Nicole Balderson's Journal

Pets
Well, Spliff is completely recovered and not much left of a scar underneath either.
I am so happy for her.
Mace is doing well, and still a little meany but I like him nonetheless.
Poor SpaceSik is off to the vet on Tuesday.
I think the MBD that iguanas get has effected him more then I realized. His mouth is fixed but now his front left foot doesn't sit right and one of his long back toes on the right doesn't align with the rest of the foot.
I am hoping since he is so young that Miss Effie can do something about it. I got him almost a year ago. At the end of summer so he is about a year old now.
Jr. and Beowulf are great and Beowulf is growing so HUGE.
I found out a little about ball python breading and should start that in August.
Can't wait to see the babies.
No One's Shadow is lucky I finally found a regular supply of rabbits thanks to www.rodentpro.com
Joey's kid's kitten that he is caring for is pregnant. Should be a month or two before she delivers though.

Me
Well, today is the 9th and my birthday was a week ago today. Took off of work and had some fun. Joe got me a gold pass season passport for SixFlags and I can go into any six flags park for free and it gives 25% off all food and merchandise. That alone makes it well worth it.
He also got me an Ozzfest ticket. And like every other year, Joe was the only one to do anything or even notice my birthday.
My mom called my work and left a message for me but it was combined with the need for me to go out there to see her to bring her some stuff from Joe.
It's all good though.
My sister Heather's birthday was April 27th too ;->

Gradmom
I don't even know where to start, But I think it should begin with my grandmom.
She has been in the hospital since Thanksgiving and she has taken a serious turn for the worse.
She won't be around very much longer and it is so hard to see her in the hospital like this. Strokes have effected her memory and it comes and goes. Doctors can't find any veins for the IV so they had to stick it in her neck of all places.
I remember my grandmom as being such a fiesty woman teasing and getting onto everyone. To see her like this just tears me apart.

Current Mood: Sick
Current Music: none

wow
Well, so much has been going on and not enough time to get on here and put something together.
Spliff recovered from her surgery and she is doind quite well. Getting out of her cage again a lot. Takes a while to find her when I get home.
I have another pet too. Spike. He is a spiney tail iguana. And I think I have come up with a name for the small green iguana. Since my 2 other iguanas have SP names, I think I am going to go with SpaceSik.
It's different ;->
I am rearranging my house and I think I am ready to move again.
THey built a new apt building accross the street (well actually accross and one over) and there are already too many cars and people and they don't have too many people in there yet.
My hair is blue now too. You can check it out on hotornot.com
http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=KMKQAZN&key=VPS

When I have more time, will put more here ;->

Poor Spliff
Where to start in this story. Well, 2 weeks ago, I noticed Spliff wouldn't eat and hadn't been going to the bathroom. I took the iguana to the vet Monday the 4th. I get a call later that afternoon and the Voice Mail said this, First of all, Spliff is a chick. They wanted to run X-rays and blood work to check calcium levels. So I called back and said go for it. Came back that the levels were WAY TOO HIHG and she had eggs in her body. Non-fertilized mind you.
Usually when this happens, the lizard can go from 2 to 6 weeks no food. But poor Spliff had been depressed due to unforseen circumstances.
She is blind, has been since she was 6 mo old., just got moved to a larger, different cage, my father and 6yr old bro (Ian) are staying with me and all of this just kind of seriously stressed. The vet said because of all of this, she wanted to do surgery to remove the eggs and the ovaries so this never happens again. 350 dollars and I said please go for it.
So, Tuesday afternoon, she has her surgery. I call around 3 to find out what is up, vet comes to the phone saying Spliff is just now waking up, she did great and as soon as she can stand on her own, I can take her home.
I picked her up right before 6. She drank lots of water that night but the following 2 days I couldn't get her to drink or eat (eating wasn't important at this time)
Finally friday, I bring her with me to work and she munched out and drank like crazy ;->
Now, it's been a week, she is doing great, she has 10 stitches on her tummy but her color has returned
;-> very happy me ;->

Well, dad had a good day yesterday. Made some money. Which is a really good thing. Went out to The Corner Tap (an Irish pub) for dinner and drinks.
Came home, Chris came by, we got nicely high and watched tv.
I also got my tongue set I ordered from my Setian friend, Seth. You should check it out
I got the black watermelon set
http://www.bodyartforms.com/sets.asp

Current Mood: okay

My weekend
Had a pretty damn good weekend. Dad didn't get to work on Saturday like he wanted so it's a little tight with cash till today ;->
Did some partying Friday night, Barbqued on Saturday then some more partying then watched playoffs on Sunday.
Bubba's friends all came over Saturday night too. There were over 10 people chillin' at my place. My friend Chris left around 3 in the morning and one of bubba's friends, Nick, stayed over night.
It was pretty crowded. I only have a 1 bedroom and I staying in my room, Dad and Ian on the hydabed, Nick on the futon and bubba on the floor. 4 people sleeping in my living room. Very interesting ;->

2 more weeks before I get my PS2 back. I am very much going thru withdrawls.
Joe let me play his a little bit this weekend, all that did is make me want to play more ;-<
Patience is not one of my strong points. Oh well.

