Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Gone Fishin’…at SuperZoo ‘07
Should you feel the need to purchase a lovely spiked collar, check out Auburn Leathercrafters at Auburn Direct. They had lots of great collars and leashes, even special ones for Christmas and Hanukkah. Plus a whole line dedicated to a popular blogger’s children, Madison and Maxwell. I suppose that maybe, perhaps, it’s just a coincidence. I’m sure the children were named after the delicious collars that are studded with Swarovski crystals.
We’ve had a long week (for us), and we have one day left of five hours of stalking pet food/toy/apparel/etc. vendors and then we’ll need weeks to recover from it. Yesterday, after five hours of walking/ambling, we were in so much pain that we had to stop at the Starbucks just outside the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to get drinks, snacks, and to take pain meds. Once we sat down, we had a lot of trouble getting up, we were in so much pain. It’s been quite a while since I’ve hit that lovely 9 on the pain scale. We had to wait until the meds kicked in before we could continue our journey to the parking structure. It’s okay, there are worse places to hang out than a Starbucks where you stand in line with people from all over the world. I heard numerous foreign accents in the short time that we were there.
The pain was awful, but the convention has been fabulous. We’ve met lots of really really nice people, and they have given us many many great things. Toys for the cats, snacks for the dogs & cats, food for the dogs & cats. Plus, Leigh-Ann finally got to meet the Wild Kitty Cat Food people. They’re all really nice, and the cat food has literally been a lifesaver (for Carlo - he was born with terrible irritable bowel problems...he would cry loudly when he got cramps, and we thought he was going to die because of his terrible diarrhea & inability to get any nutrition from his food, but he’s been a perfectly normal kitten since he was switched to Wild Kitty) and a nose saver. The worst smelling cat poop is when the cats eat kibble, but closely nipping at its smelly heels is canned food. However, when the cats are eating Wild Kitty, their sh*t literally does not stink. Plus, the cats all look nicer too - shiny coats, no pot bellies, etc. It’s nice that they’re healthy, and it’s fabulous that when they’re eating Wild Kitty, you cannot smell a single cat poop in our house. You wouldn’t ever know we had any cats, except for, you know, the house being littered with cat toys and cat trees.
Speaking of cat toys, we met a really nice guy from Vo-Toys, who let us pick out all kinds of great cat toys, so we had their UPC codes handy for ordering. He let us choose any of the toys that we wanted, and there were SO many that our cats already love from Vo-Toys. Tie loves the crinkly mylar balls, they all love the rabbit fur balls, Scampi & Carlo love the sparkly balls, etc. Their prices for buckets of toys are so good that we’re going to order some to resell. We also met a very nice Canadian man, eh, who grows catnip. He has a program where he sends 5lbs of catnip free (FREE!) to rescues & shelters, so they can make toys with them and sell them to raise money. We have some good marketing plans in mind for a new little side business to go along with our new pet vendor contacts. This catnip is so good that all of our cats went nuts for it. It’s super stinky, so you know it’s gotta be good. And it looks so much like other BC Budz (is it real or is it catnip?) that their owners will buy the stuff just so they can dream it was something else - at least their cats will get high.
One more person that I have to mention, and she didn’t even have a booth there. We met a nice young lady/woman/girl/chick (in her early twenties, what label would she get?) who does mobile pet grooming in the San Fernando Valley. She was so nice that I’d have her come over to groom our dogs tomorrow if she lived in Las Vegas. However, she doesn’t. Color us and our dogs sad. :( Nonetheless, our loss is California’s gain. So, if you want a super nice & friendly groomer coming to your home in the Valley, call Crystal’s Mobile Grooming. Since I’m not sure if her number is correct online (Crystal, next time, don’t leave your business cards at home!), I’ll just tell you to look her up in the phone book. Or, if you know Crystal, tell her to send me her work number and I’ll post it.
Today, we had to deal with regular errands, like seeing the pain management doctor. We almost had a whole LOT more pain to manage, as a stupid woman ran a red light on N. Town Center Drive and almost hit us. We got off the freeway, waited a minute or two for the green arrow to make a left turn. I started my turn and was halfway into the intersection when I noticed to my right, a woman in a black (Acura maybe) was coming directly at Leigh-Ann’s passenger door and she wasn’t planning on stopping. I guess her conversation with her passenger was way more important than the silly red light. Anyway, I slammed on the brakes, angled the car away from her and learned that my horn works. I must’ve really jammed my hand on the horn hard because my shoulder is killing me and I can barely lift my elbow up. It’s too bad we didn’t get her plate number, as I’d like her to pay for my pain meds for a while. Unfortunately, she was too close to our car (a couple feet, maybe) for us to be able to see her plate. We’re lucky that the cars behind us must’ve seen it happening because no one rear-ended me after I slammed on the brakes. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to an accident, without actually being in one. If I hadn’t been taught by my parents to drive defensively (because, clearly, other people are idiots), Leigh-Ann might have a few broken limbs right now. The idiot was going pretty fast.
By the way, the title of this entry was going to make sense, but I didn’t feel like finishing my Gone Fishin’ sign. So, let’s just pretend I did, okay? Okay!
She’s sleeping on top of a stroller. I’m not sure if it was a doggie stroller or a baby stroller, there were lots of both at SuperZoo.
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