Catching Up

As I mentioned in my last post, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. Even though I seem to have found a new threshold of stress tolerance and sleep deprivation (and a select few people have gotten to see what happens when I go past that threshold), things have been falling into place surprisingly well. I still feel a little bit like a zombie, so I apologize if the writing isn't quite up to par.

Tomo "helped" pack

Moving Companies A & B were a lesson in lack of customer service... with a little bit of just not being able to show up for appointments. However, the representative from Moving Company C was a rockstar. He showed up on time, and has a great appreciation for bicycles (and an understanding of the risks inherent in moving them across the country on a large truck). I know, I know... bicycle appreciation does not necessarily translate to company quality, but in this case it worked out. The best part though? My stuff will be delivered the day after I get to Sacramento. I have no idea how he worked that out, but it made my week. Seriously. Rockstar.

Priorities...

They picked up all my stuff (with a few necessary exceptions) this past Friday, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed everything makes it out there in one piece.

The kittens have been slightly less dramatic lately, at least in comparison to prior weeks. Mostly they're just confused about all the packing and current lack of items in the apartment. Their vet visit was delayed a few days by a fun little medical emergency I will explain shortly... But the vet was visited (resulting in the video posted of Tomo), the kittens are up to date on their shots, and I now have a small bottle of anti-anxiety pills for Tomo.

ostrich cat

Their biggest challenge lately has been adjusting to wearing harnesses for a few hours a day. I had to get Tomo a dog harness because, at a solid 18+ pounds, he is too large for the ones made for cats. He's not super happy about wearing it, and likes to occasionally imitate an ostrich in attempts to avoid it, but at least he remains calm. And it's ridiculously cute.

Sophie hates the harness, and spends most of her time trying to back out of it or army crawling around the house when it's on. I'm not sure she appreciates the laughter this inspires.


I'll bet you're wondering about that little medical emergency I mentioned earlier. (If not, you can just skip to the end of the post)...

I had to go to the doc last Thursday (well, two Thursdays ago now) to make sure all my prescriptions are up to date and get paper copies for when I find a new pharmacy. Somewhere in there, the resident got the timeline for tetanus shots mixed up and decided that I needed one. Even though I just had one five years ago. And he ordered the shot that includes a pertussis vaccine. Which I am allergic to. Oops.

Starting sometime Thursday night, I pretty much felt like I was going to die. So I did the logical thing and went to work Friday morning... because being surrounded by highly trained medical professionals seemed a whole lot safer than staying home by myself. I made it through my two morning appointments (in which I'm sure I was just a sharp ball of coherent conversation) before my temp hit 102.5 and I had to go home and nap.

Friday afternoon doc informed me that I should not have been given that shot (for several reasons), that there was nothing they could do about the fun combo of immune response and allergic reaction I was currently experiencing, and that I should call them if I started having problems breathing. So comforting. I hope he had that resident in tears after I left.

All of this put a big kink in my packing plan, forced me to eat like a tiny mouse for a few days, and seriously threatened my trip to Chicago last weekend. Luckily, I woke up sans fever Saturday morning and felt ok enough to drive over for what ended up being a fabulous and memorable couple of days full of museum visits, great conversation, and obscure bicycle films. Which was kind of a perfect ending to a very hectic week.


Next up: Testing out those anti-anxiety meds on Tomo. I'll make sure to take pictures.