Introducing Betty White

[daftcat75]

I think mine is one of those, too, because turning and trying to yank isn't cutting it. So I'm using the kitchen sink for toothbrushing. That works just fine until I decide what to do. And since I have a disposal in there, it's a better choice, actually. *The "bright idea" was obvy someone's who works for the mfr or a plumbing empire. Or maybe both?*
Mr. Fluffy's tiny furball yesterday morning was accompanied by a lot of "wet" but fortunately he spewed on the breakfast room laminate.
Walz is also a hunter and a gun owner. Which does not at all endear him to me. He's also reportedly in favor of universal school lunches. Guess who pays for THOSE. *Yeah, sure, kids should eat. I did. Every day. Via a brown bag.*

The other side is going to be dredging up on Walz. So I'm just going to reserve my judgement and let the enthusiasm play out for awhile. The reason we have the filibuster in the Senate is to prevent the governing party from running the table with all their wildest fantasies. I don't see universal school lunches going anywhere. As for hunter and gun owner, I think that moderates the ticket and makes him relatable outside of the blue cities. He's also for red flag laws and universal background checks. He's not unabashedly pro-2A. And anyway, his opponent wants to turn women into voter vending machines. He's saying parents should get votes for their children. You don't think that's going to trigger a red state baby boom to get their favorite cult leaders elected? We don't need any more Musk or Trump offspring.


Betty didn't pop today.

She skipped half her lunch. But then she just nearly finished first dinner in one pass. So maybe we're that much closer to another Southern hairball.

 

[daftcat75]

Last night I said she didn’t pop. This morning she hasn’t pooped. Maybe that’s why she only ate half of overnight and has barelly/almost imperceptibly touched her breakfast this morning.

We’re on Southern hairball watch. She hasn’t begun water loading for me to worry about a Northern one yet.

In the meantime, we’re watching some Track and Field from bed.

 

[tarasgirl06]

The other side is going to be dredging up on Walz. So I'm just going to reserve my judgement and let the enthusiasm play out for awhile. The reason we have the filibuster in the Senate is to prevent the governing party from running the table with all their wildest fantasies. I don't see universal school lunches going anywhere. As for hunter and gun owner, I think that moderates the ticket and makes him relatable outside of the blue cities. He's also for red flag laws and universal background checks. He's not unabashedly pro-2A. And anyway, his opponent wants to turn women into voter vending machines. He's saying parents should get votes for their children. You don't think that's going to trigger a red state baby boom to get their favorite cult leaders elected? We don't need any more Musk or Trump offspring.


Betty didn't pop today.

She skipped half her lunch. But then she just nearly finished first dinner in one pass. So maybe we're that much closer to another Southern hairball.

Truly. Let's see what plays out. He doesn't thrill me, but yeah, it could be exponentially worse.
This may be of interest:
Demo VP nominee Tim Walz hunts, but loves cats & is hated by gun lobby - Animals 24-7

 

[daftcat75]

I got Betty to eat a few morsels off the carpet for half a meal. I don't want her stomach to sour. But I don't want to push it either.

And I probably did anyway. Because she just came into the office to load up on water. I distracted her with a little play hoping the exercise might help things along. It worked for a bit.

But now she's sitting in a no cat's land in front of her carrier. She doesn't usually just sit there (unless she's waiting for me to fix a meal and wants to be "deceptively" out of my sight line.) I think she's getting ready to pop. But she just doesn't know what to do with herself yet.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I got Betty to eat a few morsels off the carpet for half a meal. I don't want her stomach to sour. But I don't want to push it either.

And I probably did anyway. Because she just came into the office to load up on water. I distracted her with a little play hoping the exercise might help things along. It worked for a bit.

But now she's sitting in a no cat's land in front of her carrier. She doesn't usually just sit there (unless she's waiting for me to fix a meal and wants to be "deceptively" out of my sight line.) I think she's getting ready to pop. But she just doesn't know what to do with herself yet.

Let's hope it's a false alert. Those happen.
Just got my new SE3 set up. Elvis doesn't care very much.

 

[daftcat75]

She’s in her shark cave. She did poop. Wasn’t the messy hairball number I was expecting. Breakfast remains half eaten. But the half that has been eaten still remains inside her. Hoping she’ll do better on lunch.

