Goodness, its been almost a week since I blogged....but my excuse is that between work and actually having a life I haven't spent much time at the computer.
Yes, I do seem to have a life.....and as always I'm having a bit of anxiety over it. There should be a Couch to 5K for introverts so that we can ease our way into social activities over an eight week period :)
But its all good...without the folks who (generally unknowingly) drag me into the world....my life wouldn't be much fun.
Lets go backwards....today is take Dad his laundry, run errands, and clean house a bit more than usual because I'm having a houseguest. My BFF is at the beach with her parents, and I"m heading out to visit them for an overnight, then bringing her back to stay with me for a couple of days.
If you have visited me or even if you've seen a lot of my photos, you know I'm apparently a bit of a neat freak. I say apparently because I don't notice how other people's houses look except perhaps marveling at a planting bed, or an architectural detail, or a picture or something similar that catches my eye. But I've had comments from friends about how tidy my place is - and perhaps growing up in chaos has led me to overvalue order.
So I shall be vacuuming/dusting/changing the linens in the guest bedroom and giving a thorough scrubbing to the downstairs bath at some point today. I need to make a wine/liquor store run as I'm out of rum which just won't do since its Mojito season.
Last night was bowling - we're bowling duckpins only this summer (its an east coast thing that you can google if you are thinking huh). The games were unusual - one game was a version of no-tap where an eight count on the first ball was marked as a strike - one game everyone was automatically given a strike in the third, sixth, and ninth frames - and one that was a version of scotch doubles. Each of us rolled a ball - and then we decided whose shot we'd use - and their partner would shoot the second ball. A bit confusing, but definitely different - and I think we did quite well. I've kind of gotten the hang of the game - as long as I manage to keep my arm straight - I hit what I aim for.
Thursday night I went out to dinner with one of my old neighbors to catch up - we had a great time and declared that we need to do this monthly...I hope we manage to do that.
And then last weekend was another great lunch with a friend who was up from Myrtle Beach - I was thrilled she called me to say she was in town and again we had a marvelous time. You know the kind of friends where you can just pick up wherever you left off the last time you saw them?
I'm especially glad she came up because I had been planning on coming down to visit in the fall, but with all the other things I have scheduled, and a diabetic cat, I don't think I"ll be able to manage it.
Oh, that's right - I'm overdue for a Jezebel update. She's doing well....I had to skip a shot when I went to a concert last weekend....and her blood sugar level made it clear that really does need insulin twice a day.....but nothing terrible happened. That's good because when I head out to the beach tomorrow, she'll miss a days worth of shot. I just couldn't see trying to board her for one day....and I've found some low carb dry food that they'll eat....so I'll do what I did before her diagnosis - leave food and water out and I've no doubt they'll both be fine.
I am going to have to board her when I go away the end of this month - I know she'll hate it, but not only is it really expensive to have someone come twice a day - I think its better if she is somewhere being watched. So, one of next week's projects is visiting a couple of the local vet boarding facilities and deciding where to leave her. Generally you can have two or more cats boarded together, but I really think Batcat would be happiest if I just leave him home with food and water and have someone come in and check a couple of times.
You can probably see that I've become a lot more laid back about feline diabetes. For a while I was obsessed with the Feline Diabetes Message board and testing and trying to find the perfect dose so perhaps she'd be cured .....but I realized that I'm not "that" pet owner. I love my cats and they add a lot to my life. But for some people their pets are their lives. Imagine getting laid off and not looking for another job because you've been convinced that you need to stay home and test your cat every two hours. The experienced advice givers had me quite upset for a bit thinking I was a bad pet parent because I couldn't do exactly what they wanted me to do....but I eventually realized that their approach is based on a single study performed by German cat owners on a total of about 60 cats over an eighteen month period. That's a pretty small sampling considering there are probably a million cats worldwide with diabetes. So, I've come up with something that seems to be a good compromise between following the various recommendations and having a life. Jez is eating well, looking good, and enjoying life....and so am I.
There I go rambling on and on and on again (anything to avoid actually having to start cleaning, I'm afraid)...but I do need to go get cleaned up myself and head over to Dads...hope all of you are having a great weekend.
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