Pixie is the Devil.

Seriously. The Devil is living inside of her. She went from being a super cute kitten that occasionally tried to get on the table and would kick some stuff off my desk, to a super cute Devil kitten that mauls my feet and legs in the night, and takes craps on our furniture!!

The past couple nights I have been awoken around 12-2 by Pixie 'playing' with my feet and legs through the sheet. She's decided that when I move my legs, she needs to attack them! With her claws out! I have the scratches to prove it!

Then, yesterday when I got home from work, I got a whiff of a strange smell. I thought it was because Pixie may have just used her litter box. Amanda was sleeping on the couch, so I went into the office and thought nothing more of it. Then, when dinner was ready, I decided to put a DVD on. My DVD's are near the couch, and when I went to get one, I noticed that strange smell again. Looking on the couch (with the lights off) I noticed something that was out of place. I turned the lights on, and it was a present from Pixie. I guess she had decided that the new location of her litter box was too far away from her restful spot on the couch, so she just used it instead! We have the type of cushions that have one 'button' in the middle of it, so of course that was where she placed her present. So I'm not too impressed with her right now. But she's still super cute!

Kitten has a cold

Pixie is sick. We first noticed it the first night we had her. All she was doing then was sneezing a couple times. Now she's moved away from the sneezing and into this weird hacking/coughing/trying to remove her own lung type of noise. It was really freaky when I first heard it, but we've gotten used to it now. Amanda took her to the vet on Friday to get her second set of shots, and hopefully find out what was wrong with her. The vet said that she just had a cold, and the hacking noise is her trying to get rid of the stuff she gets in her throat from trying to breath through her stuffed nose. She couldn't get her shots because of the cold, but we got some antibiotics that we have to give her twice a day. I thought it was going to be a struggle to get her to take it, but its not that bad. It's a liquid that we need to inject into her mouth with a syringe (without the needle, just the tube part). We haven't seen her spitting the medicine up yet, so it must not be too bad. The cold makes her pretty easy to find now, cause all we need to do is be quiet for a minute, and you can hear her wheezy breathing. It's not so fun holding her though, cause you never know when she might decide to clear her throat and cover you with her snot.

Other than her cold, she's doing very well. She's made herself quite at home in the apartment, and is very bold. We have to lock her in the bedroom while we have diner, cause she will jump up on the table and want to eat right off our plates! She has also taken a liking to lying on my computer desk when someone is in the office, and she has started kicking things off the desk if they are in the way of her stretching or sleeping. She's crazy, but we love her.

New Pixie pics!

I have just uploaded a bunch more pics of Pixie onto Flickr. You can check them out here. I'll probably also be adding them to Facebook, but that will have to wait until after work, when I can actually get on Facebook.

New kitten has arrived!

Well, it took some fighting, but we got our new kitten last night! I had been calling the Humane Society all afternoon to see if they had been able to get a hold of our landlord to confirm that we are allowed a cat in the apartment, but kept getting the answering machine. Amanda left school around 4:30 and decided to stop into the office at the apartment to see if they had received the call from the Humane Society. They had received the call, but told them that we aren't allowed pets in the building. This was kinda weird, because when we signed the lease, we made sure we were allowed pets (we were told no dogs, but that wasn't a problem), and we have seen many dogs in the hallways, and a few cats. Amanda explained this to the receptionist at the office(the one that took the call from the Humane Society), but she said that people that all leases say no pets on them, and the people that have pets have had them since before the no pet policy (untrue, as we have seen many small puppies). So Amanda went over to our rental agent to ask her about it,but she said we would have to wait till the landlord was in, and he wasn't going to be in till the next day. Amanda was getting pretty upset by now, so she went up and got our lease, brought it down and showed the receptionist that it says nowhere that we aren't pets (turns out we actually could get a dog if we wanted, the only thing in the lease about pets is that we are responsible for them), and she told her to talk to our rental agent. So Amanda showed the lease to our rental agent, and she agreed to call the Humane Society to say that we are allowed a cat. We were still worried, because the person they talked to on the phone didn't seem to know anything about our adoption, and just wrote down our information to give to someone who would know.

