Deborah is coming!

Today I get to meet my mother in law, Deborah.  She’s from England, and she’ll be staying with us for about a week, from this evening until after the wedding next Saturday.  I can hardly believe that our wedding is only a week away.  It feels like this has been in the works forever now, though it has only been a little over a year.  I got my hair trimmed this morning, and I was talking to my barber about it.  He said he remembers how much went into his wedding, and that was over 30 years ago.  Though he did say that given the choice, he wouldn’t change a thing.  I told him that so much planning has gone into this for an event that will only last a few hours, it’s like planning the Normandy invasion, and not even getting to free Europe!  That made him chuckle.

We’re still waiting to hear from our new recruiter in Korea.  Our old recruiter can’t help us, since the company he works for isn’t recruiter for SMOE this semester.  He sent our files to a guy he knows at another recruiter, and asked him to help us out.  I’m still completely confident that we’ll get the jobs, but it’s going to take a little longer.

Speaking of jobs, I’m very happy with my new outside maintenance job at Weiler.  Granted, it’s not terribly interesting, but I do get to be outside, and the day goes by very smoothly.  Yesterday they sent Tony and I out by ourselves to get started, so that shows that they have a little trust in us already.  So long as we put in an honest day of work, we’ll be fine.  I do have a trusty new steed to carry my load, a Kawasaki Mule, which is a little utility truck made out of a four-wheeler.  Here’s a pic.

My trusty steed.

That’s about it for today.  Here is a cute vid of our cat Pangu, trying to be helpful, and succeeding in being cute.

Shiny new toy

Melissa and I went to Connecticut today for her second bridal shower, and while she had a nice time, the highlight for me was when I found out that her parents bought up the camcorder we put on our wedding registry.  I was literally itching to get at it all the way home.  I charged it up right away and put it into action trying to figure out how it works.  It’s really simple, actually.  There is a big red button on the back, which is the start/stop recording button, then small touch-screen like buttons allow you to watch your videos, and choose which ones to keep and which to delete.  I’ve taken some video of our cat Pangu, which I will try to attach as my first video posts.  Let’s see how this turns out.

The cat has (had) fleas.

Somehow, our cat got fleas.  I’m not sure where from, since our cat is of the strictly indoor variety, though Melissa thinks that they must have come from the dogs upstairs.

Our cat Pangu

  Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we didn’t want anyone to get fleas, we had to do something about it.  I picked up some flea shampoo and a couple of flea bombs at the grocery store and got to work.  The first thing we did was wash the cat, which as anyone with any cat experience knows, was no simple task.  I must say that she took it quite well though, all things considered.  I wish I had a picture of what Pangu looks like wet, because you’ve never seen a sadder thing in all your life.  Unfortunately, since we had a wet, cold and pissed cat on our hands, that picture will have to wait until later.  After washing the cat, we took her in her carrier down to mom and dads so they could look after her while we set off the bug bombs in the house.  While the bug bombs were doing their business, we decided to head out to Dickson City for dinner.  We had a very nice meal at the Olive Garden.  Melissa had the Venetian Apricot Chicken and I had the Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara, both of which were excellent.  I’ll try to go on the Olive Garden website and get a picture of them.

 

Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara

Venetian Apricot Chicken.

  When we got home with the cat, it seems as if the bug bombs worked.  I haven’t seen a live flea yet, and most importantly, the cat has stopped scratching.  Other than that, not a whole lot going on today.  Thanksgiving dinner is at 2pm tomorrow, so I’ll try to get pictures of everyone, and of course of the food also.  Hurray!  I’ll finally have some pics to post.