argh!

Today is Friday and on Fridays I don't have to go to work till 12. Normally I lay in bed, sorta do homework, play word games, cuddle with the kitty and then I still have some time to check out the starts and the garden. It's a nice day... normally.

Today I woke up with a scrathcy throat, and I had forgotten to brush my teeth and that feels so gross. I made breakfast but then had to deal with robot barking at the guys who came to fix the heater. Normally durring the day when Jennifer isnt around robot is in a cage cause hes so crazy, but we didnt know the heat people were coming so he was out. Then the heat people let Robot get out the door! Robin and I were scared Robot was so dumb he'd run into MLK. I ran to the Friends of the Trees house where someone was gardening. Then Robin said Robot came back on his own. crazy.

I think I mentioned the dead rat. I hadn't been letting PK out much and for long cause I didn't want him to eat the rat poison. this led PK to pee in the bin I had been using to hold my socks and underwear. Fucking lame. Now I must get ready for work and figure out when I'll have time to go to the laudromat.

Oh no!

PK lost his collar today. Its green w/ a black tag and it says PK in really curly letters. Then my phone number is on the back. Call if you find it. It is too dark for me to look for it now.

PK is hungry cause hes on a diet.

This is gonna be awesome!

The website isn't up yet, but thats a link to the Bike Portland article about getting a million bikes together for a ride, and one million new bikers! I'm considering the cross country ride to DC. I also already emailed the guy to volunteer my accounting/data entry services. I hope bike farm could donate some bikes or something. Very cool. You'll be hearing more on this from me in the future.

PK defined.

I think the word to describe PK here is stately.
state·ly
1. majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance.
2. dignified.

Non-PK news

This weekend was Jennifer's B-day and we had our first gathering at the new house. A BBQ on the grill that was left at the house when we moved in. It was quite fun. There was tons of food. It was there everyone in the backyard was invited to see Sonic Youth playing a house show the next night. It was decided by some that even though this would never happen we'd probably have to go just in case it did happen. Sources were called and it was said that not Sonic Youth but Thruston Moore was playing.



And it did happen. Crazy. I called and told my dad, he was pretty jealous. He told me to tell Thurston "hi". Thurston Moore looks a lot like my dad. Anyways he played lots of noisey feedback, it was pretty cool. Cheesily inspiring, and I think I'll be asking my parents to bring up my electric guitar when they come to visit next week.


I'm on my way to a coffee and boggle date via the internet w/ Laura. I want to get some practice in before its time. This is a funny picture from the moustache ride that Leah took.

The PK news

After moving I had to leave PK inside for awhile so he didnt try to run back to the old house and end up someone else's porch kitty. Towards the end of the week he was becoming such a brat! Bitting my calf, always wanting to eat, clawing at things. So I started kicking him outside. At first he didn't like it but now it's okay with him most of the time. I'm glad to not have a little box in my room, hopefully never again.

Now PK is cute again. Last night he tried to sleep at my feet so switched my head to the other side of the bed. Then we cuddled, he purred and we fell asleep. When I woke up he let me cuddle him more before he got up and got anxious for breakfast. It was nice.

aww

Before I moved out of my old house PK and I had a good cuddle. I took this picture using the camera on my computer. It was very difficult, I didn't even know that I had succeeded in taking a picture until I was cleaning out my computer today and found tons of pictures that look like this one w/ PK getting less cuddly and more annoyed in each one. It could be a flip book.

When we first got to the new house pk was all about cuddling and sleeping under the covers. I've been leaving him in my room so he doesnt get out and try to wander home and one day I came home to him competely under all the blankets in a sunny spot on my bed. If i were him I'd be overheating at that point. He's been sleeping only near my head and not on it now. He really loves the basement at the new house but its a pain to let him in there cause then I have to make sure I can get him out cause theres a dirty dark crawl space I wouldnt dare go into.

In non-pk news, im good still like my job tons. still hating all the chores that come with moving. Ive found that I have a little bit of free time and that I need to pick a hobby. So far I've picked drinking. I did a good job of that the week before jaimes party. at jaimes party i did a good job of it too but this week ive been too busy and drinking coffee instead since i have to go to a coffee shop for internet. lame. This is too long. sorry.

