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.
so today,i didn't start me exercise as early as i wanted. mindy attacked me for some snuggle time. but i tried my ballroom dance video. i was fine until the jive, i had to rewind and retry it several times. and mindy kept freaking out worse than usual about the boys cats being downstairs, so i had to cover her with her blankie (which is actually me very nice, soft shawl that she stole). she spent the whole hour under it.
i'm working 11-5 today, and then i'm going to head over and oick up david. he's never been to a lot of places in town, he lives under a rock. so today i'm going to show him the joslyn art museum. awesome place, i'm so excited. i'm hoping they have some new postcards of their art collection. i love the large posters, but they're expensive. but when i teach i the postcards are more useful anyways. i can pass the postcards out for the kids to look at, they like being able to hold them.
i posted to practice sketches for my western comic. drawing the people as cats actually isnt as hard as i thought it was going to be. getting all the background detail is actually the annoying part. oh well.
so today my hours at lodging are different. usually i work 7-3. today i'm working 11-7. so this gave me a chance to get up, exercise, and get some more of the dialogue down before i had to come in. and some kitty snuggles with mindy.
i think i traumitized mindy and gus though. i finally tried out that dance exercise video. i got most of it, but i'm sure i looked stupid. they just stared at me with saucer eyes. oh well, i had fun.
for good news, i got my weeks quota of crocheting done last night, so that means i can spend the rest of the week focused on my comic prep. and, since i finished crocheting, i get to paint my nails this weekend! yay! i get to try my new red i bought a few weeks ago. i'm so excited.
So today, the boys woke me up with their getting ready for school and work, couldnt fall back asleep, so i decided to just get up and be productive. I crocheted and watched meerkat manor with mindy.
Mom and i went to the gym, then went out for lunch. She doesnt work today, so we got to just hang out. We came home and separated to nap, and after i woke up i started back on working on getting the dialogue from the movie written down. Slow going work though. But mindy is happy. It isnt often i get to spend a day in bed with her. So there has been lots of random cuddle attacks interrupting my work. But thats okay, cuddle attacks are the best.
I know i said i would start posting pages for the comic this weekend, but it might get pushed to next weekend. I think this week im going practice drawing my cats as cowboys.
This week is spring break for the district i teach in. And i work lodging wed, thurs, and friday this week. So today and tomorrow i have rare days of nothing. My brother still had scho though ( i dont teach in his district) so he wasnt around to annoy me. I got up and went to the gym, it was boring. Mom and i have decided to drop our memberships to that gym, the drive out there is just too long. Plus ive bought a bunch of equipment that i learned how to use at the gym, so now i can just do it at home instead of driving all the way out there.
Came home, lunch and shower. Ive decided that before i begin sketching out my western kitty comic, i need to get the dialoge. So i spent 3 painful hours with the movie on subtitles. Id watch ti somebody said something and the subtitles popped up, pause the movie and write it down, play a few seconds, pause and write, repeat. Ive gotten a lot written, but im only maybe 30-45 minutes into the movie im guessing. Havent even gotten to the really good part. Dad came home and i had to turn it off really quick. Inwant to surprise uim with the comic, john wayne is his ultimate favorite.
But anyways, dad came home, and sice its super nice out today we went for a walk. Then a strongarmed the boys into helping me groom the herd. Of the 5 only 1 is mine. So why am i always the one grooming all 5. Cause theyre lazy. Ryan brushed sammie, dad texa, i bogart, and dad and i worked together on gus. Gus is just so damn fluffy he recquires extra hands. I still need to brush mindy, but im going to brush her inside. The boys lime going outside, but mindy is afraid, and old. She was attacked by birds when she was a kitten, so ill brush her in the basement the. Just vacuum up the evidence. The basement needs vacuumong anyway.
And i finally got rid of the mountain of laundry on my bed! My bed was more laundry that blankets.
so last night, i did indeed get ashley to walk to the store, and i got an awesome sketchbook for my western comic. but when i got home, i was picking at it, and i kind of broke the binding. so i found the hot glue gun, and now it's all better.
but when i was at ashley's house, i saw a commercial for ihop, i haven't been there in ages. so i convinced my dad to meet me there, and i treated him to dinner. it was great. until this morning. whatever i had there isn't agreeing with me now. i might not stay my whole 8 hours here at lodging. i might duck out early once Z comes in at 11.
other than that, another easy day. we have a ton of people checking out this morning, so it's been kind of busy. after work, i have chores i still need to get around to. vacumming and cleaning my bathroom. but i need to get some crocheting done tonight, then maybe if i have some time after that, i'll start the planning sketches for my comic.
such a sad bonsai, sitting in my window. i just trimmed all the dead parts off of it. there was a lot of dead parts. i don't think the poor bonsai is going to survive.
