She's Home!

This is Jezebel. I don't want anyone giving us a hard time about her name! We all picked our 3 favorites and put them in a hat. Dakota wanted to name her Torvanko, Thunder or Blazikin. Really. Everyone likes her name, and she's settling in.
You can see her tattoo from her surgery. She'll have a green line on her belly, so another vet would know that she's already been spayed. We've got her set up in the back hall, with a baby gate up. She's got the cat carrier, a kitty bed, some toys and scratching things. She hasn't jumped out yet, but I'm sure in a day or two she'll figure it out.

Binger isn't too thrilled at the moment. They've met through the gate, with some crying and hissing. Nothing too bad, and it's to be expected. They survived the night without a fight. Jezebel stayed in the backhall, and I think Binger stayed out, or else we would of heard some commotion. We let her out into the house for a while today, so she could explore. There were a few moments between the cats that were tense, so after a while we put her back into the backhall so she could relax. She curled up in the cat carrier and is napping right now.

She's adorable, and a little fiesty with her nipping and biting, but we'll work on it.

On a sad note, Meatball passed away a few days ago. We don't know what happened, he just stopped swimming and sank to the bottom of the tank. He stayed like that for a couple days, before we had a burial at sea (you know, we flushed him)...

CVS w/o 7/13

1 Bic Soleil Razor $6.99
1 Bic Soleil Refill 4pk $6.99
2 Candybars $1.58

Coupons used: 3/15, $4 off Bic Soleil, $4 off Bic Soleil
ECB used: $1, $2
Total OOP:$1.56
ECB Earned: $5

4 bottles of Coke 2 Liter (not pictured) BOGO @ $1.89 each

3 Sally Hanson nail polish @ $.99 each

2 CVS tampons 5 pk. @ $1.49 each

Children's pain reliever $3.49

Mack's Ear Plugs $3.69

Coupons used: 3/15, $2.97 (adjusted from $3 off 2 Sally Hanson)

ECB used: $1, $1.98

Total OOP: $8.22

ECB Earned: $2.98

This second transaction was more OOP, but the kids tylenol and ear plugs were needed. Not too bad. I'll be shaving my legs for free for the rest of my lfe!

*Walgreens Note*

Once again I went looking for the Scrubbing Bubbles shower refills, that I have a raincheck for. My raincheck is for 4 of them. I checked last night, and they only had ONE. I'll probably start calling and complaing next week. It's pretty lame that this sale was the first week of July, and now 2 weeks later they STILL don't have the product.

Adoption In Progress

So, we were hanging out by the pool yesterday afternoon, reading the paper. There was an article about how 44 cats had just been removed from a local home. Most of them were feral, but some were not, and would be placed up for adoption. We'd been going back and forth about getting another cat, but we've been busy. Back and forth to the Cape, swim lessons, it's been so hot, blah blah blah... But adoptions are at 1/2 price right now, since they are overloaded with animals.

John checked the hours for the MSPCA, and they were open until 7. Let's go NOW, before we change our minds. The boys were excited, we all got changed and raced down there. When we got there, there was a LINE. So John got in line while the boys and I checked out all the cats and kittens. Of course, there were more adult cats than kittens. I only saw 1 really small kitten. A little girl was hovering over the cage, demanding to anyone who went near that SHE had already picked the cat, and it was HERS. I wasn't about to agrue with her, so we moved on.

We finally found 2 that we liked, but of course Dakota wanted 1 and Taygan wanted the other. We had already said we were only getting ONE cat, and these 2 were marked that they wanted them to go home together. So we looked around some more. And we found her! There was an orange and white cat, more of a kitten since she's 8 months old. So she's not full grown yet, but she's not tiny either. She looks like the cat above, but she's almost divided in 1/2 horizontially, an orange/tan on top and white underneathe. Her name is Leah, although I'm not sure if we're going to change it. She was happy to get out of her cage, and started playing with the toys in the visiting room after a few minutes. She did okay when Taygan started to manhandle her, which is good. We'll pick her up on Tuesday, since they're pretty busy and she needs to be spayed. Dakota was upset that we couldn't bring her home RIGHT NOW, but it gives us time to go to the store and get some kitty toys, bed, etc... We'll pick up some extras to donate when we pick her up.

We took a look at the dogs, but I am NOT A DOG PERSON. When we first walked into the room, a large pit bull jumped up and started barking, scaring the life out of Dakota and I. That set off all the other dogs, barking and whinning. I felt bad for the dogs, but I was also freaked out. We got the hell out of there real quick. There was mostly big dogs, pit bulls, mean looking dogs. There were a few small breeds, but only 2 or 3. Dogs make me nervous, especially the larger breeds. Unless it's a dog I know, but I don't know many.

So, we'll be adding to our family next week! Pictures to follow!

CVS Survey!!

Horray!! I got an email yesterday from CVS, asking me to participate in a survey for $10 ECB. It took 10 minutes of my time, and my $10 ECB will print out at the register after August 1st! I haven't been lucky enough to get an email coupon ever, I think. So this was a happy discovery in my email.

The Fair!

Our last night at the Cape we went to the local fair with my parents. I've never seen such pure joy on the face of Taygan. He loved every minute of it.
Dakota was slow to get started, but he usually is. My parents sprang for wristbands that gave the boys unlimited rides. We definitely got the best bang for the buck.
The bumper cars were Dakota's favorite. Even more so when I told him I've only been on them once in my life. Now he's got something accomplished more than I have, and he's real proud of that.
Taygan's favorites were the race cars and the FunHouse. As soon as he was done, he was racing back into the FunHouse or right back into line. They also went down the giant slide a bunch of times. Thanks Mom and Dad!

The Beach. Take 2

So, since the 4th weekend was so soggy, I took the boys back during the week. Sunny Days! We went to the beach and didn't freeze! I actually swam in the pond! We had a great time.
Ahhhhh.... I love Cape Cod. I want to go back again!
Dakota finally got to use his rc boat he got for his birthday. He's been waiting since the middle of winter!
Taygan's sandcastle.
I missed John, though....

CVS w/o 7/6

2 Pringles (2/$2.00)

2 Dawn dishsoap (2/$2.00)

2 CVS pantiliners ($.99 each)

Pictures ($9.45)

Face scrubbie ($.99)

Total: $16.40

Minus $3/$15 CVS Q, $.50 dawn Q

I paid with $11 ECB

OOP: $1.92

I got back $3.98 in ECB, plus $2 ECB I got when I scanned my card at the price checker. The pictures ended up being a bit more than I expected (I had used the 20 free prints code online, but the register charged regular price, I think, and gave me a free 20 pictures coupon on my receipt), and I had tossed in the face scrubbie to bring me up over $15. I grabbed a bunch of the little coupon books at the register, I'm hoping to use the $2 skincare Q on the EOB handsoaps.

Not bad. I've got another $3/$15 coupon for next week!

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*Walgreens note*

Stopped AGAIN today to check for the scrubbing bubbles shower refill. Still nothing there.