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So much has happened that... while I don't recall the exact sequence of what happened first, I'm grouping them together by topic.

I went on another 10km run! I was like a couple seconds slower than my last 10km run. I don't plan to run a half marathon (21km) but I do plan to do a training plan towards a half marathon. But I think if I decide to do that I actually have to incorporate some kind of strength training, which would mean a gym, which would mean I'd be too lazy to follow through.
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The Line Friends Hotel and the Cafe have finally opened! At least that's one more thing in the DONE part of the task list.
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I've been having fun at the ceramics workshop. The timing is a little inconvenient but I've been managing so far. I have 2 planters ready to be final burnt, and 2 more for the first burn then coloring again. Actually one of the dogs has a shaky leg LOL. It actually came off as I was drying it out. Well. Hopefully... it stays!
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Sooo.... Mom was recently talking about really missing Nutmeg (our orange cat). At the shelter that I volunteer in, they had a sudden influx of orange cats. I asked how strict they are about the selection process and they said since I'm a volunteer and I'm a "trusted individual", they practically just let me have the cat.
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But after staying for a week, the cat isn't really too human-friendly. Probably needs some more time to get used to us.
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I spent an afternoon playing with the long feather thing with the cat and the cat now basically sticks to me.
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The little rascal is indeed causing quite a bit of trouble (pushed one of my orchid plants down, broke a stem, broke a few pots from my Sis, it's basically a nuisance.
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Mom had half a mind to ask me to return the cat (what comes in doesn't go out, sorry) and yesterday, in jest, she told her sister (my aunt), "I can have even more cats if I want!"
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And look what happened today!
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My Sis was walking Max and another dog-parent-friend said there's a cat at the entrance to the flower shop (but flower shop still closed)
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It's tiny! It's the size of my palm! It's Frankenstein Cat! Look at the markings! Orange and brown tiger stripes! And we already have a babysitter in line for that. But no, it's not going to be called FrankenCat because we already have a Frankie (the Frenchie) at home. Don't want so many Franks there.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:56
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On my daily dog walk with Frankie this morning, he took me (yes, he decides the route) up the Penha Hill and we walked past a fancy rich people housing estate. He wanted to walk into the non-gated part of it. I tried to liaise with him, explaining that it's just a dead end and we'd have to u-turn and walk back all the way up.

Frankie is a dog (frenchie at that) and doesn't understand any sort of negotiation, so, yeah, we walked down that road and had to u-turn back up. The bastard.

Then we went up the Penha Hill and walked the main road down the other way. We walked past this building that only now I noticed had the words SKYLINE on it. Did a quick internet search and found only one reference.
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In the evening I asked Dad and he said it's who-and-who's home and that back then when he drove Father (didn't catch the name) he would drive him to this house (and another one of a local tycoon). He said it's just a residencial house, and that it's huge.

Here's a random old 1976 photo of the Vienna Hilton opening team soon after it opened. A friend of my Dad's on Facebook posted it, Dad isn't tagged but he's an easy find LOL. I just thought I'd archive it myself as well.
1976 Vienna Hilton

When Frankie the Frenchie is bored, he'll find whatever trouble to vex us all. Yesterday morning, a piece of cleaning cloth. And then it's a wrestling match
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Random photos of food... Dad sometimes takes the shortcut and just gets IKEA cinnamon rolls. Though, he doesn't follow the instructions on the packaging. The packaging says to just take out and bake it without defrosting. The rolls come out hard when you do it this way. Dad lets the frozen rolls defrost first, then bakes them, and they get all soft and nice and DELICIOUS. Kitty (yes, the cat's name, seriously) was curious. And the other dish with the beautiful sunny side up is the minchi, famous Macanese dish of minced meat and fried cubed potatoes. Usually served with white rice, but I have to minimize the carbs. But the deep fried cubed potatoes were just toooooooo gooooooooood.

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La-di-da! I started a tag for Frankie on IG. Since he's the one that decides his dog walking route, I sometimes take some photos of him at certain locations and post it on the dogs' IG, sort of introducing Macau as well, LOL.
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On this one he is sitting in front of the A-Ma Temple. Legend has it that when the Portuguese first arrived, they arrived at this "Inner Harbour" and this is where the first conversations of the Portuguese and Chinese was had. The Maritime Museum is also situated here, just across the plaza. Wiki Link because I'm lazy.
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I don't know, are shoulders warmer? Nutmeg had quit that habit of sitting on shoulders last year, but she's done that at least 3 times just this week.

