Been moving stuff today.

Plant shelf in progress.

Plant shelf in progress.

When you see it, leave a 😂.

Update:

Update:

Nom came out to eat yesterday. He walked around for a bit. Maybe he just needed to know he was missed. I don't know, but I'm keeping a close eye on him.

Sindar looks like she might have a UTI. I called the vet that we normally use on the weekends and they are only doing emergency visits today. She has an appointment for tomorrow morning.

Tobi didn't throw up again yesterday so that's great. I'll call his regular doctor when they open tomorrow and get him an appointment ASAP.

Shaun got magnetic closures installed on the lower cabinets yesterday. I got the upper ones contact-papered and lined, and put away the dishes that Shaun brought home. He also brought Anansi home, so I'm happy about that.

I woke up this morning to a bad headache. I think it's hormonal. I've taken Tylenol twice already and it's not helping. I'm about to take a nap.

A pipe in the well burst (we're guessing last night). We have city water in the house so we're fine, but the basement and garage got a relatively small bit of water in them. More to deal with so that sucks, but we're really glad it wasn't worse.

That's all I have right now. I gotta go deal with my head. I still have a lot to do, but I'm not doing anything else until I feel better. 😕

We're having a rough animal day here. 🙁

We're having a rough animal day here.  🙁

To start it off, Tobi (cat) needs a steroid shot regularly or else he vomits uncontrollably.  I made an appointment for his shot and he was going to be seen the 24th very early in the morning, but we didn't make it to his appointment.  We were EXHAUSTED from moving stuff and slept through our alarms.  He's usually ok going for slightly longer than monthly, so I figured I would get him in early this coming up week.  Unfortunately, he started throwing up this morning.  Poor guy.  He's going to be getting some wet food and TLC for the next few days.

After that I heard one of the kitchen cabinet doors slamming.  Sindar (the eldest cat) likes to go in there to hide so I didn't think much of it.  I was heading into the kitchen and it smelled AWFUL.  Shaun was making an upset face and said "I think someone shit in there."  Thankfully, we haven't moved our food / dishes into the cabinets yet so it wasn't hard to clean, but it turns out that someone peed, pooped, and puked up a hairball in there.  Me (being the smallest person in the house) got the super fun job of cramming myself into the cabinets to clean it up.

It would be alarming if it was any other cat, but Sindar is very old and despite multiple trips to the vet has had issues with her potty habits in the past.  Nothing is ever physically found wrong with her and we have multiple litter boxes, all of which we keep clean.  The vet believes it is behavioral.  Thankfully, it's not a constant issue.  Regardless, Shaun is buying some cabinet locks today so that at least if it happens again it won't be in such a hard-to-clean area.

While that would be enough going wrong for one day it sadly is not all.  While making my rounds feeding everyone I've found that Nom (large tortoise) looks like he doesn't feel well.  I'm unsure what could be wrong with him; his setup is better than it's ever been in that he's finally spending time in his humid area like he should.  His nose is no longer whistling which is good.  But he's not consistently active and his food doesn't look touched.  I'm going to try to hand feed him in a bit.  Maybe give him a nice warm bath.  I know that moving is a big transition so I'm hoping that's all that's going on with him.  If he doesn't get right pretty soon we'll be taking a trip to the vet.

And finally (jeez, I hope this is the last bad animal thing to happen today), I found my little Koopa (horned lizard) passed away.  🙁  Their life spans are 5-8 years and I got him in 2013 with no indication of his age, so I think he had a pretty good run.  I'd been thinking he looked thin lately and that he probably wasn't long for this world, but I had no way of knowing when his time would come.  He was still eating and enjoying being sprayed with water up until last night.  I am sad but not surprised by his passing.

Well, I am off to bathe a tortoise and then work on the house some more.  I hope you all are doing well.  Not all of us are at the moment, but we're working on it.  That's all we can do.  ❤

Harley is rolling in the candy...

Harley is rolling in the candy from the stockings like he's Scrooge McDuck in a pile of coins. 😂😂😂

This perspective is mind-blowing. Click the link.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Shaun gave me this shirt for Solstice...

Shaun gave me this shirt for Solstice and I am so happy because I've been wanting since I saw it a few years back. Kira made awesome stockings for me, Shaun, and Shadow; she picked all of the right goodies for us. 😃 The kids opened a couple of presents last night, too, and I think they were pretty happy.

Afterwards, we decorated a Gingerbread house. It was kind of a mess, but fun. We also played the Monopoly card game. Shadow came for me, OMG. 😂😂😂 He played a card to get my property and I had a card saying I could refuse so I used it. But he had a card saying he could refuse, too, so he basically Uno-reversed my refusal, took my shit, and won the game! I was not expecting that! Straight savage. 😂😂😂

I can't wait until all of us are completely moved and settled. We're looking forward to having more together times like this, with or without a holiday. ❤️