Sick Kitties

While house sitting this weekend, we got a call from Nick's mom (who was helping us with feeding our kitties)to let us know that something was wrong with Bertoli. When she put the food bowl down, she noticed that he wasn't able to stand up. She brought him over to the food, which he ate, but then instantly laid back down. We quickly rushed home to find out that he was not able to get to the bathroom in time and....I'll spare you the details... he was definitely ill. We put both him and Chloe in a box to take them down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, something spooked Chloe and she jumped out of the box (5 feet up). We caught her, brushed her off, then put her back in the box for the ride. We went to the Vet emergency room (since it's Saturday)to get Bertoli looked at. The vet revealed that he didn't have a temp and his blood level was fine, but he might have liver problems (because he shakes after eating), but we won't find out the results until Monday. Throughout the whole exam, Chloe was whining A LOT and just wanted to cuddle. We thought it was due to her being scared. When we got home, we realized that she hurt her left leg from jumping out of the box. We're not sure if it's broken or just strained, but we can't get it checked out until Monday. So now we have two kitties who are not able to stand up (one out of weakness, the other due to a hurt leg)and we must go back down to feed the other cat soon. Ah the turmoils of having animals. I hope they both get better soon.

House design

So I finally found my camera charger and was able to take a couple pictures. The below pictures are the following: The living room, the bathroom, and the kitchen (sort of). In the living room, we painted the wall an espresso brown then Nick painted a jasmine tree branch on the wall. Nick's mom was nice enough to let us borrow a beautiful lamp that warms up the living room. If you can see in the far left corner, there is some fake branch floral thing (from Cost Plus). It just adds a contemporary twist to the room.

Next up.. The bathroom. We painted the walls brown, hung a new mirror (another loaner from Betsy) and then I painted the door pane today. I think it looks really good. What do you thinkg?

Finally, the pot rack. The kitched didn't change, but I hung a new "window balance". It was originally the table cloth that I converted into seat covers, pillow covers (if you can tell from the pic of the living room) and the balance.

It's only my favorite animal

Liger's rock!

The Birthday Boy

Happy 28th birthday, Nick!! I love you!

My sister is my best friend!

My sister is fantastic! I have to say that she is my best friend. Not only is she a lending ear, she also gives such great advice and makes me laugh! She also designed my blog!! This is why she most likely why she will delete this picture!! :) I love my sister

Where's my battery charger?!

I went to take some more pictures of the beautiful paint job Nick and I did on the house (we have now done the bathroom. Nick has also done his own artwork on the living room wall!!), but my camera battery died! I looked for a good fifteen minutes for the battery charger, but with no luck. I may know where it is right now, but I won't know until I get home at 6 PM. I do have one photo, though, that I took with my phone! It is, of course, of the kitties. I am so glad we got both of them. You can tell they really love each other. Every morning I wake up, I find them somehow cuddling. This is how I they were napping on my lap last night after dinner .. TOO CUTE!

As soon as I get my battery charged, I will post more pictures!!

Dangers of the TLC network

Watching the TLC channel on cable TV is one of the most dangerous networks to watch.. especially if you don't have a lot of artistic abilities, like me. I watched a show yesterday (not sure what it was called) in which they redecorated a room. This room went from a floral theme to a woods-y theme. Once Nick and I saw this idea, we knew that would work perfectly for our house. So we chugged on down to Home Depot to buy some paint. I originally wanted a khaki greenish color for our living room wall to match the brown leather couches, but after comparing about 100 paint samples (I did not know there was that many color variations of green!!), we decided on an espresso brown. We then trucked up the hill and started taping off the framing of the wall. Nick and I spent some quality time painting our living room and kitchen wall (just one wall in each room). It looks fantastic! Our house is a whole lot warmer looking now, which will be great for the winter time. The next step that we are doing tonight comes from the idea of the TLC show: Put a bright light behind a tree branch, then trace the shadow outline (of the branch)on the wall, then color in the stenciling with paint. When we complete this task, I will post another picture! I am so happy with our "remodeling", but I'm afraid to watch the TLC channel again in fear that I might want to decorate something else....... Nick has already expressed his drive to paint our bedroom a dark cranberry color (which will look good with our new bed spread... Hooray for Overstock.com!)