THERE WAS SNOW THIS MORNING! REALLY.

OMG TEXAS WTF

I'm going to England this weekend to attend the memorial service for Alex's dad on Monday. I wish it was with better circumstances. I'll work a half day on Friday and come back Tuesday night. My mom thinks I am crazy going to England for only 3 days but it's not a pleasure trip. I would like to have flown with my sister since she's also traveling from Texas but she's flying out of Austin. I'm flying Continental and my mom & sister are with American so I'm coming back at a different time too. I will see if I can get a coworker to drive me to work on Friday morning and (possibly) the airport as well. Farmers Branch isn't very far from Irving.

Now back to decorating the house for Christmas... man my mom has a tonnnnnnnnnnn of Xmas stuff.

I am super depressed about not seeing Ray this weekend. Circumstances were bad. My mom got swine flu and has been coughing around the house she is better now I think since se went to get her car.

I hurt my shoulder, the doctor says it si a pulled muscle or tendon and hav gave me to some painkiller. It is strong and I don't feel as much pain but it makes me LOOOOPY as hell.

Tried to write my October reports for work but my head hurts and I keep falling asleep. Ray turned his phone off so I can't call him so I'm sad. I made some tea and it helps. I also watched a ton of movies this weekend although I slept through some of them.

Alex's dad passed away yesterday. He found his father on Sunday lying unconscious in a pool of blood. It was a ruptured cerebral aneurysm.

My mom had already planned to go see Alex next week but she couldn't leave early. It is really hard on both of them to be apart. I am going to try to get a passport immediately so the family can be with him.

I wish there was something I could do for Alex. We all love him so much.

I haven't been using the internet lately.

But I did (sorta) finish a costume in 2 days for the Tx Ren Fair down in Houston. We'll be there on Saturday.

I need to iron and pack but I wanted to check the weather in Houston first. So hi, internet.

I spent the entire night getting up every hour to check on the kitty. He was isolated with a litter box, water, a bed, and his pig, in the bathroom, so I could monitor if he was able to pee and poo. He was extremely miserable and hissed at me from the cat bed every time I went in there to pet him.

My mom arranged for her friend to come pick the cat up from the house at 7:30 and take him to the vet. Unfortunately, she and I both planned to leave the house at 6:30. So that would mean the kitty, who already feels like crap, would be sitting in his container being miserable for at least an hour. Of course I didn't do this, which turned out to be an even better thing to not do. My mom's friend showed up at 9:30 to pick up the cat. 3 fucking hours, are you KIDDING ME? This is a living, loving creature!

I emailed work around midnight to tell them I wouldn't be in at 7am, but would try to come in later in the day. I took Derrek to the vet at 8am when they opened and waited in a line of about 15 crazy pet owners seeing the vets right at opening time. The vet was pretty amazing. He examined, weighed, x-rayed, took a urine sample, and gave an injection to Derrek *without* tranquilizing my cat. I've never seen a doctor so brave. Anyway, Mr. Kitty has been peeing all over stuff, and he's not blocked. He has a kidney infection, so he had to get some medicine and I have to shove pills down his throat for a week. The vet says he'll be fine in about 3 days. I feel much better now.

In really awesome news, my mom went for her US Citizenship thingy, and she's now a certified US citizen! I'm so happy for her!!!

Derrek was acting weird after dinner. He's been peeing randomly around the house for the last week or so to the point where my mom bought cat spray (like bug spray I guess, keeps them away). But he was licking his crotch a lot and making stupid noises so I was worried. He then vomited all of his dinner all over the staircase and went and hid in the corner and whined. Since this was the way he acted last time when he couldn't pee, I freaked out and decided to take him to the emergency vet... since nobody else is open on a Sunday night. As soon as I got the container out, he tried to run away, and when I picked him up to put him in it, he peed all over himself. This was sort of a good sign since it meant he was still able to pee.

We got there before 7pm and sat in the waiting room for over an hour before they bothered to even let us talk to a tech, much less a vet. I told them the symptoms he was having but also warned them that they'd need to sedate him to examine him. They come back with an estimate of $500 and tell me that if he is able to pee, then it's probably not the same problem he had before but that's the only thing it would appear to be and they could check for it. I told them it was important for me to find out what was wrong so we can make him healthy again, but I wasn't willing to agree to all these other random tests that were driving the price up.

They go and sedate him and run this test. The vet comes out to tell me that, shockingly enough, he is still able to pee so it's not his urinary tract. They say that if he starts having the same symptoms (weird squatting around like he's trying to go, whining, and licking his crotch) that he is ALREADY HAVING, to bring him back since it might be serious. If the cat can't pee, then it is life-threatening. This is totally confusing but they tell me there is basically nothing that they can do for him since his bladder was empty, but if he starts to get worse I can always bring him back. They suggest that maybe I can take him to my normal vet in the morning for some bloodwork or whatever I want.

The diagnosis of "we don't know, take him home and see if he dies" cost me $278.

You'd think for that price they could at least watch him for the night so I'm not freaking out checking on him every 5 minutes to see if he's worse. Because like, I'm totally a vet and can tell if he's getting better or worse! Or have the slightest fucking clue what to do about it! UGH

I absolutely fucking love Linkin Park. Almost their entire discography is terrific. I had not realized before buying/downloading all of it how much variety their music displays.

Other songs recently discovered that are 100% awesome:

The Bird and the Worm by The Used- Never heard of this band before, don't recognize any of their other songs. The song has weird creepy sound effects. I like the dudes going ALL ALONE... ALL ALONE... ALL ALONE... hehehe

Go-Getter Greg by Ludo- It's the dorkiest creepy stalker song ever. Seriously. The lyrics crack me up.

Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) by Green Day- Yea, I own a few Green Day albums and know that they are pretty awesome. I've heard the big radio hits over the years. I hadn't heard this one before but it really reminds me of Mama by My Chemical Romance. It's great.

Pandora is 100% convinced I have to like Yellowcard. I can't get over the weirdness of throwing a violin into punk (though it's more pop sounding). They also gave me some wacky Christian punk which was pretty good. XD Would never have known that it was religious if I hadn't bothered to read the little band blurb. I was excited to find out that there is something else besides rap that sounds like Beastie Boys- Rage Against the Machine! It's like funk-hiphop-rock-metal or something.

OHHH AND! I have a rank C guy in Dissidia now. I got to level 100 ranked E because I suck at fighting games. Now I'm leveling up a different dude and he's only level 28, but rank C! I suck less or something.

This movie might still be the best thing ever made.

I wanted to watch The Mask of Zorro this weekend, which I only have on VHS, so I had to look at my VHS collection. And omg! Ferris Bueller! I love this movie SOOOO MUCH.

Answer: YESSSS!



Btw, if that isn't the stupidest battle ending victory phrase thing, I don't know what is.

OH AND- Do NOT play this on your PS3. Trust me!!!!!!!!!!