Our cat Shanaynay is dying. She isn't walking normal, in fact she is staggering and I saw her getting out of her litter box, she fell out onto her butt. She has litter stuck to her butt and her tail and it's already hardened and she gets mad at me when I try to help her get it off. Her meow isn't as pronounced as before, meaning it's shallow. She has to take deep breaths. Also she is so skinny now, you can feel her bones when you touch her. She isn't eating at all. I recall refilling her food bowl days ago and she has barely even touched it.
I just saw her drinking some water so at least she's able to drink. We can't afford to have her put to sleep so all we can do is wait and keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't fall off the table (like a coffee table, she sleeps on it) or falls out of her litter box (which I moved closer to where she sleeps).
My Aunt Louise bought our cat this little thing that it's like a tube with a hole cut on the side and it's carpeted, you know what I mean. Anyway, I put that next to the table where she is sleeping right now so she can use it as a step to get on and off the table.
She is a 14 year old cat. Well, 14 1/2. Chip got her when she was 8 or 9 weeks old and since we didn't know her exact birthdate I estimated that it would've been some time in October so I decided that her birthday should be on Halloween 1994. So considering that she is so old we have been expecting this to happen for quite some time. Even though it's been expected, it doesn't make it easy.
Anyway, I will add to this post if she passes today.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Muscles Used To Riding
Since I started riding the bike in the early morning before the sun comes up to escape the heat, I've noticed that my muscles are already used to riding the bike so I don't have to ride every other day to rest my muscles. I can ride everyday if I want to. In fact, I rode for 3 days in a row. Well, mainly that was to burn off some burgers and fries I ate lol.
But, I have no problem riding the bike anymore at all. It's like my muscles are back to the way they were when I was a kid, that's how used to riding I am now.
I seem to recall last year when I started riding my bike again, when I first found out about the bike trail after summer was over from one of those city park summer guides, in the back it has a map of the bike trail. So I got the bike out of moth balls, filled the tires, actually I had to buy a new tube for the front tire because it had a hole in it that I couldn't repair with the new tire repair kit I had bought lol. Anyway, I started riding and my legs were so not used to it and I would get down to H and 3rd and my legs were already tired and it was just 1 block away from my house lol.
So I would ride all the way to California and H and I was like screw this, I'm going back home and that whole trip was 1 mile lol. Then when I got home my legs were so stiff from riding that 1 mile that I could barely even walk in the back door. I had to sit and rest and I had to massage my thighs because they were just in so much pain from that pitiful ride lol.
I think I was riding like that for a week before I was finally able to go maybe 3 miles then went up to 4 then 5 which altogether took about a month before I was even able to get on the bike trail.
By the time I was finally riding the bike trail I could only go so far before I had to turn around and go back but eventually I was able to do 11 miles per day which was a little over an hour.
Now, I can do that 11 miles in just 55 minutes so I have to step up my ride and go further and go 16 miles just to make up my time which is about 1 hour and 16 minutes. But that 16 miles to me now is no biggy.
But, I have no problem riding the bike anymore at all. It's like my muscles are back to the way they were when I was a kid, that's how used to riding I am now.
I seem to recall last year when I started riding my bike again, when I first found out about the bike trail after summer was over from one of those city park summer guides, in the back it has a map of the bike trail. So I got the bike out of moth balls, filled the tires, actually I had to buy a new tube for the front tire because it had a hole in it that I couldn't repair with the new tire repair kit I had bought lol. Anyway, I started riding and my legs were so not used to it and I would get down to H and 3rd and my legs were already tired and it was just 1 block away from my house lol.
So I would ride all the way to California and H and I was like screw this, I'm going back home and that whole trip was 1 mile lol. Then when I got home my legs were so stiff from riding that 1 mile that I could barely even walk in the back door. I had to sit and rest and I had to massage my thighs because they were just in so much pain from that pitiful ride lol.
I think I was riding like that for a week before I was finally able to go maybe 3 miles then went up to 4 then 5 which altogether took about a month before I was even able to get on the bike trail.
By the time I was finally riding the bike trail I could only go so far before I had to turn around and go back but eventually I was able to do 11 miles per day which was a little over an hour.
