Living Memorial for Princess

Claudia and I decided that we are going to put together a little living memorial in our garden for Princess.  We had Princess cremated and are planning to bury her in the garden under a pretty flowering plant that we are planning on buying this weekend. 

We are not sure what kind of  plant we will buy.  We are just going to head out to a few of the big nurseries in the Simi Valley/Moorpark area and see if anything catches our eye.  Claudia and I were thinking that if there was a pretty flowering plant that repelled cats, that would be the best plant to buy.  Although Princess was a cat, she HATED other cats and I mean with a passion!  She liked her peace and didn’t like many living things other than Nuria, Claudia and me!  There were a few friends and family that she took to over the years, but generally, she just wanted to be left alone to live her life in peace doing her own thing around the house.

Dissertation Crunchtime

I have been out of touch for a while due to a final push to finish writing the basic text of my dissertation by the end of the month!  My advisor would like me to finish writing the basics of my dissertation by the end of August 2008 and do edits for the last four months of the year.  I have written approx. 55 pages of my dissertation in the last 4 weeks and have a little bit more work to accomplish by Labor Day.  I guess that means that I will be working mostly on my dissertation this weekend. 

Good thing that the view out of our home office is nice!

Princess Died

Princess

Our beautiful little kitty that brought so much joy to our lives has died.  She has been struggling with Diabetes for the last 8 or 9 months and finally passed away yesterday morning at 4:14 am.  She had been not doing well over the course of Sunday and I had made the sad decision to put her down on Monday morning.  As you can tell by the timeline that she did not live to make it to the Vet.

She has been a part of our lives and a member of the family for a long time and we will sorely miss her.  She had a pretty rough first part of her life as a stray living in a citris packing plant.  The workers there had abused her and she was rescued by a family friend that worked there.  She lived with my parents of a short bit but given her HATE for other cats, we adopted her shortly after Claudia moved to the United States.  She really came out of her shell while living with us and brought us great joy every day. 

We will miss her.

New Crue Video

There is a new Motley Crue video out there.  This one is not for those that are offended by colorful language seeing as it is titled “Mother****er of the Year”!

Enjoy!

Mötley Crüe’s new video “MUTHER****ER OF THE YEAR”

If you missed the first video release of the new album, Saints of Los Angeles, you can find it here:

Saints of Los Angeles

Missing My Ladies

My two beautiful ladies are currently in Germany for a bit of a visit with Oma (grandma in German) and have left a big hole in my life!  Our house is very large without my daughter and wife running around.  The good news is that I have plenty to work on with my dissertation.  I will be taking a summer staycation and use the time to write a bunch of my dissertation. 

I’ll let you know how productive the vacation is when I get back to the blog after my little staycation.