It's my birthday and I'll meow if I want to!!! #50

Today Miss Charlotte Elizabeth, my beloved tuxedo cat, turns the big 4! Her adoption papers said she was born in April 2004 so I gave her Charlotte Bronte's birthday of April 21st. I threw her a kitty birthday party.. .filled with balloons and some of her favorite stuff animals. Plus her cool gift of a "pull my tail I run away" mouse toy. Here are the photos from the bash, which of course ran all night long!

The birthday girl arrives on the bottom left. All her friends are lounging out on her kitty bed. Going clockwise we have Charlotte, Rosa the Sock Monkey, the birthday cake piece for her human Mommy to enjoy, Charlotte's new toy, "Freaky" tuxedo cat neckwrap (Charlotte doesn't like her but she was kind to her and there was no "cat" fight), balloon, hairy cave man toy and "Stuff" Charlotte rag cat doll.

Next Charlotte checks out her gift and embraces it with kisses.

The party went ALL NIGHT LONG and so the Birthday Girl took a well deserved break... allowing her kind guest to relax on her precious kitty bed.

Are we really the 5th Element? #49

Continuing from #48 I decided for J. to select another movie that I have never seen but him and his friends love. So I watched The Fifth Element for the first time and really enjoyed it! Of course the two best parts were the dinosaur robot aliens and of course the Diva. Ruby got on my nerves after 5 mins. But all in all I really enjoyed it. I had fun analyzing things and brought major points to J.'s attention that he said he never saw, even after the 20th time.

Goonie is gone forever #48

For the longest time J. has been telling me how great the 1980s movie Goonies is. It seems like everyone I know has seen it and loved it. Perhaps because I was born in the last year of the 1970s that is my excuse of not seeing it. Then again...The Breakfast Club is the only 80s movie I have ever seen in full. Never seen any of the girly 1980s movies in full.. only brief parts. I guess I should do a marathon of them as a new thing to do! Anyways, he has asked me several times to give his favorite childhood movie a chance. Seeing I only enjoyed like 2 Steven Spielberg movies, I don't like obnoxious little boys and I am not into 80s movies the odds of me liking the movie was not high. I really hoped that I would end up loving it, I swear! So he put it in and I gave it the 10 mins I promised and then asked for it to be turned off. The turning point is the fact that I would have to waste another hour and half of my life watching and listening to Corey Feldman as a child. Didn't anyone ever get him tested for his mumbling? Ugh.. I gave Goonies the 10 mins I promised and turned it off. The End.

To many perfumes... to little nose #47

Since I have developed some nasty allergies I am now allergic to many of my fancy perfumes (I may be giving away half to full bottles of some, so if you are a perfume whore like me let me know!). I can't do anything floral or spicy. I am stuck with mostly fruity and citrus. I always find my perfumes by just smelling them on someone else or happening to be in Victoria Secrets at the right time, etc.... I had a gift certificate to Macys and a sinus free nose. So I went to the department store to spend over an hour sampling perfumes to find something new. I knew I wanted something sweet and youthful for the warmer months. I surprisingly ended up taking the advice of a 14 yr old and got Can Can from Paris Hilton. So I guess I did two things I never did before and never thought I would... I went on a serious perfume shopping (similar to shoes and purse shopping, haa) and I bought perfume designed by Paris Hilton! I got a bunch of free stuff because I got it.. from a traveling perfume stick to a full size white purse! It smells like cotton candy and I felt it was a good diet move.. smell it, dont taste it. LOL:) Now the only thing I need to try out is to see how long I last outside with out bees attacking...

Show me the money!!! #46

While reading CNNs news I came upon their recommendation of websites to see if there is missing money that is owed to me. So I typed in my name and my family's into http://www.missingmoney.com to see if we are owed any money.

Nope...

The library is a disco! #45

When you think of the word library quietness comes to mind. There was once a patron who came in and screamed on top of his lungs just because he always wanted to try that. We let it go and laughed. Then today an hour before we closed my reference librarian went in the back of the library and BLASTED Beyonce Crazy In Love on the radio and he started to dance around. I decided to join in the fun and danced crazy sexy to the blasting music as if I was in some club back in the day.