Now, I can do that 11 miles in just 55 minutes so I have to step up my ride and go further and go 16 miles just to make up my time which is about 1 hour and 16 minutes. But that 16 miles to me now is no biggy.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Early To Bed, Early To Ride
I've been going to bed relatively early every night like 9 or 10pm which is odd for me because I'm usually up until like 1am but I'm making an effort to beat the heat to ride the bike to get my exercise.
It's actually not that hard getting used to waking up at 4:30 in the morning and leaving by 5am and back around 7am.
It's really nice being out there that early though because it's in the 60's or 70's at 5am, there is no sun yet so the city hasn't had a chance to get hot yet. By the time I get home it's still nice out even though the sun has been out for at least 45 minutes by that time.
I think that it's going to be easy to get my exercise done and over with by going so early every day. I just need to learn to take naps during the day to catch up.
It's actually not that hard getting used to waking up at 4:30 in the morning and leaving by 5am and back around 7am.
It's really nice being out there that early though because it's in the 60's or 70's at 5am, there is no sun yet so the city hasn't had a chance to get hot yet. By the time I get home it's still nice out even though the sun has been out for at least 45 minutes by that time.
I think that it's going to be easy to get my exercise done and over with by going so early every day. I just need to learn to take naps during the day to catch up.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Early Morning Bike Ride
Well, I did it. I set the alarm clock for 4am and of course had to push the snooze and when it went off again in 10 minutes I decided ok, I need to do this, I need to wake up and get ready. So I got up, went and got a bowl of raisin bran cereal. I read my emails which weren't that many since the last time I read them last night lol.
I like to eat then wait 30 minutes to go, so 4:45am came and I left the house and it was pitch black outside. Thank goodness for bike lights. Although I didn't realize until I got there that the back light wasn't working at all. It wasn't until the sun came out that I realized that it was because the wire snapped off. UGH! It's easily repairable.
What I especially liked about riding that early is that there are absolutely no cars. 0 cars. Well, there were a couple but none that I had to worry about. Of course being that early I had to stop and push the walk button because certain lights just won't turn green unless the sensors detect a car sitting there and they don't detect bicycles.
While I was on the bike trail that early in the morning before the sun came up there were no other riders which isn't odd for me not to see anyone because in the daytime there are barely any other riders. So it really didn't make much of a difference. But when the sun did start coming up I did start to see a couple riders.
Even coming home with the sun up at 6am there still weren't any cars. I finally got home at 6:22am so I was gone about an hour and half but my total time was 1 hour 5 min. Hey, I have to take a break during my ride lol.
Now that my muscles are getting used to riding I'm gonna experiment with going out again tomorrow and then the day after that. I want to go out every day, not just every other day. I want to get as much exercise in as I can because the weight is coming off. So, we will see tomorrow if I go out or not hehe.
I like to eat then wait 30 minutes to go, so 4:45am came and I left the house and it was pitch black outside. Thank goodness for bike lights. Although I didn't realize until I got there that the back light wasn't working at all. It wasn't until the sun came out that I realized that it was because the wire snapped off. UGH! It's easily repairable.
What I especially liked about riding that early is that there are absolutely no cars. 0 cars. Well, there were a couple but none that I had to worry about. Of course being that early I had to stop and push the walk button because certain lights just won't turn green unless the sensors detect a car sitting there and they don't detect bicycles.
While I was on the bike trail that early in the morning before the sun came up there were no other riders which isn't odd for me not to see anyone because in the daytime there are barely any other riders. So it really didn't make much of a difference. But when the sun did start coming up I did start to see a couple riders.
Even coming home with the sun up at 6am there still weren't any cars. I finally got home at 6:22am so I was gone about an hour and half but my total time was 1 hour 5 min. Hey, I have to take a break during my ride lol.
Now that my muscles are getting used to riding I'm gonna experiment with going out again tomorrow and then the day after that. I want to go out every day, not just every other day. I want to get as much exercise in as I can because the weight is coming off. So, we will see tomorrow if I go out or not hehe.
