Me, in my ragged company

[lizblackdog]

The last day or so I've been puzzled by Spike continually snuffing and staring at a point on the wall in the hallway. Yesterday I realised what that was about - that's where the kittens are, just the other side of the interior wall inside the wardrobe. (The wardrobe is built-in - a section of bedroom partitioned off with a sliding door, not a piece of furniture). My sweet obsessive boy! The dogs have been allowed into the bedroom during litter changes and feeding and they've seen the kittens from a distance, but I have a barrier of boxes (full of stuff) around the wardrobe door so they haven't been close to the wardrobe. Cassie makes it clear she doesn't want them inside that barrier, so they're only in the room when I'm there to stop them jumping it.

Mum phoned me this morning, sounding very weak and sorry for herself. She's still unable to keep anything down, and her nose feeding tube (she says it's like she's a horse with a nosebag) came out in the night. They're putting her on a drip again and she was waiting to be taken down to X-Ray when I phoned - it seems she may not be there when I visit.

Sister T still hasn't gone into labour and is highly fed up.

I really need to get some cleaning done here. I've been so tired the past two weeks that the flat's slipped to an unprecedented degree of disgustingness. It's so bad that I'm putting off calling the Council about the dribbling tap because I don't want anyone to see the place when it's this revolting. That's classic Mum behaviour right there and it needs to stop. Except I have to go out the door in a minute to go to the hospital and when am I going to do it? Arghh! I also forgot to turn the oven off after heating a half-pizza last night. KITTENS ATE MY BRAIN.

In the meantime, I've defused the tap's water torture effect by keeping either the coffee pot or one of the dogs' water bowls under the drip at all times - it stops the nerve-shredding noise and that way at least the water doesn't all get wasted. The weather is much more bearable as well - we didn't get the storm here but there was some rain, and it's cool and grey and soothing again today. Small victories!

Comments

[chose.livejournal.com]

haha, kittens ate my brain. love it.
I freak out when the cats spend a lot of time sniffing one spot. I start imagining there are insects there, or maybe one of them had some kind of accident or whatnot. did I mention I'm a big OCD freak?

[kiss-kass.livejournal.com]

You'll survive! You're a big, strong grown up now, remember? ;)

Really though, just try to do one thing each day and the flat will shape up.

I'm keeping your mom in my prayers.

[ex-ramona222.livejournal.com]

Okay I don't know what kind of taps you have - if you have a two-in-one deal this definitely won't work - but if you have seperate old fashioned turney type hot and colds there's a small chance it might. When the tap is shut of you can try pulling it forward (toward the on position) a wee bit to see if that stops it. Some taps have two holes for the water to come through, and when they start turning too far into the off position the water starts getting through the second hole. Odds are it's something else I think, but what the hell, it's easy to try, right?

[randomyst.livejournal.com]

I guess one of the advantages of being hearing-impaired is that low level (torturous) noises like faucet drips are beyond my capacity to hear. LOL See, silver linings people. ;-)

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

The relief after it rained was simply wonderful!

Unfortunately it's been unbelievably humid since. I keep having to change clothing.