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I'm not much of a Gudetama fan, but, 1. I was in need of a keychain, 2. This was a special Gudetama x Macau edition, 3. This actually works like a top up cash card? But it's not a card, but a chip or something? So, I figured... also, the key ring itself is slightly thinner, so it fit one of my keys better. My previous keychain had a thick ring so one of the keys was constantly stuck if swiveled in the wrong direction.

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I'm getting ready for the Chinese New Year. I got a new red dress for my first day of work LOL. Got my red nails done. I misjudged the shiney finger though. I didn't like how the sparkles looked without a base color, so did the same red, but the red was too dark. I probably should have done a white base for that.

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Two more days of work and then it's a 5-day weekend and then an easygoing rest of the week because nobody's going to be back to work just yet. Most people are just going to take the next Thursday and Friday off to make it an entire week off. I'm saving my PTO for later travels. I need to see if I can score cheap London tickets.
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15 minutes to Christmas Day.
My family celebrates on Christmas Day with big family dinner and present exchange, so there will be a big party tomorrow. Christmas Eve is really for last minute cleanup and preparation of the apartment.

Mom would love that we go to Midnight Mass. On my part, I've have had enough of Religious life. God would know I'm sincere.

Got distracted by something and now that I look back to the screen, it's already Christmas, so, Merry Christmas from GMT+8!!
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So in the family March Birthday Lunch yesterday, the restaurant we went to had an expresso machine and a soft ice cream machine. It's a buffet, and as a self-proclaimed Asian, an Asian doesn't eat at a Buffet to get full, an Asian eats at a Buffet to recover the cost! The amount of cheese I had was unimaginable, probably unhealthy! But proper Gouda cheese, Brie cheese and Blue cheese are like... really expensive here. And then shrimps! Or are they prawns? Whatever. What I call shrimps! A whole plateful. I didn't get any sashimi, because, the sashimi station only serves Salmon. Cherry picked a couple of desserts. They cheated me out of a sacher cake. The SIGN said Sacher cake. But it was the same cake as the Chocolate coffee cake on the other side.

Anyway, back to the expresso machine and soft ice cream machine, I made myself an Affogato type of deal. It was delicious.

Well. I also learned that at my age, I should quit the coffee. I. COULDN'T. SLEEP! Last night. The whole household had lights off at 11.30ish pm. I was in my bed rolling around until 2am. No sleep. Then. The Devil's Reincarnate started messing around my room. Oh, and who is the Devil's Reincarnate? NUTMEG THE CAT! I may just skin that cat alive one day. Slept on my chest. Came up to my face. Licked me with her sandpaper tongue. Then she bit me! So I pushed her away. Then she jumped to my desk and started throwing everything off. I decided to ignore and tried to sleep. She left for a bit. Then she had a case of zoomies and was just running to and from my room to somewhere (maybe my Sis' room).

After much struggling with the cat, I think I kind of managed a short nap at around 4 or 5am, when I heard my Dad taking the 20-year-old dog out to the verandah for pee-pee. At least I had some 3 hours of sleep. I was so tired at work. But I did not touch any coffee.

My friend got me another translation job. So if she passes the tender, I get a little side gig again. She wanted me to do the Portuguese as well, so I said no. She's now found a lady who would wait for my English translation, then use that to translate to Portuguese.

Exciting times.
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A video dump of some cute videos of 2 of the dogs and a cat LOL

LJ seems to be acting funny on my end today, I've tried to reply some comments but it just won't go through, I don't know why!

Nutmeg seems to be going in heat but, she's not sticking to our male cat Harley. Instead, she's sticking to Frankie LOL


More Frankie and Nutmeg, sorry the TV is a bit loud with this talk show guy from Hong Kong (Mom took this video)


This here is Sai Lup (or, Max) when he has finally been put onto a bed (especially the parents' king bed) he will REFUSE to get out of the bed. His back legs are not good (I forgot the term of his issue... he has a torn ligament or something... cruciate?) so he can't jump up the bed on his own, and now he can't jump down and we have to help him down.....  but he refuses.... LOL... No, he will not get Dinner In Bed LOL.
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I had plans to bring the dogs to the vet yesterday for their cartophren shots, and also for Nutmeg for her actual shots (erm, I have no idea what shot that is, only know we must get it for a cat). But then Mom got a call from the home owner's group/association thing that they are sending some guys to fix something on our verandah (because that thing serves as the entire building's drainage system, so it's the group responsibility and not just ours). Mid-way through the afternoon the guys didn't come, so Mom called them again and they said we misunderstood, that they were coming the following day. It was too late to make the appointment at the vet already, and since now they confirm it's the next day, we can't book for the next day either... so it's next week.

