Creepy pants

I finally broke down and purchased a pair of those ridiculous maternity pants that have some sort of panty hose on the top that totally covers the whole belly.
I totally love them. I look like a freak with panty hose over my belly but I am really comfortable. I had really cute maternity jeans that I wore everyday for the longest but eventually the half panel stated to cut into my belly and I was afraid it was digging into my baby's head. I did not want my baby coming out with weird jean marks on her face. So even though I told myself I would not wear creepy maternity pants with the "perfect fit belly" I broke down and did it. See what I mean about pregnancy turning women into one track bore machines. I mean who Else but another pregnant lady wants to read about me getting a pair of pants? Well, to bad I don't have anything else to write about. In other news about pants I am still able to just barley wear my really great running tights that I got a few years ago when I moved from Florida to North Carolina. They are some high tech fancy pants that Addias makes and were really expensive, that's why I had to get them as a Christmas gift. I wear them endlessly and I am forced to wear them under my belly so they kind of dig into my butt checks and that is not an attractive look. I don't care I am not buying maternity workout clothes this late in the game. Speaking of working out...I am proud to say that I am 32 weeks on Thursday and still running. Well not really running more jogging and shuffling but I am still getting up getting all suited up and taking the dog for runs. This morning I actually saw Otto YAWN while we were running. WOW he actually yawned. My father thinks my baby is going to fall out if I keep running, let me say WOW again. He wanted to know if anyone ever stops me to tell me I am too pregnant to run. So far no one has had the nerve. I live in a tiny town and people have been watching me run for almost 3 years now so they probably just got used to seeing me. God knows I have gotten used to seeing them! Let me just say that a pet peeve of mine is people walking or running on the wrong side of the street. Lets review....if you are running on the road you need to be running against the flow of on coming traffic so that cars can see you. You never run or walk with your back to oncoming traffic. I just can't stand when I am running and some schmuck is walking their dog on the wrong side of the street and then my dog starts getting all excited and wants to pull and jump and say hi to the other dog and I have to look like a dick and pull my dog away while the other person says "Oh he just wants to say hi." guess what, I don't want my dog going nuts trying to say HI to everyone when we are running. Otto is 85lbs and up until last year was never walked on a leash due to the fact that he was a wild mountain dog, now he is a runner and a very good one at that and I also don't want the worlds friendliest dog (Otto) pulling me down when I am 8 months pregnant. So please walk on the correct side of the street.
Ok that is my lecture for the day.
Highlights of this blog are
1. Creepy maternity pants are comfortable
2. People need to learn how to walk on the street so that they don't inconvenience me when I am running. Just kidding (not really, it is way annoying)

I'm back

It has been ages since I last posted. This is because I have been tired and unmotivated to write anything. Not to mention the fact that when your pregnant that is the biggest thing going on in your life and you want to talk about it all the time and other people want to staple your lips shut because your pregnancy is NOT the biggest thing in their life. So to avoid just blabbing non-stop about my hemorrhoids and my huge belly and what color I painted the baby's room and how it feels like I have a wolverine clawing at my insides I just said eff it. But this morning I am feeling invigorated and I am going to share some of this with any people that might look at this blog, which at this point is probably few considering the fact that when I look at blogs if someone doesn't post for a while I say screw em' and never check back.
OK so I am 31 weeks pregnant. I feel pretty good. A little moody (a lot moody) and sometimes tired (like from 3 pm on) and my feet hurt a lot and sometimes my back too. I am still running even though some people think I am insane. My Dr told me that since I was a runner before I got pregnant I could run as long as I felt good. Well last week I said OK ENOUGH I AM NOT RUNNING ANYMORE I AM ONLY GOING TO USE THE ELLIPTICAL. This was because during my run I felt like I was hauling a boulder around and had a midget on my back and I thought my lungs were bleeding and that my feet were fixin to fall off AND it was freaking cold as hell out. So I told myself that running until 30 weeks was admirable and that now I could call it quits and just use the boring machines at the gym. My mother suggest walking, WALKING, no I can't walk and say that I exercised. I know that walking is exercise but unless I am sweating and breathing heavy I don't feel like I have done a damm thing. Besides she is not a runner and doesn't get that its not easy for runners to just stop running and pick up walking. I am devastate enough as it is that sometimes during my run I have to stop and walk for a few seconds. By the way when I say "run" I mean a slow jogging waddling movement, where my dog is not even really running but doing more of a fast trot and is still way ahead of me. I remember when Otto had to keep up with me, now he gets antsy and annoyed because he wants to run and I can't go as fast as him so he get bored and tries to stop a lot and sniff every blade of grass that comes in his path. So I thought it was over. Then over the weekend we had a day where it was almost 70 degrees outside and I just could not resist so I went out for a run and it was great. I felt really good the weather was perfect nothing was hurting and I didn't even feel that heavy. Running was back on. Of course when I ran yesterday it was early in the morning and the midget was back on my back and the boulder was in my belly and my feet were falling off AND it was cold . Oh well. I am just going to keep running for a while and see how it goes.
That is a little bit of what is happening with me.