Current Mood: refreshed

Well, it's been a week since my father arrived and so far so good. No major probs yet and it's good to see Ian growing up. He is such an interesting kid.
My g-mom is back in the hospital to have plastic surgery on her leg. After her quadrouple bypass, the leg area never healed. The only bad part is that she was at home for over a week and when she got back to the hospital, the only thing she was asking is when did she switch rooms. She doesn't remember being at home, at all.
My mother is so stressed out, and she is getting no help from the rest of g-mom's kids.
It's always been like that but it's hard on my mom when she sees her slipping like this.
I already miss my PS2 SO VERY MUCH. I want it back so badly. It's going to take at least another week ;-<
Got a new 55 gallon tank yesterday from my Best Friend Chris. Going to move Spliff (the bling iggy) to that one and then when the little one gets a little larger, he can have Spliff's current cage.
Hopefully I will have more to talk about soon. Things are pretty slow around here.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: nopthing right now

Been a while
Where to even start. So much has happened since my last entry.
I was in a really bad car accident, totalled my car, had a concussion. I am fine and over that now. My father is back in town as of today.
My pet count is at 7 right now, but about to grow by 2 more. Right now I have my 2 ball pythons, 2 cats, 2 iguanas, and 1 burmese python. About to have 2 tokay geckos.
One weird thing that happened over the corse of Dec. is my breasts grew by an entire cup size. Went from a B to a C. Had to get new bras (not that I wear them very often but more then I used to now).
Work is going pretty good. Happy to still have a job and all
My PS2 quit working and I have to send it to Cali plus pay 128 bucks to get it fixed ;-<
it's not even a year old yet. Oh well

Current Mood: content

Well Beowulf is getting better, so suprised since it's barely been over a week.
He is starting to hold his tail up and I even saw him twitch it last night ;->
Made me so proud.
Well, I've started into the inside sales position here at Espial. Not sure I like sales at all, and I haven't had a raise in a year. I think it's time to start looking for something new.
I have a seminar to go to on Friday, Cold Calling for Cowards. Hopefully this will help me out, I am not ready to walk away from this company quite yet but not sure if I can hang in here.
I guess only time will tell

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Tool

My poor kitten
I know it's been beyond a long time since I have posted here, but so many changes at work have demanded that be the case. I'll get into those in a different post.

Poor Beowulf. My 10 month old Pure grey kitten was seriously hurt ( he did it himself it turns out) on Sunday evening.
He came home and ran straight for the cabinets in the kitchen. I didn't think anything of it till later when I was trying to make sure both cats were in for dinner. I kept calling beowulf but he wouldn't respond for a long time. I found him hiding in spots he has never retreated to. At first I didn't realize what was wrong.
Noticed he wasn't walking too well, tried to make him walk to see if I could tell what was wrong, finally I found marks on his inner back legs and he couldn't jump on the couch without catching his back legs on the edge.
I gave him till overnight and took him to the vet on Monday, thinking he had been hit or nicked by a car.
The vet at first thought his pelivis was broken and x-rays indicated it was his tail above the pelvis but his nerves were still intact.
So now, if he doesn't get better, his tail will be amputated. I feel so sorry for him and he is in so much pain, I don't know what to do

Well I head out to Canada on Friday. I am really looking forward to this trip. My company is paying for everything for the 5 days and nights I am there. The whole trip (not including training) was less then 1,000 USD.
Should be so much fun.
Getting HBO on my cable today, sometime. My brother is waiting at home for the installation to take place.
Joe and I are supposed to go out for drinks tonight, but with him you never know what will happen.
It's all cool

Went shopping last week. Finally found a school girl outfit for fun ;-> I'd been looking for quite some time. Had a little fun with it when Joe got an 8ball of cola and shared with me and bubba.
It had been about 6 to 7 months last time I had any. A lot of fun ;->
Going to get a new car soon too
Bubba will get my car that I have now
I got some new stickers for it from www.evolvefish.com
I got their procreate emblem
it has the christ fish with a darwin fish humping it, but the darwin fish says evolution
I also got a Darwin fish emblem but will wait to put it on my next car
I also got a sticker that says "Darwin Loves You" instead of Jesus loves you crap, this one will go on my next car as well
I also got one more sticker that has a guy with blinders on and it says "Religion stops a thinking mind"
this one is already on my car. I have gotten some interesting responses while driving I must say ;->
hehe

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Manson -- Holywood

Another Trip
Well, a week after getting back from Florida and finally having everything accomplished with that trip, I found out I have to start plans for another trip.
This one is to Ottawa right after the 4th of July and in time for their Bastille day ;->
Should be a lot of fun too ;->
A lot to do for that trip but for once I have time to accomplish it all.
Getting over being sick. Bronchitis has been acting up. Driving me CRAZY!!!!
No'One's Shadow has been taking many shits to lately. Not much fun cleaning up something that shits bigger then any man.
Had to give him 2 baths and clean his cage three times already. Luckily, since I am sick, I have no sense of smell right now.
Joe has surgery on Thursday. Kind has me worried. I saw a special last night on the Discovery channel about Lipo misshaps and so forth and I found out some scary shit.
Like in Florida, any Doc can perform surgery. In that state, you don't have to have any special training or anything. If you have a DR by your name, technically, you can perform surgery.
I might get my tat this weekend if I remain brave enough.
Find out soon enough ;->

