it’s been a busy week and i’m munching on a burrito

  • autumn (she/they)@beehaw.org
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    27 days ago

    another weekend, another fast CAT event! jean did her two runs perfectly (no trying to bite the releaser), which solidifies my thought that the people the weekend before were handling her too roughly. she got to wear her fancy new collar with the handle, which may have helped, too. echo actually ran a couple of times (1/2 distance the first time), but she didn’t really know what was going on, haha. i figure i’ll do a few more practice runs with her before i start entering her “for real.”

    echo also starts her first rally obedience class tonight! i’m really excited, even though its from 8-9pm (so laaaate).

    i’m just about done with the border collie rescue website (pro-bono work), and i’ll be sure to share that once it’s live. lots of cute dog pictures there. :)

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    25 days ago

    I’ve been intensively studying A1 French in my current camp east of Antwerp, as I’ll be entering Wallonia next week and then France soon after that. I wonder what French people sound like when they have a stuffed nose.

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    21 days ago

    I am actually really stressed out about the US election. There’s not much I can do, but the likelihood of harm to family and friends is really high if one person wins.

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    26 days ago

    We live abroad and have family visiting. We are exhausted. I’m not saying it is bad it is just… Too much sometimes.

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    26 days ago

    Our 5 year old cat is experiencing kidney failure, and we have no idea why. We can’t think of a way he could have gotten access to any of the things on the list of substances that would cause that, and he’s so young. They have him on fluids right now, but we’re not sure if he’s going to make it. His numbers were really bad.

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        22 days ago

        It’s looking like he might be okay. We were able to take him home last night. The emergency vet said they’ve never seen a cat bounce back like he has. They can’t find any underlying causes, so they think it must have been an acute episode. If only we knew what caused it.

        We had friends staying with us a couple of weeks ago with their toddler, and they did cut up grapes for her to eat several times, which is one of the things on the list. So maybe she dropped one and it went under a piece of furniture and he just recently found it? It was even more unlikely that he’d been exposed to anything else on the list, so I don’t know.

        They had us bring him back today for a checkup to see how he’s doing now that he’s been off fluids for a day, and his numbers did go back up a bit, hopefully not too much. My partner is there with him now waiting for the vet to give him more details.

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    21 days ago

    I finally got some stuff done around the house, raked all the leaves, lots of cleaning, changing out my RO filters, need to do the house ones today, as they seem to be done messing with the water lines. Should probably drain the water heater too, I guess…

    Got some oyster and shiitake mushroom grows going, experimentally. Probably won’t work, we’ll see.

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    20 days ago

    I had a bit of a sad weekend, so now i’m trying to get over that and get some stuff done, just finished scheduling some things for the week and i’ll probably gonna have to go run some errands after breakfast, hope everyone has a nice week :> btw, now i’m craving a burrito smh 😓

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    22 days ago

    Some folks from my last job were in town on Wednesday, so they invited me out to dinner. I say “last job,” but I’m now a contractor/consultant for them; no longer a FTE. So I guess they’re still my coworkers. It was nice to see them in person. My boss was there, so of course he asked how my new job was going. From my previous post, I’m not sure I’m enjoying it. But I couldn’t tell him that.

    But I started with, “It’s interesting…” And his eyes widened and he got a gleam in his eyes, lol. He thinks that anyone who leaves the company is crazy. And there’s some truth to that as I’ve worked for the company twice. The first time I left…I don’t want to say it was a mistake, but it wasn’t everything I hoped for. I eventually came back a year and half later. Which he loves rubbing in my face and anyone who contemplates leaving. So I fudged it a bit. And he deflated, lol.

    Either way, I’m glad I got to see them, and just spend a fun evening catching up over drinks and dinner. Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen is excellent.

    This weekend, just watching F1 and League of Legends Worlds. Let’s go Red Bull and T1!