success!

8-31-15

Another successful weekend under my belt.

Friday afternoon, about an hour before we needed to be working on team parent folders, I got a Facebook message from Kathy at Manhattan Beach Animal Hospital. She told me this friend of hers was interested in the kittens! She provided me with a number and I saw this same woman had just commented on the picture of the babies. Ken called the woman and 10 minutes later we are driving with Spazzy and Moody, taking them to their new home. The lady has two children, who looked to be about 8 and 11. The little boy had apparently been asking for a cat of his own for some time, and then spent the last 2 weeks researching everything cat. The little girl really wanted a little black kitty. They were actually hoping for 2 kitties and this couldn’t have worked out better. I watched these kids light up when they saw them and it warmed my heart.

Our family, although pleased at our ability to get them adopted out, was a little sad about the exchange. When we told the boy we were taking the kittens, Moody had been curled up with Dax while he played on the computer. Dax was pretty devastated, which was tough to handle since I also had some attachment to the kitties. I was getting used to Spazzy being part of my welcome entourage in the house. All 4 of us were fond of these babies and noted if we weren’t already a full house we would have considered keeping them. As if the rest of the house understood our sad, I felt like every one of the other cats was full of affection for us the rest of the weekend. It certainly made everything better.

Speaking of cat activities, we performed surgery on Monarch. His jellybean tumor on his head finally started to drain, which allowed us to remove the gross from it. He is now left with what looks like a bellybutton on his head, but you can tell he is so happy it’s gone. He isn’t in pain anymore and it looks very clean and healthy now. We will keep an eye on it, but overall he is doing great!

Our team parent folders took very little time. It ended up being us, Jerry, Nicole, Jimmy, and Denis all hanging out eating pizza and talking for much of the time. The boys and Ally all played video games and watched tv. We didn’t stay too late, especially since we needed to get up in the morning. The meeting went smoothly and overall I think well. I felt like I was able to help a handful of team parents which made me feel good.

After the meeting we headed out to Buena Park to the Farrell’s there. It was not crowded, although when we left it was pretty busy. We clearly came at the right time since there was no wait. It was a lot of fun and Dax really enjoyed the hoopla made for him being the birthday boy. The food was fine, but I gotta say, man, the ice cream was yummy. And I am not just talking about the giant crazy servings. The actual just plain vanilla was the perfect texture. I almost wish I had only had a bowl of that. Either way, we had a ton of fun.

The evening was mellow. The boys and I went swimming, which also meant I did my exercise walking in the pool over the course of 2 hours. It was excellent! We did this again yesterday and I did a ton of swim-walking. I did slip at one point and twist my leg, but thankfully it feels ok today.

Part of the fun of the pool is some of their wacky. At one point they decided it would be cool to fill their goggles with water and wear them like that. Never you mind this is counter-productive to the point of goggles, but whatevs. During this time they kept saying how strange everything looked, which allowed me 20 minutes of not speaking and only spending time freaking them out, which they loved. It was all around a goofy time, which certainly makes the exercise better.

Yesterday morning, Dax and I did a Target run. He used some of his gift cards from his birthday. He was quite pleased and we had a lot of fun. We then got Ken and Bobby and did the Costco run for the weekend. Both places were well equipped with air conditioning which certainly made it an ok errand. Thank goodness it’s supposed to cool off this week.

The boys are going to the beach with my folks today. I wish I could go, but really I have a couple of days off coming up what with a 3 day weekend along with time I need to take for the first day of school so I will just be excited for them.

My week looks pretty basic. Practice both Tuesday and Thursday, with Thursday night also being the board meeting. On Wednesday I leave work early to take Bobby to go get his retainer. I figure I will take the boys to lunch that day, too, which will be fun. Maybe Ken can join us depending on when we are done. Other than that, it is nice to see a 3 day weekend at the end of this week with no real concrete plans yet. WOO! This means we want to use the time to work on some projects at Steve such as putting in some shelves in a closet and clearing out the catio. I also need to work with the chick from work to see if she is going to get these desks or if I should just donate.

I need to go through a bunch of soccer stuff this week, too, to prep my report. I will hopefully be able to get everything entered tomorrow and then I will be ready for Thursday. I may try to work on some of it this morning, too. I just want to get it done.

Ok, so let’s get this party started!