Yesterday wasn’t the best day.  OC kept me awake till 2 AM so I slept in way longer than I should have and was too exhausted to work.  Thanks meanie!  He did everything possible to keep up including knocking something off the kitchen table that woke me up and scared the shit out of me.

I finally made it to the shelter yesterday to bring them Atley’s X-Rays.  I was kinda hoping to see him, but that didn’t happen which is probably for the best because I teared up just driving over there.  So, now we have an adoption voucher…great.  I went to check out the cats to see if any would be a nice addition to our family.  I had been eyeing a kitten that could be Bella’s twin since we brought Atley back to the shelter.  I thought it would be pretty cool to have 2 orange cats and 2 Siamese cats.  However, this cat is not really that warm to people.  But there was a new kitten that had just arrived that morning, and I instantly fell in love with her.  She’s brown with a white tummy.  She’s super loving – demanding to be in my lap and purring away.  She’s so loving in fact the shelter named her Love Bug, but I’ll be changing that to Sweet Pea.  :)  I think she’ll fit in perfect and finish off the family.  I’m sure the cats won’t be happy at first, but they’ll all be playing in no time.

Last night I went to TKD because it was forms night.  I learned my brown belt form.  It has some things I’ve never done before.  I like that they are getting more challenging.  The only difficult thing is that I’m learning new stuff in both TKD and Kung Fu while trying to get ready to test in Tai Chi.  It can be somewhat overwhelming at times, but when I stop to think about each thing I realize that it’s not all that bad actually.  I love martial arts and feel blessed to get to study each night.

Bryan is still in Alabama, and I still don’t know when he’s coming back. Sigh…I could really have used my best friend last night.  I find the long distance communication hard when you’re talking to someone you’re used to communicating with face to face on a daily basis.

I’m going to go get ready so that I can pick up the new kitten in a little while.

I started reading again over the past couple of weeks; I have missed it so much.  Life just got too busy for reading for awhile.  I used to read ALL THE TIME – seriously.  I read any chance I could reading no less than 4 books at a time.  My reading really slowed down after moving to Austin and especially after starting martial arts.  I also spend way too much time on the Internet doing nothing.  I went through my Google Reader and deleted some RSS feeds that were only taking up my precious time.  I kept the important ones and now my reader is much smaller each day, and I’m loving it!  So, back to the reading…  I had started PJ’s book right after it was released.  I read a chapter, and then I didn’t pick it back up until last week (after months and months of it collecting dust – shame).  Then I devoured it.  Not quenched, I immediately went to the bookshelf to see what else there was to read.  I discovered a book called The Giver.  I had never heard of it but I read half of it last night and the other half this morning.  It was GREAT!  I loved it.  I find books of this topic to be extremely intriguing.  It’s about a community so planned that everything has rules and everything is for the betterment of the community.  It really reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Anthem.  It makes you wonder…  I’m excited because now it’s time to pick out another book.

Songs I’m digging right now:

Beautiful Dirty Rich – Lady GaGa

Poker Face – Lady GaGa