Kitty being Kitty. She'd snuggle and rub and be all happy that you are petting her but she will turn around and scratch you if you pet her just a nano-mili-second more than she wants.


Since the sun was already on its way to setting (so it was hardly sunny at all), I decided to work on a couple of my plants.


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It's still early-ish afternoon but I can't go anywhere because those guys are here fixing the verandah, so Mom wants us around to help keep an eye on the and keep an eye on the dogs. A little later when the guys are gone (I assume after 4 or 5pm) I might go for a 5km run, but we'll see. It IS almost 4pm now and it doesn't look like they are anywhere near done.
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*ahem* I did say I'll quit shopping stuff *ahem* but LOOK AT THESE! THEY ARE SO PRETTY! I'm trying to look for information on how to care for  young pine sprouted from a pine cone, but all the information stop at "once it starts sprouting, congratulations!" So... after that it's just let it be? The shop guy said it should be kept in a humid environment, so lots of spraying at the leaves, but the online information I found says to keep them dry and water sparingly... huh. As for the succulents, I really was only looking for the Rainbow Elephant Bush (the top right one) because I saw a colleague have a big one and it was so pretty, looked almost like a tree! But I guess it wasn't the right season and I searched over 10 flower shops and couldn't find one, when finally I found a place that sold these saplings, but they were doing a buy 2 get 1 free, so I got the Common Houseleek (top left) and the Sunrise Succulent (bottom one, pinkish), that I did have before but killed it (overwatered it). Now I know. Keep it dry!


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Thank you for all the well-wishes and birthday greetings! It's time for bed, and face another workday tomorrow. Life goes on!
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Life over here has been pretty stable. I also know that I am very lucky to still have my job, not required to take any unpaid leave time (only having to clear out my overabundant leave balance, but still allowed to keep a small balance). Our company is also the first (and so far the only) of the 6 concessionaires to still get our "bonus" payment, though they will not call that a "bonus" payment becaus by the word "bonus" it means they will have to give it. Instead they've termed it a "Living Subsidy".

I was getting sick of wearing heels so I brought my pair of white boots out. They look super casual, and I definitely shouldn't be wearing them to work, but since it seems nobody gives a shit if I don't have to meet with people for meetings, then.... I'll go ahead and wear it, no matter how it mismatches my attire LOL


Nutmeg is still a shoulder cat. I think I've mentioned Nutmeg found a Dad in Harley. Well, Dad has to check out the kiddo when she goes out on dates, you know, especially inter-species dates LOL


I've been trying to keep down frivolous expenses (ha bloody ha, what a joke, I've still been buying crap) so while my skincare things have been running low, I haven't replenished much. I've dug out all the freebie samples or travel size stuff that were given out before, and I've started to use them as well. Those 4 bottles of travel size Shu Uemura cleansing oil does fill up a little more than a quarter of the actual bottled product. I've also used up a lot of my serums, day/night creams, essence, etc.. etc... I now only have a single serum oil thing, which if I go by the book, I shouldn't only rely on it. However, my skin has actually cleared out better than before. I'm theorizing that before, I had too many products, and they actually clogged my pores, and thus I had constant breakouts. Now, using only the cleansing oil, an eye cream, and an oil serum thing (that I don't even remember the brand), my skin has cleared out. It could also probably because I'm getting old and my hormones are stabilizing, but whatever. After clearing out all these existing skincare items, I will strictly only use an eye cream, a moisturizer for skincare and that's it. Sunblock, a tiny bit of concealer for under the eyes, and minimal eye make up (just eyeliner and mascara to define the eyes) and that's it.


[livejournal.com profile] kurikuribebi had once posted about this LUSH mask. Since I am the type of person who hardly does my own research, or read magazines or whatnot, simply because seeing someone on my F-list write about it, I went ahead and got it to try. The sales lady tried to dissuade me to buy this though, saying it's very drying and that their newer mask is better. Me being me, insisted. And I LOVE THIS MASK for all the WRONG reasons LOL. This Magnaminty mask... it smells like mint chocolate ice cream! Or those After-8 chocolate thins! Every time I open it, this nice mint chocolate ice cream just fills my nostrils and then I'm happy.... LOL. Though, seriously, if you ask me about masks, one that I like is a Body Shop Himalayan charcoal something something mask... I've used that up so I don't have a photo of it and can't recall the proper name.


