Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Jeep is sick again. Sitting in her sick basket on my bed, growling, wagging her tail, not moving, won’t eat or drink. I hate not being able to help. Once she woke me up, I couldn’t get my mind off the fact that I’m supposed to (according to my own schedule) take this exam in 3 weeks, and my scores are nowhere near good enough yet. If I fail and have to retake it again, I have to repay the $500. I’m trying not to panic, but I’m failing at this point. I feel like I never have enough concentration for this stuff to sink in. I’ve taken to memorizing answers rather than learning in a more holistic way. It seems to have a better effect, which is actually a testament to how poor the test is constructed. OK, I’m going to attempt more sleep. Only about 4.5-5 hours so far.

Jeep is fine. The vet said she definitely needed to come in given the symptoms, but her feeling better this morning seems to be because she IS better. Yay. I hate having a sick pet. She was REALLY not feeling very well last night. The only bad news about this is that she peed all over the inside of the bag I brought her in (she doesn’t like cat carriers and is happiest in a little dark cave, e.g. a bag with only a little open above her head). I scrubbed the inside of the bag out when I got home, then inverted it to air dry on the porch. I haven’t spent any time out there since the whole bird situation, but I’m almost glad Jeep had her nervous accident.

When I got out on the porch, there were three birds tweeting and flying around overhead. It was clearly the three baby birds that remained from the nest. I had only seen two in my photograph, so finding three was a treat. What transpired was mostly captured on film. It’s a crazy, frenetic film, and I swear one longish clip didn’t make it on to the camera – probably because the batteries were dying. But I think you’ll like this, especially if you were reading about the ones that didn’t make it last weekend. I can’t believe how fast they grew! Mom said it was probably because of the spaghetti!

Baby Birds Leave the Nest and Go Off Into the World! from abbyladybug on Vimeo

Now the nest is empty!

And guess how much I’ve studied today. 🙁

She’s better but still not great. We’re off to the vet.

TONS of pictures from the weekend online now. I have to stop taking so many. The editing takes up too much of my time. Saturday. Sunday.

I arrived home from a wonderful day of adventures, and I found myself one sick little kitty cat. Without going into too much gory detail, I will say that the first thing I did was to put Jeep and Maggie into my bedroom while I picked up several offending items with paper towels, then I vacuumed and spot-wetvacked everything that needed it. Jeep isn’t happy. I will have to bring her in to the vet tomorrow, first thing. The plan was to study, but I’ve been playing nurse to Jeep and editing pictures. More about said adventures and the health of my sweetie girl tomorrow. If you’re bored, I’ve started uploading pictures already.

Jeepers and the Ball on Vimeo
Please understand that sometimes, I just have to be a crazy cat lady.


Click on the the delightful Jeepers above for the whole set.