DOG DIARY

8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 PM - Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 PM - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 PM - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 PM - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 PM - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 PM - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 PM - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

CAT DIARY

Day 983 of my captivity.
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.

They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape.

In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.

Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a ‘good little hunter’ I am. B@ stards!

There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of ‘allergies.’ I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow — but at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches.

The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.

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Today’s Cheese

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So I got my hunter to level 70 and yes that’s what I’ve been doing all this time, enjoying level 70. Battlegrounds, more instances, heroic instances and even a couple of Kara runs

I also started a BElf Mage which I am enjoying very much, though I am possibly enjoying the fact that she does engineering more than the fact I can turn people into sheep

I have been getting an inckling to read more, I am in the process of reading a book, but I have lost my glasses so I can’t read for very long. I also want to take up my stitching and knitting again. Milo makes stitching very hard. He can be asleep for hours on end, sleep through so much, but the instant I get my threads out, it’s like a sixth sense with him, he just *knows* and of course want to *play*. So the stitching goes away. I don’t really want to lock myself away in the spare room though because a) it’s colder in there, b) I can’t watch TV in there, c) I find it rather antisocial and d) there is no where really comfy to sit in there.
So essentially I want to be curled up on the sofa in front of the fire with the TV on and Chris next to me to chat to. I couldn’t kick the cats out of the living room though, that’s be cruel, and they’d only scratch at the door anyway

I will need to think of something though. How do you other stitchers and knitters cope with your kitties?

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I’m due for some time off once the project I’m working on finished next Friday. I do not know how long I will be off for, though hopefully not too long. Fingers crossed there is a project in the…pipeline :-S
I am looking forward to having a short break, a week would be ideal, wouldn’t want it to go on any longer than that. It’s always nice to have a short break between projects. I do worry however that I will be unproductive during my time off, which would be a bit of a waste.

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Meeko and Milo are getting along a bit better.

And one to make you go Awwwww

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Milo. That is currently the name we are using. I quite like it, and I think it suits him. We shall see how long it lasts

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I’ve just discovered that she is actually a he…again. This happened with Meeko when we first got him, told she was a girl, turned out to be a boy, but he’s to utterly adorable he’s not going back!!
So the question is, do I change his name?
Kala (kah-la) does it sound like it could be a boy kitty name too?
If not then we have thought about Pixel. what do you think of that?

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To the Rieley/Cassidy household. Let me introduce Kala!

Some of you may know that Meeko was named after the racoon from Pocahontas, (so sticking with the Disney theme) Kala is named after the ape who rescued and brought up Tarzan from the movie of the same name.

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Best picture I’ve seen all day

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If you fart on a biscuit and then eat it, will it taste different?

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I’m in work…I’ve got a migraine…Chris is at home, likey still in bed.

He and his brother Colin were at a gig last night, (Korn…not my thing) and they have another tonight. I’m also going to tonights one, which is Alter Bridge. I’m quite looking forward to it, if my migraine goes away.

Oh how I wish to go home and sleep. Chris gave me an early brithday present. I picked it and it’s wonderful. You can see it here. Ok so it’s not your traditional nice birthday present but it’s something I will certainly get use out of…unfortunately.
It is great though. I look so stupid with it on but it does such a good job. I keep it in the freezer to make it extra cold.

So yeah the migraines have come back, but then I did stop taking my feverfew drops for a while. I’m taking the drops again so hopefully things will settle down. Silly me for thinking I might be able to survive without taking anything at all.

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Hope you like the new banner at the top, let me know if it doesn’t display properly. Chris made it for me with his photoshop skillz. He also made it with various colours for me to give the blog a bit of a new look without much hassle in the future.

So there you go, Meeko is a permanent fixture on this blog. Oh and just a little rumour, but there may, just may be a new kitty coming to the household soon

Not much has been going on. Christmas was lovely, New Year was quiet.

I’m just sick and tired of blowing bubbles.

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Chris’ parents kindly bought Meeko some rather dashing accessories to wear this Christmas and as you can see, he totally loves them….we think

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Hope you have a good one!

