Asha Anujeeva

With the price of gasoline continuing to skyrocket, we will be spending more time at home and less time on the road.  That means we will be spending more of our money on fixing up our place to enjoy it on our vacations instead of traveling.  I’ve heard the phrase “Staycations” tossed around a lot lately – it means people who are staying home on their vacations instead of going someplace “special.”  So, we are going to be investing some money making our home someplace “special.” 

We have a large room in our basement that we are going to convert into a home theater system.  We’ve been looking at the Precision Electronics Systems website to do some pricing and planning of the system that we want to get.  My honey wants to get some JBL cinema speakers for the system, and I’ve told him that I’ll leave that kind of planning up to him.  I’d like to get more involved in picking out the cool seating arrangements to make sure that everyone that is in the room has a great view and a comfortable seat.  And I want to make sure that we have a mini-kitchen area nearby so we can pop some popcorn and serve cold refreshments without having to go upstairs to get food or drinks.  I’m really looking forward to having this done – it is going to be so cool!

There is a neighborhood cat that we see walking around our yard everyday.  We’ve never tried to get close to it, we always figured it would just run off.  Besides, we didn’t want to start feeding it and never get rid of it.  We hoped it belonged to someone and wasn’t a wild cat, but we weren’t sure if it did have a home or not.  Tonight we saw the cat walking across our back yard, dragging one of it’s rear legs, obviously badly hurt.  By the time I could get to the door to try to coax the cat to me, to try to take care of it, it had disappeared into the woods.  I’m very upset that it is hurt, and now I’m afraid that it doesn’t have an owner to take it to the vet.  I’m afraid that gangrene will set in and it will suffer a painful death.