Six cats

Butterknife

Today I decided to take a look at my fireplaces chimney . Since I never owned a house with one before it was a brand new experience for me . Sticking my head in the fireplace and looking upwards ( rather uncomfortable postion I may add ) .I noticed that it was dirty ( duh ) but also the fluck , the grate thing that covers the chimney did not seem to work the right way . Well there is a handle to open and close the thing in the front but looking through a grate I noticed that it was not connected . Now I am not the most mechanical person in the world so not seeing anyway to take it apart I decided to fall back on the old reliable butterknife . Now I have used it for many things , as a screwdriver , cat food and beer can opener etc . My father actually had one in his toolbox ! Well going over to the grate I worked the (fluck ?) and by wiggling the knife got it all hooked up . Yep another use for the old reliable tool. Now if I could only get it to balance my checking account life would be grand .

Debates

Something is wrong with the election process when only two political partys of this great nation can be shown on live televison . Oh I know that the only other one that is even getting a little media time is Nader but he is usually just a joke anyways but isnt the country founded on political freedom ( among other things ) . Just because the big corporations can shell out enough money to keep this country bottled up with two partys does not mean that the other ones have no right to participate . The last two debates this year have been so bad that they should through some mud wrestling or maybe score card girls in with the "candidates". Well there is always the HBO channels and DVDS to kill time. The Alamo is a good one

star wars

Ok , so lucas finally got off his butt and released the star wars movies on dvd . The good ones I should state , 4,5,6 . But I think that someone should tell him that "if something is not broke then don't fixe it " . How could he even think about changing that classic scene when Han solo confronts Greedo in the bar ? To think that the bad guy even got a shot off is just wrong . Solo is the ultimate gunslinger , the second that Greedo let him lower his arm under the table he was gone . Why oh why do people think that they are artists and have to change things so much that it just plain ruins something . I know how they can be picky about writting or painting by just going over the thing again and again but come on now. Ahh well , maybe he does not have enough cash , lord knows that he should have enough by now even with the crappy prequels .

man that birdy looks nice !
Felines have personality quirks just like everyone else but snowball has to take a prize . I leave a glass of water in the back of the house for the bunch but snowball , when she goes for a drink has to make a noise , she takes one claw on her right front paw and makes a tinking noise on the rim. I have never figured out just why she does that .

Kerry and Bush cat fight

Ok , now it is really getting dumb , the two major partys running for the president of the largest and most powerful nation on the planet are acting like a couple of little kids ! One guy says this , the other guy says that , its almost like being in high school again but without the ugly clothes and turn downs for dates buy girls . Maybe they should both fire there campaign managers and just go into a room and beat each other to a pulp , the last one standing gets the office. Why not , none of them ever talk about the important issues like healthcare , taxes and social security . And lets not mention that all the elected officals in congress let the gun bill fall . Must be a lot of cash runiing around those republican pockets this year , being a election year and all that crap . ahh well , the perials of living in a democratic republic .

Enoch

A few years ago I wrote a paper in college that had to do with Angels and the effect that they have on mankind. Well in my research I found that the catholic church not only edited the bible back in 700 ad ( more or less ) but called for those books to be destroyed . One of the more popular books is the Book of Enoch which was written and took place some 1500 years before Christ . Well the book deals with the creation of the fallen angels , the mating of them with womenkind and there rather nasty offspring who in time turn into Demons which lucifer of course got a hold of .It seems that Enochs book was grabbed up and kept in ( more or less ) publication by the Ethiopian church all of these years . Back in the 16th and 17th centurys a few englishmen found the books and translated it to english but of course the Freemasons had to get ahold of the thing and tryed to push angelic magic with it . Anyways I recommend that christans and catholics alike should get ahold of a copy and check it out . It will pretty much explain itself to why the church banned the book.

booty shaking

I have found that with really nothing on tv that the next best thing is buying books and dvd,s . Well one of the biggest places to go in western new york is media play . It is a typical chain store with the same things in every store , even placed in basically the same spot, rather scary when you think that the American public has got that stuck in a comfortable rut even with music and movies. Well anyways they have a little kiosk set up halfway through the store pushing the more or less newer titles of music cds but also a preview of artists music videos . I wandered over there and at the time the beastie boys were on and a middle aged caucasion woman was watching it . I thought nothing of it at the time since I lost interest in the boys back in the late 90,s so I wondered around to the back of the display , seeing nothing that interested me I went to the front and noticed out of the corner of my eye that the older women was walking away , but danceing in time to the music blaring out of the tv ! Now I have been having rather bad weeks as of late ( notice that I typed weeks and not days ) but that sight , of a older silver haired white women shaking her tush like Balo from the jungle book just stunned me but also raised my hope in mankind just a little . It got me to thinking , maybe if we sent some r and b over to the dumbasses fighting our boys in iraq it would make them have a better out look on life. Then again why waist the music .

