Decorations blather, Bujold, and cat question.

[jedishampoo]

We have a tree, yay! And finally I have the lights up in the front of the house. You can definitely tell that a GURL did it. It looks like crap, and nothing is fastened. One stiff breeze will bring them all down for people to trip over. But since our main front-door visitors appear to be those people who stick ads into our door and hang ads from our doorknob, I don't feel too badly about this.

What's cool though is that sharpeslass's parents went to England, and we now have chocolate Star Wars figurine ornaments for the tree (foil on the outside, fattening on the inside) and a Star Wars chocolate advent calendar. And Hallmark ornaments a-plenty.

Bujold: Thought I should finally read Hallowed Hunt, so to re-acquaint myself with the world I re-read the entire Vorkosign series. See the inherent problem? Two totally different universes. But hey, Sharpeslass was watching BAD BAD Adam Baldwin movies. I had to read something. Having some trouble getting into Hallowed Hunt, though. I'll need to sit down and try again.

Cat question: sharpeslass's holiday trip and my holiday trip overlap. Think a cat would be all right alone for five days? The cat is 15 and high-stress anyway, so boarding would probably just send her over the edge.

I need to write. Anybody want anything written?

Comments

[bquinlan.livejournal.com]

My first suggestion would be to call your vet and ask them what they think about leaving your cat alone for that long.

Is your cat used to eating everything in the bowl when fed? Or does she browse when hungry? If the former I wouldn't chance five days unattended. If the later you might be able to get away with it.

If you do decide to leave your cat alone for that long you should check with your vet about the minimum amount of water your dispenser needs to hold. And get a self-cleaning litter box if you don't already have one.

Do you have anyone who could look in to see how she's doing once or twice?

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

She's a browser, thank heavens, so food and water will last. We just need to leave the toilet lid open; I give this cat fresh filtered water and yet she MUST drink from the toilet. Ew.

She's just such a freak about strangers. We have a couple people who are not quite strangers to her who we could ask to stop by, but I wonder if she'd even come out from under the bed.

Thanks for your input... :)

[bquinlan.livejournal.com]

Even if she won't come out to see them, I would strongly recommend that you have them check the house. Evidence of illness or other problems may be visible even if they can't see the cat.