Kittens out the yin yang!

(First of a few posts to cover this weekend!)

Chuck and I went down to Cincinnati yesterday to visit with my Dad and his side of the family to celebrate his retirement from the Post Office and my birthday (which is this coming Wednesday). We went to Dad's first to watch the Bengals v. Steelers game and visit with his kittens. See, my Dad has become the Crazy Cat Man. I kid you not. It started with 1 black kitty named Monkey, who wasn't spayed in time and darted out the front door to get some lovin'. She had a litter of kittens and Dad kept one, a tortoiseshell named Lucy. Dad STILL didn't have Monkey spayed and guess what? She escaped one day around Christmas and got knocked up. She had 2 black kittens, which Dad kept, and named Lucky and Mustang Sally. So now he had 4. Lucy lived up to her name (LOOSE) and got out and got a piece of a$$ and had this current litter of kittens. Dad now has 8 cats in his house!!!

The newest members of the Kleier household!

2 gray kittens (no names), 1 fluffy black kitten (that looks JUST like our old kitty, Smokey!), and 1 fluffy gray and tan (muted Tortoiseshell) named Lilly (if she's a girl, we don't know!).

 

I would LOVE to bring one of them home, but we just don't have the room for a third cat. I've already made it clear to Chuck that when we have a bigger house with room for litterboxes, etc. we WILL have a third kitty! There's room in our family for at least 1 more!

I think Dad's friend may be taking Lilly home, and if that's the case, he may keep 1 of the other kittens, bringing his house total to 5 kitties! Ugh!

Welcome Robert Wallace Park!

The newest member of Chuck's family was born Monday morning!

Let me introduce to you Robert Wallace Park :)

Born 11/9/09, 8lbs-10oz, and 22" long.

Congratulations to Sam & Melanie (Chuck's brother and SIL)! First grandchild in the family!

A little fall decor...

Ok so I started writing this post over 3 weeks ago and just never got around to finishing it or posting it! Oops. Oh well. It's a start! Hell by the time I finish this, it'll be time for Christmas decorations!! LOL! Here ya go!

Thought I'd share the little bit of fall decorating that I've done around the living room & dining room. Plus it'll allow you to see our new couch (yes, another new one - long story!).

From the dining room area looking into the living room. New couch, with new art hanging above it. Painted the coffee table (after trying to strip/stain veneer = fail). Walls are painted, new chair (with fresh claw marks down the back thanks to the orange kitty who is peering at the camera from in front of it! BASTARD!! LOL!).



More of the chair, with my awesome pillow find from Burlington Coat Factory. I heart it!!


Couch head on with my candle ring of leaves (good cat toy, btw) and dish of dark chocolate Kisses. Yum!


Here's the mantle with my barn star from Chuck last Christmas, and my "go bucks" banner made by the ever so crafty "four munkees".


Close ups of the mantle.



One of the side tables.


And the other. With Buckeye stuff of course, including some AWESOME Ohio State coasters made by my good friend, Liz!


And the dining room. With new chandelier, new artwork on the walls, and a blah table cloth - only because I can't find exactly what I want. I think this blends in to the wall too much! Oh and disregard the towels on the chairs - Hondo likes to do burnouts on them and they are LEATHER (great gift from Chuck's mom, but not when there are kitty claws on the house!).

Date night

Chuck and I went out with another couple last night (his buddy and his fiancee) and tried a new restaurant thanks to "Restaurant Week" - random weeks throughout the year when local restuarants do a "prix fixe" (fixed price) special menu usually with multiple courses, for $20 or $30 per person. And these are restaurants where the entree itself is usually $20 or $30! This was definitely the case last night - we went to The Top restaurant in Bexley. It's a steakhouse that's been around for ages (and the decor shows it - it's a little wild! And dark! And lots of mirrors! Creepy.)

Anyway, even though the decor may have been a little "off" the food was AWESOME! We each got 4 courses for $30.09. It is a tough act to beat, let me tell you! 1st course was a choice between escargot or french onion soup. Us girls got the soup, the boys tried the escargot - both were really good! The escargot was baked with lots of garlic and melted cheese - yum! And then we got a choice of salads, and then our main entree. The choices were surf & turf (lobster tail + filet), prime rib, or a crab stuff sole + bernaise & asparagus. I ALMOST got the sole, just because it sounded so good, but opted for the prime rib, and it was melt in your mouth good! Yum!

