things we really want. Normally I don't enjoy long drives too much after having done so much driving in my life so far. This though I did without a second thought. The reward from doing it so greatly outweighed the bit of annoyance getting the physical act of going and getting the stuff took that even now I really have forgotten it as it were. Weird that really, all that driving and doing stuff but it just became something that was largely automatic and so easy for me now. I was such a nervous driver at first all those years ago, not having a car of my own and borrowing my parents whenever I wanted to drive somewhere. Now though it is something I can almost do in my sleep since I've had so much repetition of it.
Anyway, good to know that we can go through so much for what we want. Luckily though being with my wife and getting the things we want is pretty easy now. My wife is so great to be with that I consider myself lucky to be the one to do it and the slight annoyance of working is pretty bearable now I can do it in the comfort of my own home. It made all those years of hard slog, commuting, dealing with idiots and doing crap I really didn't enjoy worth it in the end.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Lunch And Prizes
Another day working from home so another day going out for lunch with my wife. I have had eaten out more with my wife in these last few months than the last few years possibly. Being at home all day makes it so easy to just nip out and grab a bite to eat for lunch. It is very cool to be able to do this, step away from work and get out of the house with my wife. Heck even eating lunch at home with my wife every day is so great and such a change from my old working routine.
In competitions this week I'm up to 26 out of 28 entries in to a competition for money and stuff for playing Borderlands 2. Sure there are probably a lot of people entering this but with a grand prize, 4 sets of weekly prizes and some other random prizes I have to win something right? That is how odds work huh :) . Then there is the competition I entered using the trophies I earned playing games via Sony. All those gold trophies (113 of the 2678 I have) can be used as entries so with those I now will have 141 entries to win something. Even better odds. Really hoping something comes of all this even though I have had fun doing everything required to get the trophies or boss monster kills to get an entry. Also hoping I win something so my wife who suffered through all that game playing I've done didn't suffer for nothing.
I think the only strange thing is that this Borderlands 2 competition ends in two days so I won't have an excuse to play the game for a little bit every day. I suspect I will play a lot more of the game but won't get anything from it other than fun from playing. Given that I'm getting to the high level areas with serious powers now there is a good challenge but also serious carnage. All that playing has paid off with some seriously good game play the higher level stuff has.
Anyway, I'm off to finish some work and then go relax again for the rest of the day. I'm definitely used to this easier life now and could in no way go back to how we used to live.
In competitions this week I'm up to 26 out of 28 entries in to a competition for money and stuff for playing Borderlands 2. Sure there are probably a lot of people entering this but with a grand prize, 4 sets of weekly prizes and some other random prizes I have to win something right? That is how odds work huh :) . Then there is the competition I entered using the trophies I earned playing games via Sony. All those gold trophies (113 of the 2678 I have) can be used as entries so with those I now will have 141 entries to win something. Even better odds. Really hoping something comes of all this even though I have had fun doing everything required to get the trophies or boss monster kills to get an entry. Also hoping I win something so my wife who suffered through all that game playing I've done didn't suffer for nothing.
I think the only strange thing is that this Borderlands 2 competition ends in two days so I won't have an excuse to play the game for a little bit every day. I suspect I will play a lot more of the game but won't get anything from it other than fun from playing. Given that I'm getting to the high level areas with serious powers now there is a good challenge but also serious carnage. All that playing has paid off with some seriously good game play the higher level stuff has.
Anyway, I'm off to finish some work and then go relax again for the rest of the day. I'm definitely used to this easier life now and could in no way go back to how we used to live.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Still Happy Cat
Well the results of Fudge's test came back and he did have a cancerous growth in him. The surgery got it out and it isn't going to spread to other areas so no chemo or treatment. The only thing we need to do is keep an eye out for if it comes back in the same spot.
For all this Fudge shows none of it. He is still the same old happy cat he always is. He comes trotting over to us as soon as he sees us looking at him. He will be purring his head off and want nothing more than to be with you. An animal that is more overjoyed to be with someone I've never seen, he loves every moment of being with us. He has always been like that and shows no signs of the surgery and the lump cut out of him. As long as he stays that way this illness will have had zero negative effect on him. Strange to think of it like that where he had something growing in him that shouldn't be there but it didn't affect him at all.
We want Fudge to be around for a good bit longer still. If he gets better from this and it doesn't grow back I suspect he will.
For all this Fudge shows none of it. He is still the same old happy cat he always is. He comes trotting over to us as soon as he sees us looking at him. He will be purring his head off and want nothing more than to be with you. An animal that is more overjoyed to be with someone I've never seen, he loves every moment of being with us. He has always been like that and shows no signs of the surgery and the lump cut out of him. As long as he stays that way this illness will have had zero negative effect on him. Strange to think of it like that where he had something growing in him that shouldn't be there but it didn't affect him at all.
We want Fudge to be around for a good bit longer still. If he gets better from this and it doesn't grow back I suspect he will.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Nice Stuff
I stayed up late last night, just past midnight, in order to place an order for my wife's Christmas present. The item I am getting her was available to buy from that time. Within a couple of minutes I had the order placed and guaranteed she will get what I wanted to get her for Christmas. It means she will definitely get something really nice which I try my best to make sure she always has.
When I was younger and heck even when first working I didn't have much money. Getting gifts for my wife was hard and I really had to plan ahead. Now though it is much easier to find the money to buy something nice for her and I really enjoy doing it. I want her to have the things neither of us could have growing up and when we were first married. Being at this point in life is so much less stressful than a couple of decades ago in that way.
The even cooler bit was I managed to get yet another trophy on a PS3 game last night about 10 minutes to midnight. Not bad timing to be honest. This trophy though has some form of us, it was a gold one which can currently be used in a sweepstakes to win prizes from Sony. Hah, all that time playing games paid off :) . I think I'm at 2664 trophies now, not a bad haul. By the time I start earning them on the PS4 I should be closer to 2700 at a guess with the trophies left to earn in the games I'm playing. It is nice to look back on them and see a record of what I played when and everything I've done in games. Some of them don't serve much purpose but others do bring back memories of the game and the fun I had playing it. A nice little visual history of me playing.
When I was younger and heck even when first working I didn't have much money. Getting gifts for my wife was hard and I really had to plan ahead. Now though it is much easier to find the money to buy something nice for her and I really enjoy doing it. I want her to have the things neither of us could have growing up and when we were first married. Being at this point in life is so much less stressful than a couple of decades ago in that way.
The even cooler bit was I managed to get yet another trophy on a PS3 game last night about 10 minutes to midnight. Not bad timing to be honest. This trophy though has some form of us, it was a gold one which can currently be used in a sweepstakes to win prizes from Sony. Hah, all that time playing games paid off :) . I think I'm at 2664 trophies now, not a bad haul. By the time I start earning them on the PS4 I should be closer to 2700 at a guess with the trophies left to earn in the games I'm playing. It is nice to look back on them and see a record of what I played when and everything I've done in games. Some of them don't serve much purpose but others do bring back memories of the game and the fun I had playing it. A nice little visual history of me playing.
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