 

[daftcat75]

Let's hope it's a false alert. Those happen.
Just got my new SE3 set up. Elvis doesn't care very much.View attachment 482088

I only just learned about this feature on the iPhone. If you use Find My… from another Apple device (I have two iPads), you can select your iPhone and Play Sound and the phone will chime even on silent. I’ve used this a few times already when I couldn’t remember where I last left it and can’t find it. Elvis, like Krista, is offering to help with the dishes.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I only just learned about this feature on the iPhone. If you use Find My… from another Apple device (I have two iPads), you can select your iPhone and Play Sound and the phone will chime even on silent. I’ve used this a few times already when I couldn’t remember where I last left it and can’t find it. Elvis, like Krista, is offering to help with the dishes.

Yes, *Put the food in the cat. KEEP the food in the cat.*
I don't lose my phone because I work from/at home and don't go out much at all. When I do, it's in my bag. But yes.
Clean, shiny teefs. Paid for with ApplePay.
The King decided to give the countertops a break. For the moment. The kid is in the bedroom snoozing. Getting all recharged for dark-thirty follies.

 

[daftcat75]

Yes, *Put the food in the cat. KEEP the food in the cat.*
I don't lose my phone because I work from/at home and don't go out much at all. When I do, it's in my bag. But yes.
Clean, shiny teefs. Paid for with ApplePay.
The King decided to give the countertops a break. For the moment. The kid is in the bedroom snoozing. Getting all recharged for dark-thirty follies.

Your neurospicy alphabet soup is a different flavor than mine. I have the ADHD and you have the OCD. You probably never lose your phone because you have a place for it always. I try to set my phone down only in certain places so that if I do lose track of it, my search list is much shorter and predictable. I'm the same way with which pockets my phone, wallet, and keys go in. I'll panic if I put my wallet in the wrong pocket because my search list is one pocket. And because I do keep my apartment dark like a cave on these hot days, I have to say that's mighty convenient to push a button on my ipad that says, "Phone, announce yourself! Where did I leave you?" "Marco?" "iPhone!"

Betty ate at least half of lunch on her own. Final score on breakfast was half too. I'm not sure if she will finish lunch. And I'm not going to worry about it yet. As long as she keeps eating (and it exits only through the normal route), we'll sort out what's enough and what's not enough on weigh-in days. Today was quite a warm one. Even I am feeling a little less peckish.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Your neurospicy alphabet soup is a different flavor than mine. I have the ADHD and you have the OCD. You probably never lose your phone because you have a place for it always. I try to set my phone down only in certain places so that if I do lose track of it, my search list is much shorter and predictable. I'm the same way with which pockets my phone, wallet, and keys go in. I'll panic if I put my wallet in the wrong pocket because my search list is one pocket. And because I do keep my apartment dark like a cave on these hot days, I have to say that's mighty convenient to push a button on my ipad that says, "Phone, announce yourself! Where did I leave you?" "Marco?" "iPhone!"

Betty ate at least half of lunch on her own. Final score on breakfast was half too. I'm not sure if she will finish lunch. And I'm not going to worry about it yet. As long as she keeps eating (and it exits only through the normal route), we'll sort out what's enough and what's not enough on weigh-in days. Today was quite a warm one. Even I am feeling a little less peckish.

Oh yeah. Everything MUST be in its place. I'm my own drill sergeant. I've lived with too many people who are not in the least organized and they waste so much time trying to find things! In fact, one of my past jobs was organizing people's offices. There were a couple of huge ones including the largest reggae archive on the planet. That was a joy!
So your phone is named Marco? Mine is Gigi. *How do you do, Marco! Nice to meet you!*
Had some issues with setup this morning. I was going to postpone it until after the dentist and some stuff tomorrow, but of course no one can hold me back when there's a challenge. I thought it'd be easy like last time. But there was a possible glitch, so I had to call the provider at their linked request, and as always when I have to deal with tech support, I regretted it. I was nervous, sweating and sticky-fingered anyway, and worried that I wouldn't get it done in time. As too often, I ended up snapping at the agent and telling her not to input until I input. Ended up telling her how to do her job. I hate that. But long story longer, it got done. Gigi is just fine, thanks.
Yes, as long as we all consume something, life and work will go on. I really just want to drink iced sun tea all day when it's like this. But I can't set a bad example for the boyz.

