recent events (warning: abuse of semi-colons), cool memes
The thing that happened:
I shouldn't have even had it in the house. I knew it was supposedly toxic to cats, but I didn't realize how toxic. This misinformation was probably due to the fact that we actually kept a different breed of lily in the kitchen for years with no adverse effects to our cats, so even though I always heard that they were bad, my own experience worked against me. I didn't really expect him to be interested in it, either.
In retrospect, we were incredibly lucky: I walked in on him eating it and had the presence of mind to google the details. Holy crap, you guys. Don't even *touch* an Easter Lily if you have a cat - that's how toxic it is. Coming into contact with the *pollen* could kill them. Our plant is currently sealed off in the entryway, awaiting its demise and dripping poisonous sex juice - seriously, it's disgusting. Maybe I'll take a picture. It's very sinister.
Anyway, I was fortunate to catch my boy mid-snack and get him right to the emergency vet. He was there for three days getting treatment - there's no antidote for this kind of poisoning; the only thing they can do is try to help the toxins pass through his system without destroying his kidneys. As of now it looks like he's going to be okay, but he has to have his kidneys checked again on Monday to be sure.
Meanwhile, our other cat, Beezus, had expressed a lot of interest in the plant, and there was no way of telling if she'd injested any of it. By the time we became aware of the danger, it actually would have been too late to treat her (the general consensus seems to be that if you don't do something within the first 6 hours, your animal is toast), so I spent basically the entire week terrified that she'd go into kidney failure and die, and that it would be entirely my fault. She's fine, still, so that's good.
So that set me back about $1400. I refused to let anyone else cover the cost, because it really *was* entirely my fault. *I* bought the stupid plant. *I* put my boy through that. Cosmo and I have been together nine and a half years. I love him more than I love most people. And I almost killed him, so. I had a hard time with that.
This was on top of the other stuff going on, the most alarming of which is that my grandmother is still recovering from her own emergency life-or-death surgery. Her hip was somehow broken while she was either sitting in her wheelchair or lying in her bed - suspicious, huh? But she's better now: she was sent home (well, to her room in the nursing home) on Thursday night.
Which is to say: the week is over, everyone's still alive, let's party. I am so done being worried.
SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Kath
2. Katherine
3. h-Kath (yes, some people pronounce the H... I've been using this handle a long, long time)
4. Kate/Katy (my aunt and uncle have always called me Kate, and I often refer to myself as Katy, but somehow this has never caught on.)
5. Boo
6. Katou - only my cousin Roxanne and gottalovev are allowed to call me this :)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. 1 pair black slacks, covered in staticky fuzz
2. 1 flowy, studded black cotton top
3. this necklace, which arrived yesterday (it's so pretty!)
And speaking of Etsy, can we talk about this? BRB, DED OF CUTE. Ok, back to meme:
THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. An official clean bill of health for my poor poisoned cat.
2. This adorable iPhone shark.
3. This case is cute, too!
THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1. Picked up a package at the post office.
2. Watched a news report about Peter Nygard. O____O
3. Downloaded the first two episodes of Party Down Season 2.
THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. My dad.
2. A vet tech named Veronik.
3. Dr. Elder, vet extraordinaire.
THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. Write. Seriously.
2. Read more Ex Machina <3
3. Start watching Battlestar Galactica
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. Diet Coke
2. Taro Bubble Tea
3. Coffee.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS:
1. Long Island Iced Tea
2. Vodka & Red Bull
3. Calimocho (half red wine, half Coke. I have a Coke problem.)
THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. Buying tiny plastic barnyard animals and dinosaurs for the kitten.
2. Jimmi Simpson showing up in Party Down 2.01 <3
3. donnagirl
I'm glad this version of the meme has mysteriously lost its tagging question, because I think I'm the last person to fill it out :)
Meme #2, stolen from penny_lane_42: Answer the questions using only userpics.
01. How do you feel right now?
02. What's your favourite pastime?
03. Do you consider yourself a strange person?
04. What's your main fandom?
05. OTP?
06. How do you describe yourself?
07. What's your favourite icon to use that's not default?
08. Do you have an icon of your future husband/wife?
09. Do you have a WTF icon?
10. How do you feel towards love?
11. Saddest icon?
12. Happiest icon?
13. Crackiest icon?
I love that Jason Segel icon but I swear I haven't even used it *once*!
Things I learned while doing this meme: I have way more text icons than most people. I think I may have more text icons than most people have... icons. Also, I have a lot of icons that feature two characters, but they're usually *not* of my OTPs. My OTP category is missing some important information due to this. Oh, well!