It felt really good!:)

Mmm.. smell the flowers #44

I always say that when I own a home I am going to have a little garden in the corner in the backyard. The weather has been a perfect spring like week and the sunshine and beautiful blooming flowers really make me happy. I live in a garden style apartment and have a nice balcony. I went out and looked into getting one of those window/balcony baskets to put flowers but I didn't know how thick my balcony is. So I actually ended up purchasing a hanging basket and some potted orange wild flowers and assumed common sense and potted the orange flowers into the hanging basket to hang from the ceiling of the balcony. Thus far they look okay and healthy... lets see how long it takes me to kill them.

Goo!!!!!! #43

I am one of those people that abide by most rules like second nature. I can not sit in a car seat with out having a seatbelt. I always use my foot to hit the handle on public toilets - never touch them with my hands. So I guess if its good for my overall health I make it a habit. My biggest pet peeve is manners. I can not stand rude people. If you cut me off in traffic send me a wave to thank me for not crashing into you. If I open the door for you say thank you, don't just walk in like I am your servant. This is why I love the South... they know manners more than most of the rest of the country. So in my manners section of habits I always make a point to spit my used gum into a tissue or remove it with my finger tips and place it in a garbage basket. So tonight I really went against my rule-abiding ways and did something DISGUSTING!! I took my used gum and stuck it under an old bench like kids do. I wanted to experience what it feels like to be so gross, haaa. I felt like a bad 9 yr old boy doing it. The funny part was my gum wasn't sticky enough and it fell onto the floor, so I ended up picking it up with a tissue and tossing it the RIGHT WAY.

Yum

Juicy! Yum #43

Earlier this week I bought my 1st whole pineapple. Thankfully it came with directions of how to cut it. I cut my 1st pineapple. It was pretty easy but I feel with the lack of experience and not great of a knife I missed a lot of meat and it wasn't as pretty as the classic pineapple chunks. Either way, it tasted so good!

There was no Oscar #42

Since I was a teen I always make a point to watch the movies that win the best awards and I have always agreed with them. So this year I watched No Country For Old Men and liked it, but J. didn't. I decided to give There Will Be Blood because Daniel Day Lewis is my favorite actor and I just wanted to see the movie. I ended up thinking, for the first time, that the Academy was wrong. WOW! That movie was fantastic. It was slow and deep, but that is what I feel really wins the awards.

Ewww Boys! #41

One of my guy friends had a wedding to go to near my home. So he asked if he could save $ and stay over our home for the night. I have had female families and friends stay over, but never did I have a guest of my own that is the oppisite sex. He isn't J.'s friend, he is mine. It was pretty cool! Went out to Stuff Yer Face and watched tv.

A new fave... in architecture #40

I fell in love with the house of architect Andrea Lenardin Madden which was illustrated in the March08 issue of Domino. Discovering that she also did the Sprinkles cupcake cafe in LA I wanted to know more about this creative lady. So I googled and researched everything I could find about this young architect. Her website, http://almproject.com/, is a great start but I found that some of her outlined projects needed to be researched in order to understand why in the world she had floating photos of 2x3 wood shoes on her website.

Although I have a favorite female artist, Dorothea Tanning, I never thought of having a favorite female architect. Now I do. I loooooooove her modernism and clean lines and devotion to the simple life. If I had lots of $ I would have her do my future home.

I the people won! #39

Today I recieved a box at work. I opened it up to find out that I was awarded a special collection of books from the American Library Association and NEH. I had entered my library into this contest to be one of the 3000 libraries in the country to win this special collection.

http://ala.org/ala/ppo/programs/currentprograms/wethepeople/wepeople.cfm

The business of cups and cakes #38

If asked what kind of business I would have if I had to start one what would it be? I would either have a soap/lotion one (like a hip Bath & Body works) or a cupcake bakery.

In order to know the business you need to know the history... So I read up on the history of the cupcake businesses - from Magnolias in NY to Sprinkles in LA.

P.S. Don't those cupcakes look yummy??? I got a better picture than before!;)

My new hang out... the pharmacy #37

I am sick with the worst sinus infection I have ever had. In the past 24 hours I ended up visiting the pharmacy 3 times. 3 times to pick up different prescriptions. The first was to pick up a renewal of my blood medicine, then another to pick up some stuff my nose and finally after I went to the doctors I picked up my antibiotics for my infection. Yum.

