in love with my new toy.

July 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment

At MC donalds with Joey. testing transcriber and pocketpc livejoural client. joey likes my iPAQ. He tuinks ix s a game. I have to go back to fix a lot of mistakes. but l am getting faster at it.

Many more programs lwant for thx.s thing.

Sad Bill is leaving.
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Fall down 7 times, get up 8

July 19, 2003 | Leave a Comment

Thursday was a horrible day.

I woke up to find that Bacall had thrown up all over the apartment. I took both cats to the vet and was late to work.

Upon my arrival to work Nick came up to me and said, “Pack your stuff. You’re fired” He gave no explanation when I asked why.

At the payroll company I received an explanation. Basically, Nick thought I was conspiring mutiny. He fired me because Craig said I was going to throw a party where Bill was going to recruit Nick’s staff. Nick made his decision to fire me based on hearsay from Craig about a conversation Craig had with Bill.

Nick didn’t talk to me about it at all. Craig tried to talk to me about it but he was so vague that I didn’t know what he was truly talking about until now. I still don’t know the entire story because this was all based on a conversation between CRAIG AND BILL and NOT ME.

As usual, I am the scapegoat.

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Black & White’s Gone Stir Crazy or How (not) to Train a Cat to Use the Toilet

July 14, 2003 | Leave a Comment

Decided to toilet train my cat, Bogart:

Day 1
Excitedly rush home with toilet training kit from pet store. Read all directions carefully. “Not recommended for cats over 10 pounds.” Interesting. Bogart is about 9 pounds. Set up the toilet tray with kitty litter and sprinkle with herbs provided in kit. Remove litter box.
Went to bed. Checked the tray in the morning. Bogie used it! Hurray! This won’t be hard at all.

Day 2
Hmmm. After cleaning out mess from Day 1 I realize how flimsy this tray is. Isn’t totally broken and will still hold litter so I fill it back up and set it up under the toilet seat. Bogie won’t go near it. He starts looking around the bathroom sniffing everything. He finds the old litter box and he jumps in. I grab him and put him on the toilet. He jumps down. I grab him and put him back up. We do this routine for about 20 minutes. I give up and walk away. He poops in the old, empty litter box.

Day 3
Bogart is mad. I’ve stolen his poopy place. He hops into a basket of clothes and starts to pee. I grab him and rush him to the toilet. I set him on top. He is having no part of this flimsy toilet tray and my weird ideas. He runs back to the clothes and finishes.

Now I am mad. I lock him in the bathroom with the toilet tray and nothing much else.

Night 3
I cannot sleep; this cat is howling for freedom. I pretend I live in the ghetto and it’s a stray cat outside. (Not hard to pretend).

Day 4
I wake irritated and nervously curious. I open the bathroom door to find towels on the floor, the trash knocked over, nothing in the flimsy toilet tray and a roll of toilet paper that has been carefully decorated with urine by my strange howling cat.

Day 5
I go to the pet store and get cat litter. Home, I fill up the old litter box.

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Animals
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