An animal other than PK story

The other day I woke up at my new house and was doing things downstairs when Jennifer screamed really loud. At first I thought she saw a mouse and was just a total wuss, then i realized it had to be something more, I thought maybe a snake, or maybe a snake eating a mouse. Then I got scared that PK had made it out of my room and had somehow been malled by dogs and left in the front room dead. I ran to where Jen was and she was running out the front door and said "Robot just fell out of the window!" He had been on Jens bed upstairs and somehow just tumbled out the window! It's extra funny cause he wasn't even hurt! That dog is so weird.

pk hat

PK has been doing a new cute thing, sleeping on me and/or davids head. I slept at violets house last night but the night before pk slept between davids and i's heads. It was pretty fucking cute. I like it cause its like wearing a hat to bed, pk keeps my head all warm.

Right now pk wants to play but not with me. He is prancing around the room playing with pieces of trash but then when i wave pieces of trash at him hes not interested. LAME.

Cuddles n' stuff

I've been listening to a lot of this american life recently. This morning I listened to an episode that was really good. It has a really great description of the Madonna Inn and a visit to Midevil Times. Here's the link http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=38

PK has been super cuddly. He slept on David's head again last night and sat on my chest while I was laying in bed this morning. Pk though is much bigger than violet and its hard to keep him from slidding off the side of me. Now he is sitting half under the blanket and half on me it seems to work much better this way.

He really likes this cardboard scratchy thing that Jaime gave him. He also had a lot of fun yesterday w/ me out in the garden. I potted up our plants to move to the new house and pk jumped on bugs and ate grass and walked around. He could use more walking cause he's pretty fat. Which reminds me I have to go buy him food again soon.

Last night I went out w/ David, his little brother John and david's friend from ashland nate. It was really fun. We were supposed to see a move but it sold out so we just went for drinks and chatted. I wish John and Nate lived in portland.

Aw pk looks so tuckered out.

// The Mortified Shoebox Show //

Good PK News

Pk's feline acne is mostly gone. It could return, i read on the internet it can be caused by stress.

pk seemed to be feeling sorta stressed last night cause my roommates and i had a moving truck and were somewhat frantically trying to get all of our house inside it. I was worried pk would think we would leave him behind like his last people probably did. He liked all the boxes and having new places to hide but his tail was gigantic by the end of the night. When i came home I had to call for him outside for awhile then we went up stairs. He wandered around in my room for a bit while I used the computer and then when i was going to sleep i called for him again, he jumped onto the bed and curled up right near my head. He must like heads a lot right now cause he slept my davids head the other morning. I slept all night with my arm around him it was sooo cute. Then we stretched, ate breakfast and curled up in bed together again!

Today I don't have to work till 12, thats why I have so much chill morning time with the kitty. He had his head tucked behind my shoulder but then robot barked and pk sat up.

Sigh. life is good.

PK moves!

Woohoo! Done with school for like a minute...

But busy moving to a new house because if I didn't mention it on the blog before, my landlord decided that we didn't want to live there anymmore and gave us 30days! Awesome! That means PK has to stay inside again, which means I have to have a litter box in my room again. At least the new room doesnt have carpet, but still gross.

I think the beautiful flowers on the trees are giving me allergies, the inside of my ears feel all hot.

David's making me spagetti! I'm so excited! Eating dinner without making it is very special. Probably my favorite boyfriend event of the week.

Cute

Look how pk is sitting all weird.

Back by popular demand

Jennifer reported to seeing PK stuck in the strings that hang off the loom. She said he was pretty confused and kept trying to go different directions but just kept being stuck. Eventually though he did back out of the string wrapped around him to free himself from the loom.

PK has been pretty spunky and playful. He likes to roll around on his back and swat at things. He's also been clawing at my speakers so I'll yell at him (I think he likes the yelling) and he can bound accross the room. I need to make him a scratching post or two. He does like the ground scratching post that Jaime gave me though.

Jennifer took a really cute picture of PK today, I'll post it as soon as she emails it to me.

creepy! japanese video

celebrity dreams

Awhile ago i had a dream i met jane fonda. I told her about how i read her autobiography, and some other book about her and asked her what she was talking about when she said cunt, cause i hadnt watched the clip on tmz yet.

then a couple nights ago i had a dream i was watching tv and paris hilton had turned sort of punk rock and had changed her name to something more punk that i cant remember. she also had "good charlotte" tattoed across her face and then like some other weird tattos on her face. hahaha

i should stop reading tmz.

PK continues to be weird about going outside. After alli suggested he get a sweater, i was talking about how that would be cute, but it wouldnt cover up his shaved leg. unless, he had a bodysuit! haha. maggie could probably knit one for me. It would have to be angora so he would still smell like a rabbit.

