Or when you just get busy and forget about blogging.
It's been over a month since I last even thought about blogging and that was on Star Trek Day. Guess I'd better get caught up.
Well, for starters Maggie Moo has spent a lot of time visiting the vet. Her ears were still bothering her so she had to spend more time on the abtibiotic and steroid plus the vet injected the ointment into both ears again. She finally got over that and then she had a spot come up on the top of one of her toes on her right foot. We thought it was a tick at first, it was not noticeable on a Thursday but on a Friday it was there. But it was too late to call the vet so we had to wait until Monday morning. By Monday morning, it was obviously a cyst and was much larger. The vet saw her that evening and told me to bring her back the next morning because he was afraid to leave it on any longer since it was growing so fast. Because of her age, 12 years, he didn't want to put her completely under so she got a little stronger than a local but not quite anesthestized. He said it came off easily and while she was groggy he also got a few of the skin tags she's developed over the years. The cyst that was removed from the top of her head a few years ago acted like it was trying to come back, it was a little larger, so he hit it again too. She was in a cone for a few days and was not happy! I don't blame her, but that was the only way we could keep her from chewing on her foot. She got pretty good with that cone, she was very proficient at running into my legs. She figured out how to eat and get water with it. But she was glad when it came off and stayed off.
I took Otter and her best friend to see the 30th Anniversary special showing of the movie Labrynth. It was a lot of fun, we had pizza for lunch and went to a book store since we had plenty of time before the movie. The movie was very good, it has always been one of my favorites. But it was also very emotional, for all three of us. I had plenty of kleenex on hand and we needed them! I'm glad that Otter was finally able to see it on the big screen, she had only seen it on dvd. The movie was re-released on blu-ray for the 30th anniversary and I bought it as soon as I saw it. We had a copy, but it moved out with Otter 2 years ago! It was released in two versions, one is just the movie but I bought the special one which is neat. The case looks like a book. It has a special "Remembering the Goblin King" but I have not watched it yet - too emotional!
We tried a new recipe. We made pizzas on frozen garlic bread. We used the sliced Texas Toast version. It was actually pretty good, but they were not very filling. We will probably make it again, but we will use more sauce than we did the first time.
Texas played ou and it was not our year. Since I never got around to getting a Longhorn sticker on my newish car, we didn't have to deal with any of the idiots this year.
Speaking of the newish car, it did have a problem. After I got my oil changed, the "check engine" light came on and the oil change place checked it for me (it was a couple of days later.) It was the vent valve to the gas tank and was covered by Chevy's warranty so it didn't cost us anything. Which is good, but I must admit that when I saw the "check engine" light my first thought was the 2002 impala and all the trouble we had with it!
Otter and I went thrfting one day and we both found several things. I found a couple of skirts, a nice cardigan sweater and I found this:
It's probably not handmade, but it is also not new. It's at the very least vintage. It has a Made in Japan tag, and it was made back when that actually meant something special. I handwashed it, but I didn't have any place to lay it flat to dry so I had to hang it over the shower curtain rod. It stretched out a lot more than I wanted it to, so I hung it back over the rod but sideways this time. Then I sprayed it with water until it was between damp and soaking, and it stretched out sideways. As it did, it pulled the length back up a bit which is what I was hoping it would do. It's still longer than it was when I bought it, but it's not too long to wear. And I will find an occasion to wear it! It's hanging over the shower curtain in this picture. It's very delicate and was $2.00 or possibly less.
October 1st was two years since this:
That's Bill's car (the el camino) with nearly everything Otter owned at that point. She has more furniture, etc. now than she did then so it would take more than one truck load to move her. Not that she's in any hurry. The two moves in the same complex last year were enough for her for a long time. She did consider moving last summer, but that would also have involved a job transfer to another location her employer opened in a near by town but she decided against it. She's been in her current apartment for nearly a year now and she's going to see about renewing her lease when it expire at the end of November. She would like a 6 month lease but is probably going to have to sign for another year. She likes her apartment, it's not too far from work or us and it's close to a lot of things. But she would like a slightly cheaper rent and that would probably mean a little farther from work. She is thinking that IF she did decide to move to a cheaper apartment, it would be easier to do that in the summer as opposed to the Fall/Winter since her lease runs to the end of November. Either way, she likes being on her own with no romemate to worry about!
