KITTENS!!

These are our kittens!! We are foster parents for the Seattle Humane Society and we picked up a litter of sick kittens on Saturday. It's really quite sad actually. They all have eye infections, colds, and are getting over gardia (sp?). The two girls (the ones in the hammock) are the worst - their eyes are crusty and inflamed but the boys are doing well. We have to give them cold medicine and eye goop twice a day, so Dane and I are up early and late each day/night. So far they are staying in the spare bedroom right next to ours- we decided we wanted to hear if anything was going awry and it will be nice for our guests to have a room that is private (ie: downstairs).

Speaking of guests, my mom is arriving this Thursday!! We are taking her to Mizo - Japanese Steakhouse which is a hibatchi style steakhouse near the airport for her birthday. Then I am taking off work early on Friday and we are driving two hours into the Cascades to the Bavarian town Leavenworth (LW). I'm told LW has a Christmas/holiday light display that is ranked one of the top in the nation. Saturday we will make cookies and take the kittens for a check up then go to Handel's Messiah symphony. Sunday I'm taking her to Pike Place Market and West Lake Center. She leaves Monday which is when Jojo and I will leave for PDX to go see U2 in concert at the Rose Garden - I'm so excited it hurts!!

I'm also extremely stressed. I have to close October and November for my six corps by this Friday. At this point it will be impossible. I really didn't know what I was getting in to when I accepted this job. I do love it though - the strain is exciting because I know I will not be reprimanded or scolded for not having my stuff done. I'm granted a lot of lee-way and my trainer and peer Heather has been oh-so-patient with me. She will cover any of my slack - I totally owe her lunch. :-)

Other than the kittens, preparing for Mom to come to town, and work there isn't much to report. However, I would like to say how much I absolutely, completely, and udderly, irrevokably love love LOVE my Dane. Watching him with the kittens has made me fall in love with him all over again. This started out being my "monkey" but he totally loves animals, especially cats. He cares for those kittens so much! He helps me medicate them, helps me spend time with them, feed them, clean them, everything. He even helped me purchase supplies and stuff for them. I think about what other guys in my past would have done and they don't even compare to Dane. They would have been irritated or indifferent, not the kind, compassionate soul Dane is. Another reason I love Dane = I'm totally stressed about cleaning the house for my mom and having time to close the books at work and drive my car up the 40% grade downtown Seattle hills, and what to eat, and what about the girl kittens, and this and that. And he calms me down - always. I picked him up today and he had a Starbucks to "help me get up those hills". I came home to clean and he grabbed the mop and bucket without me saying anything. I decide to starve till my work gets done, he brings me nourishment. Then, as if that wasn't already enough, he says to me "You know - why don't we just get a maid. Then you don't have to worry about cleaning." *mouth drops open* Wow. Just wow. Want another reason? He has totally helped w/ all the Christmas stuff right? AWESOME. But now he and I are making a gingerbread house together. What guy would do that?! Few that I have been with! Except we are both perfectionists and he's not putting the frosting on neatly and I'm not "holding the roof it in the right place." It's funny the things we are obsessive-complusive about.

Well - we are off to decorate the gingerbread house - maybe it will make the blog cut. HA!