adventures of a crazy cat lady

my kitties are determined that I feel better


( cute cats determined to be ultracute )

thanks, everyone, for all your happy thoughts and support for Binkley. :) he made it through the surgery! he's home, and has already been eating!

his throat was clear, and so were his sinuses. (they really didn't think that was the problem, but they needed to check while he was under.) once they got through the gum issues, plaque buildup, and crap, they saw he did have several rotten and loose teeth, as was suspected. and the really bad ones were on the left side, which is the side he was favoring. in all, he had 5 rotten or broken or loose teeth pulled. (the loose teeth weren't a problem yet, but the idea is that we don't want to have to do this again in 2 months when they might become a problem, ya know?) the rest of his teeth were cleaned, and things look good. at least for a cat that's 19.

for now he stays on the pain medication and antibiotic. hopefully he will continue to eat better as his mouth feels better. he still has the iv in his leg, so in case he doesn't eat they can give him fluids quickly. I should be able to take him back in a couple days and have it removed. (Marsha said I could remove it myself. but as much as I've done medically with shots and things, I don't think if I'd know what I was doing enough to take out an iv.)

Binkley's sick, so I'm trying to remember other things before I forget them completely.

like there are a few owners from last year's Power Rangers Fantasy Football League I haven't heard from yet. whether they want to return, or when they are available to draft. the season starts in 9 days.

also, if anyone would like to join the league, we have openings. it's a no pressure, all fun league. we'll teach you how to play.

idiot neighbor kid update

so the idiot kid from down the street with the motobike was running jumps through my yard and driveway. I went out to stop him from tearing up my grass again. he had stopped in the idiot neighbor kids' yard. so I went over there to talk to him, and ended up talking to the idiot neighbor kids about my window as well.

as predicted, they swear they had nothing to do with it. they (and 2 of the random adults that came out of the house) even started to tell me about a break-in further down the street. and about how someone tried to break into a friend's car in their driveway. this conversation was happening, btw, while people were screaming in the front room of the house behind them. the windows were open, and it made it hard for me to hear them over the argument.

I'm not saying someone didn't try to break-in to my house. but if they did try, I have a few questions. this happened while I was gone yesterday between 5:30pm and 10pm. it doesn't get dark here now until about 9:30pm. and my neighbors sit out on their porch all the time. so that left the thieves 30 minutes of darkness and neighbors in full view of them the entire time. and they broke the window, but didn't go in at all? I know my basement is creepy as all hell, but you break the window to break-in, and you don't go in? if it was a matter of fitting through the 10x20 inch window, it can be done (as the random adults next door claimed it was kids doing the breaking-in (but not the idiot neighbor kids though)). wtf. if any of this is true, they fail as thieves.


eta -- young idiot neighbor girl kid just came over saying her mom wanted to talk to me. so I went over and talked to someone that I now know is the mother of at least 2 of the idiot neighbor kids. (I found a parent!) the mom then proceeded to tell me about a guy in a red truck that was in my driveway during the day yesterday, and knocked on my side door. she says that's the only person she saw over here.

then we started discussing what the 'crime scene' looked like. and after hearing that, she said she thought it was the kids as well but that they had probably been too afraid to tell them. she said it wasn't right, and if I did ever find out it was the kids, I shouldn't have to pay for it. I told them that fortunately Dad had been able to take care of it. so yeah. she was very nice. well, mostly. she did tell me that she's home all the time, is always sitting on the couch in the front room, and is incredibly nosy so she's always watching my house. I feel like that's a little creepy, even if it's kinda our own weird little neighborhood watch system.

she also told me she likes it when the lights on the side of my house come on 'cause they're so bright and they can see when they're out in the front yard at night. I told her they're on a motion sensor, so I would hope she would realize that if my lights are even coming on it means that one or more of the idiot neighbor kids are more than likely over here. and they shouldn't be that late at night!

she did tell me she always tells the kids to stay out of my yard. (I'm not sure they're listening to her much on that.) but she seemed like she would enforced things. especially after she asked me if I could tell if kids had been in my yard/landscaping, and I told her about the rose bush. she sounded ticked, and thanked me for telling her about that.

so I don't know what to think now. she said the same thing I was thinking, that you don't want to think that people are trying to break-in to your house. especially something so random as to smash the window during the day, and not even get in. and she said we would go with the theory that the kids *had* done it. so, I was like, huh, okay. we'll see what develops over the next few days. I gotta tell ya, I'm more than a little freaked about the fact that I'm going out of town this weekend. I hate that all my critters will be here alone. Mom and Dad should be over here a lot though, since Binkley needs many feedings per day.