Stuff has been busy.
*I like the new job a lot, right now I'm picking my retirement plan. haha. I don't have to come in till 12 on friday so i can get paid while im out drinking with them. awesome for sure.
*School has been obnoxious, along with having to get up saturday morning to listen to people bitch about math, my econ class has been especially demanding. Next semester I'm only taking two classes. One is adavanced excel, and the other is either management (cause i have to take it and maybe itd be good for bike farm) or an investing class.
*Bike farm has been taking up a good chunk of time, its been good and bad.
*My house only has 3 people in it again and i realized the awsome thing about that is being home alone more often.

its the end of winter. this weekend is spring forward and i couldnt be happier about it. I started some seeds for the garden so far theres collards, snow peas, brussle sprouts, basil, lettuce and some other herbs (if the little plastic greenhouse i got from the dead peoples house works). i heart plants.

PK returns to the porch

Because I was not able to build a doggie barrier higher than robots jumping abilites, I've started feeding PK outside on the front porch cause thats the only place the dogs don't have free range of. He's pretty sketched about it and most of the time whines in my room till I walk out there with him. Then if i try to dip out before he's done he'll stop eating and come inside and whine more.

This morning it was cold, so i couldnt tell if pk was shivering because he has those big gaps in his fur or if he was so scared to be out there. I hope he can eat on his own soon. He has been going outside on his own. Good for him.

ps

my temp job hired me for permanent, so now when i go to the bar with them my time is paid. fucking sweet.

pk is hungry, ill make him cuddle for a bit then we'll both get some foods.

mr. scratchy tongue

I've been stalling on writing about PK's achievements in recovery recently because I've been wanting to have some photo evidence but yall can just take my word cause itll take me forever to actually take some pictures.

Pk still looks all funny cause the shaved spots are taking forever to grow in. However he does look really handsome in his new collar that David picked up for him.

I made a doggie proof door with a kitty hole in the bottom. Which is actually just a bike boxed filled with books and records with a hole cut so pk can walk through it. He's been using it mostly at night I think so he can hang out in the kitchen. Yesterday he explored the backyard while david and i ate on the back porch.

Pks been just generally cute. He's been doing the licking peoples faces when they are cuddling/holding im pretty generously. Its so cute but it also hurts really bad. I can still feel the burn on my cheek.

pk recovery?

Last night pk left my room to sit on a chair in the kitchen while david, jennifer and brian and i had a beer. He interacted with robot same as before the attack and things went well.

Today it was nice out again, and I thought pk might like to sit outside with me. Except he didnt. I carried him out to the front porch, where perhaps he had flashbacks of the attack because he scurried for the hole in the fence and then ran under the neighbors porch (if only he could have done that last time!). I tried to tempt him with veal flavored baby food, he smelled it but didnt seem to want to eat it. I called david and he told me just to let him come out on his own. About a half hour after that i got bored/nervous of waiting and peeked at him again, this time he came out almost right away and rushed into my arms. But he totally freaked as i went in the gate, but i got him inside safely and now hes looking out the window again like he would like to go outside.

I think pks physical wounds healed much faster than his emotional wounds. poor kitty.

Less pk news

PK seems mostly like a normal cat now, except for the patches of hair still missing on his legs and body.

In non pk news the v-day benefit for bike farm was pretty fun. Bike farm now has a good chunk of cash to deposit, and i have a lot of quickbooks work to do.

The day after vd, david and i went on our 2nd annual valentines date metal show to see sonata arctica, theyre from finland, they were great, it was sort of like watching dethclock live. I'd never seen anyone play a keytar not as a joke before.
Here's a video of them in japan if your curious.


I've been playing fish tycoon too much.

Yesterday david and i scored bread at delfinas dumpster at 11:20, we must get the times down. We could have got pizza but the idiots put it in a seperate box from the food but then threw it in the dumpster upside down. so lame.

over and out.

PK improved version 2.3

Pk has been getting much better. I've been trying to ignore his presumed muscle stiffness cause it sorta worries me but i dont really think it requires a doctors visit unless it hurts pk if i touch it or if he starts to feel worse instead of better.

Pk has been feeling so much better that today he escaped from his cell which is my room. I made pk a seat neart the window which ive been leaving slightly ajar when the weather permits. When i do things in the backyard I like to look up at him looking out the window and say hi. Today though a minute or two after i said hi to him I heard a strange noise. I looked up and saw pk on the piece of roof outside of my window. I told him no and raced in to bring him back inside before his bad foot made him slip off the roof or something scary like that. but by the time i made it back upstairs he was 3/4ths of the way inside. I was pretty impressed cause the window is about a foot above the roof and it was only open a couple inches.
good for pk.

