Erisian Update

[jackshoegazer]

Eris, the wee kitten of chaos, discord and rubber band digesting, is home and doing fine. She spend twenty-four hours at the emergency vet getting IV fluids and being vocal. Apparently at 2am, she was caught chewing on her IV tube so they put on one of those blue funnel collars on her. When they brought her out to us, she looked quite silly with her giant blue ring on her neck and one front arm shaved where they had to insert the IV. She was quite happy to see us and after much freezing while trying to catch a bus way down by Greenway, we are home again.

Wee Princess Fox Face finally pooed out the offending obstruction last night, and has been very playful and happy. She's napping right now, curled in the bottom of a sleeping bag. Even Figaro, Jacqui's six-year-old cat is more receptive to Eris now, though she still hisses at him, while he's trying to be nice. Right now, he's sleeping in the back of the closet while the coveted window seat on the radiator goes unused.

I was supposed to go back to Watertown last night, but I stayed another night to help Jacquelyn out with the kitten until we were sure she was going to be all right. I hitch a ride with my roommate Brian at noon today and I will be back in the Madtown on Tuesday sometime.

My car is still in repair, mostly because I haven't been hassling them about getting it fixed since I don't have the money to pay for it right now anyway. It looks like I'll be leaning on the generosity of friends and the Madison Transit System for a week or two yet.

I don't have money for the Generic Solstice-Derivative Gift Exchange Ritual, so I will only be buying for Ethan this year. The rest of my family are going to get a This-is-how-my-year-went letter. It's old-fashioned and tacky, so I think they'll be completely mystified, which is exactly how I like them. Just when they think they've got me figured out, WHAM! Something completely out of the ordinary, and for me the ordinary is pretty far our to begin with.

P.S. I am totally psyched about the increase of user icons. I will be photoshopping all weekend. Prepare and beware!

Comments

[tellme-too.livejournal.com]

little bugger!
glad she's ok

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks you!

[jenmarya.livejournal.com]

glad she's better

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lady-saffir.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear the kitty is better!

I don't have money for the Generic Solstice-Derivative Gift Exchange Ritual, so I will only be buying for Ethan this year.

I understand that! Same deal in this house. I hope your family takes it better than mine did, and if they don't call you Satanists or Atheist who worship other Gods then they take it better than mine!

BTW I have completely stolen your "Generic Solstice-Derivative Gift Exchange Ritual"!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

We need a good acronym, something that spells an easy-to-say word...

[lady-saffir.livejournal.com]

If we start with both the "Ge" from Generic and then drop the "D" of derivative (because it is a hyphenated word) we end up with:

Gesger

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

HAPPY GESGER!

Or the first threee letters from each and you get..

Merry Gensoldergifexcrit!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Haha! Merry Gesger!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Hehe, a lot of people are co-opting that phrase I coined last year. My parents will be fine with this. They have even said they're not getting us kids anything, but concentrating on the grandkids.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

You should do photos of you and Ethan with your Year-Long-Letter. I think that's a great idea, and I'm stealing it. Now I just need to give a blow-job or two for postage.

I'll take photos of you and Ethan if you want. When? I have no idea. Blargh!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i'm glad she's all right, even though i already knew she was : )

glad it came out though. poor lil thing. at least figaro isn't mad at me now, he didn't hiss me at all last night.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Figaro is even being nice to the kitty, meaning they're kind of ignoring eachother, which is about a step and a half away from playing :P

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

As of this morning, Figaro and the kitty are sort of playing together, but each isn't sure of the other, and they keep almost forgetting themselves and having a good time and then they remember what's up and get a little uncertain. This morning Figaro told on Eris - she'd pushed open the closet enough to get inside and Figaro was sitting outside crying at the door. As soon as I opened it and grabbed her, he chased after her into the living room.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

::dies of cuteness::

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought. He's been really cute about her today, and he's totally more playful- his new favorite thing is that buckeye.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they're getting along. No more late night hissing contests :) I can't believe we didn't think of the buckeye before.