update and cats

The latest is up on my other blog if you care to read it. 

John and I dropped off Suki to the vet this morning to be declawed. She has to stay overnight after the surgery, so we'll miss having her sleeping in our room tonight. But it's good her claws are going. She does not like other cats or small children, and she uses her claws on them. So I'm sure Momo and my nephews will be much happier. 

Momo ran away not long after we got here. He was gone for a few days, and didn't come when we called for him. But, one morning at 6 AM, he was sitting at the back door ready to come inside. He had hurt his leg, and it must have taken him a while to hobble back home. We think it's just a sprain because it's looking better pretty fast. He's next up at the vet when his leg heals enough. He won't be a real man anymore, and his front claws will also be going. Poor thing will have hurt paws for a while, first with the sprain, then with the surgery. 

moving

We're gone! No longer in Provo. We've been in Nevada for a little over a week now. It's so nice! I love being around my family. I also love the people here, and the beautiful green valley and mountains. I didn't know how much I missed it.

I learned a few things while moving. 

• It takes a really long time to pack art well. You would think only 8-10 items wouldn't take that long to pack. But it took Starla and I about an hour to pack our art really well so it would be padded and protected.
• The advice "pack big things in small boxes and small things in big boxes" is terrible. Putting lots of small things in a big box will still make the big box really heavy. I put just a few big things together in a big box. That made it much lighter.
• Even if you pack everything that you can a few days in advance, it still leaves a 15 hour day for you on moving day.
• Moving is very expensive. It was about $1,000 to move to a neighboring state. 
• Cats are more afraid of the truck when they are inside and it's not moving than when they are inside while it's driving. 
• Even on grades that aren't very steep, the truck can only go about 25 MPH. 
• We couldn't have finished everything in time without the help of John's mom, Starla, his brother, Jacob, and our friend, Hilary. Thank you all so much!

Hilary, Craig, me, and John

We spent 13 hours in that truck the next day.

movie villains

I watched The Shawshank Redemption with John this evening for the first time. We saw it sitting in the $5 bin at WalMart, so it came home with us. I really enjoyed it, but held onto a deep hatred of the Warden, and started making a mental list of the most evil villains in films. At first I tried to assign an order, but it got really hard to rank who was more evil. The last on the list is definitely, unquestionably my number one, but the rest are all pretty equal to each other.

Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)- The mistreatment and unprofessional punishments she inflicted upon the patients was heart-wrenching.

Iago (Othello)- Scheming home-wrecker. Watching his plan fall into place is so depressing.

Warden Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)- What a cowardly, selfish man. I was unhappy with his easy out he took at the end.

Bob Ewell (To Kill a Mockingbird)- Can I assign the description white trash to him? Drunk, lying, abusive white trash?

Percy Wetmore (The Green Mile)- He just made me so angry and upset! Just an evil, small man.  He got what was coming to him.

Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth)- Cold-blooded abuser and murderer.

Heath Ledger's Joker (The Dark Knight)- The psychological torture he put the people through made my whole heart hurt, and really upset me.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)- Creepy, psychotic serial killer. Although, he was a bit fascinating to watch.

"Buffalo Bill" (The Silence of the Lambs)- Another creepy, psychotic serial killer, but not fascinating to watch. Just depressing and horrifying.

Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)- He made me outright sob multiple times during the movie because of his actions against the Jews in the concentration camps, and I hadn't been affected by any villain like that before or since.

I'm know there are plenty of other villains who deserve to be listed here. Who would be added to your list?