PSA (Pic Spam Announcement)
You all remember my quote wall, right? That wall beside my bed where I had taped up a bunch of quotes from books that I've read? Well, that's been torn down. See, when I put those quotes up, it symbolized my relationship with the written word and my love of books, and I intended it to grow to eventually cover that whole wall. Except it became tedious to remember and type up the quotes, then to print them off en mass. I found that while I liked the quotes I put up, most of them were only chosen because they were that story's most famous quote, not because I had an emotional attachment to the line. Some quotes were thrown up there because I felt I needed at least one quote from every work I read. Some weren't nearly the greatest lines in a particular work. Thus, a couple of months ago I tore the whole thing down, leaving my walls bare once again.
I've never had posters up. I've never had posters period. The few I managed to get from friends I was prohibited from taping up because according to my parents, quote "you need special tape that won't ruin the paint" end quote. They never got me this special tape, and I've clearly learned that this was false anyways as I taped up my aforementioned quote wall. But I had no posters or pictures at the time, thus couldn't do anything but ignore my naked walls. Until I went to that comic convention over two months ago (was it two months?). I bought a very nice, and very awesome Transformers poster, and I knew exactly where it would go. But even with my new poster up, my wall felt empty. I liked the idea of representing my nerdy side, but I had nothing nerdy that could go up there. Sure, I could tape up some Magic cards, but what purpose would that serve?
Then I realized I had a printer. Yes, it took me weeks to figure out that I could print pictures off the internet to tape on my wall. Sure they won't be glossy or as big, but that didn't matter to me. So now my wall is starting to look a little more busy, and a lot more nerdy. Behold!
Purdy, ain't it? Oh, for clarification purposes:
I've also got a picture of everyone's favorite merc with a mouth Deadpool, Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2, an awesome picture from Super Smash Bros Brawl, a Hellboy illustration, a Blue Beetle illustration, and the cast of Persona 4. I'm totally killing ink cartridges here.
On to a more serious story. You all remember these two goofballs, yes?
They're a year and a half old now, and sufficed to say, they've gotten bigger.
One more than the other. Now, Meeko here likes to sit like this everywhere. Especially on this scratching pad. She doesn't use it, she just sits on it. And eats the cardboard occasionally.
Ace is stranger. She likes to hide under things and pretend she's stalking. What she's stalking, I have no clue. She's become a little hunter, this one has. But this is not all.
She likes to sit on things as well. Any things. Boxes, bags, beds, tables, chairs, laps, desks, blankets, her carrier, my feet, anything.
She also likes to sit in things. Again, boxes, bags, baskets, under blankets, anything with some sort of interior that she can crawl into, she will go into and sit in it.
Wait, Meeko likes this too. Here she is sitting in one of the layers of our Christmas tree. Yes, she crawled into it and is sitting in it. Don't ask me how or why. I've given up trying to understand my cats.
Anyways, speaking of Meeko, she has an issue.
She doesn't like confronting it, but we must Meeko, we must. You see, Meeko's always had this problem with a limp in her hind legs, mainly her left one. Now, let's be honest, she not the most... tiny... of cats, and this limp would only present itself for a few seconds after she got up from lying on her side for thirty minutes to hours, or so. So, it was like her leg fell asleep, that's all.
No, no that wasn't it at all.
You see, after we came back from Florida, when we picked up Ace and Meeko from the kennel (the place is actually really good, and the lady there is super nice and awesome), Meeko's limp was far more noticeable, and was not going away. Now, to be fair, she had been in a kennel for over ten days, and didn't get a lot of physical activity. So we thought she aggravated it that way. But during her yearly vet visit a week after we got back, the vet discovered that her left hind leg was dislocated at the knee, and when the vet put the kneecap back in place, it slipped out again. Her right hind leg is currently fine, but any sort of light pressure is enough to dislocate it too. This is not normal. You see, Meeko has a luxating patella, or a floating kneecap. She will need surgery to fix the tendons in her legs so that they won't keep popping out. Now a dislocated knee causes a lot of pain, right? So you would think that Meeko would refuse to walk around and cry constantly. She doesn't.
Meeko still likes to chase after things, jump up and down from beds, and just run up and down the stairs when she's hyper. Which is why we've never thought anything of it, because she never seemed to be in pain. Even now, with her limp still aggravated, she will run like a lunatic. She's even somehow figured out how to pop her own knee back into place, so sometimes she'll walk around with no limp, and then jump or run suddenly, and pop the knee out again. And she still won't care.
I don't know if she's just stubborn or an idiot.
Ace could care less about her sister's health problems. She'll instigate playful fights with Meeko as if nothing's wrong. Or she'll go off and be the solitary hunter.
