INTRODUCING ZIGGI....or "that darn cat!"

That's Ziggi!!!! She is a very beautiful yet somehow eerily wierd cat. In fact, she has been officially diagnosed as "neurologically impaired". She is just darn different. Afraid of things she shouldn't be and not afraid of things she should be afraid of. Examples? Not afraid of fire and actually tries to climb in a fully engulfed fireplace to play with the wiggling flames. Afraid of sky and sunsets. When the sun is going down, she gets down in a huddle by the sliding glass door and keeps a wary eye on the sky as it gets darker and darker. If you disturb her in any way during the every evening ritual, she jumps sky-high and scrams away in fright! She is not even the least bit cuddly but she will sleep about 6 inches from where you are sitting on the sofa but don't make the mistake of trying to cuddle or she's gone. Just recently (she's about 1 1/2 yrs old now), she has allowed me to lightly stroke her back as she is sleeping beside me. But if I get carried away and try to pick her up to bring her to my lap, she's gone. She does love to play with Princess but only on her terms. She is always up to something as she is a slow learner regarding the word "No!". I found the need to keep a loaded water gun on the coffee table. As she hates being squirted (she keeps an eye on the squirt gun's location most of the time), she is sorta getting the idea that to avoid being squirted, she might avoid (sometimes) certain activities that annoy me (like jumping to the kitchen counter right in front of me!). But , all in all, she is a great cat to have around because she is so totally entertaining. I have to add that there are times when she is so afraid and freaked out by something so innocent that I really feel sorry for her . She looks so worried sometimes that I swear she actually feels 'worry' and actually frets. Or is it just her delicate face and special eyes that make her look like she's worried? Either way, with that and all her special 'needs', she pretty much rules the roost at our house.

Saturday Night - Alone Again, naturally!

Okay, then. The title pretty much sums it up. But, alas, no worries!!!! (It was sort of meant as a joke, k? )

I have had a bad cold since Thursday, two days off of work...and the cold is still winning. Dayum.

Last weekend, I painted my bathroom a gorgeous cranberry color (Cranberry Splash to be exact)! If you remember, I painted my bedroom just before that. I was going to paint an accent wall in my family room this weekend but my cold has put that off for a week. Still have to do trim on everything, too, but its all coming right along. Looks great, too! Been shopping for a curtain for the bathroom, no luck so far. I want something kinda sexy and lacy but something you can't see through. I don't need the yucky Russian guy that lives behind me to get an eye-full, right? I'll keep looking. It looks just lovely now with the old raggedy towel I have hanging up there.

By the by, that is Princess, my wonderful pooch. I call her a Shelter Shepherd when people ask what kind of dog she is. Well, I did get her at the shelter and, obviously, she does have shepherd in her blood...... And Princess is a perfect name for her, because she is such a big princess. At least now she is.....when she was a puppy, she was horrible. We won't talk about that. No sense diggin up old bones....hehehehehehe!

I have, as of last Monday, lost 11 pounds on Weightwatchers. Hurray for me. I am anxious to weigh-in this Monday. I had lost 4.5 lbs last week, but I think it was sort of bogus. I had been eating asparagus all weekend and we all know that asparagus is a natural diuretic, right? Also, I admit to cheating a little this week. So we will see on Monday what the scale says.

One more note. I had bought tickets so Hailey and I could go see The Wiggles at Arco Arena next month. I was pretty excited about it until I figured out that I bought tickets for the wrong nite! I can't go on the nite I ended up with. So that is almost $90, well, not exactly wasted since I will give the tix to Brandi and, hopefully, she or Russell will take Hailey. Or, who knows, I wouldn't put it past those two, to sell the tix....money is everything to them. Which is sad, don't ya think?

Gotta go, sniffle, sniffle.