The bouncy ball awaketh!

Yay! The vet called and the bébé is all good, waking up from the anesthetic. But before the surgery she was rubbing her face like mad on the kennel, to get out, so they put her back in the plastic carrier. And the vet is afraid she may continue this way once she's revived, cause she's SO energetic. The vet doesn't want to just drug her all night, and she doesn't want me to come tomorrow to find a cat with no facial hair left, so instead they may send her home early, provided we can keep her confined to one room.

I'm glad she's all well. Wonder how long it will take before she bounces off the walls again.

Sleep in ALL the spots!!!

Had to take the kittenatude to the vet. I accidentally went too early--thought they said dropoff between 8 and 9, but it was 9-10. So we sat out on the pavement for about 10 minutes. She was shivering! I don't think she was cold, but that street is really noisy at 9 AM, and there's construction. I put my scarf over the cage and babytalked her the whole time. Poor little furball.

The earliest she'll be operated is 11 AM, and then they'll call me to say if it went fine. They'll keep her overnight because it's a more invasive operation than neutering, so they want to keep an eye on the stitches, and keep her from running around.

I was planning to go back to bed til my dentist appt, but I'm not sleepy at the moment. And Haley is enjoying some One and Only Remaining Cat time, alternating between my George Bernard Shaw bag and my lap. I suspect I will see her trying out alll her favourite sleeping spots over the next 24 hours, now that there's no one here to kick her out of them.

Here was Minion last night, getting in her last suck-ahjs.

And here is One and Only Remaining Cat this morning.

4524 done, 45 476 to go

Didn't write as much today as I could have, but it was still enough to be able to finish on time, at least according to the Nano Stats. Apparently I need to do 2166 per day at this point (the normal goal per day, if you're writing each day, is 1666) and today I did 2500. Now I'm off to bed, cause I have to take the Minion to the v-word at 8 AM.

Christmas starts out with a meh

It's Christmas music time, now. I thought Susan Boyle's album might be good, since I do enjoy traditional Christmas music. But it sounds like a funeral dirge. And she's included a cover of "Hallelujah" which, yes, is a spiritual song, but also one about sex and pain and so forth. Not really what I associate with Christmas music, and sung in the same dirge-style.

Listening to rap

A reminder of how awesome Eminem can be when he's on his game.

Look at how effectively he lines up all these "ot" rhymes. There's no weak lyrics, each word is perfect, and the whole song is this tight.

Too much for me to wanna stay in one spot
Another day of monot
-ony has got-
-ten me to the point, I'm like a snail I've got 
to formulate a plot
or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got
to go, I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go it's my shot.
Feet fail me not 
This may be the only opportunity that I got

Make ALLLL the appointments!!!

What a little engine of productivity I am, and all in the space of 20 minutes! I'd fallen behind on my medical appointments, except I had my hemo appt not long ago, and that same day I made myself go in and make my GP appointment (getting one's birth control pill renewed is all the incentive I need to get that appointment done each year!)

Today I...

- called and got Minion's spaying appointment - it's for tomorrow (Ohhhh her little ladybits! So sad. But I reassured her she does NOT have the mothering instinct anyway.)

- got a dentist appointment for tomorrow at 4 PM

- tried to call the local hemo doctor to transfer my case to him--couldn't get through, but he's in the same building as my dentist, so I'll do that tomorrow

- appointment with optomologist for me and Fernando on Friday

- appointment in January with headache doctor, and they're going to mail me my pill renewals

[dusts hands off and takes a bow -- clean ALL the things!!]

time for bed