Mommy and Me

Kitties are getting biiiiiigger. Gus being bigger than Izzy (pictured).

Yes, I am a cat lady.
I am going make the biggest, most intricate, cat tree/mansion some day.
And when it's done I'm going to sit and watch them play in it while giggling manically.

4 weeks

Until freedom with a Bachelor's degree! Today was our senior class photo hence the premature donning of graduation gowns. I'm third from the right in the back row, my face is kind of being obstructed by that dude. Can't wait for the real thing.

Happy Halloween

(via JustJared)

If I celebrated Halloween this year I would have donned the cat version of this dog outfit Amanda Seyfried rocked. That would be meowsome and oh so warm and cuddly. So bummed I had to work this whole weekend but funny story time. My mom and dad went and bought enough (good) Halloween candy to make a kid a diabetic (when I say good I mean chocolate - Snickers, Reeses, Twix, etc. - not the twisters, bottle caps, and hot tamales I tried to unsuccessfully trade off as a child). I come home tonight to trick-or-treaters on the street and complete darkness at our house. No outside lights on. No inside lights on. Not even the lights we USUALLY have on are lit up in any way, shape or form. Fuckin' pitch black with me using my iphone as a flashlight. I go inside and find the candy bowl sitting inside the door, as if we are ready to hand out treats when our house looks completely abandoned. What is wrong with this picture??? I literally laughed out loud. Halloween has become my family's excuse to buy and eat mass quantities of chocolate that we never plan on handing out in the first place. I told my mother about how ironic this all was and have never seen her laugh harder in my life. And she says, in between laughing and eating a KitKat bar, "Michelle, the candy is for the kids, it's scary when it's dark". Mom, totally busted you!!!

DMV Culture

So, I went to the DMV to renew my license today. I have to do it before my birthday November 8th and I wanted a new photo because I am sick of the prolonged double-take I get at 21+ establishments (security man - twenty something with overly spiked hair - looks at me, looks down, looks at me, looks down, asks the other security man for his unqualified opinion, looks at me, asks me to smile, lets me in and considers it a favor). Apparently society wants everyone to look like drones in their pictures because the man taking the photo instructed me to pose like this:

I really wanted the "I'm so excited for my new license!!!!!!!" picture:

Or the "Rock on, I'm above the law and you to know it" picture:

Guess you can't get everything you want. But I kind of had fun... met a clown, got a free diet pepsi, talked to a lady about how to build my own cat tree and got an offer to work at the Hot Dog on a Stick corporate office. Department of Motor Vehicles, you aren't that attractive but I like you. Same time next week?

P.S. I got my hairs cut yesterday. Two inches felt like a foot but if you think about it, that hair was probably 10+ years old. Yeah. I'm okay with saying goodbye.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

Brillant. And how funny/cute was her little dog?! Haha :)

Camera Hog

Forever 21 Forest Green Razer-Back Tank. Forever 21 Black Bandeau top. Iz went all naturale.

We (I) have no life. Haha, just keeding, that statement couldn't be farther from the truth. I had clinical all day (went well, took care of two seriously seriously ill people) and have a huge exam at 0800 tomorrow morning but... I'd rather be eating wheat thins (original flavor) and making slide-shows with Izzy.

Honestly

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Meet Izzy

I know what you're thinking, we are freakin' cat ladies, but we felt bad that Gus had no one to play with!!! He was already treating us like his mommies (he never had a nursing phase so he sucks on our fingers all the time) but we were also acting as his stand-in siblings (sorry but we will never be ideal play fight partners - it is painful and left us with many a wound). My sister Lauren had a friend whose cat recently had kittens who she was trying to find homes for. She showed us the last one left, a doe-eyed male Orange babe, and the deal was done. The best things come in pairs. Izzy is adorable, Gus has someone to play with that is more on his level, and we are a happy (nontraditional?) family.

Meet Augustine

We were finally able to bring home my (and Becca's) sweet kitten! His name is Augustine (Gus for short - you know, like Gus Gus, the cute mouse from Cinderella?). One of my nursing friends works at a Refugee Center and had a family from Burma find a box of 4 kittens in a near-by dumpster! Can you believe that??! Anywho... Gus and his siblings were malnourished and sickly. My friend took them to the vet and was able to nurse them all back to health and he is officially in his new home! I am excited to see what is in store for us!

Bird of a Feather

Everyone knows the popular phrase, "Birds of a feather flock together". In nature, birds of a single species do in fact frequently form a flock. And in human life, those with similar tastes and interests congregate in groups. I consider myself a kind of endangered flamingo (think unique and slightly awkward) so "bird", singular, fits me perfectly. I am friends with other birds. And we can flock. But I'm just a free spirit that loves everyone, no matter how much you may try to convince me otherwise. Is that naive of me? Maybe. But who really cares what I think ;)

Caution: n00b !

I think this will be fun. Although I am probably too busy to be keeping up a blog right now I am an expert at distraction and have complete confidence in myself. I am in school to be a nurse and am graduating in December. Basically, I'm saving lives by day and dreaming up a fabulous closet (that I have yet to compile) by night. I'm still getting a hang of the blogging thing but have grown a new love (that is still in its fetal stages) for fashion. I will explain why I chose "Bird of a Feather" lata. Like I said, I am a really busy (lazy, ha-ha) girl these days. Peace, love and blogging.