Nothing else with a heartbeat

This thanksgiving I am thankful I don't have any kids. I know we broke the no heartbeat rule with Kilala. But this thanksgiving has told me that I am no way ready for the hell that are kids. This thanksgiving we went to our neighbors house and there were about 6 kids ranging from 10years to 6mon. I had a headache before I came over, and then when the kids were playing it intensified. I now know I do not want kids for a long while. Not that the kids were misbehaving, but kids are just LOUD.

Thanksgiving eve

Today I had to work, and all I wanted to do was stay home with Kilala and Dave. Yes, I wanted to do so because I wanted to play with Kilala, but more so because I knew if I werent home she'd definitely become Dave's kitty. Unacceptable, considering I bugged him for a month to get a cat.

Sure enough that's exactly what happened. He played with her, put her on top of the TV, cleaned everything for her...and I was at work handing out money.

I may have redeemed myself a little because at 5am she was hungry. She was meowing at the top of the stairs, so I went downstairs and fed her. Then after she ha a belly full of food and she sat at the top of her cat tree, I got to pet her for a good half hour. Then I remembered that if you give her a treat after she lets you pet her, it is training her to allow petting.

Next training is picking her up.

Kilala Brover

David surprised me today. He came home with a receipt saying he paid the landlords a pet deposit. I had been bugging him for about a month and a half to get a kitty, since we first went to our friend's house and played with his kitty.

The first thing I did after my run is get online and start looking for free kitties. I fell in love with a dark furred calico almost instantly. I called the seller and agreed to pick her up tonight.

We followed the people home after meeting up with them, and as soon as I saw her I was in love. She was very friendly, and after playing with squirmy McGee I decided I wanted her.

We named her after two of our favorite shows. Sanbo, the Samurai demon slayer on Inuyasha has a cat demon named Kilala. She is a vicious demon cat who grows into a cat with flaming paws and awesomeness. Brover is from one of the newest episodes of How I Met Your Mother. Barney gets a wingman dog named Brover, and David joked about wanting a Brover as well. I personally wouldn't have minded calling the cat Brover since it is SO ironic. But David said we should name it Kilala and I Pushed Brover to the middle name.

She is adorable, and absolutely frightened of the house. She has hidden under the entertainment center basically all night. I am just happy to have a kitty. :)

Sallie Mae Sucks Ass

Here is what I want to know: how many times do I have to inform Sallie Mae that I am still in school, and I shouldn't be paying anything for interest on my subsidized loans?

If you are a high school student: DON'T GO TO A EXPENSIVE COLLEGE, and if for some reason you should decide to go to ignore me for that...DON'T USE SALLIE MAE.

Not only are their interest rate horrible, they compound interest daily. You may not know what that means, but basically it means that you have to pay interest EVERY DAY to or else you pay interest on your interest. Yes. That $1500 loan may be only costing you $5.00 a day but if you don't pay it for the month, you just racked up a nice 150$ in Interest. BULLSHIT.

And if your loans are subsidized (the govt pays the interest while you are in school) you have a fightin chance to pay down the loan. Oh, but drop below half time, and your loans enter grace period, which is the time between school and repayment and he interest starts building. DAILY.

Basically, do the smart thing. Go to community college and knock out the easy classes. Then go to an expensive college for the major classes. Don't do it the opposite. Your 23 year old, frustrated self will thank you. Or rather, they won't because they won't exist because you did he smart thing.

At it again

While I have been recovering from the most horrid (although to be fair not THAT bad) of a cold, I have been rather unable to think. Which of course meant that I was unable to post.

However, I am back to full health (at least mentally [or rather as normal as my mental health could be]) and now am doing a blog. Just. For. You.

Although, I am using the new blog app, and apparently it doesn't scroll as I type so there is a great chance I am going to fuck this entire thing up. The last word I can see is "just. For. You. "

ANYWAY! I was supposed to be on vacation this week with Dave and even cleared it with the boss for unpaid leave. Unpaid leave that I actually will just make up in the next week (this one). It is absolutely dumb Fuck. I lost my train of thought and I can't see the text. Anyway, we had the week off and of course I got sick but was stubborn as always so we continued to have our vacation. On Wednesday we went to Pineapple Park, which is a "theme" park dedicated to Pineapples. Yes. Please. So we go there and I actually learned quite a bit of information. Did you know there are over 200 kinds of species of pineapple and only 20 are edible? Or that there are ferns which are in the same plant family as the pineapple? Or that many trees I see every day here are actually relatives of pineapples. So I learned all that, then toured the rest of the place and sampled pineapple wine and pineapple cake and pineapple cookies. Yes. Please.

