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Sep. 7th, 2006 01:50 pmSeti was so cute this morning--he's gotten into the already cute habit of asking me to pick him up while I am eating my breakfast, and then he curls up in my lap while I eat and read the paper. This morning I had a heating pad across the top of my thigh, as I am still stiff from the lunge work I did on Monday. When he asked to be picked up, I figured he would decide there was not enough room for him and then ask to be put back down. But no! Instead he gingerly put his paws on the heating pad and then lay down across it, and I swear you could hear him say "ahhhhh" as he relaxed on the heating pad. So we both enjoyed the warmth, and having a two pound weight pressing down on my muscles was probably a good thing anyway.
Still waiting to hear from the vet--I called towards the end of the day yesterday to change my message to have my home number rather than my work number, only to learn that the person who told me that Dr. M was on the schedule that day was wrong, she hadn't been in at all. All that waiting for nothing. Now I do it all over again. I'd be more irked, but Ronan has actually improved a lot in the last 24 hours. Still not normal in the output department, but closer than he's been in a while, and his energy level is excellent. He's also lost 110 grams in the last ten days, which is great. Another 50 or so more and he'll hit his target. All without the benefit of Weight Watchers, just personal trainer Seti to run him off his feet and a diet of good kibbles. He is still grinding his teeth, but he is eating fine. Seti is doing very well; he needs to gain a little more weight but they've been so active the last few days I'm not alarmed that he hasn't.
I'm reading Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto right now, and it's affecting me a lot. I dreamed last night that I was the main character, talking with her mother. I'm not sure why I am identifying so strongly with this character; something to think about as I read on. Though I suppose that's part of Banana Yoshimoto's talent, that sense of identification. I also recently read Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders, in which people freeze to death, starve to death, get the plague, die in fishing and hunting accidents and occasionally murder each other. And Icelanders are arrogant disruptive bastards, and Norweigans are nothing but trouble. Any happiness experienced by anyone in that book was entirely unexpected and fleeting. It's an excellent book to read when you need to feel that your own life isn't all that bad.
Still waiting to hear from the vet--I called towards the end of the day yesterday to change my message to have my home number rather than my work number, only to learn that the person who told me that Dr. M was on the schedule that day was wrong, she hadn't been in at all. All that waiting for nothing. Now I do it all over again. I'd be more irked, but Ronan has actually improved a lot in the last 24 hours. Still not normal in the output department, but closer than he's been in a while, and his energy level is excellent. He's also lost 110 grams in the last ten days, which is great. Another 50 or so more and he'll hit his target. All without the benefit of Weight Watchers, just personal trainer Seti to run him off his feet and a diet of good kibbles. He is still grinding his teeth, but he is eating fine. Seti is doing very well; he needs to gain a little more weight but they've been so active the last few days I'm not alarmed that he hasn't.
I'm reading Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto right now, and it's affecting me a lot. I dreamed last night that I was the main character, talking with her mother. I'm not sure why I am identifying so strongly with this character; something to think about as I read on. Though I suppose that's part of Banana Yoshimoto's talent, that sense of identification. I also recently read Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders, in which people freeze to death, starve to death, get the plague, die in fishing and hunting accidents and occasionally murder each other. And Icelanders are arrogant disruptive bastards, and Norweigans are nothing but trouble. Any happiness experienced by anyone in that book was entirely unexpected and fleeting. It's an excellent book to read when you need to feel that your own life isn't all that bad.