Still trying to Yoga daily (or, according to the schedule an app gave me) and of course the dog has to stay in the way hahaha!

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I'm only noticing now, apparently one of my first LJ icons (the one I have right now *points left*) looks like Nutmeg haha! I'm going to add one that is Nutmeg herself soon :-D

Nutmeg (orange) now plays pretty well with Harley (white)!

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They also sleep well together LOL!

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Nutmeg is also an outing cat. I think I'm going to buy a harness and a leash for her, though when she goes out she still likes to just sit on my shoulder. I actually took her to my friend's cake shop yesterday. She had a lot of fun there, LOL!


Just a shoulder cat.


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Shoulder cat!

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Dad is going full throttle with his Christmas cookies baking, and the apartment is now smelling of pastry dough, sugar, and just... CHRISTMAS!

Or the Witch's Hut from Hansel and Gretel.

Together with the sudden drop in temperatures, I'm really enjoying my life right this moment. Soon it's gonna warm up and get all humid and then it's no fun again. But! Enjoy it while it lasts! I've already taken out my scarf! New friends may not know, but I spent like, 12+ years knitting this Slytherin scarf LOL. I started just before I graduated University (the height of the Harry Potter craze I think), then as you know, knitting is not really my thing, so the eagerness tapered off. Then every winter I'd take it out and knit a few rows. I finally finished it yesterday. Had to make some fringes because I don't have enough wool and since it took me so long to get to this point, I wasn't able to find the same wool I had used.


Nutmeg will be a travel cat. She likes to sit on shoulders. Whoever's shoulders. She just likes to sit there. I guess it's warm? I was cleaning up the table after dinner and up she plops herself up on my shoulders, and I have to move around like the Hunchback, lest she slips and falls.

We know now that when Frankie is calm, he can get on with Nutmeg. But there are times when he gets crazy, then that's a no-no. Hopefully Frankie learns to always keep the calm!


Mom will kill me for showing this photo to the world, LOL (because of the messy living room), but yeah, Frankie and Harley can co-exist in harmony... for 2 seconds maybe.

Nutmeg updates

Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:09
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So yesterday we decided, enough was enough. It was the 4th day that Nutmeg wasn't eating, so we brought her to the vet. The vet was rather worried that she's not eating. We even gave something that he calls "McDonald's for cats!" That he claims ALL cats will eat, but Nutmeg did not eat. That's why the vet decided to keep her for the night.

I already missed that cat, darn it. I couldn't easily fall asleep, so I just tried to let my mind go blank, and eventually I slept.

It's Friday, it's supposed to be my day off, but I went back to work (very late though, and dressed very casually) to get some work done. It's impossible to do. I'm not a project manager. I understand the concept of a Gantt chart or Critical Path, but I don't know how to build one. Also, I have never arranged for this kind of project, I have absolutely no idea what to list. The boss wanted 1 particular item. I tried to ask someone that's of that area of work, and will participate in that project as well, and he goes, "It's not just that 1 item. There's still this this this this this and that!" And I just about had to give up.

Managed to get more Christmas presents when I went out for lunch. Now all the ladies' presents are done. I only have the guys' presents. Three for the cousins, two for the uncles, and one for the dad. I can get suspenders for my dad. I used to give a nice bottle of wine for the uncles, but now everyone's old and sick and can't drink wine. Cousins I want to find something that's useful but economical. Worst case scenario, all guy cousins get a box of expensive chocolates.

Then I went for the company Christmas party. They gave me a tag number, but didn't put any markings on it, so I had no idea whether it was a number 6 or a number 9. Since I have no luck in anything, especially lucky draws, I focused on the eating (that place did a mean French Toast)

They drew for a $2000 cash prize. They drew exactly the 6 or 9. So originally whichever that number that was would have gotten $2000. But 2 people came up (me and another guy). So they decided to just split and we got $1000 each. Pity.

Anyway, I got a call from the vet during the day saying Nutmeg was finally eating (after giving her all the good, stinky, expensive stuff and rejecting... the vet said she is eating.... kibbles... dry food!)

So I left the party early and went straight to the vet to pick up Nutmeg... overnight stay, new bag of dry food (that she eats), $1065. Well, at least that prize came in handy.

And I have Nutmeg trying to sleep over my neck and suffocating me to death. That's how I can fall asleep now, LOL!

Cat updates

Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:54
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Yes, the Wordless Wednesday was basically a cheat. I just posted the new cat Nutmeg's photo. And I'm shamelessly posting more LOL.