After that we went to the northern most tip of the island where legend has it that an emporer ran away to and hid, never to be found again, and the locals believe he watches over the bluff in the afterlife. Also, it has pretty views. But then we went on an epic quest to find two waterfalls which are supposedly breathtaking. One was closed and the other was so remote I couldn't find it.

The next day was when my sickness was really in full force, but again we tougher it out. We went to visit the peace memorial, which had all the names of the thousands of soldiers who died in the Pacific War. Found a couple long lost great uncles or something. It was a sobering experience to see walls and walls and walls of names.

After that we went to the underground tunnels which the Japanese Navy committed mass suicides because the US Marines were fighting them and were going to overtake them. The tunnels were rather deep, and all dug by hand with pick axes and shovels. David and I kept getting globes of light on our pictures. It was intense. They seemed to be more prevalent on his pictures, which we speculated was because he was an American male.

Somewhere in here we went to membership night and won a digital picture frame in the raffle. I think it was after the waterfall day. Not entirely sure. I was pretty sick.

But I am better now, and posting awayv.

When in Japan

So David and I have been spending quite a bit of time indoors. I would love to get out and enjoy the island but I don't want to do too much too soon. We do have a while here.

But recently, I decided to revisit a key part of my teenage years as a way of connecting with the culture. We have began watching anime together.

I bought 4 seasons of Inuyasha, which is over 70 episodes. We have powered through the first half of a season in three nights. And I am starting to remember why I fell in love with the show in the first place.

To summarize the show so far, Inuyasha (or shmhshmshmhn as Dave calls him) is a half demon half mortal boy who was after a jewel which could turn him full demon when his girlfriend Kikyo (Toyota as Dave calls her) shot him with an arrow and then died from a wound. Her spirit was reincarnated in a girl in modern day Tokyo, named Kagome, who stumbles upon an old well which is a portal to the ancient Japan. Kagome accidentally shattered the jewel after a series of events and now she and Inuyasha need to find all the shards before the other demons use it for evil. To keep Inuyasha in check a beaded necklace is cursed to his neck and allows Kagome to control him by saying "sit boy." playful bantering ensues as the two venture on their way to find the shards.

Standard Anime plot. Lol.

But what I like the most about this show is not just the obvious plot to get Kagome and Inuyasha in love, but the endless humor in it from recurring jokes. Another part of the reason I enjoy this show so much is because it is a lot like David and I. Inuyasha acts annoyed by Kagome's naïveté and persistence to do the right thing. Kagome is just rather confused by the entire situation and is in a foreign place where the only person she can truly trust is Inuyasha.

And I love how David smiles when watching this show, since he was the one to point out our similarities.

Anyway, that's my post for today. Talk to you kids later.

Shuffled Eggs

How weird would it be to be the lady in the grocery store going through the entire shelf of eggs? How about if you were going through and moving all the broken ones to one central location? This way, future customers wouldn't have to worry about grabbing a container with a broken (or missing) egg.  The grocery store that I go to consistently has an entire shelf of cartons with >9 good eggs and at least one bad, broken, or missing egg. If I had the time, which I probably could have done, would it be too weird to do this?

What are some other things that you wish you could do in public but don't because you are worried about whether you may or may not have the authorities called on you because you look insane?

Need more gold

I am now part time. And I guess I have no hope for being full time, because I am too moody.

I can't really complain. It is nice only working 3 days a week, since I can now do all the other things. Things like Homework, baking, modeling, and cooking.

But I miss having money. And David and I agreed that my paycheck will now be entirely devoted to my student loans. I wish I had a job I liked and it was full time.

What do you think? Should I get a second job, or should I look for a new one? Maybe I should stick it out? I don't know. I just need more gold.