Brian got temp fix for his car until he can find and electrician.  The guys at the auto part store and his dad think it's a wire somewhere or something causing the battery to drain as alternator has been tested and is ok.  I guess.  I dunno cars are beyond me.

So we did go pay my bills, picked up meds, got some groceries.  We'd be in trouble in an emergency I tell ya, we buy just barely enough groceries for a week, that was close.

Neighbor told us he found a fix for his plumbing prob that didn't require them going into our wall to access pipe so the maintenance guys won't have to come in tomorrow.  Good thing Brian saw him.  The maintenance people / landlord didn't update us.  So I would have probably decided to stay up all day tomorrow as they're suppose to be here at 9 am... and now it appears they won't be.

That just leaves Thursday -- Housing Dept has to come in to do lead paint tests or something when I will probably be at Neuro.  So far best answer seems either A.  Leave threatening note on front door explaining DO NOT leave door open and DO NOT let cats out or B. move stinky litter box and food into bedroom and close that door with note saying cats are in there if possible please leave bedroom alone or be careful not to let them out of house, etc. 

Dunno... Landlord is good few times they've had to come and I'm sure he'll be here for it with them but who knows how housing dept people will be.  We could be home by then as we're gonna go at 8ish but with UCLA we could be home at 11... or not until 2 when getting there at 8 for 9:30 appointment.   Maybe should let them in bedroom if landlord is with them he's still not come seen our water damage :/

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Major fire at Universal Studios right now :(

Two stages already lost. One they believe there was filming in progress at.
Holy...

Oh and why do cats not care if they're gonna fall, unless it's off your lap when you're wearing shorts and it's a short fall?  I'm bleeding now and have a scratch around most of my thigh, thanks Dutchie.  That cat can fall off the top of the heater which is as tall as I am and not try to grab on to stop it, but from my lap to the floor, dig the claws into skin and slide to the floor.... OUCHIE.

zzz time but wanna see how bad the fire at Universal is... Wanted to go there soon to see the new Simpsons ride.  :(  The video looks really bad.

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I mentioned, earlier this week, my upstairs neighbor has a water heater leak and they'd be out to assess our water damage at some point.  You guys can assess it now as they're apparently still working on figuring out what is wrong in his apartment :/  Mom wants me to watch it for molding, you know what with my Sarcoid and MS and overall bad immune system.  I'll blame Lister, we always look at him and say "Lister did it" whether something bad happened or not.  Some major news event? Lister did it!

Waterdamage

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And you take the bad...

Bad = cat puking all over your blanket at almost 11 at night when the washer here is broken so rinsing it out in say the tub and letting it dry in the nice cali sun isn't possible.  Spot cleaned it best we could.  Just, eww.

Also Jury Duty summons for the middle of July, hello... Nope.  My MS has had my sleep "schedule" and pain and etc messed up for years.  I liked jury duty last time I did it but don't think I can handle it now.  So I called to postpone it long enough to get my new neuro to fill out the form getting me out of it, hopefully.  If not at least it's postpones until Winter and not the heat of summer when it's all even worse symptom wise.

Shot didn't go so well tonight, not truly bad, but one of the rare times when autoject is blech.  I do NOT want to use the needle alone and usually autoject is fast.  There are rare days like say twice a year when I must pick a spot it doesn't like and it seems to take 20 minutes for the shot to complete.  I said seems... it's really like a minute... but it feel like forever when trying to hold the autoject there waiting and it hurts.

Brain aliens, mostly pain alien have been active over a month now and don't seem to want to go away.  They start to then BAM hit me ten times hard, get better, BAM... it sucks.  But I'm managing to get some art ideas down and working on some, somehow. 

Overall more bad than good... but trying to get some good in today, yay art.

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Usually I just post my art on My ArtLog but posting this one here, for Windy to see, it's Brian's b-day present from the cats, heh:

My cats think I'm a hero

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So Lister has this funny knack for shaking his head at either totally appropriate times or really inappropriate times.  It seems to go in phases for awhile his head only shakes to things that should be yes then for awhile he only does it for no.

So just now I asked him tons of questions.  No kitty shaking of the head just blank kitty stare.  Finally,  I go to leave the room but first I ask "Lister don't you speak English?".  He quickly shook his head. 

Ohh and the Katt spelling is on purpose, I asked Brian how he spells Lister's full name, as I was pretty sure he didn't spell it Cat... I was right, it's spelled Katt after Bucky Katt.  Oddly enough Lister kind of looks like Bucky but I'd have to say Dutchie acts more like him while Lister acts like the dog Satchel :P

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News:
Nick Bollea aka Nick Hogan was sentenced to 8 months in jail + 5 years probation + lost his license for 3 years for the accident that left his friend John Graziano brain damaged.  Good.  He's lucky he didn't kill him or himself.  Hopefully he learns something and stops driving like he's on the track when on the road.

