FANTASY

Hah! With a title like that can you imagine who will come to visit!?!

My neighbor, "M", just came back from a visit with her son and daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law is a graphic artist who does all those touch-ups to make people look wonderful in magazine pictures.

The day after M got home, she came to visit our new kittens. While she was here she told Erin and me about the things her daughter-in-law was doing. If a hand looks funny, she takes it out and puts in a new one. Extra fat? Trim it down as easy as one, two, three! A picture of a family and one of the kids doesn't look right? Just erase him or her from view! See some goose bumps on an arm? One swoop and they are gone! Facial blemishes just don't exist in the world of the magazine people! M said that you hear that these things can be done, but to actually see the extent of what they do is incredible!

I'm very glad that Erin was there to hear about these things. She will know that she doesn't have to live up to the pictures she sees in magazines. What about the rest of the kids out there that don't really understand? I see a future of nips and tucks, peels and make-up. Ending with unhappiness because I don't think even a surgeon can compete with a graphic artist!

HELLO PEOPLE FROM INDIA!

I have a stat counter for my blogs but rarely do I look at how many people visit or where they visit from. Recently, I did want to know if anyone was visiting the blog I have set up to post pictures of my son's cross country team. While checking that out I decided to look at my justme64 stats. It's always fun to see the searches people do to get to my blog, like "dog puking". I also see that there are quite a few unhappy people out there because they ended up finding my "sometimes its okay to be unhappy" post.

I noticed that quite a few hits came from India. That brought me back to my days of working with my buddy, Venkat. I love that name, sounds like Cool Cat! He was originally from Hyderabad, India (excuse me if I spelled that wrong). Guess lately I've been going down memory lane and thinking about my days of working. I'm pretty sure that the ER doctor that my husband saw on saturday night was originally from India, but I was too busy gritting my teeth (watching my husband in pain) to ask.

So HELLO to all you people from India!!

MYRTLE

I can't save the world, but I can save Myrtle! I got back from the shore late tuesday night and was out picking huckleberries on wednesday when my neighbor's cat meowed at me. The neighbors left three weeks ago and left two cats to fend for themselves. When I went to say hello I saw that she had some sort of growth in her stomach...I'm so intelligent! Sure enough those nipples were sticking out too! After checking with other neighbors I confirmed that the cats were abandoned and was worried that Myrtle was going to pop any minute. I left the male cat but took Myrtle and kept her in my garage. The next day she had her babies! I feel really good about saving her from having the kittens outdoors. It even rained yesterday. I will let the babies get bigger and then if no one is interested in adopting them, I will bring them to the shelter. They will all be spayed or neutered there. I just hope Myrtle finds a good home because she is one of the best cats I've ever seen. Very loveable. We had no trouble catching her, just walked up and plopped her in the cat carrier.

MYRTLE THE DAY WE FOUND HER

MYRTLE THE NEXT DAY!