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Mer de Noms

Interesting
Life has been beyond interesting lately. Went to California a couple of weeks ago and had so much fun you would not believe. The view was awesome, the redwoods was so relaxing, the bud was the best and I successfully stayed stoned the entire trip.
Went to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and San Jose. Saw the ocean and stayed at this beautiful house.
Did not want to come back but it's all cool
Since I've been back things have been hectic. Here at work, Pleasant was let go. Sales guys didn't make their numbers and she was low man out. I guess it's how things go.
I have the rest of the week off though
and Bubba pierced his eyebrow ;->

I love weekends ;->
The Water Company sux!
I got a termination notice last week that was dated for yesterday and I called them to let them know I was going to pay it today, they told me since this was only my 6th month at th new address they can't extend the date.
NOT EVEN FOR 1 FUCKING DAY
Son of bitch bastards
So I had to borrow money from Joe and lately a month ago Joe told me he wasn't going to help me out any longer so this loan comes with interest, well sort of, just not cash.
More like favors. Just because I didn't get paid till today.
Oh well
'nuff 'bout 'dat ;->

hehe

Tonight should be fun, Joe's getting a 16th and we are going to do some partying and so is my brother. Was supposed to have pyramid but I'll settle ;->
It's been about a year since I had some of this stuff so at least my tolerance is pretty low
This weekend is also feeding weekend and Shadow is going thru his shedding phase so he can't see and he isn;t very happy at all right now.
oh well, how things go

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: netradio -- Industrial

well Joe had his surgery on Tuesday and everything went really well and he is healing so much faster then the first time that he even went to work last night.
Garza came by with his son Abraham. I think Garza will have him for the summer before he heads off with the military or something like that.
We all got stoned as shit last night and played Tekken Tag. Drank way too much and got up way too early this morning but it was worth it.
One of Garza'a lungs have been cleared. No more cancer in it right now. Not sure what he did to make that possible beyond pure will (which will take you further then most people realize.
Paul is coming to take me to lunch today. I've known Paul for, shit, lets see, almost as long as I've known Joe. Ever since I was almost 18, so about 5 years now.
wow
he's got a 20 month old little girl and she is a really good kid so far.
hopefully the next 2 days will speed by, I need to catch up on sleep plus there is this fishing thing at white rock this weekend.
There will be a cash fish worth 10,000 dollars plus lots of other stuff

Current Mood: groggy

Good News
Tests came back and they were negative ;->
but she has severe URmatoid Arthritis that will only get worse.
But at least no cancer ;->

Bad News
Found out some really bad news. My Grandma might have Nephritis.
My aunt died of that 3 years ago and my g-mom's sister died from it too. It tends to be familial and more common in women and it can hit at the age of 20
I haven't told bubba yet
not sure how he will react. I am worried

but on a positive note
my grandma turned 80 yesterday and her party is tomorrow

Accomplishments
A few weeks ago, Derek already asked me to start creating a new Database because he is fed up with GoldMine, so I had started that. Then Derek wanted all these reports to be pulled from GM so I worked on excel getting formulas that would count things that had several different columns and different requirements and so forth
took me a while, and just as I finished that yesterday
when Jaison and Derek were having all their meetings about where the company is going and what will be the best way to get there and so on, they decided to have a major project for me.
Derek and Jaison call me in and (since they have been reading that Solution Selling) want me to start yet ANOTHER database that goes along with the book. So it tells me the fields and that's it.
So I started on it yesterday, and it's done. Very nice DB by the way.
Not only that, I created replicas of the DB with one central control DB (which I will maintain) and the replicas go out to each of the sales guys.
Well, I found a way to sync the replicas without importing new shit and integrating it all
It's all done, better then I thought I could do
did more then I thought I knew how and no one has said their proud of me
oh well ;->
I'm proud of me

At least when I got home, Joe took me out for drinks. Then I zoned out on tv and munched on Jack in The Box then passed out

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Ride The Lightning-Metallica

The way things go
Joe is so pissed at me although he can't figure out a complete reason to be so
We haven't had sex in so long, and I think that above all is bothering him
I just have no desire whenever I get around him
The thought of sex is awesome, but once I'm around him, it falls away
He's even going to try taking off work tonight to spend sometime with me.
I think I just want to be left alone.
He has surgery next week and so will be out of commission for a while, and I guess he wants to make things ok before then. Don't know what I'm going to do.
I am so confused and not sure what all I'm feeling and not sure how much longer I can do this. I need a change

On a side note, my friend Rich, he's from my work but lives in Cali,
is Flying me out to San Jose for a concert he put together for a band he helps out with. Should be fun. He just got a huge house out by the redwoods and he's got a huge pool and hot tub.
Maybe a weekend away will help me out. Should be going in a couple of weeks.
I'm actually looking forward to just getting away from everyone.

Anyways, just had to get this shit off my chest.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water

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