 

[daftcat75]

My iPhone doesn't have a name. I was referring to the game played in swimming pools, Marco Polo. It's basically hide and seek for human dolphins. The seeker closes his/her eyes and calls out, "Marco?" and the other people in the pool will respond "Polo" and the seeker has to try and find the other person/people by the sound of their response. Human echo-location. Except it takes another person to echo and the first to locate. So yeah, using the app is like calling out Marco and listening for the phone to chime back and find it by its chime.

I try to leave myself clutter baskets. Shallow ones that have very specific purposes like holding my sunglasses by the door. In the bedroom, there is one for my wallet, watch, and run bag (a ziploc bag that contains my apartment community's front/side gate codes and also holds a debit or credit card, my drivers license, and a transit card when I go running. Since this bag lives in the same basket as my wallet, if I pick up my wallet (which is really just a thin six or eight card brick holder and release to prevent the kind of clutter that I would most definitely build up in a real wallet) and if my wallet feels thin, I know to search the baggie right next to it for the missing cards. The keys have a magnetic dot on the wall by the door. Same as my work badge which I've used all of about five times in the last five years. But if I need to go into the office, I know where to find my badge--on its own magnet dot next to my keys. My phone has very particular places I will set it down which makes it distressing when it's not in any of them.

OCD and autism seem like they might complement each other. Autism seeks routines and OCD demands them.

ADHD and autism often seem like adversaries. Autism wants routines and ADHD can't even keep a thought straight half the time. More often than you might believe I will get one shoe on and then start running around the apartment with only one shoe on because whatever thought I just remembered is going to be forgotten by the time I get the other shoe on. I've spent much time over the years trying to create more order for ADHD like smaller playgrounds for it to go nuts (clutter baskets or clutter spots.) Then autism says, "okay, now that you've filled your clutter spot, can you empty it and put things where they should go? Weed your clutter garden so you can re-plant it again." I also try to game-ify chores and tasks so that ADHD will get dopamine hit it is looking for. I will set a microwave timer for chores and say, "just do five or ten minutes. See how much you can get done in ten minutes. Inevitably, hyperfocus kicks in and I voluntarily extend my timers." I also have golden hours at work where I tell my unfocused self, alright, sit down and knock out that task you've been switching off of or putting off all day. And those golden hours of hyperfocus are generally worth another worker's half day.

I too crave iced tea in this weather. But I brew it on demand and decaffeinate it first. Caffeine is highly water soluble. You can extract most of the caffeine out of tea by brewing it for a minute, give the bag a gentle squeeze, and then change the water. The tea you just dumped has all the caffeine. Now I can put that tea bag in a mason jar of cold water and it can sit there all afternoon, changing water if I need to, without worrying about what afternoon caffeine is going to do to the pooper that's finally settled down after morning coffee. Oh I hate autistic gut!

 

[daftcat75]

Betty is being adorable!

Look at those cute paws folded under her head.

She’s giving me an “ugh! The pawparazzi!” look.

 

[tarasgirl06]

My iPhone doesn't have a name. I was referring to the game played in swimming pools, Marco Polo. It's basically hide and seek for human dolphins. The seeker closes his/her eyes and calls out, "Marco?" and the other people in the pool will respond "Polo" and the seeker has to try and find the other person/people by the sound of their response. Human echo-location. Except it takes another person to echo and the first to locate. So yeah, using the app is like calling out Marco and listening for the phone to chime back and find it by its chime.

I try to leave myself clutter baskets. Shallow ones that have very specific purposes like holding my sunglasses by the door. In the bedroom, there is one for my wallet, watch, and run bag (a ziploc bag that contains my apartment community's front/side gate codes and also holds a debit or credit card, my drivers license, and a transit card when I go running. Since this bag lives in the same basket as my wallet, if I pick up my wallet (which is really just a thin six or eight card brick holder and release to prevent the kind of clutter that I would most definitely build up in a real wallet) and if my wallet feels thin, I know to search the baggie right next to it for the missing cards. The keys have a magnetic dot on the wall by the door. Same as my work badge which I've used all of about five times in the last five years. But if I need to go into the office, I know where to find my badge--on its own magnet dot next to my keys. My phone has very particular places I will set it down which makes it distressing when it's not in any of them.

OCD and autism seem like they might complement each other. Autism seeks routines and OCD demands them.

