March 2nd - Wednesday wonderfuls

This is my veterinarian's waiting room......its much nicer than my own doctor's office.....but then again, I spend a 10 dollar copay for a checkup, while it cost me 80 dollars per furkid for an office visit and shots.

Speaking of which, the furkids were overdue for those shots.....and part of the reason was because of my internal debate over switching vets.  If you've known me for a while - you might remember the saga of Lumpkin.  Bad enough to find a lump - even worse to have the poor guy spend two days in a cage without food or water while waiting for the operation that never happened.

And I did find another vet, who gave me a second opinion that the tumor was really inoperable short of turning Pumpkin into a threelegged cat and there were no guarantees that would work.   I liked the vet, and the office, which was old fashioned and comforting (and less expensive).

But when Pumpkin stopped eating last week and I found myself hand feeding him Starkist.....I knew he needed to be checked out, and I was also very afraid this was the end of our lumpy road.

I decided that the problems I'd had with my vet office were all with their surgical practice - not with their veterinary treatment.....and that with furkids that hate to travel - closer was better, so off we went to Rocky Gorge as usual.

Where I found that there's a good chance that Pumpkin is suffering from a treatable respiratory infection rather than some sort of spread of his tumor.....and after just a day of antibiotics, he's not eating great- but a bit better than before.

And the 240 dollars I spent to get the furkids checked out was only half as painful because they'd put a large credit on the account due to my complaint about Pumpkin's missed surgery dates.

Then there was the fun of having Batcat behave well and impress everyone with his charm (and the unusuallness of a cat on a leash).  Of course, he fell off the windowsill - but I managed to catch him before anyone noticed his lack of grace.


Then there was the gas station surprise.  I had been carrying around what I thought was a ten dollar Exxon gift card....but when I went to use it yesterday - I managed to pump 19.63 worth of fuel in the car before it shut off....so I guess it was worth twice as much as expected.

And finally, I've been bowling pretty well.....shot a 565 last night.

So it has been a whole lot of wonderfuls around Chez Em this week - hope things are going well for you too.....

November 5, 2010 - Something Old and Something New

The something old is my Blogger account - seems like I've had it for several years but haven't ever used it.

Which would also make it the something new - I'm going to follow Amy and see if I can figure out how to blog over here (though I will cross post to Multiply) and I certainly won't abandon my friends there.

So we'll see how this goes. I think that Multiply is rather like Facebook in that the intent is to aid the interaction of people who already know each other in some way. And I'd really like to continue to widen my horizons by meeting new people and reading new blogs. Maybe Blogger will let me do that - its worth a try

Tonight would normally be "weekend wine" night, but although I went to the wine store - I didn't taste anything outstanding to review. I did buy a bottle of Valpolicella Ripasso that I'll try and report on sometime this weekend.

And the reason I didn't do much "wining" is because it was bowling night again. I shot pretty well - finished with a 547 set (3 games), but more importantly our team won every game....so we should be moving up in the standings a bit.

I've seen that a few areas of the country had some snow - yikes.....we haven't even had a hard frost yet.

In fact, most of the leaves are still on the trees...there's at least one more lawnmowing in my future...and the forecasters are telling us temps as high as 70 next week once this cold front passes through.

OK - I was hoping I could come up with something interesting and witty for this first Blogger blog attempt - but it's just not happening. I think it's time for me to pour myself a glass of wine and head out to the hot tub to seek out some inspiration.