Fernando's been sick this week. He's fine now, but tonight I started the exact same symptoms...
- the chills
- cookie tossing
- and then 24 hours of regular bathroom visits
wee.
Luckily he bought gravol and immodium towards the end, so maybe that will help. I've already emailed in sick to work.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Let's Go Mode (as my step-mommy would call it)
This one's above 300 000, but it's a beaut. The upper floor (mine) is bright, uncarpeted, with my three bedrooms (a little one to sleep in, a big one for office, a third for guests), and a nice deck. Downstairs Fernando has his own bathroom, two family rooms (one for sleeps, one for TV), a "computer area" for Warcraft, and a workshop for all his woodworking dreams. And notice how the workshop is fenced in, so he can't take over the back yard. ;-) Room to build an outdoor cat house.
Are you ready to move Fernando? Oh wait... can't afford it.
The open main floor features original re-done oak floors almost throughout (including the three bedrooms) cove ceilings, a pedestal sink in the updated bath, a feature fireplace and larger corner windows in the living room. The kitchen, also updated, has two skylights, chair rails, an eating nook and access to the 21' x 14' deck and the fenced back yard. Downstairs has a second bath, two family rooms, a computer area and a large workshop with outside access. Immaculate inside and out and lovingly owned by the same family for 35 years. Great central location, close to schools, shopping, bus routes and the hospital.It's also in the nabe that I like. My dad drove me around it (and other areas) so I could see in person what they're like. This nabe is near a lovely park, a 10 min bus ride to get downtown, and a 30 min bus ride to go out to the big box stores and movies. Let's go!
Monday, September 28, 2009
update
Back to work yesterday. I'm usually pretty jolly at work, but I felt a bit pep-less. However today I was doing the 6 AM shift, and the other manager called in sick so I was alone, so it was too much of a cuckoo day to be Blue. My preferred way to handle stress is with humour, so I couldn't get too mopey.
Things are still quiet in home, so I'm always trying to attract the other cats to my side at non-feeding times. "Spend tiiiime with meeeeee!" Then I go back to petting my stuffed cat. We bought Sherry a new cat dancer, and found a great laser pointer for Haley... bribery for the children.
But Nombly lives on in at least one way. When the cats wanted me to wake up and feed them, Nombly was the most effective cause he would walk back and forth across my pillow, pulling my hair in the process. And now Sherry has taken up the torch.
And I've thought of one advantage to Nombly's death. He won't have these friggin' cats chasing his tail all the time!
In fact, Haley has started attacking Sherry's tail! Heh heh heh. Nombly must be enjoying that one up in Kitty Heaven after all these years of being The Favourite Cat Toy.
Once per night, like clockwork, Haley attacks Sherry. She looks bored without Nombly, so I let her. She and Nombly used to chase each other around, but Sherry doesn't seem to differentiate between Game! and Attack! (Hard to blame him, considering Haley's insane behaviour.) But I guess he's going to have to learn, so now I don't intervene as quickly when she bugs him.
This is how Haley torments Bones (Sherry's other name):
- she stalks him around the living room for a bit, hiding behind things, sitting low, ready to pounce
- she waits til he's sitting somewhere, minding his own business - preferably above her
- then she POUNCES! She whacks him with her claws, or attacks his tail or something
- he turns and tries to whack her back, and then he gives her...
The Alpha Cat Stare
and
Swishes His Tail Ominously
- she swishes her tail in return, and meows this weird, long, prolonged meow at him (which is how I know she's stalking him even if they're not in the room with me) and attacks him again
- then she repeats the process until he finally jumps down on her and gives her a smackdown (usually a full body smackdown)
- she screams Murder! Murder! and that's when I check on them to make sure we're not in danger of a serious cat fight, and often after this she'll go sit somewhere "safe" even though she started it. And I reassure Bones that he's a good boy and I know he didn't start it.
IN OTHER NEWS
Poor Fernando how some weird sickness. Some gastro-ee thing, so you can guess what that means. I'm washing and alcoholing my hands all the time so I don't catch it!
IN OTHER NEWS
I've continued researching and plotting my next book. I might do Nanowrimo this year as a way of jumpstarting the actual writing of the book. Just a rough rough draft. I've never done Nano when working full-time, cause Nov is a busy time of year in retail, but I think I can do it. It just entails cutting out the internet-ahj.
Things are still quiet in home, so I'm always trying to attract the other cats to my side at non-feeding times. "Spend tiiiime with meeeeee!" Then I go back to petting my stuffed cat. We bought Sherry a new cat dancer, and found a great laser pointer for Haley... bribery for the children.
But Nombly lives on in at least one way. When the cats wanted me to wake up and feed them, Nombly was the most effective cause he would walk back and forth across my pillow, pulling my hair in the process. And now Sherry has taken up the torch.
And I've thought of one advantage to Nombly's death. He won't have these friggin' cats chasing his tail all the time!
In fact, Haley has started attacking Sherry's tail! Heh heh heh. Nombly must be enjoying that one up in Kitty Heaven after all these years of being The Favourite Cat Toy.
Once per night, like clockwork, Haley attacks Sherry. She looks bored without Nombly, so I let her. She and Nombly used to chase each other around, but Sherry doesn't seem to differentiate between Game! and Attack! (Hard to blame him, considering Haley's insane behaviour.) But I guess he's going to have to learn, so now I don't intervene as quickly when she bugs him.
This is how Haley torments Bones (Sherry's other name):
- she stalks him around the living room for a bit, hiding behind things, sitting low, ready to pounce
- she waits til he's sitting somewhere, minding his own business - preferably above her
- then she POUNCES! She whacks him with her claws, or attacks his tail or something
- he turns and tries to whack her back, and then he gives her...
The Alpha Cat Stare
and
Swishes His Tail Ominously
- she swishes her tail in return, and meows this weird, long, prolonged meow at him (which is how I know she's stalking him even if they're not in the room with me) and attacks him again
- then she repeats the process until he finally jumps down on her and gives her a smackdown (usually a full body smackdown)
- she screams Murder! Murder! and that's when I check on them to make sure we're not in danger of a serious cat fight, and often after this she'll go sit somewhere "safe" even though she started it. And I reassure Bones that he's a good boy and I know he didn't start it.
IN OTHER NEWS
Poor Fernando how some weird sickness. Some gastro-ee thing, so you can guess what that means. I'm washing and alcoholing my hands all the time so I don't catch it!
IN OTHER NEWS
I've continued researching and plotting my next book. I might do Nanowrimo this year as a way of jumpstarting the actual writing of the book. Just a rough rough draft. I've never done Nano when working full-time, cause Nov is a busy time of year in retail, but I think I can do it. It just entails cutting out the internet-ahj.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
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