Manic Monday

 "Hey!  Where are you taking my girl??"

 "Mom said she's going to the doctor today.  Now scratch over there."

 "Wait!  Wait!  If mom & Jen are gone,

who will let me out on the leash?!"

 "Never mind, I'll just get Corwyn to do it."

"Hey mom!!  If you make us dress like

this you're gonna be in trouble!!"

Where Are You Going??

 "Mom?  Me-ooom!  Whatcha doing Me-om?"

 "Hey!  Hey!  Thomas!  What's mom doing??"

 "Be calm young catawan.

She goes to see one of her doctors.

She'll be back later."

 "She will?  You're sure?  Wellll, that's all right then."

"What will happen when mom gets to the doctor's office... well, maybe not the pulse & stuff, she sees the pain doctor today."

- Thomas

Taking Care of Daddy!! (and wishes for Admiral)

 "Daddy had carpel tunnel surgery this morning so we are all busy sitting on him.  Daddy's doctor said he did very very well.  Daddy will go back in two weeks.  We will help mom keep an eye on his bandage."

 "But my sweet Admiral is also sick!!  I wish I were there to groom her!"

 

 "I would even send her my can of Christmas gooshy food if she would eat it!"

 "Poohbears!!  If our water fountain worked, I'd send it too, so she'd drink more!"

 "I would let her have the new toy we got from our Feeders!"

 "So daddy & Admiral must Get Well Soon!!!  Purrrrrrrrrrr!"

Christmas Eve Eve

Star says, "Two doctor appointments in Nashvegas today.

Mom feels like a truck ran over her.  We are purring and

hanging out on the bed... well, except when we're eating

or playing with the toy thing that has that jingly ball in it."

This & That

 "Hey!  Hey!  Mom!  Why'd you get home early yesterday??"

 "Perhaps because someone hid her black book which tells when all of

her appointments are so she got the dates mixed up.

She'll have to go back to Nashvegas on December 6th

for her sleep deprived EEG & then her EMG."

 "As you can plainly see, I traveled back in time to retrieve mom's book and she was able to find it when she got home from having shots in the the right side of her back.  It was in the van where everyone had already looked a gazillion times."

 "Don't look at me!  I had nuthin' to do with nuthin'!!"

... and a hot bath, a good book, and a few adorable kitties!!

Wordless Wednesday - Star

No, really.

Shouldn't the Doctor Be Doing That??

Everyone in the house woke up late this morning.  I recall opening my eyes to see the clock saying 0711 with my bed sans husband and devoid of all but two cats.  I called out, "Corwyn??  Corwyn!  Do you know what time it is??" on the assumption that he probably needed to know it was close to time to leave for his bus stop.  I hear mumbling from his room and then what may have been an expletive (which I ignored).  There was much rustling about but I was still exhausted and fell back asleep.

"Sleeping is good.  You should do more of it!"

When I woke up again, my husband was about to take a shower.  By that time it was 1000 or so.  He came out and said, "We all overslept but Corwyn."  Still groggy the best response I could manage was, "Oh?"  He nodded and it was at this point that I noticed that not only was the compression bandage off, but he'd taken his splint off as well, leaving only a small bandage covering about 3" on either side of his elbow.  I narrowed my eyes at him (I'm very good at this, I come from a loooong line of teachers).  "Honey?  I've noticed that you don't have your splint on."  He looked down.  "Oh.  Yes.  Well, I'm going to take a shower now."  Riiiiight.  "Jennifer is still here.  She just woke up."  ::sigh::

"Well, I saw Corwyn off to the bus stop,
but I couldn't get Jennifer to wake up."

The next (and final) time I woke up, to my amazement (although I really shouldn't have been amazed), my husband had no bandages at all on his arm.  ::sigh::  "It's a Good Thing that I took off my bandages!"  [suspicion arises but I wait]  "Oh?  Why is that?" I reply.  "Well, it turns out that the place I've been scratching is where he put two stitches in."  I nodded, "Yes, that's a good reason."  Then he showed me the other incision site.  (which looked quite good btw)  "And I know why this has been bothering me so much. [insert encouraging noise here]  You see?  There's a fold in the splint right here.  But that's okay.  Once I get to the shop [at the recording studios at MTSU] X and I can just use the tin snips to cut it out.  Yes, a nice triangular cut will take care of it."  I shut my eyes.  "Honey?"  "Yes?"  "You need to go have them remake the splint."  "Oh no, I'll be sitting there for hours waiting to see the doctor."  "You won't have to see the doctor.  All they need to do is remake the splint."  "No.  I can just fix this by cutting out the fold."  "Honey, you really should go to the office and have them remake it."  After some back and forth, he finally hedged once.  I gave one more "really should" and he capitulated that going to the doctor was the right thing to do.  Whoot!