He's also started playing! I don't have real cat toys but tonight I'm bringing him some cat nip. David took some super cute pictures of him the other day but now i cant find them. So imagine pictures of pk waking up, opening his eyes, yawning and stretching. Cute huh?

More pk

Pk has been getting pretty steadily better. This morning I opened the window a crack and he really enjoyed getting some fresh air. but when I was lifting him to his window sitting spot i noticed a lump under his skin between his arms. I couldnt find anything on his skin and he didnt seem to mind when i touched it but it made me pretty worried.

Then David and I went to the Handbuilt Bike Show (it was way cool, cooler than I expected). The instant I walked in I eyed the drink cart, but waiting until I got bonnie and larry onboard to drink with me before I got a beer. I told the bartender how i was stressed cause my kitty was hurting and she said that she had a kitty that got in a fight and got hurt and hid for 3 days. When she found the kitty its muscles on its front where all knotted cause it had been so scared. I was relieved that the lumps on pks front might just be sore muscles and not a tumor or weird infection that I should be rushing him off to the vet for. The beer made me feel better too.

Pk thanks all his well-wishers for their support durring this trying time.

pk update

pk is walking today, he can get on and off the bed by himself and into and out of the cat box. hes still not able to do some things but thats pretty good. soon ill be done with his antibiotics. yey for magically fast recoveries. maybe ill get a full nights sleep soon. i woke up a lot last night to make sure i hadn't rolled over and crushed his bad leg. im sleepy.

PK Today

PK has been eating almost his normal amount, and I no longer have to hold it in my hand for him, he'll eat out of a dish. He's drinking water too! His foot is really swollen but he can sit with it bent now. Many improvements. I'm very excited. My room is a little cold so hes sitting under a blanket but ealier today I opened up the curtains for him and he seemed to enjoy looking out the window.

Only two more days of antibiotics and then he'll just seem like a lazy cat instead of a sick cat.

Pk part 3

Pk is eating real cat food again! He's a little too hurting in the leg to walk now days, I think earlier he had more pain killers and was willing to walk but now hes not. So occasionally I (or David) just have to pick him up and set him in the cat box. I think hes sorta embaressed he cant do it himself but whatever at least we havent had any accidents. Right now he's doing an awesome job cleanign his wounds too. And they stopped gushing everywhere!
Here's some pictures of pk toughing it out.

This was yesterday, he felt so icky i didnt want to upset him by using a flash.



This was me trying to get a picture of his gushing leg, but its sorta unclear.



This is pk today, he's doing much better but its hard to tell in the picture.



This is pk cleaning yey! thats his pain killers stuck to his back.



See that gross stain on the edge of the blanket, my bed is covered in those from when pk was gushing more. David borrowed my computer over at his house and it still had some of pk's blood on it and he said violet seemed really upset. I bet she'll be nicer to him next time he walks me over to her house.

There's violet looking concerned.



And this is a cute picture of pk when he was healthy. This picture should be taller but blogger is messing it up and im too lazy to upload it elsewhere.

Uh, I guess I'm a crazy cat lady already. oh well.

the pk report continued

for those concerned...

pk ate almost a whole jar of chicken flavored baby food last night! elizabeth said it was mcdonalds for cats. its also good cause its watery so we know he wont be getting dehydrated.

unfortunately this morning i have to go to work. but when i petted him this morning instead of the pathetic quiet whine he had been making yesterday it was the normal petting a tired kitty noise! PK likes to talk a lot but he hasnt been meowing much since he got back from the hospital, I know once he is meowing my ear off again that he'll be doing fine.

That's all for now, more as it develops

the pk report.

Last night david and i fell asleep on my bed horizontally so that we wouldnt have to move pk. but david steamrolls in his sleep and eventually pk moved to the closet to sleep.

PK woke up with diarrhea this morning. boy was it stinky. hes been in some pain cause the pain medicine patch came off. i called the doctors about it and they said i could bring him in and theyd put it back on. im sorta tempted to just rest it on him while he sleeps cause hes been making some really sad kitty noises. he also wont eat today so far. im pretty worried but david thinks that he just needs to sleep a bunch. he might be going through withdrawals cause his pain patch seemed like really intense shit, his eyes were like rolling back into his head yesterday when he was under the bed.

i wish i could know for sure that pk would be okay, or at least the best way to take care of him. earlier while i was out he got out of the closet and jumped onto my bed by himself. he then slept and bled all over my computer. im glad all the keys still seem to be working fine.

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