I Don't want the World to See Me

Went blackberry picking and Leo followed me. I swear, that cat is like a dog sometimes. He headbutted my hand as I reached for some low berries, which almost got me stuck. Note: Tip toe past him next time.

Also, I visit a ton of sites everyday. So how come I pick up a virus from CNN.com? It was Malware that kept me from doing anything, insisting I had a virus and had to pay 40 bucks to get rid of it. When I restarted, I couldn't F8 (I think that is the right function to get safe mode?) Have to use the Function button to get to my F keys. I force restarted and it asked me if I wanted to restore from an early backup. Woot! Just what I wanted to do. Almost late to work this morning, but it appears to be all fine :D

Slowly, I am trying to get rid of all the annoying clutter and crap that makes me cringe when I see it.

First it was the assortment of no less than 10 bottles of shampoo in the shower ridge (Mom kept buying them when they were on sale), then it was the cat food area--I poured 8 open sacks of cat food into a large tub, tucked all Ki's treats in there as well, and got rid of the large box that had everything randomly tossed in it. Then I cleaned out my closet of pretty much everything so I could put my 5 CD changer boom box in there (I've always wanted my closet to play music, hehe).

Now, it was time to clean out under my bed. Before, there was barely room for a cat. Now...I think I can hide at least three bodies. I got rid of 2 wooden VHS tape holders and 1 cassette holder, three boxes of notebooks (one box had story snippets that I had written one a day for almost 3 years--those I tucked away (neatly) into a drawer by my computer), a huge stack of magazines that I was holding onto for Jeff (since he left and had already looked at them, don't need any more), a few boxes of 3x4 paper (are out of the boxes and neatly by my printer), some old crappy books, a few coin holders (yay money), a HS yearbook double (oops), a few three ring binders of newspaper clippings (one full of stuff making fun of Clinton that I did in the years before teh internets). And I think a few more random WTF things.

I vacuumed up several spiders, cobwebs, cat litter pellets, bugs, etc.

Now, all I have under there are my 5 notebooks containing my coin collections, a spindle of new DVD-Rs, 2 empty small binders that I will be using one of for NaNo, 2 photo albums and a box of lose photos, and....that is it :D

Took three hours, but makes me happy.

Next up...um...I really need to get rid of my old computer. Then I would have a nice little nook to put other stuff. Anyone have any idea how I can get rid of it? I am assuming the garbage not work. I hope it still works so I can delete a ton of crap off of it.

After that, there is a hall closet that has a few of my boxes in it that I don't want. Would love to be able to get that out of there, even though I rarely use that closet so the mess isn't OMG LOOKING AT ME EVERY DAY!!!111

Just wish I could get Mom to want to clean out some of her clutter :-/

Looks like I am on jury duty for August *sigh* Seems I get picked to do it once a year. Last year I almost ended up in the court room---had to go into the courthouse, watch a training video and stuff, then the trial got canceled like 10 minutes later *whew* That was the closest I have ever been.

Been working with the kittens. So far we have Boots, Fluffy (that's what we get for referring to it as the fluffy one bleh), and Spooks--one of the 2 black kittens that is more timid. Both of them look alike to me, so that is the only way I can tell it apart. I've managed to get them to eat pieces of hot dog out of my hand. Boots almost ran into the house when I opened the door.
They will let me kinda pet them...if they are occupied and don't notice me.

I've managed to snatch them all up tonight and hold them for a few seconds. Boots seemed the most helpless for effectively squirming away with the unnamed black kitten a close second. Fluffy's claws hurt the most when in GET AWAY mode, while Spooks is good at squirming away without raking my arms.

Able to get them to still approach me (If I provided proof of food) after they got let down.

The fireworks didn't freak them out as much as we thought it would. They didn't show up for a couple of days, back when the fireworks first started up, but they last two they were waiting on the porch for us. Mom kept freaking out about them not getting any food for 2 days.

Not much lol, but I have seen a few movies :)

On Sunday, I went to see My Bloody Valentine--mainly because Jensen Ackles was in it and because it was in 3D.
I'm not too big a fan of horror...at all, but I still enjoyed this--just had to close my eyes a few times.
I have this habit of showing up early to movies, so I got there like 20 minutes before showtime and was the first one there. Played with the 3D glasses some, then zoned out to wait for entertainment. Wasn't too much longer before this couple came in. OMG they were hilarious! They were the type that doesn't take crap from each other, so they playfully bickered. The guy decided, while being painfully slow about it, on sitting in the row in front of me. Then he lined himself up with the center of the screen, which was right in front of me, and teased me for getting the best seat. He stood in front of me, moved one to the side, back in front of me, etc. Then he sat in front of me. The seats are nice so he didn't really block off my view. GF/Wife double checked that it was okay with me before taking her own seat. They chatted about the popcorn, to get nachos and candy or not, and...it was just so freaking hilarious. While he was gone, I chatted to the lady about some of the other theaters she has gone to and stuff.
Then a gang of about 7 noisy teens sat in the row behind me (WTF people? Next time, I won't try to nab good seats). They kinda irritated me since they were being loud and I couldn't listen in on the couple in front of me--lol.
Okay, movie time. Got the sign to put on glasses. Immediately everyone ooh'ed over the 3D logo.
I hadn't seen a 3D movie before, and it was definitely impressive. Glad that they didn't over use the scenes that had stuff jumping out towards you. Made the times that it did happen all the more effective. Example: Toward the very beginning. Bad guy with a Pick Axe--Scene was shows in some promotional interviews and stuff. Baddie throws the weapon towards the 'viewers' and it gets embedded in a car, cutting to a scene like you would be seeing it from inside the car. One of the gals behind me freaked out and dropped her popcorn. LMAO!
But the gore...definitely didn't need to see a 3D look at the inside of a gal who had her heart cut out. Or someone's head chopped in half with a shovel!
But the twist! Very nice! And I want to see again, but I really don't want to spend another 8.50--2 bucks more because it is a 3D.
The glasses were a little bit uncomfortable after awhile, so I had to cushion it with hair, but that did the trick.

I also went to see Valkyrie twice. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I really didn't find any scenes drawn out or boring, which is a rarity. Even seeing it the second time, there was no signing from me during any scenes at having to see them again. Definitely going to be buying this one when it comes out on video.
We all know what is going to happen in the movie, yet it is hard not to cheer his character along and cross our fingers, hoping he will succeed in killing Hitler (umm...sorry if that was a spoiler, because it really shouldn't have been).
(and yes, the eye patch was nummy :P )
Thankfully, it isn't showing here any more or else I might go again.
Maybe it will move to the little 3 screen theater so I can finally use up my 10 dollar gift card--worried that place is going to go out of business soon since it can't really compete at all with the new 10 screen theater. With the new one, if you go to the first showing of the day of a movie, it is a dollar off, so only 6.50 :)

Also, michelleann68 was able to find some cheap airline tickets, so in April, Michelle, Gin, and I are going to go to San Francisco. After Dad throwing a fit over LA a few years back, he's not even going to try to fight this one lol.

Mom's going in for surgery for gallbladder today. Has to get up at 5 in the morning and be at the hospital by 6. I think I am going to wait up for her to get up in the morning before heading to bed. As long as I am in bed by 5:30, I'll get my 6 hours sleep that I need to feel human when I wake up :)