CynthiaWVirginia
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From: West Virginia, USA
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(The ripples at the bottom of the violin were lovely and I "saw" pebbles. Wow, just...wow.)
I'm so tired and my pain levels have stayed right up there at 6-8 most of the time. Two of my old (3) back fracture sites have been acting up (coccyx and sacrum) so that my sciatica has been going nuts. Which means that as well as the daytime problems, last night I was up for over three hours walking off leg cramps. I still can't get used to having shin cramps, cramps on top of my ankles, cramps at the sides of my calves, toe cramps, arch cramps, and ones on the top of my foot all happening at the same time. And then my other leg joined in.
I know. 
Mom took Willow, but Willow stayed terrified for a week and wouldn't come out of hiding. Mom's most coveted cat...in her words..."hated" her, and it hurt her feelings. In the end I had to give mom Marie, my new Siamese kitten, and I took Willow (she was wild born) back home. Willow is fine now, slowly putting back on the weight she lost. Marie is being charming (and destructive, knocking everything over, lol) and my mother has renamed her Mia (whatever that girl's name was in The Princess Diaries). It was very hard to let her go as I was very attached, but...mom needs a new furbaby and I know that Mia was brave, adventurous (moreso than her brothers. She didn't cry, not even once, while I drove her to mom's), trusting and loving, fond of going belly up with legs going in everywhich direction, a couch cuddler and a "wake up and pet me for fifteen minutes" type cat...who would always use the cat litter and not a closet floor or whatever.
bo's first surgery was messed up. The pump part of the device blew out of his abdominal muscle and THAT was his "hernia". He had surgery about a week ago and I took care of him and only just drove back home.
I've been catching up with a project I am very behind on...because my computer caught some online cooties and was going very very s-l-o-w-l-y. Several minutes to load each page. I use AVG but using another program that was supposed to not interfere...left me wide open for trouble. The program was for a Windows 7, not for an old XP. At this moment, I am completely without antispyware and am hunting free ones that won't eat up too much memory. We thought we could get me another computer, but car problems and other stuff unexpectedly came up...so we're broke for another three months, lol.
With permission, I am taking bo's neighbor's pregnant cat. She's the mother of the three kittens I adopted (one went to mom). The mother cat is gorgeous, very loving, but I don't know if she can be litter box trained. My minivan having a blow out on the freeway last month ate up the money we were going to use to spay her with, early on in her pregnancy (she got knocked up about 4 weeks into nursing her past litter). I think it's too late to get her fixed, and I plan to let her have free roam of my basement (may God have mercy on my basement if she cannot be litterbox trained) until this next batch of babies can be weaned, then I'll have her spayed and will find homes for her kittens. There is no way on this earth that I could keep them all, and I don't want that sweet beautiful animal to keep having loads of kittens until it kills her. If I don't intervene on her behalf, those neighbors are planning on rounding up all the female cats and ones they don't want (over 20 something) and taking them for a one way trip.
I won't do the shelter thing. Shelters are a death sentence in WV, and the no kill cat shelter is always full.
I haven't been able to resume taking my VHS and DVD inventory. I think my available energy will need to be spent doing yard work, since bo has been unable to come to my house since before his two surgeries, when his mother broke her hip. I didn't get a garden this year, but managed to get a little herb patch in the ground. I haven't tinkered with getting my indoor greenhouse up and running. Figuring out how to catproof it is the biggest problem. At least I bought the lights and light holder thingies, as well as 4 or 5 back-of-door type mirrors to take the place of the thin plastic (that my cats tore through) enclosing it. I still have to re-do the "door", a zipper in the clear plastic. Am clueless about how I'm going to manage that...will figure it out later. I still need some trays at the bottom of two of the shelves (maybe all four shelves) so that water won't dribble down onto my floor. If I could make a wooden box for underneath with some tarp to catch the water, that the cats couldn't break into... Le sigh...I love 'em, but my cats are a pain in the ass.
If only everything didn't require walking, or standing up. Two things that really hurt my knees and old fracture sites. I'm not motivated to do anything today, and yet I'm leaving shortly to take mom shopping to several stores. Afterward I will sit in this chair or on the couch for a few hours before crying uncle and going up to bed. I'll feel like I got nothing done, lol. The yard will still be yucky, my tape inventory unfinished, yada yada.
I'm only whining so much today because I haven't been able to have a nice, good scene with bo for over two months, AND because I've been dieting for a month, which was okay, and only went off of it early this morning (for a planned two days before going back on Atkins for another month)...and yanno how I keep bringing up Hostess O's in the boards? How they don't sell them in my state and I've gone 24 years with only having them ONCE, during a trip to Ohio? I just found out that Walmart finally has a store brand that are exactly like them! I bought a box, ate two, put the rest into a zip bag...and while I slept (and walked off leg cramps)...one of my damned cats raided the bag! I thought I hid it well. There were more holes from bite marks and claws than there was intact bag. It was spread all over the floor under my computer desk; doughnut carnage at it's worst. :(
I had been dreaming of starting my day with a ham steak, a cup of coffee (with SUGAR, mwahahaha) and two cake doughnuts with a hole, covered in powdered sugar and having a ring of raspberry filling inside...  My poor doughnuts. May they rest in peace.
< Message edited by CynthiaWVirginia -- 7/1/2013 4:43:19 PM >
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