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I just finished a weekend project of cleaning and organizing my office! I should have taken before pictures.
Eclectic Melsky
The strange and Wonderful world of Melsky
The orange one is Imp and the grey one is Luna. Imp is naughty and Luna is a sweet kitty who purrs a lot.
Right now I'm taking a break from tidying up my house. I'm not cleaning it though because I have housecleaners now. I'm doing well in business and I'm very very busy so it is practical to have housecleaners. I used to have a housecleaning business so it feels like a real milestone to me to actually have them now.
I'm pretty much recovered from my operation now.
I'm making mahi mahi, brown rice and a vegetable for dinner.
My garden is in bloom and I've been making floral arrangements with the roses.
Today I went to the library and salvation army. I get almost all my clothes at the salvation army.
On the surface my life is kind of boring.
I deal with a lot of crisises at work. Bedbugs. Mice. Break-ins. The occasional murder and 1000 family dramas. I'm just a rental agent!
One time I went into one of our less pleasant buildings. A woman came out and started telling me "there ain't no children here!" and I said I worked for the property management company. She said that she had thought I was a social worker. I have to constantly remind myself that I'm not a social worker. I work with a lot of social workers, finding homes for their clients. But I represent the investors who own the buildings.
Right now I'm taking a break from tidying up my house. I'm not cleaning it though because I have housecleaners now. I'm doing well in business and I'm very very busy so it is practical to have housecleaners. I used to have a housecleaning business so it feels like a real milestone to me to actually have them now.
I'm pretty much recovered from my operation now.
I'm making mahi mahi, brown rice and a vegetable for dinner.
My garden is in bloom and I've been making floral arrangements with the roses.
Today I went to the library and salvation army. I get almost all my clothes at the salvation army.
On the surface my life is kind of boring.
I deal with a lot of crisises at work. Bedbugs. Mice. Break-ins. The occasional murder and 1000 family dramas. I'm just a rental agent!
One time I went into one of our less pleasant buildings. A woman came out and started telling me "there ain't no children here!" and I said I worked for the property management company. She said that she had thought I was a social worker. I have to constantly remind myself that I'm not a social worker. I work with a lot of social workers, finding homes for their clients. But I represent the investors who own the buildings.
I've sold houses before but only as a buyer's agent. So I'm very excited about this one. It seems really really cheap if you are used to California real estate prices. It's an actual cash-producing rental property, if you have a mortgage on it it should produce a positive monthly cash flow. In Syracuse you do have a much lower monthly payment if you buy vs renting, unlike a lot of parts of the country. For instance I bought a much nicer house than I rented, and our payment including insurance, taxes and mortgage is about the same amount, even though it's a 15 year mortgage!
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Playing with toy mouse
Originally uploaded by Melsky
Does anyone in Syracuse want a kitten? I would like to keep all of them but six cats are kind of overwhelming us.
I named the Orange kitten Imp. He's a mischievous little fellow. He likes to try and crawl up my legs. His sisters Luna and Lump are calmer.
Today we are having a thunderstorm. I'm at home trying to recover from my surgery. It's a nice day to stay inside. I just hope our power doesn't go out.
There's more kittens on my flickr page
Today we are having a thunderstorm. I'm at home trying to recover from my surgery. It's a nice day to stay inside. I just hope our power doesn't go out.
There's more kittens on my flickr page
I'm at home resting after my surgery. They removed a non-cancerous tumor the size of a volleyball from my uterus. They also removed a few other tumors around the size of golf balls. I guess uterine tumors come in sport ball sizes. I'm glad I didn't get the basketball size.
It was done via laproscope, so they make a big hole in the belly button and two smaller holes at the sides. They chop the tumors into bits and then suck them out through the belly button. This is sad because now I can't have the giant tumor in a jar on my desk.
The surgeon said it was a very hard operation and they almost had to make a full incision. That would make my recovery a lot harder.
I'm feeling better than I thought I would. My stomach is one dark purple bruise, and it's all swollen. It looks like a bowling ball! It looks like it would hurt much much more than it does. As it is I'm not in constant pain at all. I'm just a little sore.
They did somehow scratch my cornea when I was under anesthesia. It really hurt! That hurt much worse than my stomach. But it went away after about 12 hours. My throat also hurt a lot.