Anyways, Meeko is going for x-rays later this week to see exactly how bad her knees are, and then we'll have to talk about surgery options. I know she's going to need it, because pills are not going to stop her left hind leg from dislocating constantly. Oh, and if you're feeling a bit miserable by my post today, don't worry. Meeko doesn't. She knows she gets more cuddles this way.
It's a cunning plan on her part.
I've never had posters up. I've never had posters period. The few I managed to get from friends I was prohibited from taping up because according to my parents, quote "you need special tape that won't ruin the paint" end quote. They never got me this special tape, and I've clearly learned that this was false anyways as I taped up my aforementioned quote wall. But I had no posters or pictures at the time, thus couldn't do anything but ignore my naked walls. Until I went to that comic convention over two months ago (was it two months?). I bought a very nice, and very awesome Transformers poster, and I knew exactly where it would go. But even with my new poster up, my wall felt empty. I liked the idea of representing my nerdy side, but I had nothing nerdy that could go up there. Sure, I could tape up some Magic cards, but what purpose would that serve?
Then I realized I had a printer. Yes, it took me weeks to figure out that I could print pictures off the internet to tape on my wall. Sure they won't be glossy or as big, but that didn't matter to me. So now my wall is starting to look a little more busy, and a lot more nerdy. Behold!
Purdy, ain't it? Oh, for clarification purposes:
I've also got a picture of everyone's favorite merc with a mouth Deadpool, Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2, an awesome picture from Super Smash Bros Brawl, a Hellboy illustration, a Blue Beetle illustration, and the cast of Persona 4. I'm totally killing ink cartridges here.
On to a more serious story. You all remember these two goofballs, yes?
They're a year and a half old now, and sufficed to say, they've gotten bigger.
One more than the other. Now, Meeko here likes to sit like this everywhere. Especially on this scratching pad. She doesn't use it, she just sits on it. And eats the cardboard occasionally.
Ace is stranger. She likes to hide under things and pretend she's stalking. What she's stalking, I have no clue. She's become a little hunter, this one has. But this is not all.
She likes to sit on things as well. Any things. Boxes, bags, beds, tables, chairs, laps, desks, blankets, her carrier, my feet, anything.
She also likes to sit in things. Again, boxes, bags, baskets, under blankets, anything with some sort of interior that she can crawl into, she will go into and sit in it.
Wait, Meeko likes this too. Here she is sitting in one of the layers of our Christmas tree. Yes, she crawled into it and is sitting in it. Don't ask me how or why. I've given up trying to understand my cats.
Anyways, speaking of Meeko, she has an issue.
She doesn't like confronting it, but we must Meeko, we must. You see, Meeko's always had this problem with a limp in her hind legs, mainly her left one. Now, let's be honest, she not the most... tiny... of cats, and this limp would only present itself for a few seconds after she got up from lying on her side for thirty minutes to hours, or so. So, it was like her leg fell asleep, that's all.
No, no that wasn't it at all.
You see, after we came back from Florida, when we picked up Ace and Meeko from the kennel (the place is actually really good, and the lady there is super nice and awesome), Meeko's limp was far more noticeable, and was not going away. Now, to be fair, she had been in a kennel for over ten days, and didn't get a lot of physical activity. So we thought she aggravated it that way. But during her yearly vet visit a week after we got back, the vet discovered that her left hind leg was dislocated at the knee, and when the vet put the kneecap back in place, it slipped out again. Her right hind leg is currently fine, but any sort of light pressure is enough to dislocate it too. This is not normal. You see, Meeko has a luxating patella, or a floating kneecap. She will need surgery to fix the tendons in her legs so that they won't keep popping out. Now a dislocated knee causes a lot of pain, right? So you would think that Meeko would refuse to walk around and cry constantly. She doesn't.
Meeko still likes to chase after things, jump up and down from beds, and just run up and down the stairs when she's hyper. Which is why we've never thought anything of it, because she never seemed to be in pain. Even now, with her limp still aggravated, she will run like a lunatic. She's even somehow figured out how to pop her own knee back into place, so sometimes she'll walk around with no limp, and then jump or run suddenly, and pop the knee out again. And she still won't care.
I don't know if she's just stubborn or an idiot.
Ace could care less about her sister's health problems. She'll instigate playful fights with Meeko as if nothing's wrong. Or she'll go off and be the solitary hunter.
Anyways, Meeko is going for x-rays later this week to see exactly how bad her knees are, and then we'll have to talk about surgery options. I know she's going to need it, because pills are not going to stop her left hind leg from dislocating constantly. Oh, and if you're feeling a bit miserable by my post today, don't worry. Meeko doesn't. She knows she gets more cuddles this way.
It's a cunning plan on her part.