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And it’s just started snowing outside.
Merry Christmas everyone!

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I had downloaded one of these random “Power Ballad” albums, I don’t think it’s one of the recent ones, who knows, but anyway, Europe - The Final Countdown was on it.
How is this a ballad??

We’re leaving together,
But still it’s farewell
And maybe we’ll come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We’re leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

It’s the final countdown…

We’re heading for Venus and still we stand tall
Cause maybe they’ve seen us and welcome us all
With so many light years to go and things to be found
I’m sure that we’ll all miss her so.

I understand that this may have the power aspect in the song, but the ballad, I do not see. To me a “Ballad” is a love song…a power ballad would be a love song with a bit more energy and, well, power to it.

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So I see this woman on her bike, at night time in pretty crap weather and I thought, well good on you going out and getting exercise even though it’s awful weather. I struggle to make it to the gym on nice days never mind nasty…then I see she’s smoking a cigarette while she is cycling.
Um….ok…kind of defeating the purpose of getting healthy, and it’s probably also pretty dangerous to cycle with 1 hand on the bike the other moving a cigarette between her lips, without wearing a helmet….still each to their own.

I have frozen my gym membership because money is a bit tight at the moment. Work at AQ dried up for a few weeks and I was job hunting elsewhere. I have found nothing suitable, and it just so turns out that there is a new project coming in on Monday which will keep me working till February 8th (the day after my birthday). So Hoorah! I can put the job hunting on hold until then at least.

I’ve been playing a fair bit of World Of Warcraft, got my Hunter up to level 43 which I’m pretty darn proud of! Though I am starting to feel that I should be doing something else. My crafts aren’t holding a great deal of interest for me right now either. I want to start writing something but I don’t know what to write. I’m not talking about writing a book or poetry or anything gay like that. I just…meh…I dunno. I guess if I knew then I’d be off doing it.

Chris and Meeko are brilliant. I’m getting so excited in the run up to Christmas. Meeko is getting his second set of vaccination jags next week. He was amazing when we took him to get neutered so I’ve no worries about this trip. The girls in the vets loved him.
I’ve noticed his routine of waking me up at 6am, I manage to settle him down in bed between Chris and I, and he naps for maybe on hour, and then has me up again at 7 to feed him. I get up and get showered then anyway so it’s not usually a problem. However because I’ve been having time off work, I’ve found out what his routine is for when we are not here.
On my days off, I will get up at 7am as usual to feed Meeko and then go back to bed while Chris goes off to work. Meeko stands for this for maybe about an hour, then he’s standing on me meowing and doesn’t stop until I get up.
It turns out that he’s not wanting me away to play with him, he’s merely wanting the bed to himself. You see when Chris and I come home from work at lunchtime, he’s always just coming out of the bedroom looking rather sleepy.
So his routine when we are not there is:
6am. Wake up mummy to get attention and then snuggle down with her.
7am. Wake up mummy again to demand breakfast!!
7.40am. Mum and dad leave, I see them off at the door and then run to the window to watch them wave to me from outside.
THEN I go to mum and dad’s warm bed and sleep for the whole morning.

So on my days off when I wasn’t getting out of bed, he was clearly annoyed that he wasn’t getting the bed to himself! He cries until he gets me out of bed and then ignores me, doesn’t come for attention or to be played with, he gets me out of bed so he can sleep in the bed all by himself and stays there till lunchtime.
The bloomin cheek of the lad!

Anyway quite enough rambling for one evening.
Night xxx

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Some of you may know that I didn’t finish University. I left during my third year resit exams since I had screwed up the first exam there was no point in my taking the test. So I left with nothing, no qualifications, zip, zilch.

Over a year on Chris mentions that I *should* have been given some sort of something for having done first and second year successfully. I’ve always beaten myself up badly about the fact that I spent 5 years at uni to do a 3 year course and still come out with nothing. Out of vague curiosity I emailed the uni and enquired about it and it turns out that I should have been sent something.

I am now the proud owner of a Diploma in Higher Education for General Science. I have a diploma. I have a diploma. Why no one thought to tell me this earlier I have no idea.