ADHD and autism often seem like adversaries. Autism wants routines and ADHD can't even keep a thought straight half the time. More often than you might believe I will get one shoe on and then start running around the apartment with only one shoe on because whatever thought I just remembered is going to be forgotten by the time I get the other shoe on. I've spent much time over the years trying to create more order for ADHD like smaller playgrounds for it to go nuts (clutter baskets or clutter spots.) Then autism says, "okay, now that you've filled your clutter spot, can you empty it and put things where they should go? Weed your clutter garden so you can re-plant it again." I also try to game-ify chores and tasks so that ADHD will get dopamine hit it is looking for. I will set a microwave timer for chores and say, "just do five or ten minutes. See how much you can get done in ten minutes. Inevitably, hyperfocus kicks in and I voluntarily extend my timers." I also have golden hours at work where I tell my unfocused self, alright, sit down and knock out that task you've been switching off of or putting off all day. And those golden hours of hyperfocus are generally worth another worker's half day.

I too crave iced tea in this weather. But I brew it on demand and decaffeinate it first. Caffeine is highly water soluble. You can extract most of the caffeine out of tea by brewing it for a minute, give the bag a gentle squeeze, and then change the water. The tea you just dumped has all the caffeine. Now I can put that tea bag in a mason jar of cold water and it can sit there all afternoon, changing water if I need to, without worrying about what afternoon caffeine is going to do to the pooper that's finally settled down after morning coffee. Oh I hate autistic gut!

Oh, THAT Marco! Of course. *But your poor nameless phone! All of my devices have proper names. I consider them to be adjuncts to my brain, so they could all have my name, but that would be kind of boring and frequently confusing.*
Yeah, autistic gut. I didn't know it had a name. But yeah. Bigtime. SO annoying! The coffee and tea here are full strength and I'm pretty sure the iced tea at night adds to the insomnia but hey, that, too, is my normal! Unscheduled visits from the brash kid with his squeaks and huge paws make it all the more interesting.

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Smiles (and yawns) for Thursday or as my mom used to say, S.H.I.T. (Sure Happy It's Thursday!)
Autism demands and OCD DRIVES. So it's a double whammy, either way you look at it. But it's my normal and a lot of other people's... Lots of fun in the dentist chair yesterday -- my hygienist's son is also "one of us" so she gets it but she also has a propensity to yatter on while working, often on subject best left unsaid. Yesterday it was X-rays and "healthcare"-- not my faves. But we got it done. She's really sweet, but she also makes me uncomfortable with the talk.
Oh yeah, hyperfocus! It's like our own personal laser beams. I told my roomies that WWIII (or whichever one we're up to now) could be happening and if I'm working, it wouldn't even register.
Betty is ALWAYS being adorable. But there are degrees and levels. There, she's right up at the top.
And *Happy International Cat Day*!!!*Of course, for most if not all of us here at TCS, EVERY day is ICD! (Which has nothing to do with OCD.)*

 

[daftcat75]

All this divisive talk about Kamala being a DEI hire. Tim is an REI hire.

 

[tarasgirl06]

All this divisive talk about Kamala being a DEI hire. Tim is an REI hire.
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Yeah, we can pretty much bank on that.

 

[daftcat75]

Oh what a difference a day makes.

She pooped at her normal hour (before breakfast) and she’s on pace to finish breakfast this morning.

She did have another Klingon encounter. The camera footage is inconclusive. But it appears a tiny little piece made it out of the box and onto the hardwood in front of it. And I found it the sticky way at 5am in the morning. That’s right. Betty gave me a poop foot. After her meds, I did a paw check and a smell-over before she was allowed to join me in bed for third sleep.

Oh cats!

 

[tarasgirl06]

Oh what a difference a day makes.

She pooped at her normal hour (before breakfast) and she’s on pace to finish breakfast this morning.

She did have another Klingon encounter. The camera footage is inconclusive. But it appears a tiny little piece made it out of the box and onto the hardwood in front of it. And I found it the sticky way at 5am in the morning. That’s right. Betty gave me a poop foot. After her meds, I did a paw check and a smell-over before she was allowed to join me in bed for third sleep.

Oh cats!

