In Loving Memory

March 24, 2005

Diana L.W. Fernandez

Beloved Sister, Mother, and Daughter.

In Loving Memory

Diana L.W. Fernandez

Beloved Sister, Mother, and Daughter.

Bad Day

September 01, 2004

You know that you are having a bad day when you open up your Outlook, have the application crash, and then reopen it to find out the 400mb of critical archived email has been lost due to a corrupted Personal Folder. Argggh! Another reason to momentarily hate MicroSoft.

Kittens, Kittens, Kittens...everywhere

August 26, 2004

Rhonda and I recently made the decision, that despite her huge animal allergies, to adopt a menagerie of pets to add to our new house and family.

It all started on Tuesday, when we adopted Rudy an 18 week old kitten from Alex and Deanne. He is a cute little long hair, but the adoption process did not and has not gone smoothly.

Much to his and our disadvantage, Rudy is scared of Kitty Taxi's and riding in the car. Both of which were necessary to get him home. The whole way he yelped and clawed trying to escape. When we got him home we took him to his own little safe room and let him loose, where he promptly wedged himself under the frame of the lower trundle of our trundle bed. Unfortunately that was the last we have seen of him in almost 3 days. Despite our spending time in the room with him and also giving him his space, Rudy has yet to make an appearance in our plane view. Hopefully he will come around. There are some signs of this...he has started eating and using the litter box, but that is just about it. We plan on giving him enough time to settle in and get used to us. Sometimes, that is what it takes.

Separately, we also adopted two little kittens from a family in Manteca. They are both 6 weeks old and extremely friendly. We brought them home last night and we had them set up camp downstairs in our family room. While cute and cuddly and a wonderful bundle of joy, they also brought along with them another unwanted bundle of joy...fleas. Rhonda and I hemmed and hawed about what to do...after all they are both too young to be sprayed by most OTC flea meds...but we ended up giving them baths to clean them up. Surprisingly enough, they didn't mind the water.

The next stop on this wild ride, once Rudy settle in, is a nice little trip to the vet to get our family checked out. In the meantime, Rhonda and I are clearly outnumbered in our own house.