Um hey...been a while ( Read more... )

Last night we had Cat Drama. (i'm cutting and pasting from FB):

New cat toy called da Bird is a huge hit with the cats. (Flippy stick with big feather on the string.) Ripley got the string caught in one of her claws.

Well, she is polydactyl and has some claws that don't retract, so the claw just grows in a spiral. She is also absolutely PHOBIC about ( Read more... )

I haz a shiny (refurb) i4 sitting on my desk. But I cannot haz until I go to an AT&T store tomorrow and get another sim card. (I am using the upgrade on another line in our family plan and I can't activate this sim card without turning off the Nephew's phone. Which would be bad.)

Patience, I must learn me some.

Had a lovely evening with dremiel as we ( Read more... )

I was supposed to take Ripley the Wonder Cat and Spencer the Goober in to get their checkups and shots this morning. (I love using a 24 hour vet clinic...) Got the carriers in the house yesterday. Collected stool samples (ugh). Got all of Spencer's previous paperwork together. Got up too early for a Sunday, dressed, etc.

Went and picked up Ripley, ( Read more... )

Today's chasing class was brought to you by the letters F and H--for the ridiculously big HOLE I managed to pound in my practice/exercise piece and my total FAIL in patching it. My instructor just handed it back to me and said, "Sometimes the hole wins". :-(

I am waiting on tenterhooks to find out if I get into the Blue Genie Christmas Bazaar. They ( Read more... )

The FNC (Spencer, so far), now has tentative freedom of the apartment. Ripley intermittently growls and hisses. (Sometimes she tries to do both at once and snorts. Hilarity ensues.)

Spencer is quite the passive-aggressive-never-really-gets-in-her-face kind of cat. He'll walk up, safely outside her "Kill All Cats!" bubble, and touch her toys. Or jump ( Read more... )

It's been really busy at work, especially with the training I've been running and our company meeting and everything.

I had my last two classes in stonesetting. I can now gypsy set and make a decent stab at channel settings. However, I am very ready to be back in a class where I make things.

The lack of sleep because of the early-morning training has ( Read more... )

Slinky, the Lumpen Sidekick $1000 Cat, has settled on the perfect revenge for taking him to the OMG VET and making him wear the OMG COLLAR.

He sleeps with me.

I don't know about where you are, but here in Central Texas, the only time it gets below 80F at night is for about 30 minutes at 4 am. I don't even want to think about my AC bill. So, sharing a ( Read more... )

I brought home the $1000 Cat today. Ripley the Wonder Cat has been sulking, not eating, for the entire time he's been gone. And when he shows up in an e-collar, she runs away, completely freaked out. (This is the cat, who, when she sees Slinky through the window or the screen door, growls, because that is not the same cat, damnit! She's such a ( Read more... )

Last night, while grooming him, I noticed a big lump inside Slinky the Lumpen Sidekick's ear, along with some blood. Oh crap, an abscess. I called my clinic (yay 24 hour vet offices!) and made an appointment for this morning. I got him into the carrier with a minimum of fuss and got him to the vet in a minimum amount of time. Great! Well, not so ( Read more... )