I think we've all heard Jennie claim her roommate stole from her... 

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This is pissing me off:

http://www.mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/502890.html?nav=5004

That's all I've got...

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Horseshit!

So I managed to escape Houghton and start my new job at Ford...yay! 

Now for my last Housemate story....

$HOUSEMATE found out that she had to live in the dorms because MTU considers her a first year student because none of her credits from FU transfered in.  So she moves into the dorms....  The last I saw of her was last Wednesday.  She left a big mess upstairs and a cat.  

She mentioned that eventhough she was going to live in the dorms that she still wanted to keep renting the room upstairs and keep her cat there.  So much for being poor huh?  Ok, while this isn't ideal it did have the possibility of being workable but would include coming to the house and taking care of the cat everyday and spending time with it.  Except this didn't happen.  Between Wednesday and Sunday I didn't see Jen at the house once so I took the cat to the humane society just before leaving.  While Jen was missing I was the one giving him water and when I left I emptied the nasty litterbox.  I had no idea when she would make it back to the house and I didn't want the cat abondoned.

So anyhow there is a cute black kitten at the humane society.

Yay $NEWGIRL moved out... /me dances

Ugh, so $HOUSEMATE is smoking...in her room. The room thing doesn't bother me so much except that I can smell it down at the bottom of the stairs. She is going to get a talking to when she gets home which is really going to end in 'don't smoke inside.'

On a brighter note, $HOUSEMATE decided it was time for the new girl to go. She gave her until the end of the week (longer than I would have given her) to find a new place and get out. YAY!!!!! If she isn't gone on Sunday I'm putting her shit on the side of the road, rain or shine.

So what pushed $HOUSEMATE over the edge you might ask?? Well this morning $NEWGIRL tried to flush a sanitary napkin down the toilet and it got caught and she couldn't get it out. $HOUSEMATE told her it was her responsibility to get it out and apparently she disagreed.  I think it is still caught at the moment. On top of this, she got menstrual fluid all over the toilet and made a mess of the sink.  $NEWGIRL also claims she left her watch on the sink last night and it went missing...no idea what that is about.  Finally, this morning she was trying to scare $HOUSEMATE's cat away by pounding on the floor.  She was pounding so lound that she woke my dogs up on the other side of the house. 

I'm glad $HOUSEMATE is kicking her out, saved me the trouble.

Note to $LANDLORD, you don't want this new girl living in your house...

So $HOUSEMATE's kitten got caught in a string that attaches some cat toys to my cat tree.  The cat tree is in the dining room and $NEWGIRL was out in the kitchen when this happened and she did nothing about.  She just ignored that cat's meows while it's arm was caught and was hanging from one arm and couldn't get free.

She didn't even try to find someone else to help the kitten.  I know she could hear it because I was much further away and hear the kitten's cries and went to save him.

If I didn't save him she probably would have left him hanging.  What an asshole.

First a little bitching...

Housemate is back again, she was gone 2 weeks this time.  She brought a little black male unneutered kitten with her.  I really really hope she plans to get it neutered but I won't be here to find out.  I hope she understands it will cost more to get her cat neutered than it would cost to adopt a cat from the humane society.

One of housemate's friends got kicked out of Daniel Heights.  I have no idea how you could possibly get kicked out because I broke all sorts of rules while I lived in Daniel Heights and never get even close to being kicked out...  So Jen is letting her stay here for a few days while she finds a new place.  If it is more than a few days I might get really annoyed because she is illogiclly afraid of dogs. 

Her fear of dogs has already resulted in Cleo getting free outisde.  I let Cleo out of the bedroom into the main house not knowing that both of the front doors were open. $HOUSEMATEFRIEND was sitting in the doorway of the open front door.  I yell to tell her not to let Cleo outside and she freeked out and lets Cleo run outside and she runs a few feet away in fear.

I don't really care if you don't like dogs but if you endanger my dogs because of your fear that is a problem.  The dogs can't be in the same room as her or she freaks out (and shreaks), rather annoying.  She is rediculous.  She is also afraid of the little kitten and of the dark.  She made Jen leave the hallway light on.

$HOUSEMATE was trying to get her to rent one of the rooms of the house but I really don't think this is the house for her.  $HOUSEMATE has a cat, which she doesn't like.  $HOUSEMATE wants a dog and $LANDLORDS have two dogs which come to visit whenever they come to visit.