We were worried when we got to the Humane Society that they wouldn't have gotten the information that we were allowed a cat, but they did, and we were allowed to take her. Not right away of course, because it was busy, and there were a couple other adoptions in front of us, so we got to spend some time with our new kitten. She didn't seem to like being in the big cage, so we got to take her out, but all she wanted to do was explore, and she was very squirmy and vocal. We each held her for a bit, and then put her in her carrying cage and waited our turn. Things went good after that, and we finally got up to talk to someone, and get all the right information. We left there around 7 and headed home with our new kitten, who wouldn't keep quiet the whole ride home.

One of things we were told was to keep her in the washroom for a couple days, and slowly let her explore the rest of the apartment, but we have a really small washroom, so we decided to let her roam around the whole apartment, and see how she did. She loved it. She seemed a little overwhelmed at first, but was soon off and checking everything out. She quickly discovered the box of toys we had, but seemed more interested in the box for a bit, but then started playing with the toys too. She explored the rest of the apartment (except the office, which is out of bounds for her because it's Buddy's room) and then was happy playing with her toys while Amanda and I watched Pushing Daisys (a really good new show). She would take breaks and sit with us for a bit, but would then be off playing again. When it was bed time, she went and slept in her little bed we got for her. She also slept on the bed with Amanda for a bit. This morning, she decided at 6:00 that she wanted some attention, so she woke me up, and I played with her a bit, but then she got bored and went off exploring again. She's being left on her own today while I'm at work, and Amanda goes to school, and we don't know how she will handle it. We heard her meowing at the door as we left this morning. We kitty-proofed the apartment as much as we could, so there shouldn't be too much that she can get into.

We decided last night that weare going to call her Pixie. No real significance, we just saw it and thought it was a good name. I still want to call her Pixel, but Pixie is close enough.

Here are some pics of her exploring, playing and resting. I'll get more of them up later, probably on Facebook, or Flikr.

Out with the old, in with the new!

Well, mum and dad came home yesterday, so that means that Mitzy also went home. She's gotten very comfortable here, and Amanda and I have gotten used to her being around, and we miss her now that she's gone. Because of this, we went to the Ottawa Humane Society on Saturday, and picked out a kitten! We are going tonight to finish the adoption process and pick her up. We can't wait!! The kitten we have chosen is a 4 month old brown tabby named Betty. I'm not overly happy with that name, so we're trying to come up with a better name for her. If anybody has any good name suggestions for her, please post them in the comments section. I kinda like the name Pixel, but Amanda doesn't really (as she says, the kitten isn't a computer :P). We went out to pickup all the necessary items or her on Saturday, and we've had some stuff donated for her (thanks Erin!). We are supper excited about getting her home. I'm definitely taking lots of pics of her, and I'll be posting some up probably tonight or tomorrow.

One Year, and some Pool

Well, as of yesterday I have officially been at Tomlinsons for one year! Yay!! Unofficially though, it was a year last Friday. What happened was that I applied for this job, and got it, and Subway just happened to be doing their renovations at the time, so I had the week off. I decided to use that week to start working at Tomlinsons. When Subway re-opened, I had already given my 2 weeks notice (one of which I didn't work because the store was closed) so I only had to work one week there, and then I started back here! I was kinda hoping that for being here one year, I might actually get a key to my 'office' (aka the dungeon/closet/server room), but no, I didn't. So I still have to go find a spare key whenever I get in before Matt does.

In sort of related news, (the relation being that it was with work. It was coincidence that it happened on my being here for 1 year) the accounting department went out to Dooley's for some pool last night. I wasn't too sure how it was going to go,and was even more unsure when I walked into Dooley's and the only person there so far was Eric, the sales manager (he's kinda intimidating cause he's one of the top 4 executives at the office). But things got better when he said he was buying the first round and other people started showing up. It turned into a fun night in the end, and it didn't cost me a thing! (other than some coupons that I got with my membership I got a couple weeks ago)

Weekend

This weekend was awesome! Well, at least up until yesterday. Really it started on Thursday with the Sens game from the Tomlinson box. The view from the box is great. I never really noticed how close you actually are to the ice, cause I've only been there for concerts. The game itself was ok. I'm not a huge hockey fan, so I didn't really know what was going on, cause there was no commentary. The real fun part was just hanging out with the people from accounting outside of work. There was food and drinks also, so that made it even better.