The Direction of Smallville
I've been a huge fan of Smallville since it aired in 2001. I've always been a huge Superman fan, movies and comic books. I wasn't a super freak comic book reader so I don't know every line from every comic book ever published. Truth be told I've probably only read a dozen in my childhood. At some point the comic books ended because "I was too old for them" according to my parents.
I loved the old black and white series with George Reeves from 1952, I was too young to ever see it back then but it did air in the 70's along with other black and white shows from the 50's and 60's.
When Lois and Clark came out I wanted to see it but I was always working at night and so I never had any time for any TV shows. I didn't have a VCR to record anything and I probably wouldn't have had any time to see them the next morning anyway. I did see an episode here and there and thought that it wasn't exactly true to the story. I mean, Jonathan Kent was still alive? And Lois and Clark were married and living together? So, I wasn't that into it anyway because I like shows that are true to the story the way the story was written you know?
So when Smallville came out I was super excited about it and I've watched it faithfully from the very first episode, never missing 1 episode. But, I've been real concerned with the show. OK, I like Chloe and Pete even though I'd never heard of those 2 characters before. I wasn't too sure about Clark knowing Lex before he became Superman because that's pretty much when he meets Lex. What has concerned me all this time is the lack of glasses. He wore glasses in 1 episode, that's it.
Also, this whole thing with him dating Lana, when did that ever happen? And she is wearing a suit of his powers but they can never see each other again because of the kryptonite infecting the suit now? WHAT?
And, didn't he meet Lois when he first went to work for the Daily Planet? In Smallville she lives with him and his parents using his bedroom and making him sleep on the couch or in the loft? Oh and... the loft? (this was after a couple seasons that I am referring to)
Oh and when did Jonathan Kent ever become a senator in this story? The only "true to the story" thing about him is that he died at the appropriate time, although he should've been an old man but that's ok. He still died at the age Clark was in the first movie. But what confuses me is that Martha takes over his office and is senator then next season she's living in Washington lol.
What is raising some concern with me is that in all these seasons Clark has never learned how to fly. Why is that? Why are the writers resisting him ever finishing his training in the fortress which is now BLACK! UGH! Come on Smallville writers, what are you doing to this good show?
And where is his costume? Shouldn't he be wearing it about now? In the movie when he first started working for the daily planet he was wearing a costume. There were so many episodes where they referred to the tights and cape, even Lois said that a psychic said that she was destined to be with a guy wearing tights and a cape. Plus there was that episode with the green arrow, Oliver, wearing the red cape going from 1 building to the next to show that Clark wasn't the red blue blur.
This show is just getting more ridiculous every time I see it. Don't get me wrong, I'm hooked but it's going so far off track. Oh, Lex is DEAD? Jimmy Olsen is DEAD?!?!? WHAT! Are you kidding me? I guess to be fair, at the end of the season finale they showed that strange orb thing in the back of the mansion with a naked bald man, that kinda makes me think that Lex has come back to life. And then at Jimmy's funeral they show this little boy and Chloe gives him Jimmy's camera and he's wearing a bow tie. So what, is he the future of Jimmy Olsen? His last name may be Olsen but what's his first name? They said that Jimmy's name was Henry James Olsen so is this little kid James Olsen? That character isn't even credited in IMDB so I couldn't find out what his name was (character name).
I'm just sayin to please be a little more true to the story in the next season. I know there will be another season because they left too many unresolved issues and it didn't say Series finale, it said Season finale. So I know it's not over.
I loved the old black and white series with George Reeves from 1952, I was too young to ever see it back then but it did air in the 70's along with other black and white shows from the 50's and 60's.
When Lois and Clark came out I wanted to see it but I was always working at night and so I never had any time for any TV shows. I didn't have a VCR to record anything and I probably wouldn't have had any time to see them the next morning anyway. I did see an episode here and there and thought that it wasn't exactly true to the story. I mean, Jonathan Kent was still alive? And Lois and Clark were married and living together? So, I wasn't that into it anyway because I like shows that are true to the story the way the story was written you know?
So when Smallville came out I was super excited about it and I've watched it faithfully from the very first episode, never missing 1 episode. But, I've been real concerned with the show. OK, I like Chloe and Pete even though I'd never heard of those 2 characters before. I wasn't too sure about Clark knowing Lex before he became Superman because that's pretty much when he meets Lex. What has concerned me all this time is the lack of glasses. He wore glasses in 1 episode, that's it.