Bob's story is just down the page.

If you clicked on the link in the newsletter hoping to see the story on Bob the neighbor cat just scroll down the page.
Thanks!

Lifestyles of the ungrateful and whiney

Today I felt like ass at work so Joel let me go home early. I figure I can at least write my blog, even if I was feeling useless in the office. Sometimes I get so jealous of rich people who can just lay around and get pampered through there whole pregnancies. But of course if I was one of those rich people I would probably complain anyway. I guess no one is ever completely satisfied with what they have. Now I will get a bunch of comments from people telling me how happy they are with their lives and how they have nothing and love it. Well I do know that I have 3 of the worlds best dogs and they are all staring at me right now and I love it. I was getting all nervous thinking about how Teddydigital and I were going to care for a newborn and 3 dogs and 1 cat and then I saw some show about a couple who had a set of twins and then had sextuplets!!!! What the eff is that!!!!! I felt like a total baby when I saw that especially when the lady said that her husband lost his job and they had no income for a year and they were fine. The universe provide all the stuff they needed and they were not complaining and acting like a bunch of candy-asses either. It made me grateful that I am only having one baby and that my dogs are pretty low maintenance in comparisons to some dogs I know.
Speaking of dogs Petunia is bugging me to let her have a myspace. I was a little apprehensive because there are a lot of creeps on myspace but I figured what the hell gotta let the dog live so keep your eye out for her and if you are some sort of creep with a sick fetish for plump cute pug/Chihuahua mixes stay away, Petunia is pure and innocent and I will cut you if you mess with her. God, I hope I am not one of those Moms that gose to jail for beating up another Mom at her kids soccer game. I guess we will just have to wait and see!

Lets take a moment to honor Bob.

Over the weekend our good and loving and special friend Bob the neighbor cat passed away. I found him in the grass under a bush, it looked like he curled up for peaceful nap and the universe decided that it was his time to go. I bet God had his eye on Bob for a while because he is such an awesome cat but God knew that Bob had work to do here on Earth. Bob was almost 18 years old when he passed away. He lived with many people in our neighborhood including Becky and Paul and Teddydigital and myself. Due to the fact that Bob would not use a litter box I made him a bed on my porch with an electric blanket to keep him warm, but on really cold nights he would sleep at Becky and Paul's or with us. In fact a few days before he died it snowed and Bob came in and was hanging out, I noticed that he seemed a little sluggish but I chalked it up to him being cold. Around 11:30pm Paul came over and picked him up to sleep at his house because Paul could leave his window open for Bob to go out and pee and at my house Bob preferred to pee on Teddydigitals sweaters. I went to bed and about 10 minutes later Teddydigital came up and said that Bob was at the family room window asking to come in, so we let him in and he got in bed with me. (We made sure there were no clothes on floor) I just looked at Bob and he started purring and then he curled up and went to sleep. He was so happy to be in the house with us and to be sleeping in bed.
We buried Bob on Saturday and we are planing a memorial service for some time this week.
We all loved Bob and when I come home from work I keep expecting to see him come running to greet me in my driveway.
Rest in peace little Bobsie we will miss you.

The day after valentines day

Today is the day after Valentines day.
Did you give your girl some candy and she looked all disapointed and bummed?
Did you give your guy a homemade coupon book for foot rubs and he looked sad because he knew that even if he gave you the coupon you would never actualy give the rub?
Yeah, I know I've been there too.
Well everyday is a clean slate and we can always start over fresh that is why I sugguest that you go ahead and give the gift of Crispy Cats.
You just can not go wrong. You can still atone for bad choice that you made.
I sugguest if you want to score big go get a mixed case of bars and tell your loved one that you had to special order it and that is why you did not have it yesterday.
By the way I don't condone lying, I am just throwing it out there.
So that is my tip for today. If you effed up don't worry now you know what to do.

