Oops - 11 days since the last post. Must catch up.
I'm going to start with Monday because it was so annoying.
Usually when I schedule something and put it on the calendar on my phone, I have it give me a reminder the day before. Apparently I forgot to do that. Sunday night I didn't sleep well; I kept having bizarre dreams. Not nightmares, but I'd wake up gasping for breath. I finally just sat up around 4:00 a.m. and read for awhile. Which meant that I slept in later than usual.
Not a problem - I didn't have anything scheduled for Monday, or so I thought. I did the usual - washed my face, brushed my teeth and hair, checked my phone. Which did have a reminder on it that RiverSong's annual checkup was at 9:20. It was now 8:30. It's close to a half-hour drive there, which gave me 20 minutes to feed the cats, feed the chickens and let them out of the coop, get dressed, and get River shoved into a carrier. Somehow I made it.
I was going to pay my bill - and my credit card wasn't in it's slot in my wallet. I couldn't find it anywhere in my purse. I paid with my backup card and made a plan on the way home: put a lock on the card, check to see if it had been used anywhere, call the last place I used it. Except - - when I tried to log on to the bank, I got a message that I would have to update my browser first. Fine. I started the update, called the last place I used the card (they didn't have it), finally logged into the bank. Fortunately, the card hadn't been used. But I milled around on the site for 15-20 minutes, not able to find the "lock card"button. I followed instructions, but of course the things they said to click on weren't on the menu. So I called; the woman I talked to also didn't know how to lock a card, so I gave up, had her cancel it, and will get a new on in a few days.
The annoying part now is that I have several places with auto-pay on that card, and now I'll have to go update all of those. I tell myself that's a first world problem.
I socialed a couple of times this week. My friend John has been asking me to come watch The Wizard of Oz with him for several weeks; I put him off until RedBug was healed. John is very sweet, but also very autistic, and I feel sorry for him because it's hard for him to make friends. So I finally went there - we went out for lunch where I had serious sticker shock: I go out very rarely, so I hadn't realized how much prices have gone up. It was a "casual dining" place, meaning a step above fast food - and a hamburger, fries, and drink, after adding the tip, was almost $25! At least it was a really good hamburger.
The next day I went to a Lunch and Learn at the community center. It's a once-a-month thing that I've been meaning to check out for a few years, but never remember. But one of the women in the library book club goes, so she signed me up for it and reminded me. It was nice - the speaker was someone that I've known for a long time, talking about old-time Florida postcards and advertising. And I was able to thank Jean for signing me up; there were door prizes, and one of them was tickets for some sort of Christmas dinner fundraiser that I hadn't thought about going. Jean kept saying that she hoped she'd get her number called, because she really wanted to go but it was pretty expensive. My number was called; I grabbed the tickets, but then gave them to Jean. So now the New Kid in the Group is the Nice New Kid in the group, and that's not a bad start.
But mostly the last 10 days have been cat-centric. Bug got his staples out, but still was pretty much staying under the bed and starting to act depressed. I finally figured it out; I was still popping down and giving a quick visit a dozen times a day, but I wasn't spending the hours with him that I had previously. So I dragged him out and onto the bed with me where I cuddled, read, and napped for a couple of hours. Later, when I was in the den, he came out to join me, and now he's been spending a lot of time in the den. In the meantime, the other cats, especially Hamish, have been demanding extra attention as well.
River and Hamish are also doing a very cat-like thing. Seven or eight years ago when we re-did the den, I put in a shelf just for a cat bed. Which, of course, none of the cats ever used, so I just kept their cat toys in it. Now the toys are spread around, because the two of them have finally decided that they like it.
So that's been about it. Lots of cat love and not much else.
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