Year 2 - Day 256 - September 14

The most devastating thing happened at work today.

They (sort of unofficially since it's not on paper, but officially in the sense that they're policing it now)
OUTLAWED SNEAKERS AT WORK.

Seriously. I love my job. I really do. But I don't have a desk job. I run around, I check books in and out, I sit on the floor, I shelve books, I teach kids, etc. Everything that all the people do in big libraries, I do it all plus the teaching.

And now I can't do it in sneakers.

The first thing I did is go to the mall. Normally I don't shop at Macy's because I'm not rich, but I had some giftcards and I matched it with a sale to buy some "walking shoes." I'm not wearing them until tomorrow when I get them approved, in case they count as sneakers and I have to bring them back. They're black though and definitely not something you'd wear to the gym, so I'm hoping they work.

I'm usually willing to let crazy policies just go, but this one is really getting under my skin.

Day 162 - June 11

This morning, we had to say goodbye to Sneakers.  Moments after doing his daily 5:30am run around and up and over and back up and back down and around again with Moose, (meowing all the while), he had a bad episode.  We took him to the 24 hour emergency vet and the tests sadly showed it was time. 

We can only hope that all of our pets live just about 17 years and are only sick for a couple hours, right?  It was still hard.  Moose even seems a little out of sorts. 

This picture was actually taken a couple years ago.  Since Sneakers didn't actually know that he was really old, he didn't act like it.  This day, he jumped up on the half wall in the foyer of the old house.  Then he climbed on to the top of the TV, balanced himself on top of the open front door (we had a storm door back then, so the door was open a lot) and then walked onto the window sill of the window above the door.  It was really funny.  It happened so fast that I almost didn't have time to grab the camera, which explains the awful blurry shot. 

In better news, I went to a 5th grade graduation today for a former student. It was super cute and awesome to see him so proud of himself! :)

Day 1 - January 1

This is my 16 year old cat, Sneakers. When he was born in the fall of 1993, I would have never guessed he'd be here for New Years Day 2010! After spending the first 13 years of his life with my parents, he moved in with me & my cat Moose (to be featured sometime in the coming 364 pictures, I'm sure). Somedays I think we mis-named him and should have gone with "Squeakers" because he is by far the loudest cat I've ever met. Especially between the hours of 4-6am! My darling husband long ago nicknamed him "Stinky." That might be a better name too. Of course, Sneakers doesn't actually know his real name, so you can call him anything you like.