Update.

Hello. It's been a while. School has been keeping me busier than before. Bleah, I hope I make it to the end.

I just wanted to record what's happened the past few weeks:

• As you know, my cat throws up on a regular basis. Near daily. It causes much stress in the house. Mom has covered all the carpets in an attempt to prevent staining, but it looks horrible. We tried different foods, hairball remedies and other things, but it wasn't stopping, and then I started getting grumpy and thinking she was unhappy and vomiting out of protest. A couple of weeks ago I took her to the vet and they said she might have an intestinal parasite, and they gave her a steroid shot and some medicine that you put between her shoulder blades. This after $200 worth of blood tests to see that she doesn't have hyperthyroidism or something (I knew I shouldn't have went to the vet in the pet store, but The Cat Doctor couldn't see her for a week, and I was feeling desperate). So, $241 and two weeks later, she hasn't thrown up since. I feel bad that I didn't realize my furball had something internally wrong. She didn't lose weight, she wasn't weak, or irritable like a sick cat would be. She would just purge and go on her merry way like a model with an eating disorder. She's better now, but if we have to keep giving her steroid shots, it could cause her to become diabetic, which I don't want to happen. I'm not sure if there are other ways to handle it. The PetSmart vet clinic wasn't my first choice, and it was mad expensive, but I don't know if it would have been less expensive anywhere else. She has a checkup the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so I'll probably take her to that and then find a more traditional vet to take her to from then on that won't gouge me for blood testing.
• I've been a slacker and not wanting to read my excessively dry textbooks, and the past two weeks I've been cramming everything in at the end of the week. I hate all of it. Well, my Web Essentials class isn't bad, but the rest of it can go to hell! I knit two Cookie A. patterns (one from each potential pair), Vilai from Sock Innovation, and Clandestine from Knitty. They didn't take very long to make, but getting the second ones done is going to be the issue. I might have to wait until my winter break before I get the second Vilai started.
• After hearing Mom procrastinate about it for almost a year, I bought her a Neti Pot with a surprise $5 off coupon from CVS. She used it for the first time today, and it was....kind of hilarious. "Can you you drown?" she asked as water streamed from her nose. Just keeping breathing through your mouth, mom. She was interested in it because when I started using a Neti Pot last winter, my severe sinus pain went away, and for the first time in years I didn't have a cold that dragged on for months. I haven't bought prescription nasal spray since the Neti Pot came home with me. My headaches used to get so bad that I couldn't work and I would get sick to my stomach like having a migraine. I hope that she keeps it up. I inherited my mom's sinsuses :P

That's about it for now. Time to go work on some spreadsheet or something.

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