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Hey all, am moving into an apartment over this holiday weekend to cut my rent and utilities by more then half and getting the rest of some personal trash out of my mentality and thoughts.  Utilities and phone are on this weekend, but they tell me cable and internet through Comcast will not be on for about 3 weeks.  My satallite setup will not work from the new locaton, and will not be trasfered, so I will be offline for the next few weeks other then if I tune in from a friends place time to time, which won't be much.  I don't visit friends to use thier equipment.

Anyway, just to say am well and fine just won't have connectivity and have some personal things which need doing  that for me anyway requires a lot of time in meditation and being with people close to me.  See ya all toward next month with a far better outlook and hopefully a better me.

Love to all

Terri

I can understand the good from cutting expenses.

Will the move be for the better somewhere down the time line?

Congrats Terri and see you soon. You gonna have the same email address?

Dennis

Teri,

Now who the heck are we going to get to peel onions for the next couple of weeks?
Good luck, hope everything goes smoothly. See ya soon.


Hugs,


Cassie

QuoteWill the move be for the better somewhere down the time line?

Definately, I was sharing rent in a 4 bedroom house with my woman, youngest daughter and son, but I ended up paying more then my share, which should have been very affordable, with the new apartment, I at least know what to expect every month and the utilities are so much less without the cost of pool maintenance etc, etc.  I don't spend much time poolside anyway. Also, I don't have to deal with people around me when I'm not up to it.  I see mucho savings for the warchest.  As to the future, yes, for a lot of reasons this move will benifit me in ways I need and will speed my ambitions and goals.

QuoteCongrats Terri and see you soon. You gonna have the same email address?

Since I commonly use my yahoo address except for business purposes, I would imagine so, but I may not be able to check it much for the next month.  I'll be disconecting my computer from the satallite Sunday or Monday to move it to the new locatoin and won't be connected to cable for about 3 weeks. 

QuoteNow who the heck are we going to get to peel onions for the next couple of weeks?

I'm quite sure someone will take care of that for a while, and never fear, by the time I get back on line i'll be peeling onions to the core as with no tv or internet access I will have time to get to the bottom of myself, resolve a couple of things and be thinking clearer then I have been.  I move pretty fast in that respect when I have time to myself.

Well, as said, will be shutting down in the next day or two, but will check in before doing so as much as possible to see if there are any onions that can't wait.

Terri

Hey there Terri

I hope the move is trouble free and goes well for you, and if I may, don't forget "they (who ever they were) say that a change is as good as a rest".

Take care, see you in a few weeks,

Steph :)

Thank you Terri, safe move!  :angel:

Quotehope the move is trouble free

I imagine you have moved a few times in your life Steph, and you well know it never is, but we all survive it.

Quotethey (who ever they were) say that a change is as good as a rest".

I see some changes as essentual to sanity, and yes, change will be restfull, I'm a little tired of being stressed out over the past year, time to clean house before the real spring cleaning.  I'm closing the lid on all the "bloody babies".  New Beginnings.

Terri

This hat is just for you Terri.

If you can't read it, it says Girls Kick A$$

You can't go to far wrong if you believe like that.

thank you Leigh, You know what I mean

Terri

a better view

I'm gonna have to find one of those, or have one done in one of the shops

Good luck with the move Terri,

Look forward to talking to the new you in a few weeks.

Will there be another photo then?  ;D

Shelley

QuoteWill there be another photo then?   

I tend to take or have taken a photo or two anytime something major happens in my life, event or Feelings.  Kind of a way of capturing a moment in my life that will bring back the original feelings again.  kind of an illistration for my Diary which of course is not shown to anyone until such time as there is someone I feel should read it, volume by volume, just so they understand, as it is deeply personal and reveils all, especially the worst.  Other then those type of pictures though I'm somewhat camera shy, but depending on what happens over the next few weeks, I just may take a new one or two to capture my feeling at the time in a natural way and post it so when I come here, I will remember that feeling and the significance of it to me.  I am highly visually and emotionally tied together.

Right now, it's all about rebuilding and starting fresh, thus the present one from months ago when I had to stand on my own feet again, despite the embarressment and hardships.  That was the attitude and perspective I need most at the moment.

See you then Shelley

Terri

Sounds like a good move for you :)

Good luck :)

Thank you Alison, actually it addresses a lot of problems and will be good for me.

Terri

hello Terri-gene,

                  i hope all goes smooth with the move and the changes in living arrangements. it sounds like it will all make life for you a little easier and help you in attaining your goals. be careful and try to not let the stress of moving and making changes get to you. i'm looking forward to your return Terri-gene.



beth

Gaa! It's all so... so sudden!   :P  Hope you get to take the kitties with you, too, Terri...there's no therapy like purrs and whiskers.... Talk to you when you're back online...

Valerie

Well, much as I hate the things, I put my modem to use and connected via a dial up account till the cable gets installed on the 24th, so I can check in time to time.

