From Matt's Photoblog: http://handicus.blogspot.com/

I'm so tired but my allergies are blocking up my nose and I was trying to just breathe through my mouth and then the sneezing started......oh its been a rough night haha

I left the bedroom to drink some emergen-C, that usually helps. Of course I'm also hanging out with cats, which seems to be the reason for the allergies. I feel better when I'm out, either outside or at someone else's house. Someone else that doesn't have six cats usually.

I need to keep up with drinking emergen-C and nettle tea. I drink this stuff when my allergies are bothering me, then I feel better and don't think to drink it. Then my allergies bother me again....

First off, they have fleas. I tried this herbal stuff, but we are still infested and my homeopathic vet said that Frontline or Revolution is the only way to really kill them all. Them all being the fleas....

Kale is doing better. He was vomiting up his food a lot a few months ago and he was given a remedy at the vet. We are monitoring his vomit, so far its been once a month. If it gets closer to weekly, then I call the vet back.

Snoopy and Buster came to work with me on Monday to get their teeth cleaned. Snoopy had one bad tooth removed, and one of his molars looks like it is getting bad. If I want to save the tooth, I gotta start brushing his teeth. Snoopy usually lets me do whatever I want so that's not a big deal.

Buster did not get a dental because the vet detected a heart murmur.....Could be nothing, could be a big deal. Also his thyroid seemed a bit off. We are running bloodwork and getting him an ultrasound to see what's going on. He's only six years old.

Arwyn, Mariska, and Rain are doing well, except for the fleas. and they will be gone soon.

When Matt and I were first dating a million years ago, he had a book made with pictures of us with captions written by him. It was the sweetest gift ever!

None. Well except Harry Potter, those are them devil books.

"I can't help it. I was exposed to Harry Potter."

something homemade, like your mom

I voted Libertarian today for NJ's governor. News is projecting Republican Christie the winner. I hope its not true and I wonder if I should have voted for Corzine....

I'm so tired but I felt the need to relax tonight after Des fell asleep. I'm drinking a beer and eating some birthday cake. It's from yesterday, not two weeks ago. We celebrated yesterday at work so yay cake! It's kind of like when I turned 21 and I celebrated for a year.

We did a lot today. We went to to Montclair for dr. appt for Des and me. Des is awesome, I need to find a therapist. I need to make a chiro appointment as well. We went to Veggie Heaven for lunch which was delicious. Desmond licked his rice off the table. He had fun. We went to the library and played in the children's part of it for over an hour. I finally got a library card and took out the Gunslinger. I started reading about 10 pages.

Back to the Governor's race...I think its funny that during the World Series games, there are a million baseball updates but on election day, there are only a handful of election updates.

One of my favorite cats at Tabby's Place passed away today.....I feel like a jerk because I haven't visited her in a while. I was going to yesterday but I decided not to....

RIP Sweet Nicky

You can read about her here: http://www.tabbysplace.org/SN_page.php?id=254

This video was so much fun to make :-)

My sister adopted Zac's brother, Taylor. He is now named Ninja!

Meet Albert, a sweet diabetic old man who has terminal brain tumors, but is stable and happy!

I do think focusing on the positive will bring on more positive things. I was really into this sort of thought process after seeing The Secret. Just keep thinking about things you want, and it will happen. Then due to having jobs that didn't offer health insurance, and Matt working 7 days a week, we were denied health care and have huge medical bills. We were thinking positively and working our asses off, and we got screwed.

While I do still believe in thinking positively, I also think that sometimes bad things do happen to good people

Matt dyed my hair purple last week. It looks pretty awesome. It was looking kinda weird before since it was bleached and then the dark brown was growing in. You can't see a whole lot of purple on the top of my head since it was dyed on top of brown but it doesn't look drastically different like it did with blond and brown.

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It's been two weeks since I had my hernia surgery. I'm feeling fine! Still lazy, but I hope to change that soon. I haven't done any exercising except walking. The doctor said I could anything I wanted as long as it didn't hurt. I'll start with yoga and see how that goes, and then if all's well, I'll get back into crunches.

The best part is that the sharp stabbing pains I used to get are gone. It's so interesting how you forget about stuff like that. I totally forgot that almost everyday I was in pain like that. It's like when you are sick, you feel like you will always be sick, you will never get better, this is how your life is. Then when you get better, you forget that you were ever sick.



I want to play the old computer game.

i need this van. ASAP

My second video from my new job:



please give me constructive criticism! Anything you like, dislike, anything you want to see in the next video!

Matt got an awesome new digital camera for his birthday and these are the results:

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I just joined a bunch of They Might Be Giants communities.

Everytime I get into something, I really get into it...

now its time to clean a bit. and of course I'll be listening to TMBG, right after I finish the RadioLab podcast on parasites.

I was trying to get Des dressed so we could go into town to get cat food and pain killers. I'm in a lot of pain. Des thinks I'm playing around, and keeps laughing everytime I try to lay him down to get his diaper on. He laughs and squirms away. I get upset and try to get him again. Des is laughing hysterically. I tell as calmly as possible (which is not very calm at this point) that I am not joking around, I need to get him dressed. He just keeps laughing and squirming away.

Eventually I lose it and leave the room crying. Two minutes later Desmond brings me his diaper, shorts, socks, and one shoe. I thank him and tell him I need the snappi too. He comes back with the snappi, diaper cover, and his other shoe. He lets me get him dressed. Then he wants to nurse and he falls asleep.

We still haven't made it to the store, but thats okay.