I love our pets to death! Howerver, they still manage to go on living in spite of my attempts. ;) It’s taken awhile for our #1 fraidy cat to take to the new automatic cat box we just got. He decided the floor was a much better place to go when it first arrived. A couple good spankings got him on track tho. NOW, it seems our #1 alley cat has taken it upon himself to re-mark the areas where our other cat decided to mark. Vicious cycle it is. More spankings later, and a new Bissel carpet cleaner I think has finally done the trick. Now, before all your PETA-freaks take the word “spanking” wrong, you should know I love my cats very much, and wouldn’t hurt them for anything in the world. Keep in mind, I care for them much more than I do for PETA-freaks… But, I vow going forward the only pets we will have are droids!

That all said, tomorrow we embark on a nice, well-deserved vacation from it all. We’re going to Sedona to take some time for ourselves. No cats, no beepers, no cell phones, no stress… Also, when we leave it will be the beginning of my journey down the path of quitting smoking AGAIN. I figure it’s a better time than any, since I can’t really smoke on the road trip because of the twins. Not to mention smokers are more and more being systematically rooted out and put down. ;) heh Here we go again. Wish me luck! :)