Nothing sudden about it Valerie, was two months preparing for it and cleaning up finances and such behind me, and yes, I got both my "boys" here in the new apartment with me.  I wouldn't give them up.  Actually I think "Tigger" is a pain in the rear, but "Baxter" is special to me.  He adopted me as a kitten and is my little buddy.  He likes to sit and watch TV with me and share my popcorn, potato chips and marshmellows.  I love that little guy, and he shows his love for me in so many ways, now if he would only lose 10 pounds or so or at least not lay on me at night ..... but he won't give up his marshmellows ....

Terri

Hey there Terry,

How's the new place, is it what you expected?  We have two cats as well a big fat black one called Bear, and a three legged calico named Callie.  Bear is kinda timid and stays inside, but the calico is just the opposite, bold as brass, and causes a lot of trouble, even on three legs.  :)

Chat later

Steph

Place is fine Steph, is less then a couple of miles from where I was and is well maintained and the rent is cheap.  Doesn't have a dishwasher or garbage disposal, but I grew up before those things were common anyway and even with a dishwasher I wash dishes and such in hot water before putting them in the dishwasher anyway, never trusted the dang things.

Also it's not like I had a whole lot to move, so not a lot of strain or fuss.  I'll finish settling in this weekend and get to the business of organising my life again and nailing down the priorities without distractions.  I'm happy with it all, if not with the circumstances leading up to it.  Is all good though.

Yes, Cats .... I love em.  Mine are what I call "carpet kitties".  They are strickly indoor kitties and have never been allowed outside.  The pads of thier feet are still pink and soft.  I love it when Baxter lays down on me or near me and pats my face with his paws or crawls up next to me and puts his front legs around my neck and goes to sleep.  He's most prone to giving me hugs like that when I'm feeling down, and if I cry he licks my tears away .... I hate that.  damn sandpaper tounge anyway.

Tigger isn't so cuddly, he don't like to be held and stays out of sight unless he wants something, but he is very amusing at times.  He's kind of an expert at opening cabnets, drawers and even doors and it's amazing where you will find him sometimes.  What I like doing mostly though is watching the two play when I don't feel like watching TV or doing anything in particular.  Like most cats they like to bait each other and have running fights, flipping over in the air to change directions, running up walls and such.  Cat watching has become one of my favorite activities, it can put a smile on your lips quickly.

Terri

Ya wanna see my---oh never mind  :angel:

Dial up sux but not as bad as not being online.

WB Terri

Hi Terri,

Glad to here everything went well.

Quotenow if he would only lose 10 pounds

hint: Stop feeding him popcorn, potato chips and marshmellows.  ;D

Cassie

Why Leigh that a very nice ... er kitty  :)

Yes but somehow the pic doesn't seem to suggest 'Psycho Amazon War Witch from Hell with an Attitude'.... 

But who knows,  maybe it's just me :D

Glad to see you online again, Terri... nuzzles and head-butts from my kitties to yours...and Steph's, and Leigh's.....

umm....I was talking about real kitties....cats...felines... in case anyone doubted... ;D

Hi Valerie, wow, such a short post, in comparison .... About leighs tag line .... that woman has so many levels and layers she makes an onion look delicious.

As to the kitties, yes, they can often be an embarrassement.

Terri

LeighAnn, watch with your ???? thats a little to close to personal.  but yeah, never mind.  Nice ????  though, love the ears on that thing.

And Cassie, don't misunderstand, it's not that I feed Baxie to much popcorn, chips and marshmellows.  He takes them, still has his hind claws and teeth  ya know and lets me know when I'm not being cooperative.  ????'s rule ya know.

Terri

Short?  Heh, heh, heh....yeah, relatively so, I guess. I'm at work for 'mandatory voluntary overtime'...how's that for an oxymoron?  Yeah so we're not supposed to be online while on duty, but I cheat in between customer phone calls.  As we speak I'm troubleshooting with a customer. 

All this talk about cats makes me miss my boys! Marco and Oliver...both tabby cats.  They love each other and I get a kick out of watching them play 'ambush'.  Both are absolute loves, they're like my children.  I dare admit they've saved my life a time or two...

Hey Val, if your using the computer online while talking to customers, don't start reading aloud while talking to them or yer gonna get a reputation.

Keep up the "voluntier" work, it's good for the soul, and yes, nothing like a warm, furry ???? to make yer day.

Terri

I wish my cat liked other cats. She did have a little buddy back in Halifax when she was a year old. But I've tried looking after other cats, even getting a kitten, and she won't put up with it. Makes their lives miserable.

Male cats, she just beats up. Female cats, she tortures by not letting them sleep. My poor kitten was staggering around peeing on things when I finally had to give up and give her to my ex.

She can tolerate dogs oddly enough. I think it's because dogs respond to extreme dominance in a way that satisfies her.

She's very sweet to people and social when I have people over. She did spend her first couple of years with me trying to dominate me though. I'm not sure she didn't succeed, but she comes when she's called and behaves quite well.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Dennis

Well, Terri, I'm sure I have some sort of a reputation by now...as what I have no clue, but I guess that keeps life interesting.  :D

Funny that you mention your cat tolerating dogs, Dennis, as it's always seemed to me that nearly every cat I've known has gotten their kicks out of tormenting canines.  Now my boys are opposites in their affections for people.  Oliver is real sweet, but petrified of people. he hides under the bedcovers if anyone knocks on the door or if he hears voices outside.  Marco on the other hand is a total flirt, he'll go around and rub his face all over people's smelly feet, and roll around on the floor in front of them.  both of my cats know their names, but they only come when called if they want to...that's a cat for ya', gotta' love 'em...

