katt_goddess

It's honestly a continuous grieving process for me. I still feel the loss of each kitty deeply. 'sha [ age 10; condition was liver failure, semi-quick once diagnosed and she made the decision that she didn't want any more tubes by chewing all her IVs off ] I received a phone call the day after she passed from my mom who had just found two litters of kittens in the wood pile being raised by raccoons. They were only a month old so I'd have to wait another month to rescue one. I said I would if there was a girl and not a blue-grey- there was exactly one girl and she was a full tabby. So the decision was technically the following day but I had a month of alone time which could have ended up being more. The little tabby came to me very sick but we got her healthy. In the end, she was the only survivor of all the kittens. Bitchcakes [ age 14 years, 9 months; condition was cancer] Her disease was hidden by her arthritis, her pain meds kept her going until she started having problems eating. She ended up in the ER hospital where testing eventually revealed she had cancer. She was given days to weeks. We had 6 weeks together after that diagnosis, careful hand feedings twice a day, heating pad, pain meds and episodes of Metalocalypse. Two weeks after she had passed, I ended up clicking a link I was sent and there was one itty-bitty baby girl in need of a home. A little tuxie. Potato Bug [ age 1 year, 3 months; condition kitten leukemia ] The freshest loss, she went downhill way too fast for such a small kitten. She was being treated for what passed as anemia but when she refused to eat anything one day, we went to the ER. She never came home. This was a few days before I had to head to Atlanta. In the vendors mart, there was a picked over table of random plushies - a small tuxie had been pushed to the side. It stays on my bed in the pillows by my head - Bug used to climb under the covers and hug my neck to fall asleep. About 3 weeks later I was pity-partying on Bug's adoption site and there was a tiny not-a-tuxie kitten that looked like her world was ending too. They said she might be too shy to function. She's currently snoring in the cat tree's highest point after a full day of mischief and mayhem. For me, a kitty is an ESA. A kitty needs me to be functional, non-feral, semi-adult creature so that's what I am. I spoil them, they keep me sane. I still grieve 'sha and that was ~16 years ago. I currently can't watch videos of tuxies playing in the snow and being tuxies or enjoy french fries because those were Bug things only 7 months ago. The Metalocalypse DVDs are gathering dust on the shelf because the last time they were watched, it was while carefully cuddling my little Bitchcake and feeding her puree. They are always in the background, they were family. Sakura isn't a replacement, she's merely the newest family member.

It's been odd here too. Every day this week there's been such a thick fog that there had to be warnings issued about them. This morning everything had a dangerous sheet of ice attached to it, especially the streets. It might hit 50'F by Sunday except, oh wait, blizzards are now in the forecast for next week. It could be nothing, it could be 3 feet deep. Who knows anymore.

IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PULSE! WHO WANTS TO DANCE WITH HE-MAN????

I have now and always been old. Gods. Damnit.

DethKlok has a new album. That counts! I get introduced to newer stuff from watching AMVs. I think that helps keep things interesting in my ancient brain.

<.< >.> Socks with swear words on them... I have to go back to work Monday and I can already feel the pile of crap on my desk from here.

The shelves in the bedroom closet broke. If this had happened last week or even this Monday, I would have had a foot locker ordered and here already to organize the books and have everything pulled in order to put in a work order for the repair today. Instead, I have a massive mess in the living room and bedroom and two days to do enough of something to even consider putting in that work order. I had this week off and could have spent virtually every day whittling through and culling things in peace. This is going to take a month to get through now because work. -.-;

The demon of destruction couldn't shift the tv. So she knocked down the mini manekineko shrine on the bookcase and I think she physically ate the tiny cover for the tea pot and the plastic piece that served as tea in the cup. I only found the tiny egg. I'll probably find the missing pieces in the litterbox tomorrow - they will not be returning to the bookcase. Then she went into the bedroom and knocked down a jar of very carefully made summer herbal mix which shattered glass everywhere into the carpet. After screaming like she was going to die of hunger, I saw her take her treat stick and 'bury' it under the FMA throw rug so she can hunt it later. And now she's sleeping in the window perch like she put in a 12 hour shift in the mines.

I usually have either Friday or a precious Saturday off but this week I have Thursday off because my back-up has a doctors appointment tomorrow. My system is already telling me 'only one more day left of this week!' when it's really two more working days left.

The Bubble Wrap Clan did something to her in a former life. She does not want it near her toys.

This day is so fake news. Everyone knows that the real holiday is tomorrow: 1/2 off chocolate day. SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Me vs. an entire trailer park at the CVS candy aisle.

Ok, pic managed. Yes that is a drawing of a kitten to looks really like Sakura lifting Thor's hammer. I got it in 2019.

No pics, it's gotten too dark to try to get a good one anyway [ will try tomorrow if I remember ], but today Sakura graduated from her kitten collar to her adult collar. She's ~7 months old and almost 2 foot long.

Crushing things up and putting it in juice like UwPp mentions will help with quicker absorption if it's pill. If it's liquid, reduce by half and take half immediately after a vomit attack while things are still reloading. Wait 10 minutes and if you haven't vomited again, take the other half. You might still puke but at least you'll have half already absorbed.

$255 for the whole year? I think I spent that at the used bookstore last fall!