Too Damn Small

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 meisajDaily Life

Marceline finally laid down for a nap. It’s been a particularly crabby day where she did not want to be put down. Her first cold, so I can understand.

Anyways, I sat down at my desk to work on a few things. I have this journal I bought a while ago. Its a nice leather bound journal. Thick cover, lined pages with headers. And best of all, super on sale. I bought it thinking, I could journal. Maybe write something for Marceline for later on in life.

I had bought my parents these little books a few years ago. Found them in a bookstore. Basically “Mom in her words” or “Dad in his words”. I asked them to fill them out, never quite expecting to get them back. One of those things, you know. Like would be nice, but not super important. But I did get one back from my mom, and it is pretty awesome and sits on my bookshelf.

So I started this journal. I had a lot of trouble starting it. Where do you start a journal for your child. At my childhood? High School? College. Post College? I decided to start writing about moving to Cleveland and see where it takes me. I started it in October, and have made it almost 30 pages into it. Not too bad. I write when she’s asleep, and usually when I’m home alone. For some reason it feels odd to write in it when Sam is here. Not that she doesn’t already know everything I could possible write in it.

And I like that it isn’t the “Dad in his words” book. I like the free form of journal writing. I don’t think I could fill out just a list or with suggested topics. I always consider myself a story-teller, I have a ton of stories and put together, they tell a lot about my life.

As part of this I went back and read a lot of blog posts I had done from when I moved to Cleveland. To see what I remembered and what I may of forgotten. There’s a lot that was going on in my life at that time. Woo.

But, and here’s what I was originally writing about…. my desk doesn’t fit me working on the journal, having a laptop open, and my cat. And my cat demands attention. My desk…. it is just too damn small.

Angelo

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 meisajDaily Life

Angelo is a strange cat. There are very toys he actually plays with. But these squeaky animal toys are his favorite. I’ll fall asleep seeing them on the living room floor, and wake up with one in bed with me next to my face. It’s odd. On more than one occasion he has woken me up pawing the squeak toys up and down the hall in the apartment. Sam shot this video last night of Angelo playing with a raccoon squeak toy on the bed.

Angelo and Skunky

April 1, 2013April 2, 2013 meisajDaily Life

Angelo has been getting more and more active in the last few weeks / months.

He’s been sick for a while, some sort of intestinal thing, and I think the steroids he’s been taking for months have finally built up enough in his system that he thinks he’s a “He-Kitty” and thus Master of the Universe. Or at least the apartment.

Angelo will now stare us down if we are in his spot (any corner of the couch or bed) and makes sure he flashes you his butt as he turns around in front of you. He also bats at thinks, and goes crazy several times a day clawing at furniture. Sadly I don’t think he knows he doesn’t have front claws.

And of course, his new best friend is Skunky. Skunky is a squeaky toy shaped like a skunk (obviously). And every time he is touched he squeaks loudly. I’ve woken up to find Angelo batting him around at 2am at several occasions. I also knew he played with skunky because I will consistently go to bed with skunky out in the living room and wake up to find skunky at the foot of the bed.

Saturday I got to see Angelo and Skunky in action. It was awe inspiring. Here’s my 13 year old kitty being all rough and tumble with Skunky.

You go Angelo.

Angelo vs Skunky Video

Tale of Two Kitties

August 28, 2011 meisajDaily Life

As you may or may not know, when Oscar’s face swelled up a few weeks ago I raced him to the vet (alright it was two days later that he went to the vet, but that’s racing in “AJ Emergency Mode”). There they found out that he had a bad tooth infection and wanted to pull the tooth. Before surgery they did some blood work and found out his kidneys were shutting down. The official term “Chronic Renial Infection”.

He is now on a special canned food diet and has to have a fluid IV every other day. His levels have come down closer to normal (still much higher than normal) but better. In six weeks we will try again and see how his blood levels go. Best case scenario they say is one to two years max left of life.

While there I mention that Angelo has been pooping outside of the box on occasion. Usually a few days at a time in front of the doorway out of the apartment. He sometimes would go a week and then out of nowhere poop in front of the door again. So I bring Angelo in for a visit, and the vet thinks that because it is only poop, and only in front of the door, and not any urine, that is mostly a headcase thing. He prescribes Prozac for Angelo. PROZAC.

So I have one cat who is on medicine and fluids and a special diet and another on prozac. I’m a good pet owner I swear.

Swollen Kitty Face

August 4, 2011 meisajDaily Life

I took Oscar for a walk last night. He’s been pretty docile lately and I have been saying I wanted to walk him more so we headed out the door at 10 pm for a quick walk.

I say walk but what I really mean is stand. I stand and Oscar eats grass and rolls on the sidewalk. After about fifteen minutes of this I pick him up to head inside. As soon as I start picking him up he meows loudly and latches onto me.

When we get upstairs I noticed that the right side of his face had swollen up. I wake Sam up to ask her about it but she is too groggy to reply coherently.

This morning I got up and his face was still swollen. After a little research by Sam and myself and it looks most likely to be a bad sting or bug bite. A little deeper research and it could possible be an abscess or broken tooth.

Upon return from work he still is swollen and acting very lethargic. I didn’t think he had eaten so I bought snacks and Nutritional Cat Milk. He had sitting in the window for hours so I brought the food and some water to him. He drank a lot of water and some of the food but still laid there lazily.

He does purr when I pet him. He still uses the litter box. But hasn’t made a peep since last night. I called the vet and have an appointment in the morning to bring him in.

He looks sad and tired. I hope the vet can fix him up.