October 9, 2006

• October!

  It seems like this year has went so fast! It can’t be October already.
  It seems like just yesterday I was planning my summer of concerts. Which, by the way, was way cool! Started out with Rob Thomas. Love him.
  Next was Mindless Self Indulgence. Too Funny! Then came Nine Inch Nails. Great music. Great night with Rog and Ali. Nickelback, third row from stage… provided entertainment for stage hands. They thought it was funny to see two “old” women jump when they set off the fireworks. (I even knew there was pyrotechnics!) Great show. Then came Ozfest 2006. Wonderful day hanging out with Rog and Ali and friends. Got lots of pictures, and walked away with a new love and respect for Disturbed. Lacuna Coil was wonderful….again. Traveled to Pittsburgh to see the Dixie Chicks with Rog, Ali and Carolyn. (Miss her- she’s now in Chicago)The show was Awesome!!! Also saw Anna Nalick! Downtown Pittsburgh is beautiful at night. Driving there was a little tense but once I got a sense for the streets, it was kinda fun! Pittsburgh is so great that we went back in August to do school shopping and to walk through downtown. Beautiful architecture. Went to the Art Institute. Rog and Ali hope to attend school there some day. Went to Saks- too funny! Rog was dressed in typical Roger costume- black and makeup. As soon as we walked in the door, we were greeted by two security type gentlemen. They were Real nice but you could tell they thought we were a little below their store’s standards. We told them we just wanted to see store. They gave us little bottles of water and told us where everything was- including Saks’ gift shop area, so we could take a little token of our trip through Saks home to relive the moment! We just walked out of there with the bottled water. I still have mine. Maybe if Ali and Rog have children (sometime in the far off future!) they wil name one of them Asher (a name we discovered in Pittsburgh) and we can use the Saks water for the baptism! hehe!
  I must say though, Roger is a connoiseur of off beat fashon ideas and Saks provided us with the best idea for an outfit. The entire outfit easily cost over $1500 at Saks, but we were able to put one together that was very similar for about $50. Thank you Walmart and Goodwill.
  On the home (zoo) front, I have a new kitten. I went walking with my friend the vet one day in August. It was the first time in months I had been able to walk that early. As we were walking I heard meowing coming from the tall grass at the roadside. There were four little kittens in a box! some a**hole had thrown them out where no one was likely to find them as there were no houses around. They were very hungry and very frail. They all had upper respiratory infections and their eyes were mattered shut. I took them home even though it could very easily have incurred Mike’s wrath. It didn’t. In fact he helped me with them. The vet lady gave me medicine for them but it was too late for three of them. The fourth has lived on to become known as The Evil Tud. Tud came by his name due to the fact he had diarrhea from the antibiotics for a few weeks and was too little when he was taken away from his mother to have any grooming skills. He was just a ball of feces-covered hair! But he has discovered his grooming skills and is now a beautiful young man. But spoiled!

  Some time in the summer I thought I would try verizon wireless- what a debacle! Went back to tracfone. ‘Nuff said. The photos to the right are an assortment from my summer! Too much fun!

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