This week just keeps going downhill.
So yesterday I took the little one to the vet. This cat amazes me no end. I can't make him behave when he's here, but I put the carrier on the floor so I could round him up for the vet. He walks up to it, sniffs it, circles it, then walks into it. I've never had a cat who did that. spreadnparanoia kindly went with me to the vet, and Ganon was very good in the car--he made a little noise and seemed generally okay. The vet was very nice, she gave him his shots and we scheduled him for declaw and neutering with lasers. PRice tag for yesterday (checkup, shots, test for FIV and FeLuk) was $110. Price tag for declaw/neuter will be $600. My mom's going to pay half, but still. Ooog. So I have to take him back on 2 September for that.
Then we all went to Petsmart because he needed food. I got their discount card thingie, and spent $40 on food and a few new toys since some of his were looking quite sad. We came home. Ganon slept a lot for the rest of the day, which the vet said he would do because of the shots. I hung out with pooka_madness some and played some FFX. I got to the Djose Highroad. Then I stayed up till 4 talking to shoecollar.
Tried to get up at 10 this morning and my body just flat wouldn't cooperate. I dragged myself out of bed finally at 12. I got all my shit together to go do the drug screen for my new job--someone had called me about it on Tuesday, and given me the name of this company. I hopped the El because the place was about 2 miles from here, which normally I would walk but I wasn't feeling up to it today (not least because it's 61 fucking degrees outside in goddamn August and it was drizzling). Get there, find they've never heard of my company. Go home in confusion and get some sushi for lunch, and call the company, leave a voicemail. Company calls me back and says there was a mix-up, I don't actually need a drug screen, they will see me on Monday. O....kay.
In the midst of all this, Pooka IMs me saying "If you turn on your hot water tap, what do you get?" I go and discover I get many gurgling sounds and no water at all. This apparently happened when Pooka was right in the middle of a shower, poor guy. SO I called maintenance and got their voicemail, which pissed me off, so I called the leasing office, who said they'd radio maintenance. It was working again in an hour, but the whole thing just irked me--which of course is nothing to how it must've affected Pooka, but you know.
So I go and play some more FFX, levelling on the Djose Highroad because you can win Ability Spheres there. shoecollar gets done with his guild war thing, and we start playing multi NWN. In our multi game we currently have a fucking army. I have an elven sorceress, Reina Holitafrein, who just got Fireball (death from above, motherfuckers), a panther familiar, and Tomi Undergallows as my henchman. He has a ranger archer, a bear animal companion, summoned dire badger, and cleric hench. We kill things. It goes pretty well--we're advancing into new plot territory for me--until we finish Blacklake district. Then as we're heading into the docks, I decide to finish up my quest for membership in the Cloaktower, since I now know where all the things are and the order I have to get them in. So we run around the 4 districts of the city to the various wizard labs so I can get my things. I get them and take them to the Cloaktower. The woman accepts them and says "Go kill my automaton." I go. It kills me. My character gets saved and I reenter the game. shoecollar resets to the last save. Well, now we have a problem. My character no longer has the items, but the game didn't save me having given items to the bitch. So I can't get membership (which apparently is no great prize, but I am irked regardless) AND I can't even go beat the ever loving fuck out of that punkassed automaton because to get there you have to give Eltoora the components. GRRRRRRR.
Add to all of this the fact that today is a bad day for me biologically and you have one hell of a mess. And tomorrow is Friday the 13th. Excellent. Bloody wonderful.
I'm going to go be self-pitying, angsty, whiny, and pissed for a while and talk to celeloriel and shoecollar, and wish I was really really drunk, which I can't be because you shouldn't mix alcohol and Advil. Ugh.
Then we all went to Petsmart because he needed food. I got their discount card thingie, and spent $40 on food and a few new toys since some of his were looking quite sad. We came home. Ganon slept a lot for the rest of the day, which the vet said he would do because of the shots. I hung out with pooka_madness some and played some FFX. I got to the Djose Highroad. Then I stayed up till 4 talking to shoecollar.
Tried to get up at 10 this morning and my body just flat wouldn't cooperate. I dragged myself out of bed finally at 12. I got all my shit together to go do the drug screen for my new job--someone had called me about it on Tuesday, and given me the name of this company. I hopped the El because the place was about 2 miles from here, which normally I would walk but I wasn't feeling up to it today (not least because it's 61 fucking degrees outside in goddamn August and it was drizzling). Get there, find they've never heard of my company. Go home in confusion and get some sushi for lunch, and call the company, leave a voicemail. Company calls me back and says there was a mix-up, I don't actually need a drug screen, they will see me on Monday. O....kay.
In the midst of all this, Pooka IMs me saying "If you turn on your hot water tap, what do you get?" I go and discover I get many gurgling sounds and no water at all. This apparently happened when Pooka was right in the middle of a shower, poor guy. SO I called maintenance and got their voicemail, which pissed me off, so I called the leasing office, who said they'd radio maintenance. It was working again in an hour, but the whole thing just irked me--which of course is nothing to how it must've affected Pooka, but you know.
So I go and play some more FFX, levelling on the Djose Highroad because you can win Ability Spheres there. shoecollar gets done with his guild war thing, and we start playing multi NWN. In our multi game we currently have a fucking army. I have an elven sorceress, Reina Holitafrein, who just got Fireball (death from above, motherfuckers), a panther familiar, and Tomi Undergallows as my henchman. He has a ranger archer, a bear animal companion, summoned dire badger, and cleric hench. We kill things. It goes pretty well--we're advancing into new plot territory for me--until we finish Blacklake district. Then as we're heading into the docks, I decide to finish up my quest for membership in the Cloaktower, since I now know where all the things are and the order I have to get them in. So we run around the 4 districts of the city to the various wizard labs so I can get my things. I get them and take them to the Cloaktower. The woman accepts them and says "Go kill my automaton." I go. It kills me. My character gets saved and I reenter the game. shoecollar resets to the last save. Well, now we have a problem. My character no longer has the items, but the game didn't save me having given items to the bitch. So I can't get membership (which apparently is no great prize, but I am irked regardless) AND I can't even go beat the ever loving fuck out of that punkassed automaton because to get there you have to give Eltoora the components. GRRRRRRR.
Add to all of this the fact that today is a bad day for me biologically and you have one hell of a mess. And tomorrow is Friday the 13th. Excellent. Bloody wonderful.
I'm going to go be self-pitying, angsty, whiny, and pissed for a while and talk to celeloriel and shoecollar, and wish I was really really drunk, which I can't be because you shouldn't mix alcohol and Advil. Ugh.