Weekend

[rowyn]

This weekend I:

• Ran three loads of laundry


• Put away two of them (the last one is towels and can wait in the dryer until the next time I happen to go downstairs).


• Put anti-flea powder on the carpeted stairs to the basement and vacuumed them. My indoor cat has fleas.  WHY. I got the anti-flea stuff from the vet for the back of her neck 6 weeks ago and have given her two treatments so far, but the fleas Will Not Stop.  I am keeping them in check by flea-combing her daily and vacuuming the whole house every day or two, and have sprayed several times. But the basement stairs are attached to the area where I keep the litterboxes, so I hadn't done them. When I did laundry I realized the steps were flea-ridden.  UGH.


• Scheduled an appointment with a contractor to get an estimate for replacing the fallen ceiling section.


• Started and mostly finished a cover painting for The Moon Etherium.


• Watched Disc 1 of SyFy's "The Expanse".


• Went out to eat on Saturday


• Wrote a hundred words of Birthright

It's that last one that's making me feel like I did nothing at all this weekend. Spending ten hours on a painting doesn't count for my brain. Stoppit, brain.  Just stop.

It's not that late on a Sunday but I kinda want to just go to bed.

Anyway: no new disasters so far this weekend! \o/ So there's that. 

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

The disasters are biding their time...

[rowyn]

*hides from them and hopes to be passed over* c_c

[eimarra]

Hooray for no new disasters!

Which flea treatment did you get from the vet, and is it the proper dose? If your cat is larger than average, for example, it may require a larger dose. (Also, when I put my former cats on Advantage umpty years ago, the fleas on them died, but we had to go through a period where eggs already laid hatched, etc.) Good luck getting that sorted out!

And a hundred words written is more than zero. It is infinitely more than zero.

[rowyn]

I wrote another 200 words after this, which is 200% more than the day before, too. \o/

[eimarra]

Woohoo! *cheers*

[archangelbeth]

Vacuum everything with a floor, daily if you can. The flea larvae love to be on the floor -- in an unfinished basement, we could see them wiggling around on the ground -- and if you can nail that, it's better than trying to break the cycle at the adults that may well lay eggs before they die. Also, cat fleas WILL go after humans if they're hungry.

We had a central-vacuum at the time, and added flea powder to be vacuumed up after we'd done the basement.

If you have a bare-floor basement? Vacuum that as well. Like I said, they will happily wiggle around on concrete if they don't have carpet.

Good luck...

[rowyn]

*contemplates vacuuming the basement even once*
*imagines doing the basement and those horrible stairs EVERY DAY*

...

*seals off the basement*

"Ahaha what basement? I have no basement."

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Eeee, no fleas, do not want fleas. *hides* Good luck getting those bug-jerks under control!

[rowyn]

I haven't really been seeing them except on the cat for the last few days. But as long as the cat still has them, I must be eternally vigilant. v_v

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

*selects Rawr icon* DIE BUGS!