Fucking cat. Had a 10:30 appt for a UTI follow up. Cat is under the bed and won’t come out. She can die for all I care.
It is aggravating like anyone wants to drive their cat to the vet. The yowling really stresses me out. Hope the antibiotics did the trick. My vet talked me into xtra vaccines for my fuzzytail. I knew it also required a booster dose so I said no thinking of the extra car trip egads. But my spouse whom I wrangled into coming with to experience the crating of the cat in a car thought it’d be a good idea. So I caved. And we brought the cat back for the booster. Now I’m getting g texts saying they need to see fuzzytail to administer a test for the vaccine he just got. Apparently the test should be done first to determine if he had the disease then comes shots and booster. Hell no I ai t bringing him back to be tested for something they already vaxed him for.
I ordered water filters on 6/15 from what looks like a reputable Fla company online. Super water. I’m so glad I created an account when I checked out. On about 6/20 I log in and see the order is pending payment. I check my CC and see the amount is pending. Okay fine let’s let it churn through the system. I keep checking and finally the site says it shipped but the invoice added $12 I figure that’s shipping though initially it was supposed to have shipped free. I go to my CC to check and the pending payment has disappeared, nothing from super water. Then I get an email from Superwater asking for feedback on the product that was delivered. Ugh.
I make the call to follow up, immediately it’s answered by some guy the owner. Omg. We exchange how are yous and he launches into a lengthy spiel about how busy he is you wouldn’t believe how busy, no he says I can’t look up your order something about a third party. And then cautions me about how people get scammed, don’t give your cc to waitstaff. And how he lost thousands of merch in a Texas rail disaster. I can’t get a word in. I ask can you just check on my order I don’t dare tell him the payment was dropped from my cc. He assured me if its says so then it’s shipped, but sometimes it gets lost or stolen. Yada! Fuck it totally looks like a legit site but now I’m certainly skeptical. Last thing he said in his blowsy NY accent is god bless my dear.
Yesterday I had to take me cat to the vet for a checkup and rabies shot, preparatory to the scheduled boarding in August while I’m (hopefully) going to Iceland and Glasgow. It’s the first time he’s been put in the carrier in about five years. He was not happy, and expressed his displeasure the whole way there.
There was a discussion with the vet about what other vaccines he needed. He’s been strictly an indoor cat for his whole 16 years, and I couldn’t remember what else they wanted to vaccinate him for but it would have required me to bring him back in a few weeks for a booster. I pointed out that it would be difficult for me to do so, and asked if he could just get the booster when I brought him in for boarding, but they said that was too late. He ended up just getting a 3-year rabies shot and a FVRCP vaccine. He also got a free nail clipping, so I actually woke up this morning without getting clawed to death.
I wish my vet would just clip their nails without me having to ask for it.
So Yelp had no reviews of superwater BUT a site called complaintboards did and they all match my complaints exactly down to the same phrases and BS. I have no idea if I’m getting g filters or not but since my cc is not charged at this point probably not.
Cat has emerged from under the bed and we have a rescheduled appointment at 3:40. I may bang her in the carrier and take her over there and let her sit but it’s OK. I don’t hate her anymore.
Please tell Switzerland. Weaving in and out of lanes is not controlled by speed cameras, and this causes a lot more accidents than speed.
Speaking of Switzerland, it’s almost July. Should be wearing shorts. It looks like we might get 3-4 days of warmer weather and then it’s going to cool down again. Oof.
After this weekend, we’re scheduled for two weeks of temperatures above 100F. The peak is supposed to be Tuesday at 107F. I am not looking forward to it. I may take time off to hose down the house.
One meeting. 7 items.
An hour and twenty minutes. God, can you just answer my question please? What you are talking about has nothing to do with my question.
Also, stop saying, “I wasn’t there when you discussed that.”
Yes you were. You definitely were. Stop acting like this is breaking news when you. Were. There.
Also stop inventing things that didn’t happen. I was at that meeting, what you are saying took place never happened.
Also do we really have this whole conversation again? We discussed this two weeks ago.
I’ve got grants to write!
Bangs head on desk
Can you clip them? Every month or so I do an “event” with our dogs. We gather them together and I trim their nails. My gf cheers them on for being good and gives the dog getting trimmed high value treats after each foot. They actually have reached the point where they want to be the one getting manicured.
When I had a cat I used my fingernail clippers to trim nails. Cat nails are layered like an onion and become sharp quickly after a trim. I used to trim my cat’s nails weekly, taking off the points.
They won’t be any help during the zombie apocalypse.
My gf is now friends with this woman and has a play date scheduled with our dogs. A play date. Seriously.
Dogs can be excellent with zombies: remember Cerberus? You just need the breeds specifically developed to control the undead, like a hell hound or a Stygian Shepherd.
And K9 is armed.
I disagree. Remember the use of dogs against ‘Old Slew-Foot’ in ‘The Yearling’?
The dogs distract and you attack.
Also, its better to have at least two dogs as each will keep the zombie off of the other one.
Thoughts and prayers.
Besides chiggers, it appears I managed to find some poison ivy/oak/sumac while pulling weeds on Saturday. Monday evening I noticed a rash developing on the inside of my right arm, which by now has developed into full-blown blisters. Fuuuuck…
That sucks! Caladryl, cool compresses, do not itch! Be prepares for additional outbreaks as the oils may have landed on other parts or you may have inadvertently spread oils before you were aware of it.
Wash your clothes well, if you woke up with it wash the sheets.
I am finally over a huge case of PI, both arms, my torso behind my knee my ankle under my chin. It sucked. I blame the indoor outdoor cats and of course the fucking vines are everywhere in the neighborhood. My arms and waist looked bruised for weeks. Started as one 3inch welt then bam it was everywhere
Now every single time I handle a cat or get in the weeds I wash with Tecnu immediately
One more thing. Baby your skin in between treatments. I used Vaseline and or Desitin. To keep the skin moisturized. Caladryl and calamine is drying. I had a scrip for a steroidal cream that helped the itch.
I’m pitting myself for being a godsdamned coward. I want a new tattoo, and I’ve been thinking about it for weeks. But every time it comes to call to make an appointment I chicken out. I don’t know if it’s the pain or that it might not look as good as in my head, but I’m pretty disgusted with myself.
Where are you getting it? There are parts of my body I would never get a tattoo on, where there isn’t much padding. When I got the tats on my upper arms/shoulder areas, I was struggling to stay awake because the buzzing of the needle was relaxing to me, like getting a massage from a hornet on speed. (They burned and itched afterward but during the procedure it was very nice.)
But something like my hand, or an ankle, or my face…? I’d be scared. It would hurt a lot more.