From abpeed:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Italicize the stuff that you've eaten and went nuts over and underline the stuff you hated.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (is this really food?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (pheasant my mom hit in South Dakota as a kid)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (apple or lemon)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (rabbit, but not hare)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

There were a few things I wasn't sure about so I didn't mark them.  Always great to eat a lot of international food and not know what it is....

Elections remind me of how stupid and hateful people are. I fear for another four years of hate and stupidity, especially towards women and queer people.

I really should stop reading election coverage before I go insane. I already know how I'm voting. I've known for years how I am going to vote and it hasn't changed.

If I hear one more person cite taxes as their main reason for choosing a candidate my head is going to explode (LJ comments aside).  Talk about selling your freedom.

So I was cutting $WHITEDOG's nails today starting at about 11:15 pm or so and well I cut one too short so it is bleeding.  I try corn starch but $WHITEDOG won't stop moving long enough for it to work...

So I think... Ok, go buy some kwik stop, no problem.  I go to Walmart, no Kwik stop.  So you might be asking why I don't have any kwik stop...because I've looked at Walmart before and they didnt' have any and I haven't found it anywhere else in Houghton either.  So look in the first aid section, no styptic poweder, only liquid bandaids...ok try that.  I go to look at econo, also no kwik stop or styptic powder so I buy a bandage thing and hope I won't need it...

I go home and try liquid bandaid...no luck.  I think it made it worse.  I realize I didn't look in the shaving section so I go back to the store and find styptic pencil, yay.  Try it, and it just makes it worse and $WHITEDOG won't hold still long enough to help again...  Now the whole floor of the hallway is covered in dog blood and there is a bunch of dog blood on me too, great.

So I guess it is time for the bandage, I wrap up his foot.  At this point it has been over an hour since the bleeding started, far too long...  So I call CC Vet.  I hate copper country vet but they are the only ones close by.  Well, the message says no vet is available this weekend, I should have expected this, because they suck and are never able to fix anything.  So I call the next closest vet...no answer.  Finally I call Animal Medical Center in Marquette and someone answers.  They page the vet but the vet doesn't call back.

By this point $WHITEDOG has removed the first bandage job, so it is time to try again.  His foot has mostly stopped bleeding but is still bleeding a little.  I add some corn starch to a telfa pad and wrap it up...

The lady that answered at Animal Medical Center call back to check if the vet has called yet.  I tell her no, but I think i have the bleeding undercontrol finally.  This is 2 hours after he first started bleeding.

Again, $WHITEDOG removes his bandage so again I reapply it.  This time it is covered with a sock to keep it on better...

The whole time $WHITEDOG doesn't care at all.  Happy, wagging his tail and wondering why I keep messing with his foot...

White dogs show blood really well...My dog is now covered in blood...

$HOUSEMATE is back!!

Oh, and the hot water heater is upset again.

Update: It appears she has taken up smoking since she left (YUCK)...

My housemate will have been gone for 3 week tomorrow; she was only supposed to be gone one week.  I don't think she is coming back.  Her facebook status said "$HOUSEMATE is in Grand Rapids looking for a job" yesterday.

She went downstate after her father came up to Houghton to visit her.  It was the first time she'd spent any 'quality time' with him in a number of years because $HOUSEMATE didn't get along with her step mother that her father is now divorcing.  I hope she isn't planning on dropping out of school or something because that would be no good at all.

So I released $HOUSEMATE's stolen cat today because I found this on the front door:



So yeah, I freed the cat.  I hope $HOUSEMATE isn't too mad at me when she gets back.

For those who are keeping track I have a new housemate, $HOUSEMATE, who moved in at the beginning of June.  My new housemate loves animals, which is a good thing.  She wants a dog from the human society up here and has brought in a 'stray' cat she found outside (more to come on this).  I have some basic concerns with her owning animals at this point:

• Pets are expensive.  If all goes well with your pet and you don't have any extra vet costs bills the yearly cost for a dog is around $400.  Cats aren't any less expensive.  Yes, you can do it for less by buying cheep food and skipping stuff like vaccines but that is bad for your animals.  Things don't always go well and most pets have at least one major illness or injury in their lives and this gets expensive.  In the second year that I owned $BROWNDOG I spent over $3000 on vet bills so she could walk.  I spent $500 on vet bill for $BLACKCAT this year.  With in the first 2 weeks of owning $WHITEDOG I had to take him to the vet in Marquette twice cause he got a huge lump on his head.  Pets are expensive.
• She doesn't have a lot of money.  I know this because she told me she was paying only $150/month because she didn't have much money and she has worked out a deal where if she does work around the house worth the cost of her rent then she doesn't have to pay rent.  For comparison, I pay $400/month.  If she is living on a tight budget and her pets get sick or injured what will she do?
• She is in Army ROTC.  I'm not entirly sure how the Army ROTC thing works but from the sound of it after she graduates she will have to spend 4 years in the Army.  Her plan is to spend that 4 years in the Army National Guard.  I'm worried that she will find out that having pets and being in the Army are not things that go together.  I'm worried that 3 years from now she is going to leave her pets homeless.

So on to the cat story...  There has been this cat that roams the neighborhood.  She spends a lot of time around our house and even has tried to come into our house.  $HOUSEMATE decided that she was going to 'adopt' this cat and now $HOUSEMATE has this cat.  This cat appears to be healthy and in good shape which leads me to believe she isn't a stray and is just someone's cat they let outside.  This cat doesn't have any tags or anything on it.  So $HOUSEMATE stole a cat from outside.  I dont believe cats should be allowed outside so I don't really care that she stole it.  The cat was in our yard and had been in our yard many times.  If someone left their shovel in our yard day after day I'd probably take their shovel, especially if there wasn't a name on it.

Anyhow, she just lets the cat roam the house.  The cat hasn't been to the vet to make sure it isn't sick or anything and I don't want it making my cat sick.  She gives that cat my cat's food and lets it eat out of my cat's food and water bowls.  This was all Friday night.  She told me she was going to take the cat downstate with her and get her check out by a vet down there.  Saturday she leaves town for a week and leaves the cat here, ugh.  She left the cat just wandering around the house so I locked it in her room where the food/water/litter is.

I don't want to be a jerk or something and let the cat back outside and piss off $HOUSEMATE but I'm worried someone is missing their cat.  I'm worried that there is some 5 year old girl who misses this cat a whole lot.  My plan is to ask at the humane society if someone has been missing their cat and if they have I'll return it and I'll come up with some story about how I overheard someone talking about a missing cat and blah blah blah....  If no one reports it missing then they probably don't care enough about it for me to worry about.  But really, she could have just payed $40 and gotten any cat she wanted from the humane society.  If she does ever end up taking the cat to the vet to get checked out like she said she would it is going to cost her more than the adoption fee from the humane society.

She also has a dog picked out at the humane society that she is planning on bringing home after it is awarded to the humane society (it was taken out of an abusive home and the trial is this month).

I just don't know what to do...  I want to scream 'HAY YO! YOU DON'T JUST BRING IN CATS TAKE OTHER PEOPLE'S CATS THAT ARE OUTSIDE' but I won't.  I also want to tell her 'HAY YOU CAN'T AFFORD A DOG' but again, I bite my toung.

Why must people use 'gay' in a derogatory manner and then get when they get called out on it they proceed to use the word 'gaids?'  Especially when that person is married to someone that is a strong supporter of queer issues.  How can they think that is going to turn out well?

So today (at 2am) I found out what happens when the toilet in my bathroom clogs...  It overflows all over the floor.  The only way I got it to stop overflowing was to forge the flood and turn off the water that fills the tank.  Yes, I had to step in toilet water to turn off the flow (eew).  So at 2am I got to mop the floor.  And if overflowing and mopping wasn't bad enough it drips into the basement and all over the laundry room. ugh.

So I have a new bitch!

Animals rescues that won't allow people to adopt cats if they want to allow them outside or declaw them are no different than the Jesus lovers that would rather a child be homeless than be adopted by a gay couple.  Both disgust me.  Especially the ones that would rather euthanize a cat than let it get declawed.

And no, I've never declawed a cat that *I've* owned.

So I got a new dog from Copper Country Humane Society.  His name is Vinnie and he is a super cute pointer/lab mix.  He mostly looks like a pointer but has a lab like tail.  I know what you really want... Pictures!  I'll put one here but you'll have to follow this link for more: 

Vinnie