More Serious Kitty Check In

It appears the stress has taken a more serious toll on Abby recently. She was hospitalized this week. We had noticed a decrease in weight and food consumption and figured it was due to stress. That became even more serious in the last few days. When Gary left for his trip to Rhode Island, we think she pretty much completely quit eating. I was able to hand feed her a little bit, but she basically wasn’t eating. We took her to the vet on Tuesday and they kept her overnight to give her fluids. She was eating a little bit at the vet and they are giving her an appetite stimulant. The lack of eating has caused some liver problems. We brought her home for the evening last night, but she didn’t eat anything the whole time she was at the house. She’s going back to the vet to have more fluids today. We are hoping to get her eating again and hoping that will kick-start her liver functions back to normal… really hoping she hasn’t done permanent damage to her liver.

Christmas 2005

Christmas 2005
Originally uploaded by rkbk03.

Here's a family picture from last night.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Prep

I'm happy to say that I'm almost finished Christmas shopping. I believe I have 2-3 items left to pick up, which shouldn't take too long...the Christmas cards have been mailed... everything I've already bought has been wrapped and put under the tree. I think I'm almost ready.

Now it's time for Christmas cookie baking. :-)

I'm also happy to hear that the weather is expected to be very nice this weekend.

Winter Weather

I think my parents brought the cold weather with them. :-)

They arrived here Saturday, so at least they got to enjoy one really nice day before the weather turned to more of what they are used to. The scary thing is that even this weather is nicer than what they would be dealing with in ND. The good news is it will be back to the 50's by the weekend.

We usually only get one or two episodes like this per year and I'm very glad to have the ability to work from home this year. I left work early yesterday before the roads got bad and I'm working from home today also. It's very nice to have the choice to not go out.

22% Yankee

Holy Crap! I've been in Dallas for too long. According to this test, I'm only 22% yankee.

For what it's worth, my answers were:

A-B-A-B-B
B-A-C-C-A
A-A-A-A-C
A-A-A-A-B

< Update >
I've been informed that, on this particular test, a low score means I'm more of a yankee. My score makes much more sense now.

And ... I managed to score a 79% on their spelling test. The quiz contained commonly confused and misspelled words. It was quite difficult, I thought.