Friday night was the Rush concert. I don't really know a lot of Rush songs, so I wasn't sure how I would like it going into the concert. It was actually a really good concert! There was no opening band which is good, cause then it's always a really long time before the band actually comes on. The best part of the show was the visual stuff. They had three giant screens as the backdrop on the stage, which usually was close ups of the band, but for some songs they had other things going on (one of the songs involved a dragon which blew flames toward the screen, and then actual flame appearing on the stage, it was awesome!!). The lighting was unbelievable, they had 5 movable sets of light that could be raised and lowered and tilted around. They had about 7 jets of flame that sprung up every now and then, and a few songs with lasers (check out the video below, sorry about the crazy movements, but I was trying to do it without the usher seeing me, cause he yelled at me for taking pictures. Also, the sound on my camera isn't the best, so it would probably be good to turn the volume down). The best part of the show for me was the drum solo. It was just the drummer playing for about 10 minutes (at least it felt like 10 mins to me). He was sitting in a drum set that went 390 degrees around him, with a larger than regular drum set in the front, and then it spun around and had an electric drum set, and some different percussion instruments. It was amazing! One thing confused me though, and still does confuse me. They had three ovens on stage, and they were cooking chickens in them. I counted, and I believe they had 54 chickens slowly turning to cooked perfection. There was even a cook that came out on stage every now and then to check on them. It was very weird! We left around 11:15, and they were still playing their 5th encore song.

Saturday, Amanda went to her parents house, and I stayed home and didn't really do much, other than watch some Dr. Who and walk to Wal-Mart. That night we were heading to a house warming party for Allison, and we got invited to a pre-party BBQ at Scott's place. I decided that I was going to be the DD for the night, but was easily convinced to stay over at Scott's so that I could drink. I started off with beer, and was doing fine. Then we took out the Jagermeister, and that ended up being my downfall for the night. The party started at 9, but we decided to be fashionably late, and didn't head over to the party till about 10:30. It wasn't far from Scott's, so we decided to walk it, drinking beer and Jagermeister along the way. The party was awesome. I don't really remember much about it, on account of all the drinks. I don't even know how much I drank, but it feels like I had about half of a 26oz of the Jagermeister, straight out of the bottle. Definitely one of the best parties I've been to. While at the party, I decided to write in my blog from my Blackberry. I did three posts, but only left one on because the other two were completely unreadable. If you were lucky enough to be reading my blog between 2 am and about 11 am on Sunday, then you got to read all three of them. Thank you again to Allison and her roommates for the awesome party!

Sunday morning was not fun. actually all of Sunday was pretty bad. It was filled with sleeping, trying to help Amanda with a school project (which we did get finished eventually) and picking up Mitzy for two weeks. My parents have gone to Turkey for a week to visit one of my mums friends, and then they are going to England for another week to visit family and friends. While they are gone, Amanda and I decided to take my cat Mitzy to the apartment with us to see how we do with a cat, because we are thinking of getting a kitten soon. Mitzy really hates traveling in her carrier, and meowed horrible most of the way to the apartment. When we finally got there, she explored our hall, then the bedroom, and then stayed under the bed for a long time. We finally got her out, and closed the bedroom door so that she would have to explore the rest of the apartment, and hopefully get used to it. She did explore a bit, but then decided to hide out behind the toilet for a while. By the time we were going to bed, she had become more comfortable, and actually slept on the bed with us.

This morning I woke up thinking that I was fine, but then realized that I actually wasn't I really didn't want to come into work, but knew that I had to. So here I am now, just finished lunch, and ready to head out to Moodie to pick up my laptop that has been getting fixed since the 4th. And now apparently I have to go to a bank to pay something for work!! Yippee!!