Land whale

They have been keeping me way to busy here! I have been doing a ton of sales and a bunch of demos and this has left me little time to write about the goings on in this office and in my life.
For one thing I am a land whale. When people see me on the street I bet they are thinking what is that whale doing on the land? Just walking around and what not, quick someone push her back in the water before it is too late. At this point I am 25 weeks pregnat and starting to get a really big tummy. I'm really getting used to being pregnagnt and don't know what I am going to do for excuses once I am no longer pregnant. I guess at that point I can just use the baby as my excuse to wear my PJs out of the house and pretend they are pants.
Also I want to eat the entire world. Did I mention that I am a land whale?

Updates

Since I have not been able to post for awhile I thought I would update you all on what is going on.
1. If you live in the Asheville area and you want to get some free Crispy Cat samples then come to Earthfare.

I am going to be demoing there on Friday (Arden) that is this Friday and then next friday at the Westgate Earthfare from 11:30-3:30

2. Also I farted on Stu's hoodie and he got really mad. Don't worry we made up.

3. Morgan gave me a really great haircut so now I feel pretty again. If you come to Asheville or live here you should check out her vintage boutqie called Hip Replacements on Lexington ave.

4. We had a new office built into our space by Lewis who told me and Stu really crazy stories about his childhood.

5. About 10 million people made remarks about how big I am. Hey, heres a shocker...when you are pregnant you get bigger!! I know I am totaly breaking ground here but it is the truth!!
also it is very rude to make comments to a pregnant lady about how "big" she looks.

6. Valentines day is almost here so get your sweetie some yummy crispy cats. We are on sale at Earthfare all month so if you are local take advantage.

7. Tonight lost is on with the season premier and I can't wait. If you don't love lost than I think you might be suffering brain damage.

8. The spell checker is broken so pretend you don't see all the spelling errors.

If your local store dosen't carry us heres what you do...

Galle left a comment about having to smuggle the bars in from Canada. That is just a shame!!!
In the country that claims to be the land of opportunity all people should have accesses to good candy bars!! (I should run for president, I'm good)
Here is what I am going to do for the people of this country.
If you have a local health food store or co-op or whatever and you want them to carry our product and they don't just send me the name of the store and the phone number and I will give them a call. I will give them a sales call they won't soon forget! No seriously I will call them and send them samples and give them good deals to start carrying Crispy Cats.
I will do this because I love the people who love us!!
So don't be shy just e-mail me at ann@crispycatcandybars.com and I will make it happen for you!

Cat scratch fever....i thought I had it.

This morning I was huggin' my cat Mr. Big. Bigs is like the most loving and friendly cat in the world. He is a huge yellow cat, not fat just tall, sorta like a lion. Anyway one of the best things about him is that you can hold him and cuddle him and kiss him and he loves it. Its like the more attention the better, so that's why I was so surprised this morning when he tried to kill me.
I guess he didn't really try to "kill" me but he did scratch me. I was totally shocked. It was a morning like any other morning, Bigs came into my room and got my sheets all muddy with his dirty feet and then fell asleep. I came in and saw him looking so cute and started kissing him and then I cradled him in my arms like a baby. This is all very normal. Then I guess Bigs wanted to be let go of and he tried to wiggle free so I let him go because no means no right?
Then I gave him on last pet and he took a swipe and his claw got stuck in the web of my finger. I started to panic, I could feel the bacteria and cat poop seeping into my veins. I freaked out!!!
I thought for sure that me and my baby were going to be infected with this deadly virus disease thingy and then be turned into rage zombies.
I called the phone nurse and left a message. Then I looked at Bigs I asked him "WHY, WHY DID YOU DO THAT I LOVE YOU YOU CRAZY SONOFABITCH WHY YOU TRY TO KILL ME??" he just ignored me and licked his paws and his tail then fell asleep. I went to work and I googled Cat Scratch Disease and then I was really scared. I asked Stu about it he said he had it once when he was 15. Then he looked at my scratch and said he thought I was fine, after all he did work at the Harvard medical newsletter place stuffing envelopes so I know he knows something about medical stuff, I mean it practically makes him a doctor but still I was uneasy. I called Teddydigital at his office and asked him if he thought I had it. He said no and then googled it and sent me a bunch of photos of pugs and a kid with a bad cat scratch on his back. I called him again and he transferred me to this lady in accounting named Cherrie who had a cat when she was pregnant and it scratched her a bunch and her kids are fine so I felt a litttle better but not much. I called his office again later and he answered "Cat scratch fever hot line." I hung up. I asked Eric and then his brother if they thought I had it and they said no but still I was not convinced.
Eventual the phone nurse called me back and told me more than likely that it was OK. So I feel a lot better. But if I turn into a rage zombie or my baby comes out like a rage zombie than I know who to blame (Bigs!!!)