Well, Elvis has taken to hanging out in the catbox. Is it a sympathy thing? IDK. It may be because of the ant plague. There are 6 catboxes throughout, but the boyz use one. Yup. The one that Elvis is currently relaxing in.
Do I want him in there?
Of course not.
But what Elvis wants, Elvis gets and he seems quite happy in there. Thankfully I have a good supply of Comet on hand for when he does venture forth.
Betty! How unladylike! But as we all know, "it" happens
Just FYI if you're a big BUB fan like me, you may want to check out lilbubsolana on the elon platform. All for a good cause: special needs cats and others. They're an equal opportunity carer. I'm not a crypto fan but if I was, I would be for this.

 

[daftcat75]

Well, Elvis has taken to hanging out in the catbox. Is it a sympathy thing? IDK. It may be because of the ant plague. There are 6 catboxes throughout, but the boyz use one. Yup. The one that Elvis is currently relaxing in.
Do I want him in there?
Of course not.
But what Elvis wants, Elvis gets and he seems quite happy in there. Thankfully I have a good supply of Comet on hand for when he does venture forth.
Betty! How unladylike! But as we all know, "it" happens
Just FYI if you're a big BUB fan like me, you may want to check out lilbubsolana on the elon platform. All for a good cause: special needs cats and others. They're an equal opportunity carer. I'm not a crypto fan but if I was, I would be for this.

Not a chance in the world I am signing up for "er". Never have and now that Musk owns it, never will. I don't trust him farther than I can spit with my personal information. And his network is toxic. Nope. I don't care if likes and shares are saving kitties and puppies. You cannot pay me enough to join that cesspool.

Oh Elvis. Is he sleeping in there too? Is he still doing alright otherwise? I have only seen a cat lay in the litterbox once before and that was Krista the day before she passed. She spent the night sleeping in her litterbox. To be fair, she had a bladder infection. She had a lot going on and really did look like death. Had I known she was going to pass the next day, I would have spent more time with her that last night. But I was just relieved that she was no longer coming into the bed to pee. But Elvis looks great as of yesterday's pictures. So my sample size of one is probably completely unrelated to Elvis' strange tastes.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Not a chance in the world I am signing up for "er". Never have and now that Musk owns it, never will. I don't trust him farther than I can spit with my personal information. And his network is toxic. Nope. I don't care if likes and shares are saving kitties and puppies. You cannot pay me enough to join that cesspool.

Oh Elvis. Is he sleeping in there too? Is he still doing alright otherwise? I have only seen a cat lay in the litterbox once before and that was Krista the day before she passed. She spent the night sleeping in her litterbox. To be fair, she had a bladder infection. She had a lot going on and really did look like death. Had I known she was going to pass the next day, I would have spent more time with her that last night. But I was just relieved that she was no longer coming into the bed to pee. But Elvis looks great as of yesterday's pictures. So my sample size of one is probably completely unrelated to Elvis' strange tastes.

Yeah, agree 100% about the platform and if I didn't work on it (not FOR it. ON it.) I wouldn't be there. Since fb won't give me access to any of my Accounts because I refuse to give them personal info, and since other platforms are either shady or not big enough for me, I'm staying there, sadly.
Well, to be honest, I've been lying about Elvis' age. He's almost 18, really (sort of "16 for well over a year") and he's lost a lot of muscle mass. His appetite has been good, but along with Mr. Fluffy's, it's fallen off some due to the heat and the ants. He's drinking well, and eating "normally" given those things. He sleeps on the kitchen counter, his current favorite place. His toileting is normal. He's been described as "a character" by his dad, from whom I adopted him, and that does describe him. I'm not overjoyed about his choice of places. But I'm not going to force him out of them. Fluffy is very low energy in the heat, too. He waits until dark-thirty to unleash his pent-up kittenman energy. I hear Elvis moving around during the night, most likely from his food and water back upstairs.

*We love ants. We just wish they'd stay outside. And hot weather? That's a big Circle of NOPE.*

 

[daftcat75]

At least you know how old Elvis is.

Shelter thought she may be 4 to 6 years old when I adopted her. Vet and I thought she may even be twice that. So two years later, she may be 6 to 8 years or 10 to 12 years old. Vet says she has young eyes though. Old teeth, old joints, but young eyes. She says cat's eyes undergo changes as they get older that makes her think that she may still be on the younger side.

What a difference a day makes! She finished her breakfast. And she finished her lunch. More surprisingly, she finished her lunch in one go. So perhaps her reduced appetite was indeed a hairball making its way through her into the box (and a little grease spot outside the box too. )