Cat and Parental status

[rowyn]

Ash is doing much better now. She's been eating voluntarily since we got her back on Saturday, though she'd only had around a quarter cup of food on Saturday and Sunday combined. However, since Monday night she's eaten maybe three-quarters of a cup of dry cat food, and is hungrily eating more now. As well as drinking lots. So it looks like she's going back to normal. Yay! She's not going to drop over dead at any moment!

Many thanks to everyone who offered her well-wishes and prayers. I really appreciate it.

My parents, who had been staying in a nearby hotel since last Wednesday and visiting me, went home today. We had a nice visit. Went out to eat many many times and ate lots of good food. Also played a lot of Robo Rally with my father, who surprised me by being perfectly willing not only to learn the game, but to play it several times over the course of a few nights. My mother isn't interested in board games, but she wanted to play World of Warcraft anyway, and Lut is one of the relative few with access to its closed beta, so she played a lot of that while we did Robo Rally.

My manly, former-Marine boyfriend also suggested we visit a botanical garden and catch butterflies. We missed the butterfly catching event (maybe next year) but did go see the garden. I took lots of pictures, which I will possibly post someday when I muster up the necessary energy.

My Bahamas trip has been postponed to November, which means that for the next two months I'm not going anywhere or doing anything. (Apart from the local convention at the end of October, anyway). I am looking forward to it! The not-doing-much part, actually. Finally, I should have the time to catch up on A Game of October and to start revising Prophecy.

Though for tonight, I think I'll just chill. Maybe play a little Puzzle Pirates, or catch up on LJ, or sketch a bit.

Or not do much of anything.

Mmmm, nothing.

Comments

[batratblue.livejournal.com]

Yay for the kitty!

[octantis.livejournal.com]

Very glad Ash is better! Did anyone figure out what was wrong?

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Kitties!

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Yay for Ash! (And yay for manly men who can still appreciate gardens and butterflies and stuff! =D )

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm so glad to hear she's bouncing back.

[krud42.livejournal.com]

For some reason when you said "We went out to eat many many times", I pictured it spoken like Commandant LeSard from Police Academy. (i.e., "We went out to eat ma-ny ma-ny times...")

Incidentally, in case you were unaware, the Site Who Must Not Be Named was hacked, and I lost... well, pretty much anything and everything you haven't had an opportunity to read over there. ';P (unless you read it w/o noting, which is perfectly legit. In fact, I think that's how I'll console myself.) If you have any information, they're offering $10,000 reward. Woohoo! Too bad I don't personally know anyone pathetic enough to hack a diary site.

Anyway, I think I'm going to start making more of an effort to get a foothold in other locales... that whole "one-basket egg collection" thing is getting old.

(And I mean a real foothold, not this "I'll update quarterly" nonsense I've been doing. Though I'm not sure what feet have to do with it.)

Agh!

[rowyn]

Noooooo! Curse you, OpenDiary, and your hackable code and lack of adequate offsite backups! :( (OK, I know it's not OD's fault they got hacked, but a recent uncorrupted backup shouldn't've been too much to ask.) No, I hadn't read your entries without noting -- I'd been meaning to do that once things quieted down at home -- and now I never will. *sniffle*

I hope you find a happy home elsewhere. Preferably on LJ. :) But let me know where you settle and I'll check in on you periodically. Maybe I can get that RSS feed thing working and get you to show up on my LJ friends list even if you blog from elsewhere. :)

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Good to hear Ash is better.

Robo Rally is fun.

I'm surprised to hear your parents play these sorts of things. I guess I figured most are like mine, who don't.

[rowyn]

Actually, I'm surprised my parents play these things, too. :) My father used to be a harder sell on esoteric board games, but since we moved away from home, he's become amenable to most any game we suggest when visitng. (I have a picture of all four kids and my father playing "Kingmaker" from ten or fifteen years ago). I don't think he's particularly interested in playng the games themselves -- he's just laid back enough about it that he enjoys participating in something we enjoy.

There are some games that he's particularly fond of, though -- bridge, chess, and poker, for instance. And I think he likes Scrabble quite a bit, too.

My mother is a hardcore CRPG gamer, though. She's addicted to MMORPGs especially. She played EverQuest more than anything else -- probably five or more years of it -- but she's also done Diablo 2, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, and a dozen or more others that I don't know about or don't remember. It's pretty amusing. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

*purrrs at Ash*

[level-head.livejournal.com]

A post full of pleasant times and good news about your cat, who had become a familiar focus. (Wait a minute, is that technically correct?)

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