By the way I have once again succumbed to consumerism and upgraded my phone to a camera phone (smile Terri !) so once I learn to use it I'll get to put my smiling face all over this place   ;D

Quote from: Terri-Gene on September 10, 2005, 02:51:36 PM
About leighs tag line .... that woman has so many levels and layers she makes an onion look delicious.

If you have never had a Walla Walla Sweet maybe.

QuoteIf you have never had a Walla Walla Sweet maybe.

Or a Georgia Vidalia. ..mmmmm, yummie!

Hah, cats tolerating dogs.  I can remember when I brought home a puppy, some years ago.  puppy was great, just wanted to play, but the cats would bait him and tease the hell out of him by getting up higher then he could jump and leaning down to swat him on the nose.

My woman was always on me about my puppy chasing the cats, always mad at me because I wasn't concerned about it.  What she never saw or paid attention to was the fact that kitties would sneak up on the puppy and tie into him then run like hell for high ground with the puppy yapping after them, then look down at him like he was the stupidest accident in history.

Just to prove how dangerous the kitties thought that puppy was, I was watching tigger stalking a flying moth with his eyes that came in through the open door and was hovering around the light there.  Puppy ran up yapping at tigger and tigger simply ignored him and kept watching the moth.  puppy was beginning to distract tigger and make him look away from the moth, so he charged at the puppy and lit into it like a growed up mountain lion, puppy ran yelping away and tigger immediately went back to watching the moth, then when it flew low over a couch, he ran up the couch and lept up into the air and caught it.  So much for puppy bothering the kitties.

My kitties have always gotten along with each other, but then they have raised each other and have developed a sort of social system of thier own.  It all started with my brothers step daughter getting married and moving out of state and couldn't take her cat, Alex so I took him just to be sure he had a good home.  Up until then I had always been a dog person though I gave away my last dog, Ruth, back in early 80's because I no longer found the time to associate with her and take her out like I used to and she needed, so I gave her to a friend who had a ranch with room to play and people that would keep her proper company.  Actually Alex was my first cat.  he was about a year old, still had his claws and had not been nuetured.  Fortunately he was already a comfirmed outdoor cat and loved to hunt birds.  Alex wasn't the friendliest thing, not very pretty and his coat was not pleasing to the touch, but I loved his heart and spent hours watching him and we developed a real relationship.  he even learned to come to me almost immediately on a whistle.  Later my youngest daughter got a cat that was half crazy and it had kittens, one of the kittens who my daughter named Biancha, or binky for short, the daughter wanted to keep, but I told her we already had two cats and a third would be troublesome, so she gave her cat away and kept binky.  Binky was crazier then her mother, spooky, and she grew up under the influence of Alex, a highly dominant Tom.  then alex died after 10 years or so from a bladder infection.  hundreds of dollars for vet bills didn't help, he died in the animal hospital.  Anyway, was missing him and got a kitten that looked just like him but had a sweeter disposition and a softer coat, that was tigger, he was raised by Binky who had been raised by Alex, so a lot of alex was passed on, binky became mine when my daughter moved away and couldn't find time for her.

A friend once told me if my daughters ever wanted a horse, then buy an old one so that when daughters moved out but didn't want to give it up, guess who ends up taking care of it and all of it's bills?  So getting an old one was just common sense, but the time daughter moved out, horse would die and the keep problem would be solved.

So now anyway had binky and tigger, then along came baxter and he was raised by binky and tigger, so learned from them.  since each had come into the household in sucession as early kittens, the learned from the previous cat and threw in a few new twists of thier own, and each learned to respond to a whistle from the previous and so forth. 

Now days binky is gone and there is only tigger and baxie, but I still see alex in tiggie and basie is kind of on his own trip.  Baxie has feline Aids and the other cats had been inocculated against it.  Vet told me he would live pretty much a normal life only a little short.  he often feels miserable and coughs and sneezes a lot and sometimes just looks kind of drug out, but when he is feeling good, he just wants to snuggle up and keep company.  Love the little guy, I have a special bond with him.

Don't know I'd ever have a dog again.  I love them but especially sporting dogs, Ruth was a Black Labador, a specially trained (by myself) trials competitor and in the field capible of marking and fetching birds only on command and also doubling for fetching cotton tails on command and never breaking to chase anything when on a fetch.  I fixed her of that when she was a young pup.  I found a big mean tom cat one night taking the trash out, caught it, put it in the bathroom and put Ruth in with her and shut the door till morning.  Ruth never ever paid any attention to cats or to anything with fur from that day on unless I told her to bring it to me and it was actually dead.  Loved that dog, but she required more time, play and love then I could give her during the last few years of her life and I gave her to a friend who could give her all that and treat her with respect.

Terri

QuoteIf you have never had a Walla Walla Sweet maybe

Well, never raw at least, I'm not that tough these days, gotta tenderise them a little with some heat first.

Terri