Also, this whole thing with him dating Lana, when did that ever happen? And she is wearing a suit of his powers but they can never see each other again because of the kryptonite infecting the suit now? WHAT?
And, didn't he meet Lois when he first went to work for the Daily Planet? In Smallville she lives with him and his parents using his bedroom and making him sleep on the couch or in the loft? Oh and... the loft? (this was after a couple seasons that I am referring to)
Oh and when did Jonathan Kent ever become a senator in this story? The only "true to the story" thing about him is that he died at the appropriate time, although he should've been an old man but that's ok. He still died at the age Clark was in the first movie. But what confuses me is that Martha takes over his office and is senator then next season she's living in Washington lol.
What is raising some concern with me is that in all these seasons Clark has never learned how to fly. Why is that? Why are the writers resisting him ever finishing his training in the fortress which is now BLACK! UGH! Come on Smallville writers, what are you doing to this good show?
And where is his costume? Shouldn't he be wearing it about now? In the movie when he first started working for the daily planet he was wearing a costume. There were so many episodes where they referred to the tights and cape, even Lois said that a psychic said that she was destined to be with a guy wearing tights and a cape. Plus there was that episode with the green arrow, Oliver, wearing the red cape going from 1 building to the next to show that Clark wasn't the red blue blur.
This show is just getting more ridiculous every time I see it. Don't get me wrong, I'm hooked but it's going so far off track. Oh, Lex is DEAD? Jimmy Olsen is DEAD?!?!? WHAT! Are you kidding me? I guess to be fair, at the end of the season finale they showed that strange orb thing in the back of the mansion with a naked bald man, that kinda makes me think that Lex has come back to life. And then at Jimmy's funeral they show this little boy and Chloe gives him Jimmy's camera and he's wearing a bow tie. So what, is he the future of Jimmy Olsen? His last name may be Olsen but what's his first name? They said that Jimmy's name was Henry James Olsen so is this little kid James Olsen? That character isn't even credited in IMDB so I couldn't find out what his name was (character name).
I'm just sayin to please be a little more true to the story in the next season. I know there will be another season because they left too many unresolved issues and it didn't say Series finale, it said Season finale. So I know it's not over.
Pedals, Mirrors and Shorts
Well I just came home from Snider's Cyclry. I bought brand new pedals that are metal, not the cheap metal ones either that cost $7. No these were $20 and they are a lot heavier than the cheap ones. Weight on a bike is a huge issue but when it comes to something like that you need them to be as sturdy as possible for standing up on. That's why the pedals that came with the bike are breaking, from having 230lbs of weight standing on them.
I also bought a helmet mirror. When I was trying to put it on, I was having a hell of a time finding a good spot because the mirror isn't that adjustable that I can just put it anywhere I want to. I wanted it to stick to the plastic on the outside but the arm on it is so tiny that it had to be on the Styrofoam part in front of my face. I finally found the perfect spot for it and stuck it on. I had to go stand outside on the sidewalk, or more in the street, more the gutter really to be sure it was right. It was so I stuck it on and then looked again without my arm being in the way. The only problem is I have to look up with my eyes to see it. That kinda hurts my eyes lol. So for tomorrow mornings ride (at 4:30am that is) I'm going to bring both mirrors so I can see which one is better. Who knows, I might need both.
I went to the thrift store before I went to the bus stop to look for shorts and to see if they had any bike shirts at all which they didn't. I picked out 2 pairs of shorts but they were so big and I went to hold them up to myself to see if they would fit but wasn't quite sure. They don't have any dressing rooms there so you have to look at sizes and hold them up to yourself lol. So annoying. Anyway, I just took them to the register and figured if it's too tight, it will fit me eventually lol. One of them was $7 but the tag says $2 and I said well forget it then. I know they have to charge the lower price, well, I know that applies to everywhere else you go lol but apparently not there. I said forget it because I didn't really like them anyway. So I got 1 pair of shorts with a Hawaiian print on it. It was only $2. It's a bit tight but... it will fit me eventually lol.
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