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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-10-09 08:29 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-10-09 08:29 pm
Busy handful of days:
Had a few relatively busy days, at least for me.
Turns out I spoke too soon on my last post... I'd mentioned separating the two katydids, Greenbean and Moodring, because they seemed to not really get along/possibly stress each other out. I concluded by saying that that meant we weren't likely to get any baby katydids.
Literally right after making the post, I went to harvest some new branches for them and clean out their cages, and...
Those are katydid eggs!
Typically, they'd be attached to a branch or something, but she affixed them to the top of the cage up by the zipper! These are actually in Greenbean's cage, which Moodring has been out of for a while, but I must not have noticed them the last time I did a cage-clean.
I don't know if they'll hatch - typically they overwinter as eggs and hatch once it starts getting warm in the spring. It's possible they won't hatch without the cooler dormancy period, or it's possible they'll hatch much sooner. We'll keep an eye on them, and see if we ever wind up with katydid nymphs.
Sunday:
I went over to my mom and Taylor's house after work. Taylor was finishing up an on-call weekend, but there weren't any emergencies, and we were able to hang out. We played more Final Fantasy XIV, getting through the Four Lords side quest series, which was fun. We also read some more of Sleep No More.
Mocha, stretched out across the back of the loveseat. (I cruelly had to move her so that I could use the folded up blanket. Unconscionable!)
Monday:
We continued hanging out, since Taylor got a comp day for having been on-call over the weekend. We played more FFXIV, getting through the Stormblood part of the Dark Knight quest, which made Taylor flail in their seat and screenshot large bits of dialogue for spoiler reasons that I've already had spoiled. We also started on part 3 of the main Stormblood quest line.
We also finished reading Sleep No More, so next time we will probably start on The Innocent Sleep.
Mocha, all lit up and glowing in the windowsill.
She is the most *talkative* cat I think I've ever known. She also sounds extremely grumpy, like she's unhappy meowing, but that does not seem to ever be the case. She is VERY insistent for food, which I'm glad of. She's eating quite a bit, which is a good thing, because she's so skinny! She is definitely a *little* cat, but she should probably weigh closer to 8.5 or 9 pounds or so, would be my guess. She was 6.66 lbs when picked up by the shelter, maxed out at a bit over 7, then dropped back down to 6.-something after her dental surgery. She's not skin and bones or anything, but you can feel a lot of spine and hips. So I'm glad she's eating well.
I also rescued/relocated a black widow spider from my mom's sink, but she'll get her own post.
Tuesday:
Mocha's talkative nature presents itself the instant someone is awake. Taylor was on the early shift at work, so got up around 5:45, meaning Mocha was up and loud at 5:45, which meant *I* was up by 5:45 at the first yell, too. I'd gone to bed as early as I could, but for me turbo-early is still midnight, ha.
Alex wasn't feeling well in the morning, but eventually he was able to come pick me up, and we went to Hudson Gardens. They are doing a jack-o-lantern festival of sorts, so there are lots of carved (foam) pumpkins around the gardens, which are quite neat. (They'd be cooler lit up, but the nighttime event is a paid, ticketed event.) Walking around during the day is free, ha. Unfortunately, it means that there are a few areas that are closed off (even more so than already, since they'd doing a lot of re-growth of areas that have been eroded.) So less in the way of wildlife to be seen, but still a fun walk. This will also get its own post.
And when I got home, I'd gotten a gift in the mail!
spikedluv told me she'd seen something that made her think of me.
I love her! She is adorable and so soft! <3
Today:
Back to the dentist for a filling. Luckily that was the *only* problem they found at my checkup, and it was one I already knew about.
Back in June, I bit down on a chunk of gravel in some green beans. ("Steam in bag" type green beans.) A couple days after that, I noticed that a small filling had fallen out, so I'm fairly sure that was what caused it. Glad for nothing worse than that! Also glad there wasn't a problem that I waited a few months to deal with it... I thought my appointment was sooner than it was, and even when I realized it wasn't, it didn't hurt so it never felt like an emergency.
(But this healthy eating stuff is crap: I eat green beans, I bite a rock! I eat a salad and a couple weeks later we get a recall notice on our receipt that that salad from a couple weeks ago was recalled for listeria contamination! Dammit.)
I took the day off for the filling, since sometimes when I'm numbed for that it takes a very long time to wear off. It wasn't SO bad today, and I probably could have made a half-day work, but instead I took a nap and I'm really glad of it. Much as I hate that I burned another PTO day, I think catching up on some sleep was a good thing for me.
Turns out I spoke too soon on my last post... I'd mentioned separating the two katydids, Greenbean and Moodring, because they seemed to not really get along/possibly stress each other out. I concluded by saying that that meant we weren't likely to get any baby katydids.
Literally right after making the post, I went to harvest some new branches for them and clean out their cages, and...
Those are katydid eggs!
Typically, they'd be attached to a branch or something, but she affixed them to the top of the cage up by the zipper! These are actually in Greenbean's cage, which Moodring has been out of for a while, but I must not have noticed them the last time I did a cage-clean.
I don't know if they'll hatch - typically they overwinter as eggs and hatch once it starts getting warm in the spring. It's possible they won't hatch without the cooler dormancy period, or it's possible they'll hatch much sooner. We'll keep an eye on them, and see if we ever wind up with katydid nymphs.
