Julianna's countdown thread

[doodlebug 3]

Ok don't shoot the messenger but if you have wet carpets and a dry cat........won't the cat hair stick to the carpet more? Just a thought. I tried washing my cat myself once. She stood suprisingly still in the sink while I hosed her down and shampoed and rinsed her but as soon as I sat down with her wrapped up in the towel she FLEW out from my grasp and ran like a maniac around the entire house about twenty times until she settled under the couch from which spot she did not leave for the rest of the day. Kitty doesn't like baths. Haven't bathed her since either. Do you normally bathe yours a lot?

[~Jess~ 0]

i think animals fur itches really bad and their skin after baths. Fluffy used to run all over like madddd after a bath.....

[melly 0]

Haha! I remember on our wedding night and he saw me toss some clothes into a pile and he said, "It's OK habibti, you have English, but I have organization."

Good luck with the getting ready.

Oh, and I was going to vote #1 until I saw #2.

Nice.

[Nasturtium 500]

MMM Jackie1 I want to try making those sometime, except I can't get grape leaves here.

Doodle-- no, because they groom them. I bathe them every few years. Cats don't need baths more than once a year-- their skin is too sensitive and too dry.

thanks Melly!

[peezey 0]

Where do you live? You can order them, too.

[Nasturtium 500]

Where do you live? You can order them, too.

NW Arkansas. We don't have much selection here That's a really great idea. I know I ordered halal meat a few months ago for him since he's pretty strict about it and didn't want to be stuck with fish every day (I'm vegetarian so it doesn't matter to me at ALL), I don't know why I didn't think much about the grape leaves. I remember at home (Las Vegas) they were just in the store in a can. We wanted to grow some grapes on the pergola out back, so eventually the problem will be solved, but in the meantime... I will take a look Peezy, thanks!

[peezey 0]

Where do you live? You can order them, too.

NW Arkansas. We don't have much selection here That's a really great idea. I know I ordered halal meat a few months ago for him since he's pretty strict about it and didn't want to be stuck with fish every day (I'm vegetarian so it doesn't matter to me at ALL), I don't know why I didn't think much about the grape leaves. I remember at home (Las Vegas) they were just in the store in a can. We wanted to grow some grapes on the pergola out back, so eventually the problem will be solved, but in the meantime... I will take a look Peezy, thanks!

Ah, I see, I wouldn't normally ask, I assumed you lived in CA b/c of the Catalina stuff, and then wondered where in the heck in CA you can't find grape leaves.

[~Jackie~ 30]

The dinner was delicious. I used a little too much rice and a few of them kinda burst open, but they tasted sooooooooo good. The chocolate flan cake is awesome! (He didn't even notice the thin layer of dust on the baseboards. )

Jackie

256 hours to go ...........

[Nasturtium 500]

Jackie-- do you have a recipe?

Peezy-- yeah, I'm originally from CA/NV, that's why I am used to Catalina-- we used to go there all the time for the day. I came here for grad school. If anywhere in AR had some, it would be Little Rock which is about 3 hours south of me, and that's not worth driving for a can, you know? Or even suspicion of a can! I did find them online. i can't get tahini here either and so I think I am going to round up a list of ####### I can't get and then order all at once.

[kerewin21 2]

I'm voting for option 4.

Do cats really need to be bathed? I've never bathed mine. I did wash my previous cat when he was old and sick and didn't take care of himself, but my cat now seems to keep herself pretty clean.

[Nasturtium 500]

I'm voting for option 4.

Do cats really need to be bathed? I've never bathed mine. I did wash my previous cat when he was old and sick and didn't take care of himself, but my cat now seems to keep herself pretty clean.

No, they don't unless they get into something or someone in your house has allergies. Ammar has really bad allergies to dust and pollen and I was going to wash the cats to make sure they didn't have much latent dander.

[Nasturtium 500]

Well yesterday I did jack squat-- I just fell asleep at about 6pm and then stayed asleep until midnight, then went back to bed at 1am and got up to go to church/synagogue. Anyway, now I'm back. Called my husband and asked him if I can use his stuff on a lecture I was asked to give on life in Jordan as I saw it, which i tried to get out of in an insane, caged-animal kind of way because WTH do I knwoabout life in jordan? i was only there for like 190-something days.

[~Jackie~ 30]

My total Jordan time was 34 days, over 4 trips....I don't stay long, do I? Life is changing alot in Jordan these days. A few of the reasons would be an influx of people from Iraq and Lebanon. Oh, and the falafel got smaller.

Jackie

248 hours

[Nasturtium 500]

Jackie! but you never said if you have a stuffed grape leaves recipe? (Which I would 100% call by their Arabic name if I wasn't having some kind of blackout at the moment, probably due to trying to figure out if my data is automatically transforming or not. Are you transformed m-f-ing data? Can I use your spreadsheet instead of my Palm pilot? Hmmm?)

245 more hours!

I got a few food items already, stuff that will sit just fine. So far all I have accomplished today is talking on the phone to my ex-husband for like 3 hours, hearing about his engagement trip, and getting him to say he's going to remove all his junk from my garage this week! Yay!

Bought a smaller kitty tree. Need one more kitty tree. Figure I will work on 2 more rooms tonight after I eat. Am making my wraps. I've been so off on my sleeping schedule that I have hardly eaten for 3 days. Actually, I think I ate twice in 3 days? Something like that. I have to get back into it.

Tomorrow I think I'm going to do a bit of shopping. I'm going to go out and get chocolate and pyrex bowls and totally make those chocolate egg truffles I PMed you about Jen! Also got the luster dust, so I am on my way to having something special. Luster dust looks suspiciously like eyeshadow.

Oh! And got a watering can today. I told my husband I could not believe I was actually standing in the plant section looking at watering cans and wondering which one would be optimal for him washing his @$$.

[doodlebug 3]

Oh! And got a watering can today. I told my husband I could not believe I was actually standing in the plant section looking at watering cans and wondering which one would be optimal for him washing his @$$.