I finished getting all the achievements for Harry Potter on the 360, so now I’m playing Overlord. It’s very fun having minions to control

I aquired some rather colourful snowflake yarn that I’m adding onto the scarf I was making with the white and pink snowflake yarn, so it’s going to be a little more colouful than was originally planned. I knitting up a small mouse and stuffed it with some left over yarn and some cat crunchie biscuits and Meeko loves it.

The Thomas Kincade cross stitch that I had started has been put away yet again. I am just not happy with it, there is something not right with it. Instead I have opted for the Country Companions Grandfather Clock design which was given to me by Chris’ mum. Took me long enough to sort the threads

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Hey guys (and gals!)

Some of you might remember last year I did a charity abseil at Glasgow Uni down that rather tall bell tower. If you don’t remember then here’s a photo to prove!

I’m doing it again this year (In October) and I need you’re support! I’m starting my fundraising early so that I can raise as much as possible. So if you can please sponsor me! You can do this quick and easy online at this website My JustGiving Fundraising page

You’re all more than welcome to come and watch too!

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Big life question eh?

I’m not the kind of person who likes change. I like things to stay the way they are because it’s safe and comfortable. I like the grass well and truely grown beneath my feet, but for some unfathomable reason it’s now beginning to itch.
My problem: I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I’ve made a total failure of university, and I am in a job I cannot progress in and I am far too much of a chicken to physically move to somewhere that would give me opportunities.
I’m stuck and I hate it.

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So I started to make a pair of Mary Jane slippers yesterday. I didn’t have the correct size of needle or yarn of the righ guage either but regardless of whether they fit me or not, there are lots of new things to learn and shaping to try out which is why I am doing them.
It’s very fun to do something other than scarves, though I daresay I’ll enjoy making them in the winter.

The needles I bought from ebay a few days ago arrived today. Got my first ever circular and DPNs Some of them are quite random and only 1 rather than a pair, but there were loads and for £4 it was a great bargain. Some of them look very old and don’t have the size on them, but I can put little stickers on them once I check them out later.

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Playing games for a living must be hard work for a guy. Sleeping and eating must be hard work for a cat.

I played more Harry Potter today and I managed to finish the game I’ve still got lots of discovering of Hogwarts to do but I’ve completed the main storyline. What I like about the game is the ability to free-roam even after you finish the story. I Managed to complete the story and still only have 63% of the game done!

Haven’t done anything crafty today at all, but I’m not so bothered. I can’t make much progress on knitting without DPNs or circs so until I get them I’m in a bit of a stalemate. Got plenty of reading to do though

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Another nice long lie in. Played a fair amount of Harry Potter OOTP on the 360
Got a fair bit of reading done too. The Cold Moon isn’t the kind of book that I would normally read. If I was in a book store I’d be nowhere near that section, but I’m really enjoying it and I do find myself just wandering onto the next chapter just to see what happens.

Been thinking about my future a bit recently, partly being fed up of living in my overdraft and not having any sort of qualifications apart from the Academy. I mean yes I have the experience of 4 years at university but I did leave without my degree. I don’t regret that decision, I’m thinking maybe my attention should be turned to a different subject.
So having thought about my “5 year plan”, it is as follows:
1. Pay off the MacBook (£600).
2. Clear my overdraft and start living in the black (£1600 overdraft + whatever amount needed to stay in black).
3. Start saving to pay for an introductory course and then a diploma in Counselling, and find a suitable institiuation for such a course.
4. Get a higher paying job, ideally without leaving AQ (and believe me that is likey to take a loooooong time) in order to speed all of the above up.

I’m not going to be totally unrealistic and hope for it all within a year of two, that’s just not going to happen. Yeah I’ll probably be 30 before I start my course but if it’s something that I want to do then it’ll still be an option by then.

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Here is a picture of Meeko enjoying the nice sunshine we are having. I opened up the window (door style) and he’s quite enjoying glancing out, but when there is a we gust of wind he comes running back inside and hides behind me lol.

