Wow-ee, that's a lot of stuff...

Hi~ya!! Wanted to give everyone a small update on things since I haven't really been on in a while. Been really sick (that's not really an update...that seems almost normal to me now, always being sick) I have been super sick, it seems, as of Thursday night. Since I have been almost constantly sick, there is no reason for me not to go to work. Yeah I know, health is important, but what do you do when being sick is 'normal'? Stayed at my sister's house because I had to work close to where she lived. Plus I helped out with stuff around the house and with her Christmas shopping. My head hurts and my feet ache from the constant working but I am happy because with the money I got from working, I splurged a tid bit ... and I do mean a tid bit...I bought the cat I've been taking care of (Sylvester) a special collar. It's made for active outdoor cats and is designed to breakway if it gets caught on something. Plus it has this mouse decal on it which is made of reflective material (like the ones they use on cross walk uniforms and suck) that way if light from a car or something hits the decal, it will shine. Which is good because he mainly has black fur. It didn't cost that much but even if it costed more, it would be well worth it. Especially since one of my neighbors has been feeding him (not that I am really mad about anyone else feeding a cat I take care of) BUT if it's human food that can severely damage his system...then yeah. I want a collar on him to show that he BELONGS to someone or that he is fed a healthy diet....hopefully I get the point across in some way. I forgot to add that it has a bell on it. XD I just love bells for cats collars, they are so cute! and I like the jingling sound, it helps to find him.

I am upset though because upon returning home, the weather became quite feirce. Wind and rain so bad that it shakes the windows. I am upset about this because before I went to my sisters house, I had just spent 2 days clearing up the back yard of: cleaning up garbage that my really rude neighbors feel the need to through into our yard (isn't that illegal or something? because I am tired of having beer cans thrown in my yard and they stuff them into our cactuses out front too. No one in my house drinks...wait, my step-dad does but he only drinks beer out of bottle, never cans); weeds (that I had to wait to grow back, if you read my previous journal about step-dad and the weedwhacker); a lot of leaves (from my neighbors tree that hangs over the fence); digging up some dead trees (one wasn't dead but I really dislike boganvia's [sp?] and their thorns); trimming other trees and bushes (got attacked by the branches a couple of times); resetting decor stones and stone borders around yard (somehow they got moved and I know who did it but I am trying to be on a happy note); trimming a vine plant and removing parts of it from the house and resetting it onto a designated gate...and some other stuff...the list goes on but I am not getting to the point I need to. I didn't have enough room in my garbage can, especially after spending a couple of days before that trimming the palms tree fur bark from our two palm trees (it reduces bugs and scorpions around winter time). So, since I didn't have the extra room in the garbage can (and my step-dad refused to load the bed of his truck with this stuff to an appropriate dump site) I just left them in suitable sized piles to remove every so often as the garbage can gets more room. Now that the weather is so bad...the yard and those piles I worked so hard on are now ruined...And ontop of it, all the recycle bins and most of the garbage bins in my neighborhood are tipped over from the wind and stuff is flying around...So there is a lot of added cleaning up to do. But I always say, Clean up the front yard first (because some places have high fines if it's nto a certain status) then clean up the back yard. Especially since the front yard is what people see most.

hmmm, anything else...? I am pretty sure there was another thing I wanted to state (as per usual according to some private messages and emails; I realize I write a lot, but I do love writing and I was raised to explain everything thoroughly so I don't really care one way or another *sorry for the tiny rant/vent/explosion of emotion*) but I can't seem to remember it at the moment.
For now, I will wish you all an early Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great holiday filled with great food, good company, lots of family and friends, and some presents. I am more for the family and food aspect of the holiday but the presents are a nice bonus. =^.^=

Yes, I did say Merry Christmas instead of 'happy holidays.' That is the holiday I celebrate and I will not give it another name because of political or religious restraints. Just because I don't rename it to 'happy holidays' in no way means that I do not respect others celebrations during this period; I do indeed wish that you all have a very happy and enjoyful holiday no matter what it is. I am just getting tired of people snapping at me and correcting me on something that really doesn't need to be corrected. I understand Christmas is a pagan holiday, but who doesn't LOVE free gifts and good tidings at the end of the long year? I LOVE the idea of Saint Nicolas and gift giving--not because I am greedy, oh no I am not very greedy at all--the joy it brings to others as you give them a gift is so....fullfilling and heartwarming.

I got a bit more flowing in text and wanting a bit of diversity in my wording towards the end. Too tired to worry about the rest of it but oh well. It's mostly fun. =^.^=