I look at my blog everyday (sometimes several times a day) to catch up on my "daily reads" but I never have the motivation to click "New Post" and tell you all about what is new. Honestly I don't feel that I lead a very exciting life and I don't have interesting things to share.... For example I'm currently at "work" where I have been sitting for 2 hours with nothing to do- only to sit here for another 2 hours with nothing to do. It is a crime that they pay me "work" for 5 hours when there is usually only 2 hours of work max for me to do. But hey it's a college job and it gives me time to catch up on news articles- yep I'm the nerd who likes reading news articles involving just about anything! I say it is me making up for not liking to read books....
So yes since it has been exactly a month since my last post I guess I can fill you in on how my December went..
Finals finally were over- HALLELUJAH!! and I was a week of work away from going to Houston for a little R&R with the fam.
Did I mention that I took darling Loki home to Houston with me... nope? Well I did- and let me tell you it was an adventure! A week before we left Norman I called up my local vet to see what she recommended I do to calm him on the 7 hour trip. There was no way I was about to drive with a boxed up cat for 7 hours without some sort of sedation- either for him or me! Luckily she said that half of a regular Benaydrl would dope him up and make the trip easier for both of us. So off to Walgreens I went to pick up some Wal-dryl (promise I'm not making that name up- Walgreens names their off brand medication some odd things...) So Loki was no dummy- he saw the bags starting to be packed and stacked by the door and when I went to give him the tiny half pill he fought me, jumped out of my arms, and immediately went to work throwing it up along with some of his breakfast. After a quick clean up we tried again- this time he took it and within 20 minutes was already calmer. Luckily I'm a morning person and I don't mind waking up early to start a road trip so by 6 AM we were on the road headed for Houston!
About 3 hours into the trip I was making great time- absolutely no traffic on the road and for once no construction on I-35 (is that even possible!!?)- everything was going swimmingly.. until... A very strong odor started wafting its way towards me coming from Loki's cage. He had stopped his fake crying meow about an hour earlier and I honestly had kinda forgot he was in the car. I, like any cat owner, started talking to him, "Loki is that you being smelly?", he looked up and gave me a pathetic cry. Living in a one bedroom apartment with a cat that stinks up the whole place after he uses his litter box gives you the chance to learn quickly what different smells are (i.e number 1 or number 2). I knew this smell all to well- Loki had pooped himself in his carrier. What was I supposed to do?! I had no way of cleaning him up and we were somewhere between Dallas and Houston where there is a small town maybe every 80 miles. Well we sucked it up for a few more hours and luckily Loki kept very still and tried not to disturb his accident which only made the car stink more. When I was close to my house I called up my mom and asked her to draw the cat a bath- something neither of us have ever done. We got inside, took the poop pot out if his cage and cleaned him right up- thankfully he was fairly doped up and didn't seem to mind us giving him a bath!
After the whole ordeal was over I figured Loki would lay low and stay in my room until he got some confidence to explore. My mom has a dog (Bou) and two older cats (Baxter and Archie) and we were all curious as to how they would react to Loki joining the family. Bou instantly was curious, but when a big slobbery loud Coonhound comes lunging at you, a small cat, claws were bound to be out. As to be expected Loki dominated Bou the whole trip, but eventually they were curious enough to sniff each other and be in the same space peacefully. The cats were a different story. The whole reason I originally wanted Loki to come home with me was so he could learn a hard lesson- he's not as tough as he thinks he is- we figured with my mom's cats being older and Archie being such an Alpha that surely they would beat him up and put him in his place. Boy were we WRONG! Baxter as we figured really could care less about Loki's presence. All he cared about was getting some food and going back outside and anytime Loki came into a room with him Baxter would just get up and leave- no hissing or scratching involved. Archie was a different story. The first time they encountered each other both cats puffed up and growled at each other like savage beasts but it was Archie who backed down first and would run away from Loki! By the end of the two weeks Archie and Loki were buds and played with each other and laid on the bed together- more proof that I think all of my mom's pets are gay. So Loki didn't get the beating that I expected from the cats and it was time to leave "paradise" (4 bedroom house with lots of places to hide for a cat) and head back to "torture-ville" (lame name for my tiny 600 sq. ft apartment) The trip home was uneventful with no accidents- I even began to think that Loki enjoyed road trips since he was behaving so well!
Wow I just realized my life is kinda interesting.. at least to me. Outside of the animal kingdom my break was pretty relaxed. We took my wedding dress for it's first fitting, shopped for and found the dress my mom plans to wear for the wedding, and just spent time together.
Now that I'm back in Norman I'm anxious for school to start. I love routines and it is killing me that for the past month I haven't had one! This will be my very last semester of college EVER! I can't wait to see what is in store! Wedding planning is underway- 19 weeks to go and there is a lot left to do! I'd like to say I promise to blog more often but that never seems to work. So how about I promise to blog once by Feb 13th :)
Until next time...