I had heard that they give you these disposable underwear at the hospital and that they are very comfortable. It's true! They are a loose nylon knit and it's like wearing nothing at all. They are super ugly, being large and white and looking like men's Y-fronts. But I would love it if they would make something like it in black or purple in more of a bikini style.
Now I'm resting and working on my web pages and catching up on reading. I'm not in pain much but I'm so tired and also dizzy. I can't lean over in certain ways and i have to be careful getting in and out of bed and I can't pick up anything heavy but other than that I'm able to do stuff. I should be back to work next week.
I am in bed with kittens! I will be posting more photos soon.
It was done via laproscope, so they make a big hole in the belly button and two smaller holes at the sides. They chop the tumors into bits and then suck them out through the belly button. This is sad because now I can't have the giant tumor in a jar on my desk.
The surgeon said it was a very hard operation and they almost had to make a full incision. That would make my recovery a lot harder.
I'm feeling better than I thought I would. My stomach is one dark purple bruise, and it's all swollen. It looks like a bowling ball! It looks like it would hurt much much more than it does. As it is I'm not in constant pain at all. I'm just a little sore.
They did somehow scratch my cornea when I was under anesthesia. It really hurt! That hurt much worse than my stomach. But it went away after about 12 hours. My throat also hurt a lot.
I had heard that they give you these disposable underwear at the hospital and that they are very comfortable. It's true! They are a loose nylon knit and it's like wearing nothing at all. They are super ugly, being large and white and looking like men's Y-fronts. But I would love it if they would make something like it in black or purple in more of a bikini style.
Now I'm resting and working on my web pages and catching up on reading. I'm not in pain much but I'm so tired and also dizzy. I can't lean over in certain ways and i have to be careful getting in and out of bed and I can't pick up anything heavy but other than that I'm able to do stuff. I should be back to work next week.
I am in bed with kittens! I will be posting more photos soon.
Everything is blooming. It's finally spring here.
My garden is getting overgrown and our grass needs cutting. I really enjoy all the flowering trees.
My garden is getting overgrown and our grass needs cutting. I really enjoy all the flowering trees.
The kittens are getting bigger!
I have been super busy at work, but today is my one day totally off. I don't have to leave the house and I'm not going to drive anywhere. I'm going to walk down the hill and take photos of a house that we have for rent and write some memos to my boss about properties I viewed yesterday. Mostly I am going to try to get this house cleaned up and organize my clothes. I want to put my winter clothes away.
I'm having my operation in 9 days and I want to get as much as possible done before then.
- 07:51 I'm going to spend this day doing yardwork and housework. It's my day off #
The kittens and mother are doing great! They are starting to be more like cats now, playing with each other and trying to get out of their box. Everyone seems healthy.
Tomorrow someone starts at my old job and I am promoted to rental agent! No more customer service. I'll make a lot more money and have more time.
It's starting to be spring and we have a lot of things coming up in the yard including rhubarb! What can you make with it besides pie?
I got my Real Estate License.
I found a stray cat in the basement of a building I manage and adopted her. She was pregnant and gave birth to three kittens yesterday.
I found out I have a large non-cancerous tumor in my pelvic area and will have surgery to remove it in six weeks.
- 16:08 Sipping brandy in front of the fire #
- 17:55 @michellel I guess we do! I live right by a large park so they probably hang out there. #
- 18:06 Have been wearing pajamas all day #
- 17:50 @twentyfour01 I saw that too, right after it happened and the truck looked like it had been opened with a can opener. #
- 17:50 I saw a turkey in our yard! I think it was a turkey anyway. Big bird! Now I know what has been making those tracks. #
- 07:02 I'm just really really busy at work but I am going to try to spend this weekend doing stuff at home #
This is one of the apartments I'm working on getting rented. This place is only 550! It's not a very professional video but I didn't have a lot of time and I thought this showed it off well. I'm having the opposite problem to what I usually have in this house - it's very nice and all the photos I took make it look much worse. Usually our apartments are not that nice and I take photos that make them look much better than they actually are.
We are still getting settled into our house. Right now there is snow outside and I'm inside in my home office working on my rental listings by a roaring fire with my cats on the desk. Very cozy.
- 15:46 Tons of snow! Spent a lot of time shoveling #
- 07:35 I am busy at work, have not done enough unpacking #
- 17:59 @twentyfour01 I had to drive today and I was thankful for my snow tires #
- 18:02 Snowing a lot, we walked to Coleman's today and I had some cider. #