Continental Drift

Vet visit this morning went fine - although Musti was going quite mad in her hunt for water earlier, which we hid away from her - no problems with anaesthesia, it seems. She just woke up some 20 minutes ago, very confused and wobbly, but managed to find water, drink a bit and then get back to her bed, so she seems okay. Poor thing has a half-shaved paw now; I managed to get most of the bandage off at least.

And the vet just called with the results - Musti has diabetes, yes. Extremely high blood sugar levels. I suppose this explains the rest of the problems being so persistent, too. Anyway, we're to go back sans Musti on Monday and get pills, which she'll have to take for the rest of her life. I just hope this means she'll be feeling better once she'll get started on the treatment.

Best get on with cleaning, now - we'll hopefully get an electrician come over later today to take a look at the situation. It's been getting beyond ridiculous and rather more worrying, lately, to have fuses blown for half the flat a couple of times a week, mostly when turning on the light somewhere. And we're going through lightbulbs at an enormous rate, too - when we're lucky, it's only the bulb that explodes, without taking the rest of the power with it.

Golden Compass meme snagged from ayerf and dickgloucester.

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Have dusted. Am noticing that single cat hairs are much more obvious on dusted surfaces. Brushed Musti & Pätsu too, Musti was quite thrilled. Kitchen is still a mess, but at least I've had food.

I'm nearly wanting to write some more of The Coldest Summer, even though I don't have any clear ideas right now. Hmpf. Certainly don't want to post more today, I'm half-feeling like I'm hogging GS100 as it is! I know I should really consider writing something else, but... I like drabbles. And I'd need to have a firmer idea to write something proper. The Potter Place prompts still haven't caught my fancy - I haven't even read anything posted yet, which is something I should remedy.

I just realised it's Sunday and past 10 in the evening... so the weekend is as good as over. *is not happy*

Once again, I've managed to get nothing done. I don't know what it is about weekends lately (lately = at least the last year or so), but I can't seem to muster up any energy for anything. I even tend to forego eating as it takes too much effort to prepare something (although this reminds me that there are a couple of rolls with whipped cream in the kitchen - perhaps not the best sort of food so late in the day, but they are awfully tempting).

I did sort of get started with cleaning up / reorganising another closet though. As in taking everything out and piling it all up on the sofa. *sighs* I did mostly manage to sort through the stuff and separate everything into neater little piles, and throw away any old socks and the like that should have been thrown out a long time ago, but I think a lot of the shirts and such would need ironing, and if there's one thing I'm useless at, it's ironing. Bleh.

Anyway, I did find enough energy to watch The Time Warrior and the documentary, woo! ( More thoughts about The Time Warrior, Sarah Jane and season 11 behind the cut. )

Have just spent a couple of hours going through my "small random stuff" closet, sorting out the things I might need or want to keep for sentimental reasons and throwing the rest away... got one big bag full of trash. And managed to fill four drawers of the new drawer cabinet, where the small random stuff will hopefully stay a little more organised.

Damn it's too hot for stuff like that though. Where did last week's 14°C and rain go? And I still need to go to the store.

( Did a meme thingy too. )

The delivery time announced yesterday - approximately 17:19 - turned out to be approximate indeed... the furniture arrived half an hour earlier. But as the delivery guys called in advance to confirm that someone would be there to receive it, it wasn't really a problem.

So anyway, now we have two boxes containing pieces of what I assume is the kitchen cabinet set, and one box containing my shelf. Will have to start assembling that first... should be managable today.

And earlier, I also received my new Sigma 17-70mm lens... woo! I don't really know just how great it will be at macros, but it certainly focuses much closer than any other lens I have... can practically shove it against the target (not that this would be practical with insects) and it still seems to focus just fine, even though the specifications state 20 cm as the closest focusing distance. Will have to see how well it works in practice, I think. It's certainly pretty, and quite noticeably heavier than the kit lens (which it's going to replace as the "short range universal zoom lens", I think), which isn't necessarily a good thing... but something I knew in advance, so that's okay. What will take some getting used to is that the zoom ring works in the opposite direction compared to Pentax lenses.

I ought to stop buying new lenses for a while now though. It's addictive. I mean, I'm already thinking that "oh, but I still need a universal zoom lens for when I want to travel" (note the "need" there... I've been thinking about the Tamron 18-250mm , which is supposed to be pretty decent, but it's also not very cheap), and then there are the Pentax "pancake" primes which are terribly tempting... *sighs wistfully*