Continental Drift

No, the post title does not refer to dreading having today's set of Enchantment drabbles being ripped up properly by a_bees_buzz who has kindly offered to beta them for me before posting (as I've had embarrassing gender mix-up issues sneak in a few times, I've finally decided to get over my fear and actually let someone see them before posting them for everyone!).

My dentist appointment is tomorrow. *wibbles*

I shouldn't really be too scared yet, as I don't expect to be hurt too much tomorrow (depending on what the first consultation / diagnostic stuff entails), but I've already had my stomach go all achy whenever I've taken the bus past the building the last few days. Gah.

Anyway, the other palfow mentioned that I should take some videos of my cats, and I remembered I actually have a few. Not too many and none very good, but I did locate a few of them and uploaded some on YouTube yesterday.

( So here's a clip of the innocent, angelic Kribu. )

And I should watch yesterday's episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures now, as I completely forgot about it yesterday.

Have spent yesterday and this morning sneezing. And blowing my nose every few minutes. Ugh. Well, that's something I'll need to deal with for the next six months - I don't even have to have a cold but a stuffed/runny nose, especially in the mornings, is something that comes with this season (the autumn-winter-spring season).

Have been up for over three hours and still not quite awake. Not that I've been doing anything at all, apart from turning all the clocks back an hour. Yay, an extra hour today! On the flip side, this means even less daylight than before (getting light a bit earlier in the morning doesn't really count). Oh well.

I think I figured out last night how Haunted should end. Still want to get to a happy ending - I'm not entirely displeased with the way it's been turning out so far, but I didn't expect all this angst. At least I think there should be some happiness ahead. Plus a possible alternative crack!ending due to an insistent plot bunny gnawing at my legs before I fell asleep.

Got a new box yesterday (with my little Snape), which the cats have been immensely pleased with. They've all taken turns sleeping in it.

Apparently Musti has ear infection, in both ears. Not that this is "good news" as such, but it's certainly a relief in a way - at least it's something treatable.

She got a bunch of injections at the vet's and medication for her ears (which we'll have to continue with). And she'd eagerly rushed to eat right after getting back home and spent some time running around afterwards, says mum, so I suppose whatever the injections were (including pain killers, I would guess), she must have felt better immediately.

She's back to being a bit apathetic now, but one can't exactly expect miracles. At least I'm hopeful she'll be getting better now. And she just climbed into my lap and started purring.

And I actually got several bits of work today - all smallish things, but still, better than nothing. And might get a bigger thing tomorrow, too, possibly.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother being a football fan, considering that, well, I'm an Estonian football fan.

*sighs*

At least the second half was relatively okay - not that England needed to try too hard after securing the 3-0 lead in the first half. Overall, I think we played better in June in Tallinn, although my view may be biased by having seen that game at the stadium and for some reason, it always seems we play much better when I'm there to see it (never mind the inevitable losing, but I guess the atmosphere at the stadium makes it harder to judge the game more objectively).

Am contemplating whether there is even any point in going to the office on Monday. This week, I had two days with exactly nothing to do, and two days when I finally got a bit of work around 3 pm, when already wondering if I should just take off for the day. And one day when I actually had work to do. Then again, if I don't show up, the chances of getting work would be even less. And in spite of the rather nice September, I would prefer having a bit more work. Work -> more money to spend on lenses, after all. (Part of me wishes I'd never got into photography - it's certainly not one of the least expensive hobbies one could have.)

In better news, Musti seems to be doing better again, although she's still not quite as lively as she should be. But at least she doesn't spend all her time curled up apathetically and not even reacting when someone comes to see how she's doing. And she's been eating rather eagerly and running around a bit again.

No sore throat. Hands/wrists better. Got work yesterday (nice sort of work, too). Not currently raining. And I have a purring cat in my lap.

Today seems to be shaping up much better than yesterday was. Except that I planned to get up just now and get myself a cup of coffee. *eyes cat*

Loved yesterday's episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Team Sarah Jane is so much better than Team Torchwood in every way that it's not even funny. Well, actually it rather is, I suppose.

And I was lucky enough to snap a picture of Kribu sitting in a very small box yesterday morning.

( Picture of Kribu (the cat) sitting in a box. )

Now, can I get to my coffee before my legs fall completely asleep under this cat or not...

Yesterday was for some reason one of the most tiring days I've had in a while. I suppose the three hours of sleep had something to do with it, but in any case, I was feeling nearly dead most of the day - even had to leave work relatively early as I was just feeling awfully dizzy and had to focus more on trying to stay on the chair (as opposed to falling off it) than on the work.