The West Wing

Here is a question for all my readers ( 2 I think) , why do I like the West Wing so much ? I purchased the season one and two last week , marathon watched them and still watch them when crap ( which is usual ) is on television at the time and plus on cables Bravo channel there is a marathon on that I will check out tonight . Is it the acting that makes it so good ? The writing maybe ? Or is it that I just have to get a life since I really hate real life politics ? Maybe a little of all of the above but all I know is Kudos for the show and Kudos for the dvds .

Insane feline posse vol 2

The 1970,s was a more or less simpler time then now and being a teenager back then was a bit more harder then it is now . We had no video games or computers , not a heck of a lot of good tv shows ( although that stands for today also ) , so what we did was either play sports or just hang out with friends . Well at the ttime we had a cat named Morris . He was a long haired orange and white hunter , and everyone on the street knew him . I made it known that if anyone would hurt him that the same thing would happen to them and since I was a rather large kid it stuck . Most nights after 9 pm you could hear our mother yelling my name and then the cats to come home for the night. Many a time was when I would be the butt of " look who the cat dragged in " jokes from my brother and parents but it was all good. Morris had the run of Halstead ave and one of the things that he loved to do was tease the neighbors dog Lucky , a large golden retriever . Now he was most times on a chain in there back yard so the cat knew just were to stand so the chain would stretch out , really pissing the dog off . One day our Mother was having coffee in that house , her high school friend owned lucky and I was friends also with there kids. As usual Morris was sitting just at the edge of the chain circle , cleaning himself , Mother sitting in there kitchen half watching the cat and dog when all of a sudden a load barking and a (oh crap) sounding yowl took place . Lucky broke the chain ! Well I was down the street sitting on the porch reading when I hear barking , them Morris running past me, hell bent for leather . Lucky running a close second behind him , trailing the chain . One of the kids trying to grab the chain while both of the Mothers running behind .
At first I thought that I was dreaming but then I saw Morris run up a tree across the street , lucky hitting the tree head first while trying to at him. Well after they finally got the dog back in the yard both my Mother , younger brother and myself stood under the tree looking up at the cat . I remember asking the question that I wonder if he learned his lesson yet , after getting a look from all three I just went back to the to my book .
The next day Morris was in there yard again teasing that dog.... only at the end of the drive way , more running room I suppose.
He passed away from feline lukemia a few years later but I swear I still him walking along with me , buy my side at times .

smoking

2000 , for most familys it was a normal year , people get born and die, that is the natural order of things. Well my late brother and I , for 6 years were struggling with our mothers cancer. She got it from years of smoking , something like a pack a day since she was in her teens. The nasty thing about throat cancer is , the doctors are also plastic surgeons. After they find the cancer tumors, then it is time to reconstruct things so after 3 surgrys she went from a portion of her throat removed , then tongue and voice box . Finally her whole tongue , recontruction of her wind pipe and the removing of her voice box. In the last few months of her life she could not eat except through a stomach tube. Breathing was through a stoma hole ( a hole cut in a persons neck , kept open normaly with a piece of plastic). My brother and I took shifts feeding her , making sure she was comfortable and clearing out the stoma hole, you see chunks of her flesh would come out and ge stuck in it . blocking the hole which we would have to clear useing tweasers. The last few weeks of her life the tumors spread to her lymph nodes making the right side of her body swell to the point that she would have to carry her arm. Then her eyes swelled shut so in order to see she would have to hold the lids open . In the end dementia took her so she could not recognize were she was but she did know us. After putting her in Hospice she lasted for 3 days , never again waking up and passing away in her sleep.
Now you readers maybe wondering why I have written this , well today is the day that she passed away and I would like to ask to who ever reads this to say a prayer for her and maybe this little story could be of use to get someone to stop smoking or at least to think about it.
In memory of
Ann Marie Lodyga 5/25/200
go with God