Gurgle. Glug.
I have quite suddenly contracted some sort of stomach/intestinal virus. This having no working immune system is just one laugh after another. Hopefully it's in and out of here in short order.
Most of the day was me and my trusty Mazda zipping around the area. I drove Maddie and her friends to meet up with her dad, who was then going to drive them to Detroit where they'd catch the train to Chicago. Or something like that. We got about half way there when one of the girls realized that she'd left her passport back at the house. Nothing for it but to turn around and retrieve it. She felt very embarrassed, so I wasn't going to get pissed at her or anything, but I wish she'd double-checked before we piled into the car because that added an hour to my drive time right there.
Then it was on to Starbucks to recharge (driving can really be very fatiguing for me nowadays), the pet store for food for the babies, and then the dreaded Wal-Mart. Everything took for-freakin'-ever, too. The Starbucks is attached to a Chapters bookstore, so while I was there I was checking out the digital photography books; I'd really like to pursue this hobby in a more professional way which means really doing some homework. I found a couple good reference books, but they literally cost twice the US price. That's just insane, and I refuse to pay those prices now that the Canadian dollar and the US dollar are on par. I'll order them online from the States instead.
We got about a foot of snow out of our last storm, which ended late in the day on New Years. This morning I had my first moment of seasonal panic as my car got stuck for a bit in the driveway while I was trying to pull out. Luckily I was able to drive it out without having to push, shovel, or do an incredible amount of swearing, but really . . . I'm just not looking forward to another three months of this crap. Our neighbor plow guy showed up after dark to plow out the driveway, so hopefully it'll be easier getting in and out tomorrow. Until the next storm, of course. Heat lamps! I want a row of huge, honkin' heat lamps lining that driveway! Is that so much to ask?
I don't think I have any major running around to do tomorrow, so I'm hoping to make it out back to play with the alpacas and get to re-introduce myself to poor Jester. I feel bad for him all alone out there. I mean not that there's much that I can do about it, I know, but I wish I could let him know that it's just temporary and Dar's working on getting him in with some other horses soon. Poor guy.
Pixel is feeling a bit better, thankfully. She did two things today that she hasn't done for about a week now: scarf down some cat treats and chase Jane under the storage chest :) She's still all snuffly, and she still sleeps more than usual, but I think she's on the mend at last.
I think that Jane is definitely going to Bill's house to live. We have to get her fixed first, and I think that will be happening within the next week or two. We all love her to death, and we're going to miss her very much, but this will be the best thing for her. But only because Little Cat hates her, otherwise she'd be happiest here with all of us and her sister, Chloe. Can you tell that I'm going to have separation issues? Heh.
sparky77 will be bringing her kitty Lexy up here this weekend prior to moving in herself at the end of the month. At which point she'll be bringing her second cat, and at that point I will have formally lost track of the number of felines we have here :) We are the Crazy Cat People! You gotta love it.
Urgh. I need some Pepto Bismol, I think. Maybe some Gravol. And why do all those stomach meds end in -ol anyway?
Most of the day was me and my trusty Mazda zipping around the area. I drove Maddie and her friends to meet up with her dad, who was then going to drive them to Detroit where they'd catch the train to Chicago. Or something like that. We got about half way there when one of the girls realized that she'd left her passport back at the house. Nothing for it but to turn around and retrieve it. She felt very embarrassed, so I wasn't going to get pissed at her or anything, but I wish she'd double-checked before we piled into the car because that added an hour to my drive time right there.
Then it was on to Starbucks to recharge (driving can really be very fatiguing for me nowadays), the pet store for food for the babies, and then the dreaded Wal-Mart. Everything took for-freakin'-ever, too. The Starbucks is attached to a Chapters bookstore, so while I was there I was checking out the digital photography books; I'd really like to pursue this hobby in a more professional way which means really doing some homework. I found a couple good reference books, but they literally cost twice the US price. That's just insane, and I refuse to pay those prices now that the Canadian dollar and the US dollar are on par. I'll order them online from the States instead.
We got about a foot of snow out of our last storm, which ended late in the day on New Years. This morning I had my first moment of seasonal panic as my car got stuck for a bit in the driveway while I was trying to pull out. Luckily I was able to drive it out without having to push, shovel, or do an incredible amount of swearing, but really . . . I'm just not looking forward to another three months of this crap. Our neighbor plow guy showed up after dark to plow out the driveway, so hopefully it'll be easier getting in and out tomorrow. Until the next storm, of course. Heat lamps! I want a row of huge, honkin' heat lamps lining that driveway! Is that so much to ask?
I don't think I have any major running around to do tomorrow, so I'm hoping to make it out back to play with the alpacas and get to re-introduce myself to poor Jester. I feel bad for him all alone out there. I mean not that there's much that I can do about it, I know, but I wish I could let him know that it's just temporary and Dar's working on getting him in with some other horses soon. Poor guy.
Pixel is feeling a bit better, thankfully. She did two things today that she hasn't done for about a week now: scarf down some cat treats and chase Jane under the storage chest :) She's still all snuffly, and she still sleeps more than usual, but I think she's on the mend at last.
I think that Jane is definitely going to Bill's house to live. We have to get her fixed first, and I think that will be happening within the next week or two. We all love her to death, and we're going to miss her very much, but this will be the best thing for her. But only because Little Cat hates her, otherwise she'd be happiest here with all of us and her sister, Chloe. Can you tell that I'm going to have separation issues? Heh.
sparky77 will be bringing her kitty Lexy up here this weekend prior to moving in herself at the end of the month. At which point she'll be bringing her second cat, and at that point I will have formally lost track of the number of felines we have here :) We are the Crazy Cat People! You gotta love it.
Urgh. I need some Pepto Bismol, I think. Maybe some Gravol. And why do all those stomach meds end in -ol anyway?