Man, I can't believe that I did it again! I'm not even staying up till 2a and then getting up at 8a like usual, I'm going to bed before 1a and can barely drag myself out of bed by 10a!

Yes, I hit snooze until 9.54a again. I have no idea what's wrong with me. None. At least this time, though, I was out of the house by 10.20a and even showered and everything, which must have been quite a relief for my workmates.

I have noticed a very interesting phenomenon since I have been home. My flea problem is gone!

If you will notice, that link is from over a year ago, and Monty has spent that year with the most enormous flea allergy, and though I took him to the vet and got some pills. which actually worked, when I ran out of them, I did not then proceed to get more. This is because I am a very bad Mommy. Good thing I don't have kids, they'd never get a well baby check-up or a vaccination or anything, I'd just fling them under the bed with the dust bunnies.

Anyway, I have spent the last year fine-combing him and vaguely trying different medications that don't work, watching him have what can only be called seizures--he twists his body to bite his side, then gets stuck in that position, falling over, waving his arms and legs around, and screaming like a woman. And yes, I watched him do that about a hundred times and still didn't take him to the vet.

Elvis also had fleas, but no seemingly wasn't allergic, they didn't bother him a bit. And he loved being fine-combed, I didn't even have to close the bathroom door. Baldrick never even saw a flea. I had the absolute gamut of cat reaction to fleas in my house. It was like living in a veterinary textbook.

Anyway, before I went home for Christmas I really wanted to give them a new medication, since the idea of not fine-combing them for over two weeks was somewhat horrifying to me--I was pretty certain that I wouldn't be able to even open the door for the amount of fleas in my living room. They'd be piled up like my clean laundry.

So I went to the store and got some stuff that I hadn't tried before and new flea collars. I had tried the little purple tubes, where you squeeze the liquid on the back of the neck and it magically migrates all over the cat and all the fleas are gone gone gone! Or not, in my case. Those purple tubes were a big bunch of useless, by me. So I got the blue tubes.

The blue tubes are the same, but instead of just going on the back of the neck, you squirt it down the spine. O, and there's another difference, it works! I put two tubes on Monty, a week apart, and one on Elvis, fine-combed a couple of times, and put a collar on Elvis, but forgot to put one on Monty, but even without that, I came home to flea-free cats! No more seizures! No more howling!

Of course, it did occur to me that maybe the reason that they immediately became cured when I left town was because I was the one giving them the fleas in the first place! Probably not...

But maybe it's a good thing that I bathed this morning...

By the way, I'm certain that everyone has noticed that even though I am back from vacation, I am not updating in the mornings, but rather the afternoons and evenings.

This is because I have discovered that I can ftp from the office again, and have been doing the bulk of my writing during my lunch hours and after work before leaving the office. Don't ask why, Lord knows I don't know, but for some reason the words that flow like bricks at home flow like a much more flowy substance at work, so I'm letting them flow there.

Anyway, my point is not to expect morning updates for a while. Of course, now that I have said that I will probably update tomorrow morning, but as long as I keep sleeping until 10a, don't count on it.

Today's horoscope:
You have talent for creating pretty word pictures, intuitively tuning into what will sound most harmonious. You avoid harshness or unpleasantness.

One year ago today:
How strange to find out about the show on Wednesday and have it completely cast on Thursday! This must be what happens to more alert directors all of the time.

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