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Nov. 21st, 2015 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raincitygirlI am eating a moon cake with red bean paste filling for dinner, and very tasty it is too. No, moon cakes are not a particularly nutritious dinner, but part of the fun of being an adult is getting to make bad decisions and not have them contradicted by one's parents. Part of the not-fun is being responsible for one's own rent or mortgage, but one can't have it all.
Cutting for the absolutely FINAL chapter in the saga of Harlequin the cat. Unfortunately Harlequin had to be put down on Friday afternoon, which lets me off the hook (I had asked them to give me the weekend to think it over, back when it appeared that she was on the mend and very adoptable). Apparently she was doing really well until late Wednesday night, when she took a dramatic turn for the worse. But the staff in the animal hospital side were busy treating her and didn't get around to telling the front office staff right away that she was worse. While she was definitely FIV-negative, they ran more tests on Thursday, and got the results back Friday. Terrible case of liver disease, 6 - 12 months to live, and likely to be in more pain as it developed further.
She had perked right up for a while, probably due to the IV fluids and painkillers after not having seen a vet for several years. But that was just treating the symptoms, and eventually the underlying disease kicked back in. So poor Harlequin is no more, and I'm kind of sad. But at least she spent her last week in a place where they looked after her properly and valued her affectionate temperament, instead of dying outside in the cold and the rain.
In any event, my mother had secretly decided that if I decided to put in an application for Harlequin, she would put in an application herself, to avoid the mother of all feuds developing between me and Harlequin's former owner, who is as I probably mentioned before, on the strata council for my building.
I have a whole bunch of serious links I should be putting in this post, but I'd much rather eat moon cake instead. The links will still be there in the morning. But I did one grown-up thing today: I bought a new bath mat to replace the old one that was starting to fall apart. And at the hardware store where I got the bathmat, also got really cute gloves/mittens (glittens?) for $3.99. They're basically fingerless gloves with a mitten knitted into the knuckles of the fingerless gloves. So you flip the mittens back when you have to use your phone to text or something, and flip the mittens to cover your fingers when your fingers are cold. It's not the first time I've seen the concept, but the first time I've seen the concept at a reasonable price.
And The Americans Season 3 comes out on DVD January 12, 2016, so a big yay!
Cutting for the absolutely FINAL chapter in the saga of Harlequin the cat. Unfortunately Harlequin had to be put down on Friday afternoon, which lets me off the hook (I had asked them to give me the weekend to think it over, back when it appeared that she was on the mend and very adoptable). Apparently she was doing really well until late Wednesday night, when she took a dramatic turn for the worse. But the staff in the animal hospital side were busy treating her and didn't get around to telling the front office staff right away that she was worse. While she was definitely FIV-negative, they ran more tests on Thursday, and got the results back Friday. Terrible case of liver disease, 6 - 12 months to live, and likely to be in more pain as it developed further.
She had perked right up for a while, probably due to the IV fluids and painkillers after not having seen a vet for several years. But that was just treating the symptoms, and eventually the underlying disease kicked back in. So poor Harlequin is no more, and I'm kind of sad. But at least she spent her last week in a place where they looked after her properly and valued her affectionate temperament, instead of dying outside in the cold and the rain.
In any event, my mother had secretly decided that if I decided to put in an application for Harlequin, she would put in an application herself, to avoid the mother of all feuds developing between me and Harlequin's former owner, who is as I probably mentioned before, on the strata council for my building.
I have a whole bunch of serious links I should be putting in this post, but I'd much rather eat moon cake instead. The links will still be there in the morning. But I did one grown-up thing today: I bought a new bath mat to replace the old one that was starting to fall apart. And at the hardware store where I got the bathmat, also got really cute gloves/mittens (glittens?) for $3.99. They're basically fingerless gloves with a mitten knitted into the knuckles of the fingerless gloves. So you flip the mittens back when you have to use your phone to text or something, and flip the mittens to cover your fingers when your fingers are cold. It's not the first time I've seen the concept, but the first time I've seen the concept at a reasonable price.
And The Americans Season 3 comes out on DVD January 12, 2016, so a big yay!
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Date: 2015-11-22 04:47 am (UTC)At least she died someplace warm and comfortable.
Exactly. I'm trying to focus on the positives.
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Date: 2015-11-22 11:59 am (UTC)I hear you about making food decisions - I have half a cake waiting for me in my kitchen. Half, because I've already eaten half.
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Date: 2015-11-22 04:07 pm (UTC)I bet the half a cake you've already eaten was positively delicious. Cakes usually are. Unless they're oat cakes, in which case they're still tasty as long as they have cheese on them.