Friday, July 19, 2024

It's been a rough week.

It's been a rough week. Shaun isn't feeling well and we've had so many appointments. There's work being done outside of our house by the city and they cut our internet while I was at work yesterday. I logged in via HotSpot on my phone so I could get my work done, but we got a call about house stuff while I was in a meeting, so I handed Shaun my phone to answer since I couldn't. He walked away and kicked me from my meeting and entire virtual desktop. Speaking of, I've had to call the help desk twice every day to get my work Virtual Desktop to even log on. This whole week has been an avalanche of such similar bullshit. And today I'm out of milk and sad about it, and my work computer is acting funky.

We got home from Ash's appointment a little bit ago, and y'all - she was SO DRAMATIC. She screamed the whole 7-minute trip to the vet. She was pretty good for the doctor. But she fought Shaun tooth and nail about going back into the carrier when it was time to leave.

I legit belly-laughed because I've never seen Shaun so thwarted by a cat. Of course, he's not feeling 100%, but damn. She fought like she was feral. She beat his ass. She drew blood from us both and I was literally just holding the carrier. She was throwing paws with not a single fuck given. 😂  Neither one of us expected that from her. But to be fair, she's been the healthiest of our cats and we can hardly recall a time she's needed to see the doctor. She is definitely not used to this.

So anyway, we'll have the results of her bloodwork on Monday.

Bear is being extra and we're both so tired. Shaun needs more rest and I need to contact someone to get my computer straightened out.

Fun day. At least it's Friday.

Thursday, July 18, 2024

He came in with the zoomies...

He came in with the zoomies because he went out and it was raining. He came in and made some laps, even jumping up on the couch and almost jumping over the back. Thank goodness he didn't do that. 😂

After he calmed down a bit, he got up on the couch and laid like this. I guess it wasn't his thing because he got in the floor about 30 seconds later. Just trying it out, I guess. 😂😂😂

Look at those eyebrows. "Wet dog on the couch. That's ok, Papa?" 😂❤️


Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Tobi's bloodwork looks good.

Tobi's bloodwork looks good. The vet is getting us an estimate to remove his bladder stone.

Ash is going in Friday. It's time for her old lady checkup and to see what is causing her to once in a while have diarrhea outside of the box.

We had a celebratory Zoom meeting yesterday for our work achievements. It was the Skyline Soldiers GCU cohort and some of the higher-ups. Someone showed their cat, so I was like "Look at this dog" and Bear, as if on cue, started coughing and shaking and pawing his mouth. I thought it might have been another seizure, but after about the 4th bout he coughed up something and then swallowed it before we could get to it. I was so scared that I was about to have Shaun rush him to the vet.

So anyway. Look at these good boys. Bear likes Tobi because he doesn't run from him and also doesn't slap him with claws. Tobi WILL pat him and sometimes push him with a paw, but he's very gentle about it, even when Bear is in Beast mode. I've caught them laying like this a few times lately. It's so sweet. ❤️


Sunday, July 14, 2024

FYI: This is just a ramble.

FYI:  This is just a ramble.

I'm out here having feelings. Mainly anxiety, I think.

I slept like crap last night. I ended up napping today. I didn't shampoo the carpet OR do nails (not for myself or Shaun). Shaun and Cub ended up spilling milk on the carpet, so I guess it's better that I hadn't shampooed it.

All I really managed to do was repot a few plants. I have 2 prickly pear and 1 echeveria with rotten spots. I have cut away the rot and I'm gonna see if I can salvage them. They're dry. They've been dry. But I'm gonna let them callous over super well before I pot them again.

I'm down to adding my last drawer of nail polish to my database. That's giving me feelings. Well, first of all my "database" is a spreadsheet at this point. I will have to start actually building the tables and relationships as a next step. And I know how to do that. But it's been such a large project for me for so long that it's kind of scary moving to the next step.

I've been thinking about just uploading it all to the same app that I use to keep track of my stamping plates. That would make sense. I just have a hang up because in the app you can't have a hierarchy of folders. But it might make more sense to use tags to see things that came together in a collection, anyway, because sometimes stamping plates come with polishes or whatever. That would actually tie it all together in a nice way.

I don't know. It's a lot to think about. And I've come to the point where it's like, either build it myself or use the app. And I kind of wanted to build it myself, but also I would adore having more free time to do nail art rather than spend so much time on managing my collection. I mean, I enjoy managing my collection, too, but it's been all-consuming since I got serious about making progress last year. I guess that's the down-side to having a large collection of anything.

Toebean finished his anti-inflammatory meds this morning. He has a check-up on Tuesday. We need to see if he can have that bladder stone removed.

Bear got another Adequan injection. He again did not seem to care at all.

I cleaned my bedroom and bathroom last night. And the cat fountain up there. I hate cleaning cat fountains, but the cats really seem to love them, so we do what we must, I suppose.

After Harley gets his teeth cleaned and a bad one pulled (next Friday, I think) we're considering moving him to my bedroom. He's been picking fights with Toebean, and Toebean doesn't need that. We could also move Adrian downstairs. We'd have to. Harley used to pick on her. I guess it would be ok as long as Harley and Scar could get along (Scar is in my room because he's on a special diet). I don't remember them having issues before, but Harley might just be a butthole that picks on anyone. I guess there is one way to find out.

I don't know why I'm stalling going to bed. I love to go to bed. I love sleep. Maybe I should just take some Melatonin to make sure I sleep tonight and head up. I have an early morning tomorrow. I'm probably not doing myself any good by not trying to sleep. I just feel like there's more on my mind, but I don't exactly know what it is. I'm sure it will reveal itself in time.

Goodnight, I guess. 😂

Some teensy flowers from today.

Some teensy flowers from today.

My plants could use some water, but it's supposed to rain this week, so I'll let nature take care of that.




Pupdate:

Pupdate:

Cub scarfed his bagel (of course).

Bear's having a staring contest with his. 😂


Taking the boys out for a bagel. ❤️

Taking the boys out for a bagel. ❤️

(Cub is buckled even though it looks like he's not. That strap came with a clip and also the piece that fits into the seat belt. He's clipped.)