We're calling her Nutmeg.

I guess me being the one to physically pick her up and bring her home (the person that instructed me to do so is Mom, don't put the blame on me) has made her only sticking to me. Whenever I'm in the room she's in, she has to sit ON me somewhere. I don't put her there.


Anyway, we've kind of encountered some problems with her. She ate the first day, and then she also ate the following day, breakfast. After that breakfast (Sunday), she didn't eat anymore. It's now Wednesday night.


It's a bit worrying as cats not eating is more serious than dogs not eating. She is still lively and likes to chase people around, but otherwise, she's just sleeping all day and when I'm around she has to sleep on me.


Taking some time to get to know the other cats and the dogs. I think she can now tolerate having a dog sniffing her, or near her. But outright being crazy and the dog-kind of enthusiastic greetings are still a no-go for her.


Loves to go unde the sun, even if it's just my bedroom. Also got this nifty pouch-bag thing from the dollar store (though the actually item did it cost a dollar... it was waaaaayyyy more than a dollar)


The vet is stumped as well. He told us to try to get his "McDonald's for cats!" Food, he was so sure the cat will eat it, but no. Nutmeg refuses to be swayed. She still pees, so I have no idea where she gets her liquid from. She needs to revisit the vet another 3 days (already visited 2 times) for injections. You can imagine this may have been a street pick up but I've already spent a mini-fortune on this cat *rolls eyes*

It's still Mom's fault.
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Still un-named, but now we know it's a she! So I can't call her Michael (wanted to call her Michael at first because she looks like Michael from What's Michael?)



If I accidentally flashed myself, I'm sorry, LOL. I had tights on so there isn't really much to see LOL LOL LOL



I'm speaking in Cantonese Chinese and I'm just ranting about the kitten throwing my plants at the window sill down to my bed and about how she is using her claws.

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I’m posting from the app so it’s going to post photos in HUGE size, sorry in advance!

So.... I swear this time it’s 100% not my fault!

I was walking down to the market with Mom, bickering about what to get for lunch, when this little kitty jumped out and ran by us.

Mom was all OH POOR THING! And I was like an actual adult (or, mom), saying leave it, don’t look at it, you will feel sorry for it, don’t bother.

Oh how the roles have changed. I remember the days when I would be nagging to take a stray home and the parents saying that exactly.

Then a motorbike drove by and almost hit the kitten. Oh how my Mom wailed. I gave her a last warning. “If I pick it up I will not put it down!” And she said, “pick it up then!”

So.... oops?

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The funny thing is: it happened!

The tree did collapse twice already. I shouldn’t laugh, but hey, it’s either laugh at it or be mad about it. Let’s just laugh.
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Of course, with the novelty of a new cat, it's always gonna be about the cat! and he's like the friendliest cat ever. The greediest cat ever, the worst food-stealer ever, and whatever you can say about a cat. He climbs up our backs and looks over our shoulders sometimes, it's really funny.


I do make a point to greet the dogs and the other cat first before I have any interaction with Harley. But that other cat is really prickly. We got Harley in hopes of Kitty having a comrade, but Harley has in turn befriended the dogs, even Menina who is really wary of cats in general doesn't mind him now...

This is a crazy household.

There's some issue thingy going on at work and well... in a way it's funny, but in another way it's not. Oh yeah, and tomorrow is the group gathering. Should be interesting. We'll see.

I've been meaning to play on the piano for a few nights already but haven't actually gotten the drive. hm... and I'm contemplating... should I buy the Sherlock 4 DVD or just wait it out for Netflix? I don't want to have a physical DVD lying around, I don't want to watch or download any illegal source, but I wanna watch it. Though from the trailers I think I won't like season 4.

Early day for me. Night!

Harley

Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:12
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Hello all, meet Harley!


Mom wanted to call him "Snow White" (Branca de Neve) and then my Sis banned it because he is a male, so I said "Neve" (snow) or "Branco" (the male adjective of "white"), then I noticed that the cat is constantly purring non-stop. So I said let's call him Harley. Yeah. for Harley-Davidson.

Although now that I've Googled a bit about constantly purring cats and it seems it's not exactly a good thing. But ohwell.


Well, Harley is definitely more of a "housecat" than our Kitty (that nefarious tabby). He's actually more calm with the dogs. Though my black-and-white dog (pictured) is surely doing a good job of scaring the cat away. The big black dog Bido (will find a photo later) seems to be very enamoured with Harley though. He calmly walks to the cat and sniffs and makes a soft whiney sound then turns around and leaves. Harley certainly is somewhat interested in playing with Bido's bushy tail.

