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It's a warm today and I am itchy and sweaty. I have spent two days in the shed, pulling out boxes and cleaning up spider webs and mouse poop. SO MUCH MOUSE POOP. And one dead mouse.

I'm taking a break right now. when I go back outside I'll stack the things that I know are staying out there onto the shelves and finish taking the rest of it into the house. Then I'll finish going through the boxes. This is the last place in the house to be cleaned out and I've already found the paining supplies box, so I'll make a list of whatever I'm missing and tomorrow I'll hit the hardware store. I'll also be able to make the final get-things-out-of-the-house push so maybe that will make some room to empty the storage unit. We'll see.

While I'm working I'm also taking pictures of all the stuff the contractor didn't finish. I keep noticing new things, like spotting a new light switch leading me to a light fixture that was never installed. I should also take screenshots of the text messages where I repeatedly asked for receipts I never got.

Everything is taking too long. I keep offering to give money to people for help and they keep not showing up. Which in itself is frustrating. Like if you're not available, fine! But tell me so I can make other plans!

Lord Brock is doing well except for shouting at me whenever I come back from outside because how dare I not be in the room when he decides he wants to sit on me.

I should probably book a massage on the last day of the week. I already feel like somebody beat me up and it's only Tuesday.

Right. Back to the salt mines.

and breathe

Apr. 14th, 2025 12:47 pm
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Thank you for all the well-wishes everybody.

I am leaving shortly to go get Lord Brock and bring him home. Turns out he has Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which can lead to pancreatitis if not treated. No wonder he didn't feel like eating.

(I think a few people on my friends-list knows what that feels like.)

Special diet for the rest of his life, but that's entirely manageable. On the plus side he'll probably puke a lot less.

a bean of no small worth

Apr. 11th, 2025 08:34 pm
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Lord Brock has been checked into the hospital for the night. The vet wants to give him fluids, and given his heart murmur that is apparently a risky treatment so they are doing it gradually and under observation.

He stopped eating again and giving him the meds I came home with last time only got a few small nibbles into him. All he wanted to do was sleep, which is pretty much what I want to do when I'm not feeling well.

This will cost me approximately three million dollars. I'm trying not think about that part. That's why credit cards were invented right?

After I dropped him off I figured maybe I could salvage some usefulness out of the day, so I started walking towards the storage unit to grab a couple of things. About an hour into the walk I got really light-headed and clammy and I started to panic. Was something wrong with me as well, did I catch something and give it to the cat, cat's can catch covid, what have I done...

And then I realized that I had been so worried about being ready to leave the house the second I got the callback from the vet - I forgot to eat all day.

Caught the bus home, shoved some food in my face, I am fine. Just a dumbass.

I was told to expect a callback with an update when the night shift finishes. At 7 AM on a Saturday. Ugh. For somebody who didn't get much useful done all day I'm still friggin' exhausted, so just as well I'll want to go to bed early tonight.

fingers crossed

Apr. 11th, 2025 02:16 pm
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What I am supposed to be doing on my day off: Going to the hardware store to try and figure out doors.

What I am doing instead: Waiting for a callback from the emergency vet clinic.



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