Talk About Tuesday

 

In Which Today Has Been Very Long

My day started at 5:30AM with the buzz of my laptop fan.

This was not a good thing to hear because it meant three things:

1. I had fallen asleep with the laptop on my lap again
2. I was awake at 5:30AM
3. Microsoft must've pushed the update and restarted my laptop...

Now, frustratingly enough, I was right about all three things, and it meant that Windows had oh-so-helpfully force-closed all the programs I was using in order to restart.

Which included the massive art project I've been working on since October first.

18 days of work were completely corrupted and unsalvageable.

So why wasn't I more than slightly annoyed?

That would be because the Project Resentment had already set in.

At a certain point in large projects, I realize that I haven't prepared thoroughly enough and my work starts to suffer. At that stage, I start to slowly come to despise the work itself, everything I've done, and everything I have left to do. The Resentment started some time last week, so as you can imagine, I was pretty pissed at every perceived mistake.

Often, if I don't finish the project quickly when I recognize the Project Resentment, I'll just destroy it myself. I'll delete the whole thing and all of my research and start over.

Now I didn't have to do that because my computer did it for me.

So instead I rolled my eyes, opened the programs I'd need and headed downstairs while things loaded up.

The cat needed her pill at 8AM, so I stayed downstairs drinking coffee and playing on my phone. Once the hour struck, I woke up the cat where she was draped over the back of a recliner and held her still while my mom jammed a pill into her mouth. She pouted for an hour, but was otherwise fine. She hasn't coughed in several days! She has the zoomies again! She played for a full 10 minutes this afternoon!

She spit her pill out tonight and we had to jam it in her face a second time and now she hates us!

Pretty sure she growled at me for the first time ever.

Sorry, lil brat, you need the pills so you will recover from this stupid infection we've known you had for years and yet the vet never wanted to do anything about it...

Anywho, it's been delightfully chilly the last couple of days - we had temps of about 51℉ (10.5℃) and while it has been drizzly and damp, it's also felt very fallish. I'm wearing a sweater, guys. A turtleneck sweater. I've got thick, fuzzy blankets on my bed.

And of course it's all going to end tomorrow and come back next weekend, but hey, we can't always get what we want, right...

I like chilly weather.

I will say there's two parts I don't enjoy about the shift from summer-to-autumn, though:

1. the effect rapidly shifting temps has on my sinuses
2. the effect rapidly shifting temps & humidity have on my window

I'm apparently allergic to change - every fall and spring I go through a phase where, around 7:30PM, I just start stuffing up and sneezing. This happens everywhere, not just at home, so it's something to do with my body and the world in general. Best guess? I inherited my mother's terrible sinuses which can't withstand anything at all and I'm super sensitive to the rapid temperature changes. The lining of my sinuses stretches and dries rapidly, triggering a sneeze.

As for the window, whenever the glass gets wet for several days and then dries out in cool temperatures, it makes these awful digestive noises. It seriously sounds like someone's having gurgling heartburn at the end of my bed with their mouth open, face pressed to the glass of the window. Wretched. Especially after mainlining all the seasons of Buzzfeed's Unsolved Supernatural shows.

Still writing that spooky ghost hunter story.

Still writing the wrestling story, too.

I think I've rambled enough, though, so I'll let you go with a warning that I may seem equally loopy and exhausted on Thursday since we're still pilling her until Friday or Saturday, so... early to rise for a few more days.

Thursday should contain art, however, and next Monday I'll have more shawl & secret project updates for Fiber Monday :)

That'll do it for me, tonight!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Talk About Tuesday

 

In Which It's Been Quite The Week

So Facebook died for a bit yesterday and that was a Bit of Trouble for a lot of people. I know people sell handmade crafts and stuff on FB, and I really hope they're doing okay and that a day of tense waiting and hoping. Personally, I was mostly annoyed that it was harder to talk to my boyfriend and was completely cut off from my friends :(

I used that time to make my blog yesterday, but what about Friday-Sunday and also Today (the days I haven't blogged about)?

Well, on Friday my cat went in for her dental cleaning and health check. She has to be completely sedated for this, since they usually have to take teeth out (she has suffered from periodontal disease since before we got her). Now, she's had a lot of health issues since we got her. Polyps, perpetual cough, lack of appetite, bad teeth, she's kind of an adorable lil wreck. She's also eleven.

Which all combines to mean that for most of Friday, I was on pins & needles hoping she'd be okay. She hadn't eaten at all on Thursday night, after all. Thankfully, around noon, the vet called and said she was waking up fine.

But they'd had to take two teeth.

And they took a sample of the slime in her throat.

And they found another polyp, this one in her right ear, laying horizontally too far down to reach.

And she was a bit underweight.

And she's eleven.

She's more than 2/3 of the way through her lifespan, and she's spent the whole time sick.

So of course we've basically been her slaves since Friday.

She spent Saturday and most of Sunday asleep in her kennel (to prevent her from hurting herself), and while the door stayed open, she didn't like to leave. She did, however, eat all of her food for once in a long long time. She ate breakfast every morning, even taking her pain pill (those are gone now)! She slept 90% of the time, and she mostly wanted snuggles when she wasn't in her kennel, which we covered with a flannel blanket for privacy.

I should mention it was in the mid-50s here for temps (55℉ = 12.8℃) so to her it probably was very chilly. Today was a nice balmy 65℉ (18.3℃) and I took her for her first walk post-surgery. She... ate grass and rolled on the warm driveway and completely ignored the chipmunk two feet away from her face. Then she wanted to come in after an hour of lounging and rolling and nibbling, and I gave her a snack.

She ate her snack!

She has an appetite! She just needs people around her and for her food to be higher than it currently is.

Unfortunately for me, today was also a day beset with mold spores. Which I am very very allergic to.

I've been sneezing since I woke up, and I hate it because my nose feels heavy and my eyes itch like crazy.

The eyes are the giveaway. If I had a cold, it'd just be my nose, but with the eyes feeling like my eyelids are lined with Brillo? Definitely allergies.

I will take my meds before I sleep.

So basically the whole time I haven't been on here or crocheting I've been a cat slave!

That's been my week.

The rest of my week is looking pretty similar, tbh. And no, she didn't like the treat I bought her on Saturday (a tube of chicken flavored treat from Tiki Cat). Maybe she'd have liked it better from the tube and higher up? I don't know.

Probably not, she can be picky.

Anywho, the rest of the week is for Art Prompts and Falloween/Spooktober fabulousness!

I'm gonna curl up in my flannel shirt and my fluffy pants and read spooky stories until I conk out tonight.

That'll do it from me!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC