Today's Catnip - Kayla's Lap Is Ready

The cutest thing today - Kayla observes me intently as I sit down on the sofa, then makes a little chirrup and runs over eagerly the minute she sees my legs fully outstretched. She will then stretch out on my lap for hours if I let her.

Her Majesty likes her lap ONLY in the correct formation. Legs fully outstretched, crossed at the ankles acceptable. NO BLANKETS covering legs. She will circle insistently, pointedly stare and meow at the offending item until it is removed. If I shift, she scolds me. If I talk, she scolds me. If I move to get up, she scolds me. If I breathe deeply, her tail swishes in annoyance.

Ahhhh, the joys of being dictated to by a teeny cat.

Kitties Seem Ok

So far so good. Came thru the weekend without any problems, and I think we've passed the most critical period. Symptoms would have surfaced by now. Everyone's eating, drinking and peeing normally. Poops are solid.

But biology is unpredictable, and I'll breathe easier after a month, I think.

Kitchen Wall One Done!

Took most of Friday thru 11pm, but the largest wall was washed, spackled, sanded, prepped and painted!! Counters and everything cleaned! Woohoo!

Used 'Vermont Cream', a pale warm white, which didn't clash with the pretty accent wall on the left, kinda bluish-grey-green. I love that color, and now I can't remember what the heck it was. Couldn't remember any of the test swatches I'd painted on either. How long ago was this project! LOL. Wish I'd started this blog earlier, then I could've searched it for the colors.

Only bad thing was the paint tape tore off part of the wallpapered ceiling. WALLPAPERED CEILINGS. GRRRRR. So I got a nice square cut off, but the whole thing'll need removing. It's high time, but I was hoping to put it off a while longer, when we'd just rip the whole soffit off. Without the hideous brown paper, the space looks so much brighter already. Can't wait to remodel.

Painting The Kitchen

As if finishing one closet wasn't enough to make me feel so productive, I've stripped off all the nasty wallpaper from the kitchen and prepped it. Started painting with the 'clay pebble', discovered it was too green, have 8 areas of different colors now. Will pick the color tomorrow and finish the job.

On a roll!!

Project Office Closet Done!!!!

Can't believe it. Done. Done. Done. YIPPPPPEEEEE!!!!!!!

Just decided to look at the measurements, flipped thru all the pics I'd taken years ago, and found measurements to suit. Home Depot wire shelves. Nothing fancy. Glad one of the rechargeables worked on the drill.

All loaded up with the file boxes, etc. Soooo happy. One of the reasons I started this blog was to keep a timeline for all projects, so I don't let it go so long again. It had been a year since my first post on planning the closets (again!), and I thought, ok, that's enough. Gotta do it. Stop being so picky about the damned appearance - nothing fancy needed, no-one's looking in them. So, done! 3 more to go.

WOOHOO!

Kayla's Home II

Finally, she's home-home. All blood tests negative. Monitor for the next 48 hrs. Poor little thing, both legs shaved and poked. Ate a meal right away, though, and now looking out the guest room window. Bright and alert. The vet tech said how beautiful she looked.

Surprisingly, no hissing from Ginza. But Pixie looks so jumpy! She's spooked by Kayla, like she completely doesn't remember her at all. Wow, she really does have the least memory of the bunch, LOL. (But she seemed to remember where Mozart's body was.) She wouldn't even eat around her. Not even a treatie. She *never* turns down food. Now I'm really worried, maybe SHE'S the one who ate it?

Oh, I'm a nervous wreck.

Pixie Is Puzzled And I'm Neurotic.

LMAO!!!! This morning, took Kayla back to the vet for followup tests, and put Ginza in the bathroom just in case he horked up his food again. So the Baby was all by herself, and she looked sooooo confused! She kinda tiptoed around the house, and kept looking up at the slightest sound to see if one of the others was coming. She came over and stared into my face a few times, waiting for something, then she'd look around some more. Not sure what it meant, other than 'what's going on?' Funny.

BTW, Ginza's had a non-horking streak for a week, until last night, which esp. freaked me out yesterday, thinking uh-oh, maybe HE'S the one after all, until I got a grip. Then I was closely watching Pixie too, and she looked a little extra sleepy, and I thought, uh-oh, is she lethargic? This morning, Ginza ate like a horse - and kept it down. Pixie, though, didn't eat all her food, which is unusual. Maybe that's the loss of appetite?

I'm just unsettled because Kayla didn't hork up the evidence that would have proved 100% that she was the culprit.

Ohhhh, the imagination and neurosis where my kitties are concerned. LOL.

Kayla Back Home

Yay, poor little girl is home. Still has catheter in her leg - poor thing - the other one was shaven and bloody too. Not the most trained vet tech, she said Kayla struggled too much for her to put it in. Got another one to do it.

Vet was pretty confident she wouldn't have any real bad side effects, since she only ate a daffodil flower head, and we caught it immediately.

- They induced vomiting for an hour. Lots of foam, no flower.
- Administered activated charcoal.
- Administered IV fluids to help flush things out faster.

- 4 hrs when symptoms start to show.
- 12-24 hrs before all toxins will get out of her system.
- Watch for vomiting, drooling, lethargy. Coma and death for this kind of thing in a week.

Read online that it could take up to 3 days for symptoms, so I'll be worried sick about all of them till then.

Still kicking myself for being brain-dead.

Kayla In The Hospital

Rushed poor Kayla to the vet this morning, and she's getting IV fluids now to help flush out any bad toxins from the half daffodil flower she ate. I managed to pull 2 petals away from her mouth. Vet reassured me that the flower isn't as toxic as stem ingestion.

Only now I'm a little freaked out, because she didn't vomit it back up, just foam, they said, and I figured she would since I got her in there within 15 mins of ingestion. Now that leaves a nasty little worry at the back of my mind that maybe one of the others really ate that flower? Now I'm trying to replay over and over where everyone was while I had my back turned for *just that minute*.

Grilled the vet tech who had no info on whether anything preventative I could do for the other two. Vet not available. Done a bunch of reading myself. Wonder where to get activated charcoal. Will ask vet this ev. when I pick Kayla up.

Kicking myself for being a moron and not enclosing the flowers right away.

Got A Pic of Stone Wall I Want

Yippee. Parked further up from where I usually park to see A. Noticed the boulder wall, looks really nice and natural, exactly what I want. After whacking the camera a few times, managed to get a couple good shots.