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

not my bday

last night was awesome. halloween is my favorite holiday ever! i went out with christie, nicole, and 3 of nicole's friends, who were really cool. we went trick-or-treating. i was a pirate. and i dressed my cat up too, she was a princess for a grand total of 5 minutes. long enough to take a pic of the 2 of us in our costumes. then she started to throw a tantrum, so i let her take the dress and hat off. maybe i'll post the pic of us later.

somehow my bday date got changed. it said it was the 1st (today). but it's not. i changed it to the proper date (the 8th). but thanks to everyone who has wished me happy bday.

coconut milk

got all my chores done this morning. but i stained my carpet. i spilled something on it, and i tried shampooing it twice, but it just turned into a grey spot. i'm going to try again tomorrow to get it out.

work was good. got some of my homework done in my free time. i had to leave early because i agreed to sub for bell choir, i had a ton of fun ringing bells. we did a bell chain. it was confusing at first, but fun once we got it. it was kinda complicated too. but after bells i was with my class of kids. we went over rules, and i let them have some free play time, but they started complaining. my kids don't like free time. so i built them an obstacle course. they had to frog to a table, bear crawl underneath it, regular crawl weaving around stakes of chairs, then either crab walk or duck walk under another table, and end by slithering under a small chair. we did it once, then again facing backwards. but then the parents came to pick up the kids, and most started to throw a tantrum. they didn't want to leave. they love my games. next week we are going to play hug tag and 'what am i' riddles.

i bought some vanilla coconut milk today to try. it's good, but weird. it's kinda like watered down milk with just a hint of vanilla in it. i'm hoping it will taste better with cereal.

gnome for my strawberries

this morning me+3 other circle k member joined the kiwanis club people and cleaned some yards of the elderly people. we raked leaves mostly. i got to use a leaf blower too. but the lady of the first house, maxine, was such an awesome lady. she insisted that everyone have a drink and an apple for a snack when we finished. and she gave everyone a gnome she made. she said she's swedish, so she made everyone a tonte, which is a swedish gnome, made out of a log of wood. he's super cute. they are supposed to protect your house. and if you give them porridge on christmas eve, they protect your presents too. i put mine in my garden to protect my strawberry plants.

when i got home i had to help my parents clean their yard, then i spent a couple hours just doing homework. then mom took me to kohls to shop. i got 2 dress shirts to wear to my practicum, and lots of crazy socks. i never wear matching socks, and a lot of my socks got holes this summer and had to be thrown away. it's hard to mix-match socks when you only have 3 socks with patterns.

it's about time

for one of my not art classes, i'm in a group of 3 and we have to do a presentation on how music therapy is used for kids with disabilities. we were assigned it a long time ago. but my 2 partners have been busy, and just remembered it wednesday, and started panicking. so today i brought in the giant stack of sources i had read and haighlighted and typed into notes. i have been working on our project since we were assigned it. so my partners were happy.

class let out early so i went to work, worked all day. peggy made enchiladas and brought me one. she makes the best enchiladas. but i got into a few arguments with my old retiree coworkers. why must old people be so grumpy?

after work ryan and i went to subway. we had a good time hanging out together, we have been getting along a lot better since the issue with our parents started. it's nice to FINALLY, after like 15 to be close to my brother. i'm hoping we can go out for dinner/lunch once a week from now on to relax together.

near panic attack

classes went well today. my intermedia class didn't meet because the teacher couldn't make it. so i got extra time at the gym. i ate dinner at the gym cafe and then had a circle k club meeting. we played a new ice breaker game called WAHHH! i'm still not sure how it works. i ended up 'out' early in the game. but now i'm home with my grumpy kitty. bogart hid under my bed and waited for mindy to approach to jump on my bed. when she got close he jumped out at her. he scared her so bad mindy jumped a foot in the air. she's super mad now, at him and me cause i laughed. i couldn't help it! her reaction was priceless.

but when i got to the gym, i noticed that my beloved zune was not in my pocket where i always keep it. so i called mom so she could see if it was still on its charger in my room. it wasn't. i panicked, thinking i had dropped it somewhere on campus. i thought i had lost it! but then mom called me back and said she had found it on my bed. i must of set it there when i got dressed that morning. i am extremely relieved and happy to have it back.