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So I’m now on holiday from work, mon-fri plus the weekend on either side. 9 whole days
Today is day 1.
Had a nice loooooong lie in, had a yummy pair of rolls and sausage for my breakfast and I’ve been watching some Star Trek Next Generation season 3 while I’ve been knitting away at that scarf that I did a week or so ago before I unravelled it all (think that might be called frogging but I’d need some confirmation on that one).

It’s coming along really well given that I only started it last night, it’s so very nearly finished. I daresay if I stuck at it the way I have done for most of the day I’d get it finished tonight. I’m getting faster at doing my knits and purls but also better. The last time I did that scarf I cast on 30, dropped 2 stitches at some point during my knitting which resulted in rather large holes, but I still managed to end u pwith 34 stitches cast onto the needles. I have no idea how it happened but it’s probably just as well that I messed up the casting off because now I am making a much better scarf.

Chris went back to see his parents this afternoon so it has been just Meeko and I for the rest of this afternoon, he’s been very good and snoozing away on my lap while I’ve been knitting. I’ve just fed him, and am now about to feed myself.

On tonights agenda, well I think I’ll try and get that scarf finished. I’ve got some reading on knitting gauges to do because I know nothing about them, and I might read a little bit more of my Harry Potter book. I do have another book that was given to me by a work friend, Ruth, which I’d like to get read during my holiday too. All the while Meeko will probably be going bonkers around the house and the tv will be on in the background.

On a cute note here is a photo I took of Meeko cuddling up with an anteater which he’d been attacking for about 30 minutes prior

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Well here’s another post to report that not much has been going on.
I’ve just been working slowly on my swatches. Hopefully get them finished this weekend and move onto something a bit more challenging.
I’ve got all of next week off work as a holiday. I plan to just sit on my bum and read, knit, stitch, play with kitty and watch tv. I don’t want to do anything else. just be lazy

You never know I might make some actualy progress on something worth posting a picture of! We’ll see.

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Slept from 7pm last night to 7am this morning, therefore none of the knitting I had planned went ahead.
Damn migraine. Still at least I don’t get them that often anymore.

Chris and I are going to see Transformers tonight. Not sure how much I’m actually looking forward to it. I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty naff, but I’ll go and see anyway.

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Yeah! Last night I finally finished my first proper knitting project!

Everything went great. Even the casting off which I had obviously never done before. Then I was left with 1 stitch on the RH needle. I followed the instructions and was told to pull the yarn to tighten the knot…but it started to unravel!!
So it’s ruined. It was that crazy eyelash yarn, i think that’s what it’s called. So I found it impossible to try and undo the damage because I couldn’t see any loops because of the yarn.

Anyway I decided to keep unravelling and to my amazement I got back my 3 balls of yarn, no knots, I didn’t have to cut the yarn.

I’m not too dissapointed. The scarf had holes and dropped stitched, but for my first attempt it wasn’t bad…but I’d never have worn the scarf outside lol

I figure I’ve got my yarn back I can knit it again and this time it will be better.

I thought i’d have been totally distraught if something like that happened, to mess it up on the very last stitch, but I proved that I could do it.

I then decided to cast on some stitches, knit a few rows and to try and cast off again, it ended up like a scarf for a Barbie doll. But this time when I did my casting off, I did it right!!

Woooooo! So I know I can do it. I’m actually quite happy.

It’s almost like I get more value for money with my yarn because I can use it again lol.

Anyway just thought I’d share my first every knitting experience

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I finally learned how to Purl!!! It’s only been on my to do list for like YEARS!

So now I’m knitting yet another scarf but this time I know what I’m doing all thanks to Knitting For Dummies!
I’ve not been cross stitching but at least I’m staying crafty.

I went to see the new Harry Potter movie, loved it. Reading all the books again in preperation for the final book which I have pre-ordered. It’s quite epic to read all of them one after the other the way I am doing. Quite a long journey I’m embarking on.

I’ve decided to get a new laptop so I should be getting my new MacBook soon! Much lookingforward to it.

I was thinking about giving my blog a bit of a make over probably just a change of theme, any ideas?

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