Adventure Two: The Heckoning

I wish I had the energy to tell you guys all about our adventure so far - has it really been a week already??? I'm not tired just because of that perverts.

Heckler arrived on Monday afternoon, we came home and had slow-cooker chicken and crashed for the night We had both been so excited/exhausted in regards to this adventure, well, we couldn't help it. Tuesday is kind of a blur... I think we napped. Wednesday... um... huh... and Thursday... oh! Thursday we had a date night - went to a nice restaurant (I choked on a fry and spat Coke out my nose - he laughed). I discovered that I cannot wink to save my life. We were going to go see a movie too, but we were kinda sorta exhausted, so we rented one instead.


Coffee time



Friday we had an SG night at a bar called Snatch - that was full of awesome. We grabbed our name tags from the front and then found a bed in the club with our real names on it I lol'd. Enchante was the only member I recognized, it was a pleasure to meet her in person finally - Island Girls FTW!! Apparently, there was a VIP section we could have gone to to meet up with other SG members AND the Trailer Park Boys... sighs. How did I miss that??? .... too busy making out with Heckler on the dancefloor perhaps....

Saturday we went into The City to drop off my foster cat, "Mama" (a misnomer - she wasn't pregnant afterall, just fat) and to pick up a mama kitteh (Jess) and her FIVE two-week-old kittens. There are two black and white ones - Marmite & Marmalade, two grey tabbies - Sock & Moe, and one fluffy white one with orange splotches - Toastie.


Jess and Moe

As far as conventional adventury type things, we've been to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, AB - which was so much fun. If I can sort thru all Heckler's images, I might find a couple to post. My Hecklepants bought me a wee triceratops ♥ my absolute favourite dinosaur. We also went and climbed up the World's Largest Dinosaur man, was that ever a lot of stairs! If the snow melts a little we might go to the zoo this week too.



Museum


Silly me


Wink?


Sign fail


Us


***UPDATE***




Wednesday, November 19th 10am-ish

"Sorry, closed for secksins"

I ♥ my Friends

I have some effing wonderful friends. I just need to say that.

As you may or may not know, I live about a 15 hour drive from my hometown - my family, my friends, practically everyone I know is back there. I've made some friends out here, like tilpacer, and Synema (who is sadly no longer active on the site). I separated from my spouse at the beginning of this year, and as time has passed I've been feeling increasingly isolated out here.

AsciraHalcyon & Pagz put together an amazing care package for me this week ♥ I won't go into too much detail as to what they sent... but movies, some of my favourite tv shows, music, a book and some amazing drawings. (now I just need to find out what to do with a "codec" or whatever the heck it is lol). Thanks to you both, and your co-conspirators

Rusty_Metal_Ass Rocks my Socks

Lookit what he made for Heckler and I



A Hallowe'en-ified profile pic - this was the original

22 sleeps and counting



These are some of the many pictures from the adventure Heckler and I went on in the spring of this year... some you may have seen, some maybe not. ***Spoilered for SQUEEEEEEEEEE content***

I'm yoinking this from BrightDeadScream's blog... sounds like fun

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Pagz's latest comic is up! Check out his latest, starring... me?

Non Stop Pop

It went live yesterday, but I got to see it a little early - it totally made my day.

I've been playing friend matchmaker a little lately, something I don't think I've ever done before. I sent my girlfriend AsciraHalcyon links to Pagz's blog and his comic - I knew they'd hit it off well because of their mutual (and mind-boggling knowledge of) Star Wars. Ascira is one of my very best real-life friends, and it just so happens that Pagz lives in our hometown They had dinner last night (along with Ascira's fella) and I think it went over really well. I'm happy I'll get to see them all when I get back to town in December. We'll have to squeeze in a Star Wars - a - thon with some SW Trivial Pursuit and Wookiee Cookies while I'm there for sure.

The Countdown

26 more sleeps til Heckler arrives *happy dances*

Squeeeeee Spoiler Alert

Other News

Sadly, the latest foster kitten - Pumpkin, 11 days old, passed away yesterday. It hurt a lot, to lose another one, after Puddin' died just last week.

Zero, Puddin's brother, had to come back from Petsmart for some interm foster care because his eye infection returned. I've become ridiculously attached to him, so I'm going to adopt him. I feel like he needs me, and I know I need him.

Mama Kitteh finally has a name. I felt really bad just referring to her as Mama, because she has a personality all her own aside from her being an impending mother. She's sweet and chubby, and rather motherly anyway (she rubs on my puppy George, even though the dog is a total brat to her). So I decided to name her Molly, after Molly Weasley.

