Still caffeinating.

[missdiane]

Snippets
- Early this morning JuneBug finally had a regular litterbox "deposit" which I hope means her tummy is back to rights. She's all about the WANT SNACK ALL THE TIME, though. Girl, I know your butt is sad looking but you'll get that booty back soon enough

- Faculty are getting rejection messages from the USDA on results reports submitted back in late January that are inadequate. While this will mean work for me in the short term, prodding them to give more information, editing it in and resubmitting, I am SO GLAD that they've started doing this. Now I'll have leverage when it comes to reporting time in fall. Too many of them give me nothing to work with because they know there aren't consequences. Now there are. GOOD.

- Not menopausal yet. Was good to skip a month, though, and hopefully it's not too bad this round. I'm so done with the fuss.

- The smoke from the fires in Canada have made its way here and today is a poor air quality day. Tree and grass pollen are also high so the windows are shut and the air cleaners are running

Comments

[vysila]

I'm glad Junie is starting to recover. It's so difficult when our furbabies are ill.

Well, ain't those faculty rejections a kick in the pants? You TRIED to tell them.

[missdiane]

The girl had another good poopie. So proud of my little girl. Though she needs to slow down on the constant begging for food and treats lol

I looooove these rejections. LOVE. I ran into the ex boss (eight years after retiring and she's still lingering around the place) and told her about it and she was tickled pink since she went through the same frustrations as me with trying to get these faculty to do proper reporting

[vysila]

Fletcher is also demanding all the food after yesterday's surgery. LOL! I wonder if it is a side effect from anesthesia? Anyway, glad Junie is doing so much better.

I thought you might get a kick out of the rejections! And LOL on former boss (what is with her still hanging around? She needs to go out and enjoy retirement!)

[missdiane]

Before what was likely that sinus infection, the girl was a eating machine for a while. She's trying to get her booty back because poor baby is SO SKINNY right now.

She keeps claiming she's going to leave and that it's the other administration that keeps pulling her back - and paying her a ridiculous amount of hourly rate for part time work. One of the directors claims that she's a "good writer" but quantity =/= quality. I've had to rewrite the official Critical Issues since her word salad was limp.

[vysila]

Awww, I didn't realize she had gotten so thin. Sending her weight gaining vibes. So why are you worried if she wants to eat so much right now? She's just trying to regain her health!

[missdiane]

She lost two pounds going from 12 to 10 and I wasn't too concerned since I knew it was over the span of at least a couple of months while she was battling sinus goo this spring. But then when she wasn't eating hardly at all over several days, she looks visibly thinner. She currently does have a little belly from eating this week but I don't want to have her eat too many snacks and then vomit. She'll literally get a snack and then ten minutes later want another one.

[vysila]

Ah, I see. Fletcher has a similar problem, only on a slightly larger scale. He went from 11 pounds to 7 pounds. Part of it was the bad teeth and part of it is he gobbles and then upchucks. So right now he's getting very small portions as frequently as he wants, mushed up to be soft and he has to lick the food out of the bowl. That seems to help him keep it down.

[missdiane]

Ohh, poor bebe Fletcher! They noted that my two could use a dental (never had that done before) but that Junie needed to be healthier at the time they examined her.

I feed my two small meals and they prefer pate. That's due to the fact that the boy is a speed eating scarf n barfer so I spread it thin on the bottom of his bowl.

[vysila]

I'm very leery of dental work on pets, as the anesthesia scares me. I had two dogs who died shortly after dental work so I know it is pretty risky. But in Fletcher's case he had infections which, if untreated, could lead to heart problems. And he wasn't responding to antibiotics.

LOL, what is it about male cats being gobble and barf eaters? Another friend's male cat is the same way, as is Fletcher.

[missdiane]

I'm afraid of the anesthesia too for that same reason. As long as this course of antibiotics works and it wasn't due to a dental infection, then I'm going to hold off.

Boys are piggies!