This is the treasure from my attic. 😃

This is the treasure from my attic.  😃

My bed is so comfy and warm, but it just makes me sad.

My bed is so comfy and warm, but it just makes me sad. I am here thinking about all of the animals that are out in this cold with nowhere warm to go. All the chained dogs with only a wooden box over them, if that. I wish I could fix all of the problems. I will never be truly happy as long as my brothers and sisters suffer. 

That is ok. I shouldn't be.

I do think I'll make some insulated boxes and put around my house, though. Just in case someone needs to sleep there. ❤

Sitting here looking at Facebook with a Chupacabra in my lap. 😃

Oh my. The Chupacabra likes the cat laser. Who would have guessed?

I had a great weekend seeing my best friends, Laurel and Emily.

I had a great weekend seeing my best friends, Laurel and Emily.  I SO wish we all lived closer together!  ❤

Laurel didn't stay the night, but it was good to see her and meet her dude.  You two are a great couple, for real.  Laurel - just let him help you blow your nose next time.  You can't be messing up your nails before I'm even done with them!  😛

Emily and her guy, Rex, just left.  We stayed up watching Netflix and doing nails and talking.  That is my kind of party.  LOL  Y'all have a safe trip home!  ❤

This girl is heading back to bed.  My brain is telling me that I owe it some sleep from this past week.  LOL  I am planning to take it easy today.  Maybe I'll even do my own nails.  It's been a few weeks.  I had kind of lost my mojo, but my ladies brought it back!  😃

Y'all, we seriously have to do this again!  It was great having all 6 of us dorks together!  ❤

I don't think I've ever been so excited to wash my bed sheets and covers.

I don't think I've ever been so excited to wash my bed sheets and covers.  😂

Today Laurel came over and swapped me Chupa and Scar (Scar aka Basil) for Precious.  As much as I love that dear old cat I have found that I am not able to sleep comfortably with her in my bed now that her hair is growing in.  Her hair or her dander or something just makes my nose and throat itch like WHOA.  It is SO hard to sleep like that.

I have never been a huge fan of sleeping with animals - I share my whole house with them so I really, honestly, just want one room to myself.  I think that is reasonable.  But with Precious I didn't want to put her in with my other cats because the dogs go in that room and she doesn't have claws.  I just didn't feel safe with that.  Maybe the other cats would pick on her or the dogs would realize that she didn't have a defense.  I don't know.  They don't usually bother the cats, but I would rather be safe than sorry.

So... the last place I had to stash her was my room.  And at first she couldn't get on my bed.  And I had her shaved, too.  And all of that was ok.  But eventually her hair started growing in and she figured out how to get on my bed and good luck stopping a cat from doing something you don't want them to.  😖

As most of you probably remember a few months ago I gave Chupa and Basil to Laurel and I think that was ok at first.  But those two are SO high-energy and just going going going.  That is not the vibe at all at Laurel's place.  They ended up not being a good fit there and sometimes that just happens.  Laurel is totally an animal person, too, but that doesn't mean that any of us can work magic.  Also, Chupa was having potty issues.  So I told her that I'd take Chupa and Basil back.  That is always the deal with me.  When I adopt an animal out I need to know where they are and that it is good.  I feel like that is my responsibility.  They are my kids after all.  🙂

Since Laurel's house is totally laid back and she has older kitties too I asked if she'd take Precious for me.  She's more of a cat / lizard person, anyway.  I think she was sort of allergic to Chupa, as well.  I know I have heard her talk about itching and needing to wash the dog on more than one occasion.  😔

So as of a few hours ago things were going ok.  Precious has been out exploring.  Laurel's other kitties have hissed at her some, but that is to be expected.  They will work it out.  Also, Laurel has more lizard tanks than I do so Precious will LOVE THAT seeing as how her favorite place to hang out was right above Koopa's heating lamp.  Also, I can go and visit her and Laurel will send me photos so that is just great.  I think we will all be much happier with this arrangement.  🙂

On my end Basil has been playing with ADDC (who I still haven't officially introduced to the internet), and Chupa has just been hanging out.  She's on her period so I feel bad for her.  I will get her spayed as soon as she's done with that business.  She's also doing well with being in the house - no accidents so far.  🙂  Truth be told I've kind of missed those two clowns.  I will be looking for Chusil a home together (a dog AND a cat - I know - tough sell), but if I can't find one I'm not gonna sweat it right now.  What's important is that I've got my bed back, bitches!  😃

Here's to compatibility!  It is SUCH a big deal!  ❤

HOLY SHIT.

