Nov 21: Zerla

Zerla had her knee surgery two days ago, the vet said everything went very well. Right now she's confined to the study wearing a plastic cone collar so she can't get at the incision, and a large portion of her right rear flank is shaved with the incision and lots of stitches--more than I thought there would be. She looks pretty pathetic, the collar can't be comfortable. She seems to be limping more today than she was yesterday. The vet is supposed to call tomorrow and will hopefully be reassuring. From the time I picked her up she just purred and purred, and just loves it when I sit on the floor with her and pet and scratch her ears. Problem is my hip and back don't take that position for too long!

Went to the closer UU Fellowship that I started going to a few months ago. Trying to develop more friends in the area. It's a little easier now because I've been going to a discussion group that meets for 10 weeks, almost everyone was there this morning, so more of a sense of belonging. The group ends this Tuesday, but I'm hoping we can agree to get together regularly because it's a super group of people.

Cleaning the room for Zerla yesterday was somewhat frustrating. There was so much to do, and I was happily planning other things to do around the house to clean and pick up. Housekeeping is not one of my talents, and there is a tendency for every horizontal surface to have stuff piled on it. I really need to be more disciplined in reading and going through stuff so it doesn't pile up like that. And my other excuse is that it's not just picking up, it's organizing because the place hasn't been organized since I've been here. But I'd love to have it looking decent enough that people could be invited over to hang out. The frustrating part is that there's only a couple hours of energy to get a lot of things accomplished. So just when there is stuff to run up to the garage, or several trips of things to go down to the basement, things to be moved around and repositioned, all of a sudden my body goes "Time's up! You're done!" My goal now is to discipline myself to do a little bit every day. Let's see how that goes....

Thanks for checking in, Laurie