Well baby Frankie cat gets spayed tomorrow. I always get anxious with the rescues going off because I know they are scared. Yeah I know it's for their own good and for the good of the animal population as a whole but not sure how to explain that to a scared kitty. Her new home is wanting to take her home on Friday so I hope the vet will let us keep her there and let them pick her up there. As much as I hate the thought of her being at the kennel I really don't want to just let her loose outside the day she has surgery. It would probably be less traumatic for her in the long run. She should be easy to wrangle in the morning, she comes when I call her so she won't be a problem. The boys are another story. It's anyone's guess when and if they show up.
She is such a pretty happy kitty. I love her so much and her new parents better love her as much as I do or I will come and get her! They have a younger little (human) girl and they can grow up together.
We hadn't seen big boy since I got the message from his "owners" but he showed up while I was outside loving on baby girl.
He had ticks and several stickers in his fur. I got what I could until I finally had to go in and charge my phone. If it all works out we will get one or both of the boys cut tomorrow. Just have to wait and see if they show up. If he had gotten here an hour earlier I would have loaded him up and dropped him off tonight. I'm curious to see if I catch him how long it will take the 'owners' to notice he has been neutered. They tip their ear but I seriously doubt if the neglectful owners are knowledgeable enough about TNR programs to know they do that when they fix cats to identify them. But as Patti knows, that isn't always the case. As far as I'm concerned I haven't seen him and have no idea what happened to that sweet big guy. People suck.
Friday I went with HMF to see Lion King. It was amazing. I had seen it twice before but didn't tell HMF about the march of the animals and the singers in the opening scene. We had to switch nights so we weren't in our normal seats and lucked into seats on the row they cut down to head to the stage. That will turn the grumpiest of people into an excited kid. During the Scar/Mufasa scene the hyenas came down the aisle and one of them turned and made a motion towards a lady a few seats down and she screamed. Honestly I jumped and probably would have screamed too if it had been a little closer.
That was the last show of this season and I'm big sad. I did get the add on tickets for Book of Mormon, which is one of the top on my want to see list. I have seen it online and I am not 100% sure HMF will think it is nearly as funny as I do. Guess we will see next month. I got our season tickets for next year. It starts with Aladdin, which I am ambivalent about. But Beetlejuice is shortly after and that one I am so excited for. HMF has never seen the movie and I am not sure how we are even friends. One of my favorite movie quotes of all times is "I've seen the Exorcist 167 times and it just keeps getting funnier every single time I see it" She teaches online for Baylor and has a mini course she teaches at Waco for a month every summer so I told her before she comes back she has to watch it. We will see.
I also psyched myself up to go get my bloodwork done for the rheumatologist. My veins love to hide and I will pass smooth out so it's always a joy for everyone involved. I had a great tech this time and it was pretty easy. I got the My Chart results back that say I am pretty anemic. I am not surprised to hear this as I have had a lot of the basic symptoms, one of which being weight loss. I also got a really significant bruise from the tattoo a few weeks ago. I have never bruised from a tattoo before.
it is fading but it is still there. I also slept all day Saturday and was so tired I never got dressed. When I got up Sunday I told Dennis that the first thing I had to do was get some food because I didn't stay awake long enough to eat. I am the polar opposite of someone who sleeps all day, my insomnia is real. I have an appointment with my PCP July 13, I am thinking of emailing and seeing if I can move it up. I might just ask him to do the anemia panel. Based on past experience and dr. google I think it will end up being pernicious anemia. I would much rather do B-12 nose spray than iron pills, those suck so it might be wishful thinking, if you can call it that. At any rate it would probably be better to have that information before I go in.
I changed the batteries in my scale and my weight today was 102.5. I am barely 5'2" so it's not as bad as it sounds. I have also set an alarm on my phone and am trying to at least drink a glass of milk if I am hungry or not. This time next year I will be bitching about how I gained 50 pounds back.
While I am on that topic, AP really pissed me off last week. We were talking about random work stuff and she told me out of the blue that I was scary thin and that I needed to stop losing weight. I was pissed. We have a guy that works with us that has gained a significant amount of weight and it has noticeably effected his health. I can hear him breathing from my desk and he doses off in meetings. He is a younger guy so can't use age as an excuse. At any rate I asked her if she brought up Jason's weight with him. It is never appropriate and she has no idea what I am going through. I added that to my 'if I ever have to file a complaint' list.
I had planned on going to Little Rock next month but since Brooke's mom passed away her sister is staying with her. Instead I got tickets for the USA gymnastic championship. Probably the closest I will get to watching olympic gymnastics. I am off Monday and the competition lasts all week but I decided to take the rest of the week off so I can go to the daytime rounds as well. I am going by myself so I won't have to coordinate with anyone. Monday is just pre-heat/rehearsal so I decided to have a little spa treatment with a little of my annual bonus (the rest is going into the bank for the NYC trip). I found a new trend called a head spa and I am curious to see how that works. It's not cheap so I won't be going very often and it is 70 minutes so takes a chunk of the day. I had planned on getting my nails done but since I am taking all week I should be able to find time. Plus I really like the design she did last time and I'm not in a hurry to change it.
Update
Frankie was really easy to capture and get to the vet. She was pretty vocal about not wanting to be in a crate but I unzipped the top just enough to get my hand in and she purred and relaxed a little. I'm sure the purring to soothe herself. She was pregnant so that just shows that if there were kittens, they were no longer an issue because she wasn't lactating.
I got baby daddy wrangled around 11 and got him taken care of. They said that with the scratches and scabs on him they wanted to get him a stronger antibiotic that would cost $75 and the street cats program doesn't cover it. I told them to make him healthy but I wasn't interested in getting him house ready like I did with Frankie. Dennis picked him up on his way home from work and he let me pet him and he ate really well. We will now have, statistically, 12 less kittens a year to have to deal with. He ran off after he ate and found a hiding place. Now I just have to get big boy. It is storming so I doubt he will be out for awhile. The vet did agree to hold on to Frankie until Friday. I also decided to have her microchipped and register it to my "rescue" just in case. All of the animals I have rehomed have a no questions asked return policy. I am low key hoping they change their mind on her anyway so I'm forced to integrate her. Oh, and they said that she was older than we anticipated based on the build up on her teeth. She is just a tiny thing. We will probably keep taking care of baby daddy as an outside cat but we will have to change his name fore obvious reasons. They listed him as baby daddy on the vet paperwork 😂
I'm baaaack. Not sure about being a social butterfly as G. is generally not very social but it's true that we have been keeping busy. Auditing meters sounds like so much fun (sarcasm).
ReplyDeleteRE: Your hair comment. At first I thought "what does she have on her head" and then I discovered it was the playbill of the lady behind you!!
ReplyDeleteNice bruise.
So glad you got the kit-kats taken care of.