You should all do this, btw :)
I shouldn't have even had it in the house. I knew it was supposedly toxic to cats, but I didn't realize how toxic. This misinformation was probably due to the fact that we actually kept a different breed of lily in the kitchen for years with no adverse effects to our cats, so even though I always heard that they were bad, my own experience worked against me. I didn't really expect him to be interested in it, either.
In retrospect, we were incredibly lucky: I walked in on him eating it and had the presence of mind to google the details. Holy crap, you guys. Don't even *touch* an Easter Lily if you have a cat - that's how toxic it is. Coming into contact with the *pollen* could kill them. Our plant is currently sealed off in the entryway, awaiting its demise and dripping poisonous sex juice - seriously, it's disgusting. Maybe I'll take a picture. It's very sinister.
Anyway, I was fortunate to catch my boy mid-snack and get him right to the emergency vet. He was there for three days getting treatment - there's no antidote for this kind of poisoning; the only thing they can do is try to help the toxins pass through his system without destroying his kidneys. As of now it looks like he's going to be okay, but he has to have his kidneys checked again on Monday to be sure.
Meanwhile, our other cat, Beezus, had expressed a lot of interest in the plant, and there was no way of telling if she'd injested any of it. By the time we became aware of the danger, it actually would have been too late to treat her (the general consensus seems to be that if you don't do something within the first 6 hours, your animal is toast), so I spent basically the entire week terrified that she'd go into kidney failure and die, and that it would be entirely my fault. She's fine, still, so that's good.
So that set me back about $1400. I refused to let anyone else cover the cost, because it really *was* entirely my fault. *I* bought the stupid plant. *I* put my boy through that. Cosmo and I have been together nine and a half years. I love him more than I love most people. And I almost killed him, so. I had a hard time with that.
This was on top of the other stuff going on, the most alarming of which is that my grandmother is still recovering from her own emergency life-or-death surgery. Her hip was somehow broken while she was either sitting in her wheelchair or lying in her bed - suspicious, huh? But she's better now: she was sent home (well, to her room in the nursing home) on Thursday night.
Which is to say: the week is over, everyone's still alive, let's party. I am so done being worried.
SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Kath
2. Katherine
3. h-Kath (yes, some people pronounce the H... I've been using this handle a long, long time)
4. Kate/Katy (my aunt and uncle have always called me Kate, and I often refer to myself as Katy, but somehow this has never caught on.)
5. Boo
6. Katou - only my cousin Roxanne and gottalovev are allowed to call me this :)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. 1 pair black slacks, covered in staticky fuzz
2. 1 flowy, studded black cotton top
3. this necklace, which arrived yesterday (it's so pretty!)
And speaking of Etsy, can we talk about this? BRB, DED OF CUTE. Ok, back to meme:
THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. An official clean bill of health for my poor poisoned cat.
2. This adorable iPhone shark.
3. This case is cute, too!
THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1. Picked up a package at the post office.
2. Watched a news report about Peter Nygard. O____O
3. Downloaded the first two episodes of Party Down Season 2.
THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. My dad.
2. A vet tech named Veronik.
3. Dr. Elder, vet extraordinaire.
THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. Write. Seriously.
2. Read more Ex Machina <3
3. Start watching Battlestar Galactica
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. Diet Coke
2. Taro Bubble Tea
3. Coffee.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS:
1. Long Island Iced Tea
2. Vodka & Red Bull
3. Calimocho (half red wine, half Coke. I have a Coke problem.)
THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:
1. Buying tiny plastic barnyard animals and dinosaurs for the kitten.
2. Jimmi Simpson showing up in Party Down 2.01 <3
3. donnagirl
I'm glad this version of the meme has mysteriously lost its tagging question, because I think I'm the last person to fill it out :)
Meme #2, stolen from penny_lane_42: Answer the questions using only userpics.
01. How do you feel right now?
02. What's your favourite pastime?
03. Do you consider yourself a strange person?
04. What's your main fandom?
05. OTP?
06. How do you describe yourself?
07. What's your favourite icon to use that's not default?
08. Do you have an icon of your future husband/wife?
09. Do you have a WTF icon?
10. How do you feel towards love?
11. Saddest icon?
12. Happiest icon?
13. Crackiest icon?
I love that Jason Segel icon but I swear I haven't even used it *once*!
Things I learned while doing this meme: I have way more text icons than most people. I think I may have more text icons than most people have... icons. Also, I have a lot of icons that feature two characters, but they're usually *not* of my OTPs. My OTP category is missing some important information due to this. Oh, well!
You should all do this, btw :)