bumpersnicker

Me-om! Me-om! Where are You Going?!?!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde speeds off at the speed of... a cat wanting eat-trays... to catch mom at the door.  They begin the Discombobulated Keep Cat Feeder InTheHouse Dance, well, in order to keep mom in the house!!  "Don't worry boys!" calls out their mom, "I'll be back after I go see the doc in Lebanon."  At this Zaphoid trots off happily to his window seat and Mister Kitten goes up to see if perhaps, there might not be a dropped treat left over from earlier this morning.  Thomas and Star, however, Know Better.

 "Psssst, Star!"

Thomas: ::aghast::  "Muh-thar!!  However can you say that?!?  It takes years and years and years to get back from there!!  We'll be all starveded before you get back!!!"
Me: "Don't be silly Thomas.  I've already put food in your bowls."
Thomas: ::indignant::  "Yeah, but... but... but... Mister Kitten will just eated it all and then we'll all be starveded to death before you get home!!"
Me: "I don't think so dear, but I love you too."
Thomas: ::at Star::  "It didn't work, quick!  You think of something!"
Star:  "Mom?  Are you sure you're going to be okay to drive?"
Me: "Yes, I'll be okay.  I'll see you when I get home."
Star: ::dubiously::  "Hmmm.  Okay, I'll let you go this time, but don't stop anywhere on the way back.  Come straight home, you hear?"
Me:  "Yes, Star.  I love you too."

Gee, do you think this bumper snicker fits me??  ::weg::

Belly UP!

Thomas & Star decided to do team Belly UP!  Both of them were lying on the bed in exactly the same position showing off their bellies.  Star showing his pretty belly star and Thomas just wanting someone to come rub his belly.  And here comes Mister Kitten to see what I'm doing and hoping that he can get in on the treats that Thomas and Star have already had this morning.  Now if I can just give them to him without two other boys mugging me!!  Yay!!  Thomas came up but when I told him these were for Mister Kitten he stopped and just sat.  Good boy!!  Corwyn just popped in to say, "Mister Kitten is my good boy!"

This means that I need to run and take Cordude to the doctor's office.  He's home from school today with a hurt knee.

 

 Doctor Cat will see you now.
And proceed to sit on your chest.

It's waaaaaaaay too late...

So why am I up??  Because when I checked my google stats there were referrals from Dr. Grumpy's blog.  Now, I didn't actually bounce up and down and go running up and down the block screaming at the top of my lungs about it because:

a. It would make my legs hurt.
b. The weather wasn't the world's best.
c. I had absolutely no idea how that happened.
d. I'm just not that kind of person.
e. All of the above.

But you have to understand that Dr. Grumpy's blog is one that was called to my attention by one of my very dearest friends (waves at Heather) who has even now decided to go back to school to see if she has what it takes to become a doctor herself.  I know that she already has both the empathy and the cutting wit (we've gotten drunk together at medieval events) so what she's got to figure out is if she can take the intense study and hours.  This blog kicks butt and takes name.  If you haven't read it yet, you should.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.  ::hums tunelessly::

Back yet??  Okay.  At any rate, all day this graphic has been rattling around in my head.  Although actually I would be more accurate in saying 'again', since I've had this idea before, but it was Winter Holiday time and I couldn't manage it then.  Family graphic interruptus and I stopped to work on the graphic below.  I'm in the middle of reorganizing the shop & putting up a new section for folx having babies.  No one ever writes, no one calls, no one comes to visit on Easter ::wipes tear::  well, the cats are always wanting food from the Big Bowl... but truthfully, keep an eye out and let me know what you think of how the categories are looking and if anything has been taken off that makes you go, "NoooOOOooo!  I was planning to get that when my paycheck comes in!!"  Vielen Dank!

 

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