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Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 12:40 pm Food Nirvana
Current Mood: food enlightenment
Current Music: Green Day--American Idiot (the album)
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It's that time of year again, my friends.  A time that I look forward to throughout all of the cold dark rainy (yes...rainy, we'll get to that in a bit) winter months.  It's finally here.  I made a trip to the grocery store on Sunday night and while perusing the fruit (much of which was buy-one-get-one) I saw the item I crave above all others.......the finest fruit (mayhaps the finest food substance) that nature has ever provided us............Rainier Cherries.  Grown in only one part of this vast world (one more positive stroke for the Pacific Northwest.  They have these cherries in spades for the low low market price of $2.50 a pound.  It was all I could do not to bring back 20 pounds with me from my last excursion....as it was I ended up with 5 pounds and had to eat them much more quickly than I would have liked.), these cherries are a prize to be coveted even at their $4+ a pound price.  It's the limited availability and the fact that they're so so so so superior to all others of their kind that makes them completely worth the price I have to pay and the very long wait in between.

I just spent 20 minutes eating 10 cherries (yes, I carefully ration them out every day so that I keep from eating them all at once.....I want to enjoy my $4 fruit for the maximum length of time while still getting return on my investment (i.e. before they go bad)).  For those of you doing the math at home this equals approximately 2 minutes per cherry.  No, they aren't gargantuan in size....I just firmly believe in taking as much time as possible to eat them so as to (again) maximize my length of enjoyment and treat this most superior of fruits with the respect and gratitude it deserves.  Oh, I won't say it doesn't get hard near the end to just eat them at a breakneck pace in an attempt to satisfy your tongue more and more and more and more..........it's just that I know that it will be so much more worth it in the end if I enjoy every single rare second I get to experience in food nirvana.
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Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 08:32 pm I'm so sad...
Current Mood: depressed
This morning I woke up and turned on the light in the living room to go get breakfast. I noticed that Gizmo had pooped on the floor next to our chair and I was thinking "That's weird, Tim just changed her litterbox, why would she do that?" Then I notice her tail and leg sticking out from under the chair. I call out to Gizzy and she kind of thrashes around but doesn't come out. I call to her again, lifting up the skirt around the chair to look at her underneath. She starts thrashing around again but can't seem to get up. She's not stuck under the chair but can't seem to get up, and her breathing is a little funny.

I go to wake Tim and he lifts up the chair but she still can't get up. She just starts wiggling and making this sad kind of howling noise. Tim picks her up and she keeps crying, but she can't move either her of her left legs. He trys to set her up in her kitty bed but she can't stand up and just flops over. I think we were both really sad and scared. I really wanted to stay home, but my supervisor was gone from work today so I had to leave.

Tim took her to the pet hospital in Buffalo. They did tests on her and found that her temp was kind of cold, but other than that her bloodwork was okay. They figured at that point that it must be something neurological. They gave her a steroid to see if that would reduce any swelling in her brain (if there was any, they didn't have an MRI so they couldn't do that kind of test). Tim figured he would leave Gizmo at the hospital for the day and then take her home if there wasn't any improvement. Unfortunately the doctor called at 2:00 and told him that she passed away. I'm thinking maybe it was a stroke or something? I guess we won't know. We don't want to send her off somewhere just to figure out why she died.

I'm just so bummed though. She was only like 9 or 10 years old and always seemed to be in good health. She ate her dinner last night and nothing really happened out of the ordinary. I just wish we could have had more time with her. She was so cute and sweet, I'm really going to miss her. My eyes are getting watery again just thinking about it :(

( Two Gizzy pics... )
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