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06/28/2005: "I'm Plotless and Topic-less"

For the blog post, anyway.

Just a bunch of mish-mash since I'm anxious to get back to Snowbound.

First of all, I apologize if I haven't been visiting your blog recently. I've been so busy that I'm mostly only visiting a few each day, and I haven't spared the time to comment. So I'm probably reading, just not commenting much. I'll be sending SB off soon, and my husband is also leaving for a month on Saturday, so after that, I'll have some time again. (Not that he takes up my time in a bad way, of course.) *waves* Hi honey!

Remember back when I lived in Michigan and my neighbor kept trapping raccoons and I kept turning them loose when he wasn't looking?

Well, now I'm beginning to understand why he was trapping them. The little shits.

We have a raccoon. It's a scroungy, young thing, and it's discovered our bird feeder. Which is now a raccoon feeder. He sits on top of the fence and watches me while he sticks both hands into the feeder and pulls out food. He's obviously desperate for food, since he'll wait until I get pretty close before taking off. Little booger.

And speaking of boogers, my idiot cat, Felicks, is on an extra dose of Elavil now, since he's decided that he needs to tell me when my other cat (the diabetic one) is feeling sick. Know how he tells me? He pees on me. Just crawls into my lap and pees. On me. If it weren't for the drugs, he'd be living outside with the raccoon.

The other cat, Geordie, is doing great. She's on a diabetic "honeymoon" right now, so she doesn't need insulin shots. She's doing fine with low-carb, high protein canned food, though I do have to test her blood glucose. Got a new meter yesterday, the Freestyle Flash. The thing is AWESOME. It requires 2/3rds less blood than the other meter, so instead of pricking her ear up to 8 times, we'll be able to get blood with just one or two pricks.

Know how I know how much blood it needs? I tested it on my husband and son last night. Bwahahahahahahaha!!!! I poked and poked and poked, and they didn't feel a thing! (By the way, I did this with their permission. They think it's fun to test their blood glucose.)

See? Plotless and topic-less. And clearly, I'm coffee-less.

Must go make some.

Y'all have a nice day!

Replies: 9 brave souls responded

on Tuesday, June 28th, Joely said

My coffee shipment is supposed to arrive sometime tonight via UPS *checks watch again*

Hope you had a productive day!

on Tuesday, June 28th, Larissa said

Yay for coffee!!! And no, I didn't have a productive day. Right after I said my cat was doing well, she got sick and I've spent the day nursing her.

Hope you got your coffee!

on Tuesday, June 28th, Michelle said

Bummer on the cats and the raccoon! We used to have a squirrel that could climb up the metal pole to our bird feeder. Then he'd launch himself on top. For fun one day, we sprayed the pole with nonstick cooking spray. It was an absolute scream watching him to try to climb up and sliding back down again. That showed him!

on Tuesday, June 28th, Larissa said

Michelle, that's funny! We had a squirrel problem in Michigan, and finally gave up and just started feeding them, too!

on Tuesday, June 28th, Silma said

We don't have racoons in PR, but I can almost see the whole thing in my head. Totally hilarious! I'm happy to hear your diabetic cat is doing better. Being diabetic is a bitch! I should know...

on Tuesday, June 28th, Cece said

My cat wigged out--two weeks she's been indoors (the fixed one) and squatted on my carpet (which is SO GONE SO SOON!). ACKK why do we love them so?

(((sick kitty))) but I totally cracked up on DH and DS getting stuck

on Wednesday, June 29th, Teresa said

Yay Geordie!!! Glad to hear she's doing so well And that you have a better glucose meter.

on the other guy peeing on you. Interesting method to get attention (been there, done that).

I hear you on the blog hopping - I've been much the same. Read fewer right now and comment less. Getting more work done on the ms, though

on Wednesday, June 29th, Joely said

No coffee. Hopefully it'll come tonight. I had just enough to make a pot this morning!!

on Wednesday, June 29th, Larissa said

Silma, that sucks! I've learned so much about diabetes over these last few months, and it's such a scary disease!

Cece, sometimes I wonder. And yeah, my husband and son are weirdos!

Teresa, I spoke too soon. I'm going to have to take Geordie to the vet today. She started going downhill after I posted my post yesterday. Grr.

Fingers crossed that you get your coffee today, Joely!!!!!!