Molly

... wow... all my "other news" revolved around kittehs. I'd better not be turning into one of those crazy cat ladies. You'll let me know if I am, right?

Here are a couple recent pics


(this sweater was made for me by AsciraHalcyon figure since I mentioned her, I'd pimp her wares a lot of it was her own design)



.... apparently I'm in a "no pants" phase or something

I posted this in the Kitties Group - but just in case some of my friends don't belong to that group...

On Saturday, I went to Petsmart to meet up with the founder of the rescue and drop off my foster kittens. They had improved *so* much ~ their eyes and weight had improved by leaps and bounds. Fussy stopped hating people, Zero became more outgoing, LiL Brudder became a great little snuggler and Doom Kitteh got FAT. I was sad to see my little ones going, but hopeful that they'd find wonderful homes.

I had a bad day

This was meant to be a happy post, but today, at 3:49pm, Puddin' died in my arms. She was always the smallest, and a week ago I started syringe feeding her primarily as she lost interest in food. Her eye infection came back. The consensus between the vet & the rescue was "Failure to Thrive" - but I didn't give up. Puddin' slept with me Saturday night, as I was worried about her getting cold in the night (as it was her first night without her siblings). When she wasn't curled up in bed with me, or snug in my hoodie, she was with a hot water bottle closeby. It wasn't enough.

I had kept Puddin' with me, not just because her being underweight/not being healthy enough for adoption - I kept her because I wanted her to be my kitty. She was such a love. She snuggled with my dogs, she tolerated me fussing over her. She was awesome.





Heckler stayed online with me during Puddin's last moments (and the time leading up to that) - and I couldn't be more thankful. Pagz waited patiently for the news. Thank you guys so much. And to AsciraHalcyon & Faytal_Kraydel... I don't know how I'd get through this without my closest friends.

Here Comes the Sun

I filed my divorce papers yesterday. I've been working up to it for awhile... and I finally did it. I had to drive right into the core of The City, and that freaked the crap out of me. But I did it. I found my way there, I filed the papers, and I smiled.



Not to say that I'm happy that the relationship I had is "officially" over - I love my ex still very much, we just weren't meant for one another. He's found someone to love and so have I... it can be over now.

Also, the elevators went wicked fast. I'm one of those kids who *loves* rollercoasters, and I literally had to sit down afterward. Just for fun, I went all the way up, then all the way down before I left

/divorce talk

In other news, yesterday was also a big day because Heckler booked his flight for his visit in November I'm SO excited!!!! He'll be staying with me for two whole weeks. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

My very best girlfriend joined SG recently, and I couldn't be happier about it. I think she'll fit in well around here. Her name is AsciraHalcyon, and she's amazingly fantastic (she also outdoes me in Star Wars nerdery ).

I've made a wonderful friend here on SG from my hometown I'm excited for my trip home this December even moreso now - just to hang with Pagz. Since I'm name-dropping like mad anyway, I'm going to pimp his webcomic, which really makes me giggle. There are so many nerdy references in there, it's rad.

Farewell to Foster Kittehs

Four of my five foster babies are headed to Petsmart this weekend. It'll be a bittersweet goodbye. They've come SO far ~ Doom Kitteh is actually getting a little fat Their eye infections are all gone, leaving their eyes clear and bright. They are all well-socialized now, even tolerating the dogs when they come into the bathroom to have a sniff around. All of them purr for me now - at first I really had to work for that. Fussy hasn't hissed at me in at least a week now, lol.

It'll just be little Puddin staying with me. She doesn't eat enough food on her own (wet or dry, Stage II weaning food or no), so I'm syringe-feeding her twice a day in addition to the little bit she eats that gets placed in front of her. The foster kitten that was brought in a week after the first four - L'iL Brudder - is weeks younger than her and is so much bigger than her. Her bones are very easy to feel through her skin I'm hoping the syringe-feeding will help to bulk her up (she does drink well on her own). She'll stay with me til she's healthy enough.... who am I kidding? She's prolly going to stay with me til she's an old old old kitteh.

I'll update with pics soon.

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo Kitty

LoL, I'm not giving myself much of a break from kitteh care - the rescue has a pregnant barn cat who needs a quiet place to have her babies, where they can be socialized and properly fed. I'm picking her up on Saturday when I drop off my four babies. I'll have them until December I wonder who'll come next? I positively draw the line at house llamas

... and I guess that's about all that's going on. Life is throwing me curve balls left right and centre, but I'm doing well. Thank you to all of my friends who help me through it all, really ♥