Today was fortunately considerably better, although I'm again feeling wiped out, but that should be temporary. Getting a full night's sleep helped, as did the fact that I finally got done with the 52,000 word file I've been working with on and off for a few weeks now - I swear, there were times I thought it would never get done. I really dislike having to work with single files that are this large, as it's so damn hard to actually see the progress.

By the way, in case anyone had doubts, cats are not normal people. While cleaning out the closets, I found several single socks which I randomly tossed aside at the time, hoping to find the partners for them... so they ended up on the scanner. Which is also where Kribu ended up this morning - on the scanner, right on top of the bunch of socks. *rolls eyes*

( I took a picture, of course. )

Oh, and I actually remembered The Sarah Jane Adventures yesterday. I do have to say that I like it a whole lot more than Torchwood - probably because it's not trying to pretend it's, um, "adult", and doesn't seem to be taking itself too seriously. It's plain goofy fun as far as I'm concerned - not exactly the best thing evah!!!111 - but honestly, I can't find much to complain about either, considering its target group and what it seems to be set out to achieve.

( Random thoughts behind the cut - not too spoilery but if you don't want to know absolutely anything about the first two-parter, you have been warned. )

My hands are a bit achy from screwing.

Um. That probably didn't come out entirely right. In any case, spent hours yesterday assembling the new kitchen cabinets... not entirely done yet, still need to affix the back and the doors, but the drawers and the cabinet parts and everything else is done.

There were entirely too many screws. A sonic screwdriver would have been nice... or even an electric one, but since we generally don't need one, we don't have one.

The kitties were being terribly helpful of course. At some point Musti decided to lie down on the instruction booklet and play with the hammer, and as soon as I finally brought myself a pillow to sit on (hours on bare floor proved to be a bit much for my behind), Kribu gratefully curled up on it. And Pätsu knocked over most of the containers into which I had sorted all the various screws etc. And then of course there was all the running around the bits and right over them and trying to lie down on whatever we were working on at the moment... it was obviously a lot of fun.

I hope we can finish the thing off today without me hurting my back again as much as it ended up aching last night. But it is very pretty, compared to the mess there was before, anyway.

It's just past 8 in the morning, I just let the kitties in, and what does Kribu do? Go to sleep on the coffee table... and not just the coffee table, but the TV remote control.

And then she turns on the TV. Which is right behind me. And which I was not expecting to suddenly starting blasting out Finnish pop music.

I don't even think she wanted to watch it, as she has her back to it and didn't seem to pay any attention at all.

Cats. *rolls eyes*

So. Holidays have come and gone. I did... nothing. Absolutely nothing. :-D

( Random ramblings about holiday and work )

On the less positive front, Kribu seems to have caught some sort of kidney or urinary tract infection. We got pills for her to take, which is... not fun. For us. Have managed, with much effort and several hours spent, the first two doses now, but she's... not a good little person, when she doesn't want to be. She has a very stubborn streak, it seems - meaning that "yes, I love to eat pate whenever not offered, but when offered (with a nicely hidden dose of medicine in it), I'll struggle and run away and absolutely refuse to have anything to do with it" (and I don't think it should be that obvious that it contains the medicine, as Musti has been more than willing and eager to eat it instead... cats, honestly!!)

On the more positive front, I came across a rather nice article today thanks to the WIKTT list... Under his spell - discussing the Snape phenomenon together with a nice succinct list of why he just has to be good. Needless to say, I'm very much in agreement with more or less everything in the article (needless to say as it's been written by a Snape fan, yay!).

Why did I have to fool around with my installed programs list, find that I have two versions of the same translation tool installed and decide to uninstall the older one when the newer one was open? I'm a bloody idiot, really... of course this managed to fuck up the installation of the newer one too. Fortunately I still sort of remembered where I kept the installer of the newer version, and after a few restarts plus having to redo the last few hours' work (thankfully it was still all in the translation memory, so it was just a matter of retrieving it and not actually starting from scratch, but it was still annoying) I seem to be back in business, woo.

Which means I might actually manage to finish that 20,000 words today that I got yesterday... yes, I know, it's really a week's workload, but does anyone care? ;-) As I've got another 10,000 already waiting, plus several more jobs... on the plus side, this seems to mean they don't want to see me in the office this week (probably wouldn't dare to face me when giving me so much work ;-)) at all. And I think I'm expected to get done with that new work by tomorrow, so I can be given even more work... yippee? :-S

And why do kitties think that since I'm at home, it obviously means I don't have anything to do and insist on sleeping on me, sleeping on the desk, sleeping on the keyboard, climbing around all over me, purr into my ear, push claws into my shoulders, stand between the keyboard and the monitor, etc, etc?