HOLY SHIT.  That little book has one page of writing and it is dated 1972.  😳

That just made my night!  BURIED TREASURE IN MY HOUSE!

Attic Adventure Land

This has probably been the most interesting Friday night I have ever had.  I went on an adventure!

So... there are some things around my house that have been bugging me, BAD.  For one when I bought this house it had all fluorescent lights and that was fine.  But over time the ballasts started going bad so my house has just gotten darker and darker.  I REALLY wanted to switch to some other kind of fixtures, (ones that I could use LED bulbs in), but with the placement and stuff I just don't see it happening.  Not without re-wiring a bunch of stuff and having a bunch of gnarly holes in the ceiling.  So I ended up deciding to get a couple of new fluorescent fixtures.  I need to replace a lot more than two, but this will just have to be an on-going project I guess.

Shaun grew up doing wiring so switching out those fixtures wasn't really a problem.  They probably took 10 or 15 minutes each.  But then we came to the second thing on my list that was really bugging me:  my poop fan died.  🙁  It died probably a year or more ago, but having the money to fix things isn't easy so I let it ride.  But today I decided was the day I got a new poop fan.  😃

I bought a small cheapie fan that looked like it would fit where the old one was.  Shaun got up there and started taking the old one down, but it didn't take long for us to realize that one of us was gonna have to go in the attic.  I have never been in an attic before, but I wasn't afraid of going.  As it turns out he wouldn't have fit in the area where the fan needed to go, anyway.  So.  Up the ladder I went.

Turns out it was nothing like I dreamed it would be.  I have had recurring dreams of having another floor in the attic.  Like a second floor with rooms.  And fish tanks for whatever reason.  So yeah.  Nothing like that, but that's ok.

It was dark and there were cobwebs everywhere.  And rat poops.  And the smell of rat pee made me really miss all of my dearly departed rodents.  So I guess I have rats, but I don't mind.  As long as they don't eat my important stuff I guess we're cool.  They need somewhere to live, too.

So I get up there, creepy crawl into the cool darkness of the attic and make my way to the fan.  It took WAYYY too long to unscrew the old one.  Two of the screws were angled down and I just couldn't get my screwdriver in there to get them out like I needed to.  I have no idea how those got put in that way.

Finally, we got it undone then Shaun handed me up the new fan and it was TOO BIG.  By like a quarter of an inch.  😳  And there were beams on both sides so sawing those would have probably been a bad idea.  So I was like, "Can you just put the new motor in the old casing?"  And then he's all like, "Maybe.  I'll try."  So extremely long story a little shorter here he eventually does it and we get it installed and IT WORKS.  GO US!  😃  YAY POOP FAN!

The thing is that took a while.  So I spent like two very uncomfortable hours in the attic.  My nose and throat got all dusty.  I had to pee.  But I was too stubborn to just come out and then go back in.  LOL  So that's what I get.

While I was up there I found a souvenir.  I have no idea how it got there, but I found a little notebook calendar thing.  It is black with colorful zodiac signs on it.  At least that's what I thought was on it.  I only had a flashlight with me.  I'll go look at it after I clean up some.  Maybe I'll even post a photo of it.  LOL  Unfortunately, it was blank (as far as I could tell), but that's ok.  Still an interesting little find.  I will admit to hiding little treasures in my house when I'm doing work on it for someone else to find - hopefully many years from now.  Gotta make life interesting, right?

For the record we put a new light fixture in the bathroom and despite how much I cleaned it earlier this week it really doesn't look clean now.  Not only because of the fan mess, but holy shit it was so dim in there I couldn't see the dirt.  I am fighting urges to go and clean it now.  Unfortunately, I gotta get to Wal-Mart so the bathroom will just have to wait.

BOOSH!  That was my night.  I feel fucking accomplished.  😃