Open my heart to new people #36

As some people know I was born with a congenital heart defect and had open heart surgery before my 2nd birthday. With all the years of going to hospitals and doctor visits I never met anyone with a congenital heart defect (that I know of) as an adult and today I met a group of people with them. All of them had different defects.

I met them at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to do a tour of art with heart as a theme. The first painting, a portrait of Philadelphia surgeon Dr. Eakins, was of an open chest surgery. It was very emotional, as was meeting people similar to me.

One, two, three... OUCH #35

For over a year I have been contemplating on getting my ear tragus piercing. I have gotten as close as walking in the piercing place and walking out soon afterwards. Then last week I saw a woman with three lobe piercings have beautiful large crystal studs in each hole. I thought it was really classy with some funk. I thought it over for a few days and decided to get my 2nd and 3rd hole instead of my tragus. I always wanted someone to come with me, but I ended up going alone.

I went to the Piercing Clinic that I went to as a child. It is ran buy an actual medical doctor who does the piercing and has been in business in 45 yrs. The piercing is a bit more expensive than going to the mall. But I went to him as a child after the mall piercing was very crooked and of course I got my 2nd holes done and they were also crooked. So I went to fix my 2nd hole and get new 3rd holes (I was born on 3/3... 3 is the perfect number).

I went in and it was just like a doctors appointment! Click, click and it was all done. My 3rd piercing is sore, but I guess because its next to cartilage.

My Library THANG

Everyone is doing it, so I thought I would do so to. I had opened my account a couple of days ago and now have started to enter a list. It is very basic and need to update, but you get the idea.


I started to catalog my personal collection at library thing.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lipstxlibrarian

Out to lunch #33

I have taken out friends and family out to a meal, but never a coworker. I took my coworker out for lunch to thank you for her help and also for her birthday. She selected asian food and I had some spicey soup becaue I have a bad sinus infection. It still was very yummy!

I can't even see dead people #32

A month ago J. and I were doing our taxes when a question asking if one of us were legally blind came up. He jokingly teased me that one day I would say Yes to that answer. My eyesight is BAD. On my contacts box my prescription is -8.5. I have never met anyone worse than -7.0. So today I went for my eye check up and finally asked "what is my natural eyesight number?" I know 20/20 is perfect.. but what am I? 20/40000? I found out there is no number for my sight because with out my glasses or contacts I am legally blind!! Well, I am not technically sight disabled since I have corrective lenses, but if I didn't I would be able to function. I only see fingers and everything else is a blur. I am so bad I can't get lasik as of right now. But the good news is my eyes are stabilizing.

To give you an example here are two photos of what it kind of looks like to me when I don't have my glasses/contacts.

The flower/tire photo that is blurry is still a bit clear than what I would see. The other one is what the roads at night look when I am in the passenger seat in a car and take off my glasses. I always wonder if VanGogh was a bit nearsighted because his stars in his paintings tend to look like what lights in the sky looks like to a poorly sighted person.

I am not an accident... #31

I have been dealing with some self realization in my personal life lately. It comes when you realize you are an adult (shock!) and creeping on the borderline of 30, eeek! So I have been trying to figure out what I want in my near and far future. Pretty much I am starting my mid-life crisis 10 yrs early... Didn't I just get over my quarter life one a few years ago???

So I had this cough::crazy::cough patron come into the library with the title of a book written on a scrap piece of paper that someone had recommended her to read to find herself. It was the classic, best selling book of 2003 "A Purpose Driven Life". She told me that if reading it didn't do it for her she would be back to get the book on cd. I checked to see if we had it and yes we had it in, but she didn't check it out. Instead I did.

I was driving down for the night to South NJ and thought it may be something different to listen to rather then my usual Britney Spears music. It tells you that you should only take on one thing per day and there are 40 points that you need to work on. My 1st "self help" book and I start off not listening to it and go ahead and listen to the first 4 points. I have to say I do like some of the points the author states. I also like how non-scripted the recording is. At points you can hear the authors digital watch alarm go off and also him crying when its an emotional point. It usually occurs when he ends a sentence with "God".

I am going to finish listening to the book to see what the outcome is.

Selection 08 #30

Today I read all about the Presidential canidates and did online survey tests to help me decide.

I have secured my selection for Obama.