Posted in Pets on Apr 2nd, 2013
Ever since I met the husband six years ago we have been looking for a couch. He wanted a sectional like his neighbor had. Of course that couch came from a store that didn’t exist any more. So for the past six years we’ve been testing sectionals. He wanted leather. I wanted comfy. I can [...]
Posted in Pets on Apr 2nd, 2013
Riley is a thug but he needs cuddles from his mommy daily. This is especially true if we go away. We went to my parents’ for Easter. We were only gone around 24 hrs and the pet sitter (or Staff as Powder sees them) came once. It wasn’t like he was abandoned in the wilderness. [...]
Posted in Work on Dec 16th, 2012
I was leaving work on Friday when I saw a cat that hangs out sometimes in the parking lot stroll into 4 lanes of traffic. He strolled. He didn’t dash out into traffic. From my vantage point I couldn’t see him in the road but the cars never slowed so I thought maybe he made [...]
Posted in Work on Oct 25th, 2012
Blurry because he couldn’t hold still.
I’ve been taking an online Chinese food therapy course. I’m most of the way through the lectures so I decided to start making some of the foods and testing them out on my pets. First up – asparagus: I kept hearing over and over in lectures that cats love asparagus. That seems odd. But last [...]
Posted in Pets on Apr 26th, 2012
I don’t think the rodents around my house have had any predators for a while. The other day Riley showed up with the body of the biggest, furriest mouse I’ve ever seen. Mice don’t get that big if they have to run for their lives instead of shoveling food into their mouths nonstop. We’d been [...]
Posted in Pets on Apr 3rd, 2012
I noticed recently when I’m camping in my old house that the cats in the neighborhood are acting strangely. There’s the yellow cat who always used to slink down the sidewalk across the street from our house. He seemed a very skittish fellow. I saw him the other day. He was walking down the middle [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 28th, 2012
One night I noticed Powder standing on her hind legs trying to look in the garbage. That was weird. That cat doesn’t normally acknowledge lowly things like garbage. All during the night Freckles was restless. She was up and down off the bed. I got up and let her out in the middle of the [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 10th, 2012
Woke up this morning to screaming cats. I wandered out to the kitchen when it seemed it wasn’t stopping. There were clumps of fur in the hallway. Clumps of fur in the living room. These led up to a Riley cat who was sitting there as innocent as you please. But, he had tufts of [...]
Posted in Pets on Jan 11th, 2012
I got out a suitcase to start packing for my trip yesterday. Riley looked annoyed. They don’t like it when suitcases come out. It means I’m going somewhere and that upsets their apple carts. They have no idea how upset they are about to be. Tomorrow morning I am taking them both to the new [...]
Posted in Pets on Dec 16th, 2011
When I woke up this morning, I couldn’t move. Freckles’ butt was against my right neck and shoulder. Riley was against my left neck and shoulder. Powder was laying up against the top of my head. No one would move. I had to sit straight up to hit the snooze. Then I had to lay [...]
Posted in Pets on Dec 1st, 2011
We cleaned off the built in shelves above the computer desk. We did this to take good real estate listing pictures. Riley thinks we did it all for him. He’s been very upset ever since we went away for a few days at Thanksgiving. He needs cuddles. Is it even possible to be more loved [...]
Posted in Pets on Nov 4th, 2011
By bedmates are getting uppity. I keep waking up with no covers. The SO doesn’t have any either. When two humans sleep under a cover, it is suspended between them. So when a Freckles dog jumps on the suspended cover it pulls it a bit off the humans. This is both understandable and expected. However, [...]
I saw a cat the other day whose chart had “Super Caution” written all over it. We occasionally write “Caution” on problem patients but “Super Caution” was a whole new level like DefCon 22. We went in with a plan. I’d take the top of the carrier and the tech, who was fully armed with [...]
Posted in Pets on Aug 22nd, 2011
The studying/cramming/panicking continues. I just made up a song and dance number to remember a chart full of numbers. I had the foresight it choreograph it sitting down or else I would have to embarrass myself by having to stand up and get my Bob Fosse on in the middle of the test. I’m not [...]
T minus 9 and 10 days until my two acupuncture final exams and my brain is mush. Just figuring out those numbers took a bit too much mental effort. But strangely it calmed me a bit since I’ve been running around for days screeching, “It is NEXT #$%=&*ing WEEK!!!!!” Nine days away seems farther off [...]
Posted in Pets on Jul 22nd, 2011
It is mighty hot here. I don’t think it is supposed to routinely get to 100 in this area. Yesterday morning when it was a relatively chilly 80 I went for a walk. I left Freckles home despite much application of sad face because it too hot for a long haired black dog. Apparently I [...]
The man I work for likes to leave notes around the office about offenses real and imagined. They range from funny to really nasty. Because of a scheduling change we won’t be working at the same office anymore. I mentioned this morning that I won’t be getting notes anymore. I shouldn’t have mentioned it. I [...]
From Riley’s Journal: It is Day Two of my house arrest . I want to go outside but the evil overlords won’t let me out . When asked why she said, “Blah,blah,no,blah,blah” Editor’s note- I said, “If you can’t outrun me how do you think you can get out of the way of a car, [...]
It has been a hard few days to be a kitty at my house. First, we got a new bed. Powder used the footboard of the old bed as a launching spot to jump to the top of the armoire where she eats and sleeps. We kept this in mind when ordering the bed. We [...]
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