A mixed bag of a day really. Last night I noticed that Malice’s very bad eye (the one that had been sewn shut as opposed to the one that simply doesn’t work) which had been a bit discharge-y for about 24 hours had stuck shut with gunk. I bathed it open and realised it was very unpleasant underneath as in pretty much full of pus. Sorry if you’re eating, but I imagine very few people do eat while reading my blog nowadays – frankly if you do then you get everything coming! 😆 So I rang the vets and got an appointment for first thing this morning.
As suspected it is very infected and the nurse we saw pretty much expected it would need to be removed. It is actually more for cosmetic (ha!) reasons that it has been left in really as it is totally non-functional and I guess even a non-working eyeball is preferable to no eye-ball. But given she can’t look in a mirror anymore anyway, is unlikely to need to pull tom-cats by looking gorgeous anytime soon and any guests of ours who are likely to be offended by a one eyed cat would probably also be offended by all sorts of other things in our house first. Anyway I left her there for the vet to look at and make a decision. The decision made was to bring her home again for the weekend with antibiotics and eyedrops to be administered (nightmare!!) and take her back on Monday for another look. I think we all expect her to be kept in to have the eye removed on Monday really but it’s worth a try. And of course that’s another £25 on cat drugs today with potentially hundreds more next week if she needs further operations. 🙁
In other news we’ve been over to Ali’s today. Davies particularly has been in a challenging frame of mind the last week or so and continued in that vein (sorry Ali!), Tarly did the classic sibling thing of being all charming – til we got home of course, when she did something wrong which I flew off the handle over and then she sobbed for ten minutes because she thought I didn’t love her anymore 🙄 But it was lovely to have some chatting time with Ali and I managed to spew out all sorts of things which have been on my mind lately so very cheap therapy with nice tea even if I did have to tolerate soya milk in it! 😉
Back from there to collect Malice from the vets and home to find Ady already there. I had reached the end of a long week’s worth of patience with parenthood so left to go to Sainsburys for an hour and came back in time for bedtime.
Tomorrow we start phase one in Operation Playroom. We have a plot to sort out playroom out, get shot of all the stuff which is outgrown, never played with, never likely to be played with, was bought in one of my indulgent ‘I want my children to play with toys like these’ phases when actually my children have no intention of playing with toys like these or qualifies for the category of ‘nasty plastic tat’. The incentive for all of us is a tidier, more crap-free home for me and Ady without constant reminders of where at least part of our debt has come from and for the children the promise that any money we raise from selling anything saleable goes towards a ‘gaming fund’. Yep, you read that right a gaming fund. We have always been a game free household. Mostly it has to be said because we were a game free household before the children arrived and as such having not been parents for six years yet it hadn’t really seemed essential ‘kit’ as yet. But I am starting to become aware that most of Davies’ peers have such stuff in their homes, as is he and whilst I am not about to change my views on ‘adult’ or ‘violent’ stuff as such I can see a value to the film-related type stuff that he has played on in friends houses. Coupled with the fact it is something he would really like to have and at six I think the reasoning of ‘because’ starts to wear a bit thin really.
So I’m in the market for a bit of gaming advice really. My Mum has said she and Frazer will contribute to the Gaming Fund for Davies’ birthday. Davies initially will be wanting Wallace and Gromit games although it would be a rather expensive indulgence to merely have it for that I don’t anticipate us buying new games very regularly or particularly fretting about having the latest titles. So, Playstation, X box or something like a DS? All views, opinions and advice gratefully recieved, aside of course from anyone who thinks for one minute I will play on whatever we get and will therefore be available to trade turnips with or anything like that! 😉
Oh D wasn’t *that* bad, bless him, he was looking for something stimulating/challenging to do and thoroughly enjoyed the bath bomb making, as did stirry Scarlett! Hope the bloody thing works to some extent in bath!
W&G game also available for PC, I feel bound to inform you, in case it is crucial to your decision at this point. However, it’s designed for console play and I think doesn’t really play so well on PC. Definitely plays well on XBox and Xbox would mean we could swap/lend games too.
Was nice to see you, cheap therapy ‘n all.
Comment by Ali — 04 August 2006 @ 10:50 pm
Oh bugger forgot about bath bomb making – and I have photos and everything. And I meant to talk about the Elmer story reading. I made dinner in the middle of composing this post and forgot all the middle bits of content! 😆
Hmm to W&G on pc – I don’t *think* that’s the point but thanks for mentioning, if we get nowhere near the fund raising required that could certainly be a ‘for now’ compromise.
Comment by Nic — 04 August 2006 @ 10:53 pm
Your response is scarily fast, you need to master the art of ignoring comments for a good two hours.
No – W&G on PC is definitely not the point – I am pissed so you will forgive me. Don’t compromise!
Oh yes, Elmer story reading where you looked like Maria from SoM, but with good Northern accents too. That was good. I have pics.
Comment by Ali — 04 August 2006 @ 10:57 pm
Don’t *think* Maria does cleavage. Or arm bruises 😉
But I can do lonely goatherd rather well 😆
Comment by Nic — 04 August 2006 @ 11:18 pm
*shuts ears in case Nic yodels (in Brum or Scouse)*
Comment by Ali — 04 August 2006 @ 11:41 pm
A chipped xbox. Then you need never pay for the games at all 😉
Comment by Chris — 05 August 2006 @ 8:51 am
pmsl @ you and your gaming fund.
The Wii is coming out soon … but I do love the DS for being portable *and* having multiplayer games. Nintendo games are the best imo.
Comment by Sarah — 05 August 2006 @ 9:01 am
I assume by chipped xbox you mean one with some sort of extra sneaky technology rather than one which has a chunk knocked out of it, therefore does not work and it would be pointless to buy games for C? 😆
Comment by Nic — 06 August 2006 @ 7:48 am