My sis did a thing with her workplace (an animal rescue place) and got referred to their vet who would give us a discount for everything, and the first vet visit this morning revealed that he's 4 months old (I don't believe it) and they suggested to let him calm down for a week, then they will start the full blood tests and jabs and deworm and stuff. Then when he's around 1 we can neuter him.

I'm somewhat unconvinced, and really want to bring him to our trusted-but-outrageously-expenseive-vet.

Harley is still getting to know the apartment and the dogs, and eventually needs to be cleaned, so he is still relegated to just the computer room. Only allowed to roam free under supervision, as we don't know if he likes to climb up and push things down (seen too many Youtube videos of cats)
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We have a boarder tonight. Mom saw a cat by the parked cars just by our apartment building, so we went down to give it a feed... and practically just carried the cat home.


Cute little white male cat. Or kitten. Not sure. Really a cutesy! Yes. We vehemently do have a "NO MORE EXTRA PETS" policy at home. 4 dogs and 1 cat in an apartment is really stretching our capacity.

The thing is, this little male cat... seems more like a house cat than this terror we currently have. The white little kitty... you can touch, play, carry, you can do all that you want with him!!


Just look at her eyes, don't they spell evil?? You can touch, but after 2 seconds she attacks. You can carry, but she will most likely show her claws in a bit.

The plan is to take the new cat to my sister's animal rescue place tomorrow and have the cat quarantined. The joke within the family now is, since the white cat is so nice, let's keep the white cat and take the tiger to the rescue. (it's just a joke). I kind of suspect the white cat will end up with us in the end though. Mom seems particularly partial to this white cat, and having a male cat around (will be spayed) may reduce the tiger cat's eagerness to have my Dad molest her. hm..... we whatsapped the photos of the white cat to Dad (still in hospital) and he says "yes, keep him."

We'll see.
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I mean it and I don't mind it.

So my Wordless Wednesday Post this week is a drawing I did long long long long long long time ago. There's a story why it came up.

Today, one of my dogs wasn't feeling well. She threw up in the elevator and just generally didn't look too ok. So after work, (I got off work early), I rushed home to check on the dog and the apartment. I placed everything I had on my bed, and went walking around the apartment to check for any, you know, vomit or anything.

The reason I put everything on my bed is, I hate leaving my stuff out in "public areas". (I hate that about my sister, she leaves EVERYTHING lying around EVERYWHERE).

So while the parents are out in Europe, Mom told us to "bring water home from work" because we don't have a water filter (the filtered water is more gross than the unfiltered water) so we usually buy our drinking water. Dad used to be 3-4 bottles every week (at 5L, that's 20L of water weekly) and then we refill it to our mini water dispnser thing.

Well, so, apparently, I didn't twist my bottle of water well, so all that stuff I put on my bed? When I got back to see, my bed was soaked. The duvet, the linen, the mattress cover, the mattress, EVERYTHING was soaked through.

Shit.

It was night already by then, so I could only switch on all the aircons, and undress the mattress to the bare core. My mattress is a (was) a special polyster whatever thingamajoo material so it came zipped up in another mattress cover, I removed that as well. All cloth things went to the laundry and then the dryer. The mattress? I had to move it out to the living room, prop it against a few chairs, and put the dehumidifyer right underneath the mattress. Switched on the air con to full blast.

With the mattress out, I saw a load of paper crap I had hidden under the mattress, so that's how that drawing came back. Huh. I sucked at coloring since back then, haha.

Everything seems dry now but I'm still somewhat uneasy about it. I'd feel better if I were given the chance to put the mattress under the sun. I need to sleep tonight, so I guess tough luck, I'll sleep on it, and I don't dare put it out in the open without someone in the flat, (you know, it might rain)... next best is this weekend when I have done all the chores then I can wrangle that mattress out there.

I guess it's really the first time in my life that I was happy about my single mattress - if it were a double bed, then I wouldn't have been able to move it at all.

So with all that work with the mattress and the covers, I didn't have time to do my usual yoga and biking on a non-running day. Though, wrangling the inner mattress back into the mattress cover was workout enough, I'd say.

Hope you had a good laugh at my misfortune. That way at least even my misfortune helped to cheer someone up.

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kat (DW: elusivek | LJ: notte0)
❤︎ loves dogs, dark chocolate, and books.
★ doesn’t exactly hate cats.
◆ hates white chocolate.
more?
I read books :-)

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