The Power of Mint

HELLOs. MintIceCream here(MIC for short) tis a world about me, and the crazy antics of my 5 cats that just love to drive me nuts.

Age-20
Job-substitute teacher
Gender-female
i recently graduated from college with a BS degree in education, certified for art (I'm an art teacher). i currently sub teach while i shop for a job in my content area.

Mindy-my cat, she's a white cat with tabby splotches all over. She's 15 years old, nonsocial, phychotic, and crazy. But i love her all the same.

Texa-my dad's cat primarily, he has a tuxedo style coat. black with a white strip down his belly, on his paws, and the lower half of his face. he's also a manx(no tail) and very talkative. a gentle giant, very lovable, although he doesn't really like me to well. he's 11 years old. (he's also kind of a cranky old @$$)

Bogart-mom's cat. and mine sometimes. the very fat one of our family. he's 7 year old. a brown tabby who loves to raise chaos. he loves to terrorize the adults, and chew on everything. he's also a big pig and will eat anything. even though he's my mom's cat, he loves everyone. he's quite the ladies man. he prefers the company of women over men.

Sammie-Ryan's cat. 7 year old. he is all gray, with thick soft fur. the sweetest cat in the whole world. he isn't all that smart though, and kinda slow. definatley not our brightest bulb, but we love him all the same. he will do anything for a tidbit of human food, so i have managed to teach him a few tricks. his favorite food is gold fish. we try to tell him it's not a real fish, but he doesn't believe us.

Augustus (GUS for short)- everyone's cat. the newest addition to our family, we rescued him from a cousin who should be banned from owning animals. he was 5 weeks old when we got him, so tiny. he's now 3 years old. he is a miniture norwegian forrest cat. all black, orange eyes, and EXTREMLY fluffy. he is the baby of the family, and res1sident ninja/trouble-maker. he is also quite dog like. he will sit and shake paws for a treat, likes to play fetch, loves meeting new people, and go for walks on a leash and harness.

anyways, have fun, and enjoy the power of the minty-ness.

Created By MintIceCream

so tired of this

it's official. i'm sick and tired of this family bonding togetherness. and i'm stuck with my parents and brother for another 2 days.T.T help me!

but i've been to the grand canyon. i got a rock from there too. and some other cool souvenirs. we went on lots of hikes too. 2 were on the rim, 1 actually went down into the canyon. we went a mile and a half downhill intot he canyon, which wasn't to bad. but then we had to climb that mile and a half uphill to get out of the canyon. a steep uphill. a very steep uphill. and the higher up you go the thinner the air, which made it worse. we were all dragging ourselves at the end. but it was worth it. it was so cool to go down into the canyon, that's where i snagged my rock from.

right now we're in some place called grand junction, which i think is a very strange name for a city. and they have wierd street names. our hotel is on 28 1/4 street. the next street is 28 1/2 street. why someone would put fractions with street names is beyond me.

dessert

today when we left this morning we spent most of the day driving through the rocky mountains. my ears were popping the whole time. but i'm glad a took my medicine. i get motion sickness very easily in a car so i got some meds for that. cause with all the back and forth weaving through the mountains i would have thrown up for sure with out it.

we stopped at a reststop by the colorado river and i grabbed a rock. i also have a rock from the badlands in south dakota. i love rocks.

we're in utah now so it's all dessert. we went on a 3 mile hike through some of the arches and mountainy thingys. i got a rock from there too, it's reddish orange. but there we're some steep climbs to go up and down on the hike. i nearly twisted my ankle.

the hotle we're at tonight has a pool so we went swimming for awhile. but i wore a tshirt over my suit. i gained some weight awhile back and have been unsuccesful in losing it. so i felt fat and horrible in my suit. dad says we should reach the grand canyon tomorrow after lunch. i can't wait!

on the road again

okay, so i have good news nd bad news. good news is that th hotel i'm spending the night at has a computer i can get on. bad news is that it won't let me comment on any of your guy's posts. sorry. but i did read everything.

i watched the 1st and 2nd pirates of the carribean movies in the car today. it was a nice way to pass the time. i also got a lot of crocheting done. right now we are in aurora. when we got here we dumped our stuff into our room then headed to the mall to kill some time and stretch. we ate dinner there (chick-fil-a) which was awsome because we don't have any of those at home and it's a wonderful place to eat. we also all got a snack at the chocolate factory store. i got a chocolalte covered s'more.

the hotel i'm in also has a fitness center. 1 elliptical and bike, 2 treadmills. so after we got back from the mall all 4 of us headed down there. we did 20 minutes on each machine. the boys complained the whole time. they hate exercising, but mom and i love it so we had a good time.

tomorrow we're headed to a place called moab, which i think is a cool word. i hope to get to watch the 3rd pirates movie on the way there.

what an adventure

tomorrow i'm heading out early to drive to the grand canyon with my parents and brother. so i won't be on at all next week. but since we're going to be gone for a week we drug all 4 cats outside to be brushed and have they're claws clipped. bogart and sammie were easy. they're the youngest and naive ones. and bogart is so tolerant. he just lays there while you brush and clip him. he doesn't complain at all. sammie squirms and crys but a hand on his scruff keeps him still. but texa and mindy are the fun ones. their older and wiser. they can read our minds i think. when we decided it was time to brush, we didn't say anything but both adults disappeared. mindy went behind the couch in the basement and texa sqeezed under the couch upstairs. but hunting cats is the best sport, so much fun. and then when we get the adults outside it's a battle to hold them down. i love brushing the cats. they don't like it but i do.

i gave my sunday school class carrots for snack today. i didn't think it would be popular but it was! they even asked for seconds. and i read them 2 dr. seuss books.

i hate packing. haveing to figure out what all i'll need for the trip is a pain in the butt. and i still have to vacuum the whole house since i didn't help with yardwork yesterday. ugh. i also had to clean mindy's kennel. she doesn't get along with the boys so she has her own kennel to sleep in at night. but since she's old and can't hold it all night anymore she also has a box in the kennel. but she often misses, and makes a mess in her kennel. i had to unscrew the top and scrub it down. stinky smelly cat urine caked inside a kennel is the definition of disgusting. when i got a wiff of it i nearly threw up on the driveway.

GIANT bugs!

last night we opened the patio door to let the cats in the backyard. but we leave the door open so that they can go in and out as they please. but last night i giant bug flew in! i thought it was a bee or wasp. we have had wasps sneak before. one night we found 5 wasps. i was freaking out and yelling for dad. he and ryan are the bug killers. FINALLY he stopped ignoring me and came to kill it. we shooed the cats back inside and shut the door to keep the bugs out. but then i went downstairs to scoop the litter boxes and there was a bug in there too! i told dad and he just threw the bug swatter down at me. but i told him i wasn't going to scoop the boxes until he killed the bug. that's what boys are for, killing bugs. i'm okay with little bugs. i can vacuum them up or get the cats to eat them. but big bugs are horrible. finally dad came down and killed it for my. yuck.