Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Cat is back on insulin

The vet put my cat back on insulin today. She'd been diagnosed as diabetic two years ago but taken off insulin about a month after that when it was doing more harm than good. We've been using Purina DM (dry mix) seemingly successfully since then. It's too dry but perhaps has been improved since they now line the bags with foil, after I complained to them that the food was too dry, coincidentally or not to my writing them.

I am probably more worried than the cat at this point. I don't look forward to giving her her shots. Apparently she took them well at the vet today so let's hope that continues to go well.

More as it comes.

Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Year's Eve at my house

On the food menu:
1 - Shrimp platter. The 12oz version, from Thailand, little shrimp.
Next time I should get some real big, sweet, LA shrimp. More
expensive but worth it. I thought a whole shrimp platter would do me
but I'm still hungry so on to the Marie Callendar's Fettuccine
Alfredo, this time with fresh pepper, provided by my sister Sue
(thanks!) since they don't provide pepper anymore. Cheapskates. The
pepper turns out to have a little flavor of something I'm not wild
about so I may not use it that much. (red peppers? green peppers?)
Marie Callendar's had a good pepper that used to be included in the
box...
- As much McCormick's Irish Cream liqueur as I want. I usually buy
Bailey's but it is much more expensive. Started drinking at about
8:30. Also have a nice supply of Yuengling's Black and Tans ready to
go. The supermarket doesn't stock their porter.
- Have Boston Cream Pie, chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and
chive cheese dip ready to go (whoopie!) but that fettuccine seems to
have filled me up.

On the entertainment menu:
8-11 The Big Broadcast on FUV. Some nice 20s and 30s music.
10- 1 Prairie Home Companion on PBS. Radio on the tv. Rare.
At 11, I'll tape Peter Bochan's Short Cuts on BAI. Always a good New
Year's Eve compilation of the year in sound. Probably will be too
much crappy pop music but should be some good soundbites.

(I re-foamed (put a new foam ring around the cone cuz it really blew
a night or two ago) the right speaker today so it is hopefully ready
for whatever loudness I throw at it tonight.)

Sound like fun, right?. Wouldn't you want to be with me? Ha!

(Getting harder to type the more I drink... Only 2/3 through my first
tall glass so far.)