For a seckon there, a's thought a's wassa back down in the ghetto!

[reddragdiva]

I am off work today owing to a braaanes deficit. Last night was really special. Neo had peed on the bed yesterday afternoon, down his own leg and actually into redcountess's breakfast cereal. (So now we know who pissed in her cornflakes.) So she exhausted herself putting that lot on to wash and tidying the kitchen.

I got home and set the rest on to wash, set up the quilt and the fan heater to dry, fed the kitties, made dinner, found the bucket the kitties had crapped in last week, cleaned it, changed their litter tray, poured vodka through the cushion the kitties had pissed on last week (drycleaning for the exceedingly cheaparsed), helped Liz have a bath and wash her hair, changed the sheets and pillow cases ... then Neo pissed on the freshly-changed bedding too. He was so out of it. Stripped the bed again, asked arkady to take Neo to the vet tomorrow if needed.

Then the carbon monoxide detector started beeping.

Turn off boiler, open bathroom window wide. CO detector keeps beeping. CO detector goes continuous. What the fuck. Assume broken CO detector, keep boiler off just in case. Switch off CO detector, shut bathroom door. Finally collapse around 1am in to-be-exceedingly-cold bedroom.

We woke up this morning alive, not dead and without pink blood and congested red faces (though rather cold), so I think we can assume the CO detector was on the blink. I've left the boiler off and made two calls to the agent to fix it NOW pls kthx, and I might make a third soon. Neo is considerably less groggy — he was active enough to paw Liz's face for food at 5:30am and to try to steal Madam's when I did feed them — so we'll hold off on the vet for now. One emergency at a time.

fuuuuuuuuuck. I claim my morning cigarette. A triple vodka with a side order of heroin wouldn't go down too badly either.

I so need a job working from home. One of my co-workers, a VME admin, has the Best Gig I've Ever Heard Of. He moved from Surrey to Weymouth, forty miles away, so resigned; the bosses went "oh shite!" (who on Earth knows VME?) and begged him to please stay on and telecommute. So he dials in four days a week and pops in one. Still gets London weighting too. Everyone is exceedingly happy with this arrangement.

Human children are supposed to be worse than this, right? Though you don't have to have their balls off, and you have a few years to worry about the local tomcats.

Update: Neo is pretty mobile today, unlike yesterday, following me around the house meowing at me. "Dad, get this thing off me!" Awww :-) And Madam and Neo keep trying to touch noses but can't with the buckets on. "Are you my brother?"

Update 2: Just spoke to a human at the agent's and they should have someone around today. And Neo just successfully used the litter tray of his own accord!

Comments

[necialma.livejournal.com]

SOunds a vERY busy day~hugs~ to you all!

Yesterday Marcus was apparently running around like a dervish on speed refusing to use his potty so dave had to put him in nappies, he pulled all his clothes out of his cupboard so he could sit in it and then kept roaring like a monster/lion!

By the time I got in from work he was all chilled again but Jadzia was being a bitch still and was grounded due to food wars being re-established and MAtthew was grunting as eloquently as ever!

This morning Jadzia remembers about homework she needed to hand in so there I am at 7am after about 6 hours sleep helping her play with numbers! Marcus actually did not get up until 2 mins before i was due to leave but Mattie despite being up for an hour was still running late!

The other day Jadzia and Marcus were sharing a bath and flooded the bathroom that badly we had water running down the dining room walls..that was a mad dash to get towels down in the bathroom and move bookcases away from the wall!

So yeah kids are hassle:))

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

*offers vodka*

[arkady.livejournal.com]

He already knows what kids are like - I have two of my own which he's met.

Mind you, my two are rather well-behaved specimens, so maybe he has a not-entirely-accurate idea of what parenthood is really like....

[reddragdiva]

*gulp* Second bottle, please! Third is opened and lined up, right?

/me pops out for cig

[reddragdiva]

I've met plenty of little shits and remember precisely what a pain in the arse I was as a child myself. That's why I keep telling you how exceedingly well you, cymrys and yellowrocket have done ;-)

[necialma.livejournal.com]

MIne are generally good as gold when we have visitors, to which i get "awww aren't they cute?" comments!

They ain't bad kids and my eldest has finally got his head on straight and has now stopped stealing for the sake of it (he just wanted the stuff and didn't wanty to part with his cash or save for it) and has pulled up his grades dramatically..but they defianately aint angels, they do behave well when out and about which is always good and I don't have tantrumns at the checkout fortunately as that leads them to NOT being allowed to go shopping!

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Of course dear!

There isn't like a kitten training school is there to train kittens to pee in the tray?

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I have to kind of admire Neo's skill at peeing.

And wonder if I should perhaps try to bring something waterproof to sleep in Friday night Just In Case. *eyes Neo and Madam suspiciously*

[reddragdiva]

That's why we got Tom to visit and teach them how to be cats ;-)

[reddragdiva]

He's a lot better today. Really ;-)

We should have heating by then too ...

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

They don't get any better when they grow up either! I currently have an 'I'm going to leap about on your head anytime/ all the time during the night' battle with Gizmocat. He is also going through a shouting at everything phase. Penguin has decided she only likes one particular brand of cat litter, which is out of stock, and is widdling next to the poo house instead of in it.

There's also the cat vomming during moulting season or whenever visitors are around and chucking food and biscuits all over the kitchen.

Cats are fab! :-/

[karen2205]

Carbon monoxide detectors cost around £5 for two - if you're worried about the carbon monoxide levels it may be worth buying yourself a pair and seeing whether a new dectector is triggered. It could just be that the current detector is old and needs replacing.

The symptoms of carbon monoxide poisioning take a while to build - if either of you feel at all ill, go to your GP and have it checked out.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh.... but it didn't work? Can they do all the other kitty things OK? Or could it be a bladder control issue?

(I am asking lots of questions this morning...)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Carbon monoxide detector...that sounds familiar from the dim and distant past. Like fire blankets.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

FYI: I applied for a(nother) job in London this afternoon. If anything comes of it -- even in the way of interviews -- you may expect me to be hitting you up for random information.

[gothbabe.livejournal.com]

Man, what a day you had yesterday!

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

I think Smokey has forgotten what the litter tray is for now, he just goes outside all the time, something the kitten (Shadow) cannot work out 'why not me?' with a cute little innocent look on his face everytime I let Smokey out the bathroom window (I have to be quick cos the moment I'm in the bathroom Shadow runs there no matter where he is).

Shadow so far seems to only be destructive in terms of knocking stuff over, clawing at things, etc, he uses his litter tray fine without problems. We've not even had any major rows over the litter tray since he came here (probably mostly due to Smokey deciding 'outside' is litter tray and also 'safe haven away from that sodding fscking kitten!!!!')

[satsumagirl]

It may be that Neo has a urinary tract infection and associates the litter tray with pain from weeing and so is peeing elsewhere. Worth going to the vets today just to make sure he is ok :)

[redcountess]

We think they might have sedated him after the op, and it's still wearing off.

[reddragdiva]

We'll see how he goes today. He's pretty mobile today, following me around the house, very much unlike yesterday.

[reddragdiva]

:-D

[grega.livejournal.com]

The CO monitors we have in the student kitchens are a pain. They go off when the battery runs low, as an indicator that the battery is low. Bloody annoying as they don't reset and the students get paranoid despite the fact the cooker's off and the windows are open.

[reddragdiva]

Better paranoid than pink and dead!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Also if his little kitty parts are sore from the operation, he might be feeling the need to pee more than usual, so not being as careful about where he does it.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

that is the best icon i have ever seen! icon love!