So the ultrasound confirmed what my vet predicted yesterday. And a little more. There is indeed a mass on her liver. And the ultrasound also revealed a mass on her spleen as well. So it looks like metastasized hemangiosarcoma. Her tumors are pretty small overall, but obviously starting to affect her. Surgery would be diagnostic not curative, ( Read more... )

Not. Good ( Read more... )

So Sasha has been yelling at me all morning. The joys of a vocal kitty with a strong personality. When she is displeased, she makes certain I am aware of it. Unfortunately I can't fix it. The motor on her kitty fountain (which was originally a decorative table fountain until Sasha taught me otherwise) has burned out. This is the second one to ( Read more... )

I'm not allowed to play with sharp objects. Specifically Exacto-knives. Because at roughly 11 pm last night I proceeded to use one to slice the back of my finger open. I don't reccommend trying it. It hurts. In fact, I hurt myself badly enough that I considered whether I should go to the ER and get stitches for it, but ultimately decided it ( Read more... )

Who needs sleep other than me? And yet I'm starting to acrue a sleep debt. I can't (won't?) go to bed before midnight, but my alarm starts going off at 7. Now many might say '7 hours isnt bad at all why are you complaining?' Because my body needs 8-9 to function ( Read more... )

Today I shopped. Lots of random little things I knew I needed, but I mostly stayed in town and finished (or started) a couple projects in the house. I started the morning at the frame shop in town, where I dropped off a couple things I wanted matted and a few things that needed 'finishing'. I didn't bring the larger paintings in the first time b ( Read more... )

So first, thunderstorms all night. I'm not used to the house and am not sleeping really great as it is, now add a pacing dog to the mix and random rumbles and bangs... I get at 7:30 b/c the cable guy is due anytime between 8 and noon. He shows up at ten past noon. And doesn't do anything because at the moment, my system is working perfectly well ( Read more... )

So the problem with moving is, all your stuff is in new places... Now I have a hard enough time remembering where to find things when they do have places. Nevermind that I have a bad habit of putting things into places 'for safe keeping' and not remembering where those same places are ( Read more... )

I do. I handed over my toy yesterday to my new IT guys saying "Get to it whenever you can, I know the beginning of the school year sucks for IT". I have an email waiting for me when I get to my office today that it was done. It's cured!!!! *dances* After a month of annoying system tray bugs, resetting my homepages, and not letting me update ( Read more... )

After more than a month living at my sister's house (well my animals were living there, I was mostly travelling around the country), I'm in my new house. Since July, I've lived in Buffalo - on my floor because the movers had all my worldy possessions. Then to my sister's. Then with my father out to Iowa to meet the movers and get my house ready ( Read more... )