On the eighth day of Lego Christmas, my Advent Calendar gave to me:

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Thanks to everyone who left a comment, or made a call, or sent an email, or just took time out to remember The Kitty with me. It helped a lot.


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( She was my good Kitty )

Her: Hey! Food me! NOW!
Me: You have food already.
Her: Say WHAAAAT?
Me: Look in your bowl. See the food you didn't eat earlier?
Her: Mmmmmmmmaybe
Me: Well it's still there. You can eat that.
Her: I dunno. I think you should give me more food.
Me: But then we'll just go through this all over again in another two hours and good lord I'm talking to ( Read more... )

Grah. Busybusybusybusy is my watchword for the week. Honestly, I don't mind so much - I love my job, and I am learning new and interesting stuff every day - but the pace seems to have caught up with my immune system. I am working from home this morning due to a propensity for tossing mine cookies in the middle of the night ( Read more... )

The Housecat: the only animal in the world that is a liquid at room temperature.

You know that full body ache that isn't entirely unpleasant, but merely indicates you want to have one real good stretch and then contract into a ball and doze in a sunbeam for awhile?

I got that.

NEW VOCABULARY WORD: N'Grath is generally used as a snarl of frustration. Accent is on the RATH ( Read more... )

As you may have guessed from my previous post, The Kitty is now snug at home. I went and got her in the driving blizzard that some men call "Saturday Morning". I'm to give her antibiotics and heart medication in order to fight infections and get more blood pumping through her kidneys. As of this writing, I'm only wearing one band-aid because of it ( Read more... )

Fingers crossed, all! The vet called me, and told me (and I quote) "Your little girl is doing well!" The good signs I saw last night (the eating, and the kisses, and such) really were good signs. He'll be running two more tests tomorrow (at $16, but who cares about that little amount), and if the results are good, he'll be sending her home by ( Read more... )