And our 4th and final course - dessert! Either creme brulee or a funnel cake w/ice cream and fresh strawberries. I was the odd man out choosing the creme brulee, but don't think I didn't steal some of Chuck's funnel cake!

SO glad we tried somewhere new and had a good night with a couple we don't get to see very often!

Dang it, now I'm hungry just thinking about dinner last night! LOL!

Starting early...

So I normally wear scarlet and gray and my Buckeye bracelets and watch, etc. to work on Fridays during football season. But with a HUGE game coming up this weekend vs USC that I'm scared to DEATH of, I thought I'd start a day early and maybe get the good vibes going today! So I'm wearing all scarlet and gray and the bracelet and watch today - and hoping that it will give us a boost on Saturday night! Holy shit do we need it!!!

In rare form today...

For some reason, I'm agitated today.

It may be because I woke up an hour early (5am) and couldn't fall back asleep... or when I did finally get up my stomach felt weird... who knows.

All I know is that every little thing is ticking me off this morning and that in itself, is ticking me off!

Some of the other things bothering me...

1. My coworker that sits next to me & helps answer the phone mispronounces our BOSS's last name, EVERY.TIME. He's your BOSS, get his fucking name right!!! It's not HARD!!

2. I had to have the "I don't want to be buds with your PSYCHO GIRLFRIEND" talk with my DAD last night. Sorry Dad, I know it upsets you that I don't want to hang out with the "woman" you've been dating/whatever off and on for the last 11 years - she has called me and every other person in our family every name in the book, has tried to fist fight me in YOUR HOME (and I'm not a fighter!!!!), and has come after you with a knife, and to defend yourself, you had to whack the bitch in the HEAD with a FUCKING GOLF CLUB. And you wonder WHY I don't want to hang out with her?!!! I'm sorry that you're lonely - really, I am, and I feel partly responsible for that, since you live 100 miles away, but COME THE FUCK ON, get a new girlfriend!! You can do 1000x better in your SLEEP if you just TRIED!!!

3. I hate being everyone's bitch at work. I have everyone else's grunt work stacked on my desk and YOU HAVE YOUR OWN GRUNTS to do it!!! DAMMIT!

I think I'm going to leave it at this... I'm getting more mad just writing this all down.

Must be PMS.

Skydiving - Jump #2 - 8/16/09

So skydiving on Sunday was AWESOME!

(there's my recap!)

Just kidding.

Anyway, it was HOT AS HELL, even at 11am when we were jumping, and the
stupid jump suits didn't help. I'm so glad I wore a tank top and shorts this time! Last time I wore jeans and t-shirt and about died.

But anyway, we had a group of 4 of us (me, Karen (who I jumped with before), her friend Danielle, and my friend Wendy), and we told them it was Wendy's 30th birthday, so the instructors we had kinda relaxed a bit and we all had fun as a group - much different
than my first time! I think we weren't as anxious/scared this time around - more excited than anything!

I didn't have the same dreadlock dude (Thys) as my instructor, but he was in our group
- Karen jumped with him!

The guy I got (Dan), was SHORTER than me!! LOL! But he was SUPER cool and super nice.

Wendy jumped with a girl, Honey, and the guys on the plane were like "OH YEAH! Girl on girl action!!! YEE HA!!" the whole ride! LOL! And then we sang Happy Birthday to her on the plane and took a ton of pics :)

Dan let me bring my camera along, and he actually held it was we jumped, with it recording! I need to check out the video and post it on YouTube. Oh and we did a FLIP out of the plane! It was wild! I had my eyes sorta closed cause I was a bit freaked, but it was awesome none the less!

And then we opened the chute a little early so we could swoop through a big puffy cloud (that I THOUGHT I had video of, but looks like I only got pics. Grrr. Couldn't see the screen of my
camera due to the glare!).

The view below! WOOOOOOO!!!!

Anyway, Wendy's pics came out awesome - her photographer was 1000x
better than mine the first time around and got some great shots of them jumping out of the
plane - you could almost make a flip book with the pics he took! She had a GREAT time and we're all going again - most likely sometime this fall!