Serenity Suris: Home of Champions. And other stuff.

[maystone]

1. cajoje is on her way back to Albert after a not-so-relaxing stay. She pitched right in to help with all of the blow-back from the new cria's scary entrance into the world, and she did it at the expense of getting some other things accomplished that were important to her. That? Is the definition of friend.

2. Cria boy is doing well today. I got to try my hand at feeding him this morning, and let's just say that it's not exactly in my skill set yet. I'll get better at it, but we're all really hoping that he'll get the hang of nursing on his own so I won't have to learn how to wield that bottle.

3. I, at least, am calling him Jack.

4. Poor Pixel kitty has been suffering from constipation, and I didn't really catch on until very late last night. I suck as a kitty mom. So today, we all got together to enjoy the experience of giving her 1) an enema (it didn't work) and b) a suppository (which did.) Dar did all of the hands-on, so to speak, while Mark and/or I held her. The yowling could be heard throughout the county. And that wasn't counting the noises Pixel was making.

5. Speaking of bodily functions, I got the latest blood work back from my PCP. I have protein in my urine which points to kidney problems but is most probably because I'm lacking in B12 this month. The upshot is that I have to take the dreaded (by me) 24-hour urine collection. I hate giving urine samples. Hate. I'd rather give blood. I have terrible aim and lousy motor control. I once ended up spraying the entire bathroom because the urine apparently bounced off the side of the cup and went all Bellagio Fountains over the room. Followed by much cursing and ripping of paper towels and more cursing. Jack Bauer should have such a 24 hours as I'm going to have.

6. We didn't make it to the big alpaca show today, but our alpacas did thanks to our friends. And . . .


Adama took second prize in his class, just narrowly missing first because the other alpaca had slightly denser fleece. The judge said that he had a difficult time deciding which should get first place. And he wished that the other alpaca had Adama's size. Go, big goofy Adama!


And our Hannibal took First Place! Yay, Hannie! They weren't doing the Grand Championship judging
this year, which is too bad because he would have walked away with that, too. Last year he was
Reserve Grand Champion, and he had an even better showing this year.

7. BSG continues to rock in glorious ways. I have to rewatch it because I was very distracted toward the end because of Pixel, and I was also dead tired. I hit the wall, as they say, about 5PM standing in Zehr's waiting for the pharmacy to fill a prescription. "Just another few minutes" turned out to be 35 minutes, and it just pushed me over the edge of the amount of fatigue I could deal with. I know it sounds wimpy, but trust me, fatigue isn't the same as being tired. Anyway, BSG. I have no frakking idea what's going to happen from episode to episode, and I love that about this show. So well-written and acted.

Comments

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the winning alpacas!!

[petranef.livejournal.com]

Oy, the fatigue. Indeed, you can't know it unless you have it. It's kicking my ass this week. :(

Still, cria, YAY! Cajoje, YAY! Mays, YAY! ;)

[skripka.livejournal.com]

Yay to Adama and Hanny!

Also, yay to Jack--careful hugs to you, too!

[saintpip.livejournal.com]

*still laughing my ass off at the Bellagio bit*

[llaras.livejournal.com]

1. Yes.

2. *crosses fingers for baby to figure it out*

3. I was going to suggest that, but didn't think anyone else would like it! You could even call him Jackie Boy for short! :-)

4. *pets you all*

5. Dude, ack! But you totally made me lol! I had to do a pee test for this job and man, it sucked. I couldn't go! Performance anxiety? I don't know! So they made me go back out to the waiting room and drink water. I finally managed it the second time, but it was stressing me out. The best part? Returning to the waiting room after the second go around and seeing the expectant faces on all of the guys I had chatted with while we waited. One of them even asked, "Get 'er done?" I was slightly mortified.

6. Yay! That's fantastic! Such pretty boys!

7. Need to watch this someday.

[luxefibre.livejournal.com]

our fluffy kitty peeps is chronically constipated. she is 15, tho. anyway, i researched online, and the laxatone we gave her didn't help, her poop was like a giant rock, she was backed up as far as the xray could see. full of crap. we knew that already. anyway, between my research and what the vet said, cats are much better off eating soft food and need no grains in their diet. we switched her to a really good quality soft food that is almost all meat. after that big cat and dog food recall, i only will buy from the ones that are organic and have no added crud in it. there are a bunch of sites with easy recipes that you can freeze if you would rather make the food. after having to do several nasty gross greasy enemas on a LONG HAIRED cat, i asked the vet for something she could take regularly, they gave me lactulose, it is a liquid from the pharmacy, my mom actually uses it too, and it seems to be helping quite a lot.

if the constipation is a chronic problem, you should probably consider switching pixel to soft food for good.

i feel your pain. i hate being fatigued. it just sucks ass.

i have BSG tivoed and haven't watched it yet. i love it, too. i am sad it is ending. have you watched the sarah connor chronicles? it is really pretty good.

xo