3:51 p.m. - Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004
More About HB
I have been receivin' some wonderful email lately from friends and family. I love stayin' in touch. And someone very unexpected has begun sendin' me email that is a welcome treat. I won't say here just who it is but it is a person very dear to my heart who has brought a great amount of joy to me in the last few days.
My mother has begun livin' with me now. She's havin' a lot of problems. She's had triple bypass surgery and has glaucoma also so she's gettin' in bad shape with all the medication that she's takin'. She has trouble rememberin' things. She's very stubborn at times and doesn't want anyone tryin' to help her keep up with her medication so we have discovered that sometimes she takes more of some pills than she should and it causes her no end of problems especially with memory. Sometimes she forgets what month or day it is (I do that too) or she will forget to eat. Not good. She's lost so much weight that she's down to skin and bones as it is. My father is dead so there was no one to look after her properly so now she is with me.
I've been watchin' a lot of crime shows lately. I love mysteries and crime shows, especially CSI. I am so delighted that CSI or some equivilant of it is on every night of the week. And on Sunday night A&E as well as the BIO channel on cable now show older crime show classics like Poirot and Miss Marple among others. Needless to say I am in a cloud of joy over this avalanche of excitin' adventures that are now on TV nearly every day. Tonight CSI Miami will be on. But before that I can watch two hours of regular CSI on Spike. These shows are reruns but I still enjoy them. The solving of mysteries by the use of modern scientific techniques like DNA amazes me.
I also read a lot of mysteries. I buy a huge amount of eBooks which are much cheaper than the hard copy. Between the eBooks and the crime shows on TV I'm delerious. HB likes them too and will calmly watch them with me as she reposes on the table beside the computer when they are on. I know she watches them because I can see her eyes rivited to the TV when they are on. Well, for the most part anyhow.
I love that Fall is now here. I love that the leaves are beginnin' to change colors and drop off. That means cooler weather and I love that. The heat of summer and I do not agree. I am a winter person. In the cooler weather I feel more alert and ready to get busy doin' things. The heat saps my energy and I don't want to move sometimes. I'm beginning to feel so motivated already...or maybe it's all the excitement over the crime shows, but....whichever it is--I love Fall.
I visited an old web site that I made in honor of actor, Ryan Merriman and checked out the links on the page. I do that now and then just to be sure all the links still work properly. Ryan has a lot of fans and I still get tons of hits on it. There was one link that didn't show up properly and in tryin' to delete the link I managed to mess up the entire page. That's easy for me to do. I tried to fix it but couldn't think properly today. My mind is tired and I want to sleep or at least not dwell on anything that involves too much thinkin'. I'm glad that I have a talented sister who is a whiz on site buildin'. She managed to fix my errors and get the page I was workin' on back into proper condition. Whew!
This week I've been organizin'. I love to do that. I have to do that now and then or my computer would be overloaded. I moved all of my saved items once in folders on my computer, such as saved email and receipts, etc., onto a CD. It's good to do that now in then in case I have any other crashes or to prevent crashes maybe. I have regretted not saving things onto a disk or onto another site, letters and things I wanted to keep. I'm highly sentimental. But now they are safe I hope.
HB's been tryin' to get my attention while I worried with that site. She jumped up on the table beside the computer and purred in her southern accent, "purrr-RRRR???" like she's saying, "Hmmmm-MMM?" I love it when HB does that. It sounds so cute. I petted her head very gently. She likes a gentle touch. If she's petted too hard she will bite my hand or move away from me. So I try to just lightly touch her.
Sometimes HB will stand up on the table with her paws on the window sill and look outside. She does that quite often. Her body looks so long when she stands up like that. Her little gray head moves from side to side, back and forth, lookin' to see birds or squirrels and her ears lie flat against her head so that she appears to have no ears. She gets all excited lookin' out the window and her tail twitches faster and faster the longer she looks. I talk to her and ask her what does she see? A bird? A squirrel? And she seems to get very excited and her rump will swing back and forth. I think it's due to knowin' that I'm speakin' directly to her. I read in a book by Lilian Jackson Braun that the more one talks to a cat the smarter kitty can become. Wonder how true that is?
HB has a unique personality. She's moody and has times when she doesn't even want to be touched at all. I heard that female cats are like that but that male cats need lots of attention. I can tell by the shape of her eyes kind of what mood she's in. When HB's wantin' to be friendly her eyes are roundish and she looks all innocent and cute. But if she's mad at me for something or not in the mood to be touched her eyes take on a half closed look, almost evil, hahaha. Sometimes I bore HB to death talkin' to her so much, I suppose, and she'll stand up, turn around and sit back down with her back to me. And I usually say to her, "Be that way then."
I'm trying to get Honey Belle aquainted with a small stuffed midnight black bear wearin' a turtle neck pine green sweater with the word "Tennessee" on the front in yellow letterin'. I received this as a gift. I have seen these cute little pictures on the Internet of cats curled up with stuffed animals, with their paws wrapped around the animal, and I wanted to see if I could interest HB in makin' a new "Friend". So far HB's sniffed the bear and walked away. I've tried having the black bear "talk" to HB while she rests on her scratchin' post by my bed but HB just gets up and wanders away. I guess I won't get to see HB with her paw around the black bear anytime soon.
I love HB.
