It's Already Wednesday?

I haven't blogged yet this week, not that anyone really cares, ha ha, but I'm kind of off my regular schedule and haven't really had anything to blog about anyway.

So, what's new?

I've been getting up a little earlier so that I can get out for a bike ride sort of first thing in the morning before it gets too hot here. My usual routine was to sit at the computer for a few minutes (hours) drinking my coffee, doing my blog, reading other blogs, looking at silly and/or cute animal pictures and then finally getting some cat box cleaning done or whatever else needs to be done. But with the bike riding early thing I'm just all messed up and out of whack. But it's a good out of whack and while I get home totally drenched with sweat it is a rather pleasant way to start the day. That and coffee, of course.

We thought we had figured out what was making our cats extra vomity lately. Last time at the vet's they had a basket in the exam room that was full of sample packets of cat treats, and our cats LOVE cat treats so Keith says to grab a whole bunch of them and stuff them in my purse. So I did. And we gave them some the other night and an hour or two later not one cat but two had vomited them back up again. So we're thinking that this particular brand of cat treats doesn't agree with our cat's tummies. But this morning I wake up to huge amounts of vomit in the spare bedroom so I don't know what's up with these kids.

And it was a good thing that I didn't steam clean the carpet in there yesterday like I had planned. I did steam clean the living room carpet because of all the vomiting lately and was going to do the other rooms but ran out of vinegar. Vinegar? What's that got to do with steam cleaning carpets? Well, I had run out of the special expensive steam cleaning shampoo stuff so went online to look for homemade alternatives and one recipe was to use 1 cup of white vinegar in the dispenser thing and fill the rest up with hot water. And it works. Like really well works. But I used up all the vinegar on the living room. Which was a good thing considering the copious amounts of vomit that I will steam clean up today.

And that's about it.

Soft Summer Breezes and Vomiting Cats

It smells like poop outside today. Ah, the lovely summer breezes wafting through the dairy farms and freshly fertilized fields on their way to Bakersfield!

Today is payday and since we have direct deposit I've already paid the bills except for the electric bill which isn't here yet and after we buy some food and household necessities we'll be broke again. We had nothing in the house for dinner last night so we went over to Los Hermanos for some Mexican food. We love Los Hermanos, it's a cross between Taco Bell and a real sit down Mexican restaurant. You order at the counter but they bring your food on real plates with real silverware and it doesn't cost much more than Taco Bell but tastes a WHOLE lot better.

And now I'm trying to figure out cheap meals for the next two weeks so I can make my cheap grocery list. Scrambled eggs for dinner will be on the menu, along with bean burritos. Maybe some sweet and sour chicken too, that's fairly cheap to make and actually has a vegetable or two in the recipe.

They've been showing that Publishers Clearing House commercial where you could win (fat chance of that!) $5000.00 a week for life. Which would be really nice. I always wonder how they can give away so much money, is selling magazine subscriptions really that lucrative? Maybe I should enter, because SOMEBODY has to win, right? And it might as well be me, right? Like that would ever happen.

And yesterday was the day of vomiting cats. I don't know what was up with that, if it was the cheap Boots and Barkley cat food from Target or what, but it seemed like EVERY cat in the house was hacking and gagging and leaving little presents for us all over the house. All over our already crappy carpet. Then late last night, and I'm so glad I was still up to catch it, Lucy vomited all over, and I mean ALL OVER the top of the entertainment center. ALL OVER it. She likes to lay up top there and if I hadn't been there to wipe it all up, it would have been up there forever, because how often do I climb up on a ladder to clean in places that I can't see? Not often.

We threw away the cheap Target cat food just in case that was the problem.

Oh, I do have some new beach glass pendants in the shop.

I did some with wiring and some with a bail. I found some really good glass glue at Michaels, like a super glue where if you get it on your fingers better not touch anything or you'll be permanently attached, either that or lose your fingerprints trying to detach yourself.



I've pretty much decided to just concentrate on the one Etsy shop for now. I tried the second shop for artwork and did get some sales, but I'm going to close that one after all the listings expire and just have everything in one shop. I'm going to close the Artfire shop, too, even the top sellers over there don't sell much. Yes, you get your listings uploaded to google shopping, but what good is that when nobody is buying those listings? There is a new site that is free to list, efreeme, but if it's like all the other start ups, not much will happen there, either. I think that if anyone is going to buy handmade, they are going to go to Etsy first, even if half the crap on Etsy is not handmade and is exactly that, crap. I might give efreeme a try, since right now they are paying you $5.00 if you list 20 items. I'm sure a lot of sellers are listing their 20 items just to get the $5.00 these days.