Day 125 - a Friday off
Today is the 6th day of the 18th week, the 5th day of the 5th month, the 125th day of 2023, and:
- African World Heritage Day
- Chanel No. 5 Day
- Childhood Stroke Awareness Day
- Cinco de Mayo
- Dandelion Day
- Day of Vesak [traditionally the day of the May full moon]
- Hug a Shed and Take a Selfie Day
- International Midwives Day
- International Roller Derby Day
- International Space Day
- International Tuba Day
- Martin Z. Mollusk Day
- Museum Lover's Day
- Nail Day
- National Astronaut Day
- National Cartoonists Day
- National Hoagie Day
- National Silence the Shame Day
- No Pants Day
- Oyster Day
- Pesach Sheni - the 14th of lyyar in the Hebrew calendar
- Revenge of the Fifth
- School Lunch Hero Day
- Totally Chipotle Day
- World Portuguese Language Day
- the full Flower Moon at 1:36 PM EDT
Quote of the day:
"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening." ~ Allen Ginsberg
I took the day off because I have the PTO, wanted a three day weekend, and had to take Triscuit to the vets for a follow-up distemper booster shot and exam.
Triscuit really hates the carrier and it took me almost 20 minutes to chase her, corner her, then pick her up and get her into it. Like many rescue pets, after being bounced around from shelter to shelter and a foster home before she landed in what hopefully will be her forever home, she associates the carrier with major upsets in her life. I'm hoping that taking her and bringing her back to the same place will eventually start easing her fears, plus I leave it out now and sometimes stick treats or toys she likes in there. The vet that saw us was the one in the practice I really like, and I'll be sure to request her specifically in the future because she helped me so much with Panda there at the end. As I shared before, there is some doubt about how old she is - one shelter listed her birthdate as March 2013, another as March 2015. Two years makes a bit of a difference in cat aging years! This vet thinks she is 8 rather than 10 because of her condition: eyes bright, coat glossy, no medical complications [knock on wood], teeth healthy
First thing this morning they were swarming over the area, and two huge concrete trucks pulled up, ready to cover over those gaping holes that had been drilled. I assume the underneath infrastructure had been fixed
The second picture shows they are apparently applying a second layer that extends and overlaps with the other patches smoothly.
Triscuit's doing better than I am. To my dismay and confusion, I experienced a critical low glucose problem while at the vet. I had taken the shots as I always do in the morning, eaten breakfast [but didn't have time to prepare chai], and apparently the unusual exertions of catching and then toting a 12 lb tabby sent my blood sugar into a tail spin. I rather plaintively asked the receptionist if they had a vending machine where I could buy a soda or some candy, but even without explaining why I needed it, she said no, but here is a piece of my pineapple she had at her workstation and went and got two donut holes for me. The episode passed, the glucose climbed out of the danger zone [>60] and I was able to drive home comfortably. Fixed my chai, drank it, checked and I literally zoomed from 57 to 208 - what a roller coaster ride! It'll be interesting to see if my sodium levels are improving with less water.
Dusk falls and the Flower Moon rises. It looked much closer in person and was a light pink color, but no matter how many times I retook the picture and played with effects, that didn't come quite come through the way that I would've liked to have shown.
I dearly love that Friday evening feeling as the entire weekend stretches out before me and Monday morning is at least 54+ hours away!
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