I haven’t written a post in 5 days, I have a good excuse – really.

Our cat Beeper aka “my old boy” who is 20 1/2 years old suddenly started acting funny and it looked like we would have to start preparing ourselves for the time to say good bye. Yesterday I took him to Dr. Dana (love our vet) and after blood tests, some IV fluids and Beeper eating a can of special diet cat food – we find out he has an overactive thyroid, just like me. Well, mine was nuked – his prescription was called into Costco and yesterday he started on medication to slow it down.

For 20 1/2 years old, his other tests came back super for his liver, kidney, glucose. He still isn’t himself, he’s been hiding in our master closet, but he is coming out and meowing at me, so that’s a good sign.

So I have been a bit preoccupied and I have been doing my Wii for 1/2 hour a day instead of the usual hour. I am 104.9 so it is down but I don’t know if it’s a healthy decrease or just my anxiety. We got Beeper at 3 weeks old and I bottle fed him wrapped in a receiving blanket every two hours for some time like a baby – so on October 2nd he was 20 1/2 years old and the thought of ….. well we won’t go there.

On note to make, giving a dog medicine is much easier than giving a cat medicine I have found out.

I am also continuing to paint the doors and trim in white, two down 10 more to go. I have saw horses and drop clothes and painting supplies in the living room. I don’t like the choas and the house looking like a mess, but it has to get done.

I have tile samples laid out on the kitchen counters too – decisions to make about new counter tops. Sorry guys… no granite or marble I COOK and don’t want to babysit or worry about sealing, spilling or have up keep on what little counter real estate we have.