My Cat… the Flying Squirrel

Three of our best friends came to stay with us for the weekend to help celebrate Emily’s birthday. Along with them came a baby and 2 chihuahuas… Our cats were feeling slightly displaced due to this. But lately i’ve granted them unfettered acccess to the upstairs balcony so i figured i’d leave the door open so they could wander in and out and everyone would be happy.

Not so… Early on Sunday morning Rudy decided to bail on our little party. Our apartments don’t allow cats to wander around the premises (even though several do anyway) so i checked out the balcony situation thorougly and deduced that there was no way for them to get down from there… Rudy disagreed. I awoke to him yowling like a baby outside and when i came down to investigate, he was standing there by the front door with loads of sap stuck between his toes. Apparently he launched off the balcony, right into the little fir tree or whatever that is outside our neighbor’s front door.

Not sure if he’ll try this shit again but he seemed shaken up enough by it… i didn’t ban him from the balcony after that and he hasn’t jumped again yet… so we’ll see i guess.

Anyone else have a weird day yesterday?

i’m serious. Starting Sunday night, shit has been off the hook.

Sunday night i’m walking down the stairs in the middle of the night and i smell a sulfer kind of aroma… which caused me to pause mid-step or something and i slipped down like 3 stairs or something. “god damn ghosts tryin’ ta kill me!” i muttered.

But the next day, (yesterday) things continued to suck. I felt upset most of the day after i got jammed up by somebody, then on the drive home i nearly ran into a mercedes who braked hard in front of me. Only 2 blocks from the apartment, my heart was still racing when i pulled up to find emily sitting in her car with the door open and a frown on her face. Turns out SHE got in an accident on the way home too… in the same way. Then while i’m re-attaching her bumper, my phone rings. it’s my mom calling to tell me that SHE got in an accident too!

“Fuck” i thought. “Darkness descends and shit.”

So i talked to one of her neighbors who was able to go pick her up… she’s fine… emily’s fine… i’m trippin… how are you? I’ve asked several people this morning and a good number of them experienced a deluge of shitty luck and weirdness yesterday as well. One friend even said “I fel like somebody put a hex on me sunday afternoon.”

So just curious if you’ve noticed any weirdness too. it doesn’t have to be BAD luck necessarily… just excessively DIFFERENT situations that you’re expecting to walk into. Synchronicity. In fact that first thing that set me off yesterday morning was actually part of an intense 3-way synchronicity too.

I wonder if more and more days like this will occur, the closer we get to 2012… if novelty increases as it’s supposed to, things are only going to get weirder. I for one am looking forward to it (and welcome our new ant-overlords… lol). Like Hunter Thompson said “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

Top Ramen vs. Cup O Noodles

which is it gonna be?

And don’t say “neither”…. Don’t play like you’re above eating teh instant noodles… you know damn well you’ve done it… and you know you have an opinion too.

It’s nice to be Understood

On this blog i have talked about my recurring anxiety problems… the edginess… the weird physical symptoms… the fears of the symptoms being “something else that the doctors can’t see”… and of course the general vicious circle related to this type of hypochondria.

Well recently i was dealing with this weird arm pain… lasted 2 weeks… on my left side… and of course you KNOW that triggered panic for me because left-arm-pain is so commonly synonymous with heart attacks…

Well on a whim i googled “anxiety and arm pain” and found this link:
www.medhelp.org/forums/Anx…es/147.html
(it takes a second for the article to appear… just wait a sec… don’t give up!)

just like most of hte people in the comments… i have a tendency not to BELIEVE what the dr says and always worry it’s my heart… and i always feel stupid and embarrassed that i can’t stop obsessing… it’s nice to read a list of people going through the EXACT same thing… and like one person says “Reading forums like this really helps. I see people in the same boat and I don’t feel so helpless anymore.”

Not that i don’t listen to any of YOU… but you know how it goes. =)

Gimme a BREAK