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[blamebrampton]

Cat has pneumonia, we think, is up to nearly $1000 in tests so far. Is also making up for years of being extremely low-maintenance with a huge burst of neediness. Subsequently I am behind on everything.

Will finish up both beta projects I have by tomorrow night, then can get back into some solid writing. Then I can start on the thousand-odd comments I am behind on and remember to give some more people some love, such as no_mad_skillz, who is thoughtful and compassionate, who_la_hoop, who is hilarious and possibly my secret love child, and spark_of_chaos, who I like for so much more than her F1 obsession -- but I love that, too because we can rave at each other crazily in a few weeks and she will wholly understand the Finn fetish (it's a Baltic thing).

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I'm trying to hold back from the pet = child thing, because I grew up on a lot of farms and I have shot the odd pet when it was necessary and the vet was too far away, but I am a sucker for animals. I found a lovely cat the other year, and my partner took it over to the local vet to see if it was chipped, because my cat wanted to eat it and he thought it would be best to not have it here.

It had no ID and there were no alerts out for it. They sent it off to the pound, as law dictates for lost animals. My partner was consumed with guilt when he found out this was a killing pound. But he left it to me to rescue it. So in the end I spent $200 retrieving a cat I had already had, plus buying it a litter tray and collar and ID, and paying for it to be registered, then our cat still hated it, so I had to find it a new home. And I never once considered doing anything differently. Though I should have demanded he pay for it since he was the one who had shopped it.

It's the big eyes, I tell you! They make us do stupid things!