A few articles, and a Vlad update.

Cindy:

Six Things I Learned When Purchasing Renter's Insurance

Me:


Little Caesar's Pizza Tastes like Greasy Cardboard, but I Love It Anyway

Top Five Movies to Have While Stranded on a Deserted Island

Easy and Quick Food Add-Ins

Just a couple of response pieces that I did, and a silly one about food. The first one was inspired by my lunch one day. :)

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And as for Vlad, he's doing better now. He spent the night at the vet's office, ate some food, and didn't throw it back up, so that's a very good sign. He's got some medicine for the next couple of days to keep him a healthy kitten, and I'm really hoping that the upchucking is done. Megan is gonna be catsitting for us when we go to Chicago, and I know she won't want to deal with kitty vomit. Cuz I know I don't like dealing with it, though I have done remarkably well doing so thus far. :)
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Two new articles from Cindy:

Limbaugh's Statement About Michael J. Fox: Crass but Not Malicious

Which was an "Editor's Pick"! Congrats to Cindy! :)

How Much Money You Make at Associated Content is Up to You

And I concur wholeheartedly with this. I do this mostly to give myself a little bit of extra spending cash, particularly with the holidays rolling around. If I plan things well (and stop buying silly stuff), I may be able to do almost all of my holiday shopping just with the money I've made from writing. That would be pretty kewl. :) And it would mean I can spend my money from crocheting on tattoos. :)

Seriously, though, if you're interested in making either a little money or a decent amount of money through writing for Associated Content, E-mail either Cindy: lgunnin (at) hotmail (dot) com, or me: scarywhitegirl (at) gmail (dot) com. If you know Cindy in real life, use hers; otherwise, you can use mine. Yeah, we get a little bit of money for referrals, but once you're started, you can refer people too. :) And you can invite us to be your buddies, too. :)

You get no articles from me. Because I had a week of being a slacker when I didn't write much. I should have more coming up this week, but as I'm off work from Wednesday through Friday, I doubt you'll see anything about them till next Monday.

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Halloween is tomorrow, and if I am ambitious tonight, I will have quasi-Bride of Frankenstein hair tomorrow. This involves putting all of my hair into braids, and Jerome laughed when I asked him if he knew how to braid. Ah well. :)

Wednesday, I'll be headed out for my after Halloween sales (YAY!), and Thursday, we are off to the distant frozen northlands. This is also known, to most people, as Chicago. Jerome and I will be hitting the Art Institute on Thursday night, the Field Museum on Friday afternoon, and the Placebo concert (with Jesi and friends) on Friday night. Then on Saturday, we get to get up early to make the drive back. Well, I can cross my fingers and hope that perhaps they will give Jerome Saturday night off, in the hopes of him working Sunday morning, which will allow us to not leave Chicago super early on Saturday.

And in other news, Vlad has been sick. :( He goes to the vet this afternoon, to see if she can determine something is wrong with him, or whether it's just a case of upset kitty tummy. If it's the latter, I've already got some possibilities on ways to fix that, so that's a relief. It was not nice to hear him start hacking, and then backing up, before upchucking onto the floor. I'd be upset about the mess, but I'm more upset because he made a horrible little mewling noise right before it happened, so he's obviously not a happy kitten. :(
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Shuddup about me not posting all week. I've been working and doing other stuff. :)

Yesterday, Bryan and Vanessa brought me kittens. I didn't think I was going to get kittens, even though we had talked about it, because I said "no, I don't think we need kittens. I'm never home." But then they brought them anyway, and once they're there, you can't say no to kittens.

So we now have a momma cat, Moxie Guinness God (Jesi named her Moxie, but toyed with the other names, so I have decreed this to be her full name. Mostly, she's just Moxie, which seems to fit her nicely.), who is a very dark brown mottled color, with some patches of much lighter brown. I think maybe she kinda looks like coffee with a little bit of creamer that hasn't quite been stirred in yet.

See for yourself. This is her very surly, "what is my baby doing?" picture, as she lounges in her favorite sleeping spot, the TMBG quilt of legend. It's not quite done yet. Megan wants it. The cats like to sleep on it tho... we shall see who wins the epic battle for the quilt of comfiness.

The baby cat, Vladimir, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, Voivod of Wallachia (yes, I named my cat after Dracula. Did you expect any less from me?), is my sweetie. He is solid black, which is everything I ever wanted in a kittie. :)

And here is Vlad. He is the tiniest little thing EVAR, and too frickin' adorable on top of that. This morning, he entertained me by chasing his own tail, freaking out about his shadow, chasing his momma's tail, and playing with a wadded up paper bag that I found.

So far, they seem to be doing wonderfully in making the transition from outside cats to inside cats. They seem to understand the concept of the litterbox, which makes me SUPER happy. They haven't attacked my yarn yet, which is also SUPER good, because I have a lot of yarn.

Still need to find them a vet, and get them all checked out. I can already tell that they're prolly a bit underweight, as both are skinny as rails, but I'm sure once they adjust a little bit more, they'll eat plenty. And they both need declawed, because as cruel as some people may find that, Moxie put her front paws on my leg while I was eating breakfast today, and her claws were poking through my pants. NOT pleasant. :( I don't care if they claw up my couch, since it's already pretty well clawed to hell and back by cats at its former residence, but I don't like them clawing up ME. :) And they both need to be neutered. Vlad is apparently from Moxie's 2nd litter, and she's only about 7-8 months old. None of her first litter survived, and Vlad was the only one who made it out of the 2nd litter. :(

Anyways, those are my cats. Yay for cats! :)
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