Sleep:
Couldn't sleep until 1.  Slept til 8 which is good I guess.  Hate though hours for sleep but nice amount since I haven't been sleeping straight through and it's only been 5 or 6 hours tops lately.  Lister was laying on my chest when I was falling asleep and I pissed him off because my head was some mutant form of pain alien just stabbing in pain almost causing me to twitch when I reacted he looked at me like stop it, I'm trying to sleep here.  Rude cat :P 

Brian/Plans:
Brian was talking about picking up dinner after work, then after we eat going to a 10 o'clock show of Iron Man.  I'm not usually a comic book super hero kind of girl believe it or not.  Just ther Superman ones and now SuperGirl and Batman.  Still haven't seen Spiderman, Fantastic 4, etc and no interest  But Iron Man looks good and well Robert Downey Jr. can usually make even the worst role seem good.  But it's 9:40 and Brian still not home from work with dinner so think that will be tomorrow.

We had talked about Disneyland this weekend as they have the 2fer deal going on and it's only good if you use one by the 22nd and Brian wants to force me to see the Whoopi California thing before they remove it for the park makeover  (if it's not gone already).  So I suspect we'll go next weekend maybe because I'm pretty sure we'll never pay for CA Adventure (unless the makeover is really good, but that will be years from now).  And with the 2fer specials we pay for Disneyland and then during the next month can go to CA Adventure once for free.

Hmm so that means this weekend is dentist (1 filling scheduled, still gotta figure out the others), Fry's,  Iron Man, refill Topamax, and really finish Misi's mail I hope.

Dunno why my brain aliens are so busy lately.  The one that controls sleep is a mess.  Pain  alien a mess.  General brain alien too my thoughts keep getting all muddled up and I type wrong words and yeah... argh.

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Brian asked me to reschedule my root canal for next Saturday, so I did.  He was worried that me coughing up phlegm this morning could be bad news, he was apparently worried I'd cough at a bad time and bite the dentist's finger off, heh... I forgot to ask him why he wasn't worried about what could happen to ME if I coughed at a bad time with a DRILL in my mouth.  He was probably worried the dentist would bill him if injured and I wouldn't :P

Managed to get out of robe and into clothes long enough to go get coffee

Came straight home and have been laying around in robe ever since with kitties trying to "take care of me" as I lay curled up crampy, dizzy, and overall blech.  Those of you who have kitties probably know, they mean well but their  idea of helping or taking care of you is not always so helpful.  As Brian put it "I know what it's like to be stalked by the paparazzi, I have cats"

On a positive note it's sprinkling, not raining (we've already gotten something like 3 times the rain we got all of last year).  Sprinkling is nice.  Pouring rain is not.

So dizzy I can't even follow these political shows!  It's not a dizzy like the room is spinning dizzy, it's more erm... ugh wish I would explain, but words fail me so back to being curled up and doing nothing I go.

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Politics:
Rumours floating around that Obama would offer Edwards the Attorney General position if he's elected.  If it's true I hope Obama wins.  Edwards could probably just go into the private/non-profit sector and do more but frankly I'm such a strong supporter of his I think it'd be a shame to see him leave Government, he's one of the few good big party guys  we have left who would work FOR us.

TV:
Smallville was new and is getting a bit darker though it had some cheesy moments.  This is to be the last season with Lex and we're running out of episodes... hmmm.  I keep hoping it means we'll move onto the Batman/Superman friendship of the comic books, but I read there are legal issues so we'll likely never see Batman on the series.   Also comic book related, they announced Chloe would become a regular and have since retracted that comment, bummer, I like her.

Paparazzi = Stalkers:
Locally they're finally deciding enough is enough with the paparazzi.  http://video.knbc.com/player/?id=212782
  About time someone considers them the stalkers they are.  Brian and I find it hilarious the papazzari in that video are asking them to get the camera out of their faces.  Also stalking isn't a 1st amendment right, thanks. 

I did it!  Just kidding:
On Sunday Dutch TV will be airing some sort of confession by Joran van der Sloot relating to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.  He of course now says he lied on the hidden camera confession.  Yeah, I always go around confessing to something I didn't do too. 

For the Kitty Owners:
OMG! Looks so much better than a litter box.  Sadly our apartment bathroom doesn't have a layout where that would work but I want that anyway.  The Littermaid self cleaning litterbox changed it's design from the original one we used to have and now doesn't work very well.

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Mijn Favoriet sent me a Christmas card that got here today.  It's a very very sweet card.  More fancy and sweet  than the usual cheesy Christmas card.  Titled May You Always Have an Angel.  Now his hand written letter assures me that while he didn't make it himself, he did pick it out all by himself ;)  So I'm just going to assume it's all what he'd have written  -- well if he were that mushy and not so sarcastic usually.  ♥  He also drew me a Yoshi, though his pen didn't listen to his request to make it red for the holiday, how rude of it, heh.  Mijn Favoriet rocks.  Hmm not to question his motives or anything but I must wonder if he was trying to be super sweet and show off his sweet side via a card... or if he was just trying to beat T in the awwww this is such a good card Ramie will be MY Angel department *smirk*

In other news, went shopping, saw a man throwing things and yelling about how this is America when the cashier didn't bother to tell all of the people in line she'd "been closed for awhile".  Got cute shoes.  Got blonde hair dye so I can go orange again (Brian, oddly enough, likes it better than red while finding it too bright until I shampoo it once or twice he still does think it looks good on me).  Got some bras.  Got the kitties a tall cat climbing post w/ perch to replace the cardboard box lister had been sitting on since it got thrown out once we removed the Christmas presents from it.  Watched the 3rd Pirates movie. 

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