Monthly Archives: March 2008

well my sweet baby girl is sick, she’s come down with a pretty bad kitteh cold. her first vet visit was yesterday afternoon, $52 later i found out she’s got fleas (we treated her and hopefully she’ll be flea free in 2 days *sigh*) and she’s now on antibiotics for her cold. poor thing is sneezing at least once about every 5 mins or so and when she starts, it takes her a while to stop. she just keeps sneezing over and over, it’s so pitiful but very cute. lol they’re wet sneezes and since she likes to be as close to us as possible, we’re constantly getting wet - right on our faces, tummies, hands, anything she’s laying against. lol

getting her to take her medicine just breaks my heart. and then i have to be the Bad Guy, the one shoving antibiotics down her throat, the one taking her to the vet and getting her in and out of her carrier. *sigh* so of course as soon as i got home, she ran straight to HP and didnt’ leave his side until around 9:00 last night after she’d calmed down and forgotten about the hellish things i put her through. lol sigh. oh well, it has to be done. it’s for her well being and it costs her mama a lot of hard earned monies!

i was surprised to find that she’s only 9 weeks, not the 11 or 12 that the Oregon Humane Society thought she was. she was a stray litter, so they were just guestimating anyway. the vet was shocked to find they’d already spayed her, i guess that’s discouraged until 6 months and they spayed her on the 19th which means she may have been a mere 8 weeks then. yikes. thankfully, it’s healing perfectly and there’s no visible problems with the incision so she’s doing alright. it does make sense - it explains why she’s so incredibly small and her extreme neediness and how she absolutely has to be close enough to hear our heartbeat.. and the fact that she can’t yet meow.

sigh. my poor baby girl. she’s been through a lot in her short little life so far.

i have the absolute most wonderful kitteh in the entire universe. you may think i’m exaggerating here, but i assure you i’m being quite literal. she’s nothing less than absolutely amazing. she’s completely captivating - every move she makes, even “mew” she emits (she can’t quite meow yet lol), every bat of those teeny little paws. *le-sigh* she’s 110% wonderful. i couldn’t have hand-picked a better kitteh. i’m very much in love. <3

she definitely loves her mama (and i must say i’m a fantastic mama and she’s spoiled beyond rotten) and we have established an incredible bond to each other. she totally adores her daddy very much too! she loves snuggles and head-butt kisses. she demands cuddles from both of us and doesn’t take no for an answer! when she lays next to/on top of us, she squirms and squirms until she’s absolutely as close as she possibly can be to us. and just when you think she’s comfy, she’ll flop over and get even closer. she thrives off of our body heat and cuddle-time is very important to her.

we’ve had baby Wednesday for 4 nights now and so far she’s slept through each night with minimal awake-times. about once a night she’ll get up and shoot out of our room to the room next to us (her room, dubbed Catopia) to use the litter pan and grab a late night snack of kitteh food and water, then she runs right back to us and goes back to sleep within minutes. it’s fasinating to just watch her - we’re discovering her personality and getting to know her more and more every day.

she’s curious about everything. she discovered the mouse pointer friday afternoon and chases it as i surf the ‘net. she also bats at the letters as they appear on the screen when i’m typing something. it’s totally kee-ute. she’s enthralled with the tv and computer monitors and will watch them intently for long periods of time until we distract her with something else. lol she goes in spurts - she’s full of energy and spunk for an hour or two and the next thing we know, she’s completley passed out for an hour or sometimes more.  not to worry - when she wakes, she’s ready for action!

i’ve converted our third spare room (the one just down the hall from our bedroom) to her personal room. i made her a door sign and everything. the closet in that room has linoleum floor and is the perfect private place for her litter pan and the rest of the room houses her 4095834095843985 million toys, stuffed animals, and a makeshift stairway to the windowsill where she can lay on a pillow and peer at the world outside (while staying safely indoors).

okay enough gushing. i think you get the point - i love her. <3 but who couldn’t with such a sweet personality and adorable face?!

I’m having a fabulous day. Just had to say so. =D

all i can think of is my Wednesday.. home all alone allll day. :’( without her mama to love and care for her. poor thing, i feel just awful. it had to be done and i’m hoping she’s getting more aquainted with her surroundings. now that HP and i live alone in the house, there won’t be anything to startle her or make her upset while we’re at work. thankfully its friday and i have all weekend to spend with her! two whole days, i can’t wait. :)

HP and I are officially a family! We adopted Wednesday yesterday, she’s about 8 weeks old and just over 2 lbs! Because she refuses to sit still long enough to get a normal picture of her, video will just have to do. :D

she succeeded in keeping me up most of the night last night, but for her very first night with us, she did awesome. she’s extremely needy now that she’s no longer with mama kitty, and demands lots of attention. she slept most of the night but moved around quite a bit. i’m sooo tired but it’s SO worth it. she’s beautiful and i already love her. <3

that’s it. i’m boycotting monday’s. wouldn’t life be so much better without them? seriously, who wakes up monday morning and thinks “awesome!! another 5 days of work!” ::sigh:: yeah, i think not.

i’m struggling with insomnia again. even over the weekend, i wasn’t able to sleep much.. and when i am, it’s not great sleep, it’s super light and i wake at every single sound - the rain on the window, the howl of the wind, every movement HP makes, every creak in the house. it’s ridiculous. i can’t get over it.. it seems my body may not need as much sleep as i think it should. i’m not waking up exhausted.. i do feel tired, but no more than usual. weird.

on the up-side, i finished my first sock today!!

its a little too big, next time i’m going to use the medium size in the pattern instead of large. it says it fits a size 8.. we’ll see what it looks like after it comes out of the washer and dryer.

my uterus is still trying to break through my stomach and expunge itself out of my lower abs, my lower back feels like i carried an elephant for 175 miles over the sands of the Sahara Desert, and my knee is so sore to the touch that just standing up and/or taking a step sends sharp, shooting pain down my leg. (goofing around with HP last night, i ran full-on into our half-open bedroom door, slammed my knee right into it.) oh, and have i mentioned the blunt kitchen knife being shoved repeatedly somewhere behind my left eye? that’s what it feels like anyway. maybe a spoon. yeah, a spoon is more true to what i’m feeling.

i want to cry. :’(

the one and only upside of my day so far - i’m 2 rounds away from finishing the heel of my sock. if i felt better, i’d be ecstatic.