nutria motel

apparently the nutria are coming into the house now. and they're attacking my cat! gracie has been hiding a lot lately--in cupboards and under things--and the other day she had a wound on her neck. we cleaned it up and made sure she was current on her rabies shots. and then last night (i missed all of this somehow, by the way, because apparently i sleep like i'm in a coma) otis woke matt up at 2 am barking and running back and forth next to the bedroom door (he sleeps in the bedroom with us with the door shut so he can't dig through the trash in the middle of the night while we're sleeping). so matt went out into the living room to see what was up and otis started howling and looking around. grace was practically behind the refrigerator. nothing else was out there, though, so he went back to bed. the same thing happened at 2:30. then at 3, gracie woke him up by scratching on the bedroom door. he went out again to make sure nothing was going on and saw ratty tail disappear out the cat door. he shut the cat door. then he was woken up again at 4 by the nutria, scratching alternately on the cat door and the bedroom window, like he was asking to be let in! fantastic. a nutria with a sense of entitlement.

priorities

ok, saving my friends eyes is definitely as important as saving the planet, and the color of my blog has a much greater chance of impacting the former than the latter. hence, a new color. merry reading. :)

improvements?

i had some helpful feedback the other day that the black screen made it hard to read my blog. i also had the feedback that having it all on one site (i.e. my myspace) would be an improvement. i was all ready to move my blog to my myspace to keep everything consolidated and save people's time (and mine) flipping through pages online, but then i realized that some of my friends/family who read this blog don't have myspace, and wouldn't be able to get to the blog without signing up (and for whatever reason they won't or don't). so i'm keeping the blog here for the time being at least. but i tweaked the font a little and made it bigger and differently-shaped, so i want to know, is it still hard to read this way or does this work?