Sunday:
I went over to my mom and Taylor's house after work. Taylor was finishing up an on-call weekend, but there weren't any emergencies, and we were able to hang out. We played more Final Fantasy XIV, getting through the Four Lords side quest series, which was fun. We also read some more of Sleep No More.
Mocha, stretched out across the back of the loveseat. (I cruelly had to move her so that I could use the folded up blanket. Unconscionable!)
Monday:
We continued hanging out, since Taylor got a comp day for having been on-call over the weekend. We played more FFXIV, getting through the Stormblood part of the Dark Knight quest, which made Taylor flail in their seat and screenshot large bits of dialogue for spoiler reasons that I've already had spoiled. We also started on part 3 of the main Stormblood quest line.
Spoilers for the plot of Dawntrail, from my second-hand spoiled perspective
As far as I can tell, at least one significant part of Dawntrail involves a society that has decided to do away with grief and sorrow by creating simulacrums of their deceased. I think I gather that it's sort of a two-fold thing, where they more or less remove any memories of the actual people, in favor of creating artificial, undying, but also "perfect" versions of them, so that no one has to ever be sad about losing someone important to them, but at the cost of remembering the real versions of them. I could be wrong about some of that! Taylor had not played the third segment of the Dark Knight class quest in a long while, and HEY, TURNS OUT A LOT OF THAT WAS ABOUT THE SAME THING. This little class quest is from YEARS ago, but seems to have inspired the new expansion pretty heavily.We also finished reading Sleep No More, so next time we will probably start on The Innocent Sleep.
Mocha, all lit up and glowing in the windowsill.
She is the most *talkative* cat I think I've ever known. She also sounds extremely grumpy, like she's unhappy meowing, but that does not seem to ever be the case. She is VERY insistent for food, which I'm glad of. She's eating quite a bit, which is a good thing, because she's so skinny! She is definitely a *little* cat, but she should probably weigh closer to 8.5 or 9 pounds or so, would be my guess. She was 6.66 lbs when picked up by the shelter, maxed out at a bit over 7, then dropped back down to 6.-something after her dental surgery. She's not skin and bones or anything, but you can feel a lot of spine and hips. So I'm glad she's eating well.
I also rescued/relocated a black widow spider from my mom's sink, but she'll get her own post.
Tuesday:
Mocha's talkative nature presents itself the instant someone is awake. Taylor was on the early shift at work, so got up around 5:45, meaning Mocha was up and loud at 5:45, which meant *I* was up by 5:45 at the first yell, too. I'd gone to bed as early as I could, but for me turbo-early is still midnight, ha.
Alex wasn't feeling well in the morning, but eventually he was able to come pick me up, and we went to Hudson Gardens. They are doing a jack-o-lantern festival of sorts, so there are lots of carved (foam) pumpkins around the gardens, which are quite neat. (They'd be cooler lit up, but the nighttime event is a paid, ticketed event.) Walking around during the day is free, ha. Unfortunately, it means that there are a few areas that are closed off (even more so than already, since they'd doing a lot of re-growth of areas that have been eroded.) So less in the way of wildlife to be seen, but still a fun walk. This will also get its own post.
And when I got home, I'd gotten a gift in the mail!
spikedluv told me she'd seen something that made her think of me. I love her! She is adorable and so soft! <3
Today:
Back to the dentist for a filling. Luckily that was the *only* problem they found at my checkup, and it was one I already knew about.
Back in June, I bit down on a chunk of gravel in some green beans. ("Steam in bag" type green beans.) A couple days after that, I noticed that a small filling had fallen out, so I'm fairly sure that was what caused it. Glad for nothing worse than that! Also glad there wasn't a problem that I waited a few months to deal with it... I thought my appointment was sooner than it was, and even when I realized it wasn't, it didn't hurt so it never felt like an emergency.
(But this healthy eating stuff is crap: I eat green beans, I bite a rock! I eat a salad and a couple weeks later we get a recall notice on our receipt that that salad from a couple weeks ago was recalled for listeria contamination! Dammit.)
I took the day off for the filling, since sometimes when I'm numbed for that it takes a very long time to wear off. It wasn't SO bad today, and I probably could have made a half-day work, but instead I took a nap and I'm really glad of it. Much as I hate that I burned another PTO day, I think catching up on some sleep was a good thing for me.
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Woaaah that seems so unlucky and not nice D: Better stop...? ;D Haha, just kidding, but good luck. This isn't fun. Glad you got some good rest, that's precious :)
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Very glad that Mocha is eating well, too. I want her to be a healthy cat!
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Mocha is on the same schedule as Sunny 🥲 she is just a huuuge fan of 6 am.
I had almost the same tooth thing going on last month, only the filling was fine and it was the tooth that got chipped eating. (Although not green beans, that is so cruel lolol) But mine was a root canal'd but uncrowned tooth so I didn't need freezing. I felt like my shitty teeth won the lottery that day
And Idk what it is about dentist appointments but crashing hard after is necessaryyyy
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Oh man. Cats and their dawn wakeups!
I guess it's a silver lining that they didn't need to freeze the tooth! Though how rude to have it chip, even when the filling was fine.
Dentist appointments knock me ooooout. I had to go through a pretty extensive series of fillings due to some really bad (nonexistent) dental care for a span of years. I was very happy to finally get everything taken care of, and my dentist is great, but after every single appointment I was just OUT for hours.
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Glad you got some time to get caught up in video games, and also hang out time.
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It was definitely a fun weekend.