Simply, Sally

End of Week 4 with Echo.

Damn, they grow fast at this age. X_x She’s now about 7 weeks old and is a regular pest. We’re already having the evening crazies and she’s jumping and running like a pro now. She’s getting long and strong! Her eyes have changed to the most gorgeous gray-green color, too. She simply adores chomping my nose with every ounce of strength in her body and playing with Luna. Surprisingly enough, after that first week with her, she hasn’t scratched any of us since. She’s using the litterbox like a pro, even covering her waste on her own. She’s also left the dish we’d been feeding her in and is using a normal double-sided kitty dish. She’s not taking a bath in her food anymore, but still manages to get it all over her face. So the baths continue.

My adventures in kitten proofing has continued as she’s found more and more she can mess around with. My bed is one of her favorite places to play now. She’s learned that blankets are good to sleep under and that bed skirts do not a barrier make. (We have to watch our feet when we walk by our beds, particularly me) All the exposed cords are either taped down, ran through toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes, or through narrow tubes of printer paper.

Luna is really great with her. She has yet to hurt Echo, which is wild, given how easily she hurts Jasson and I in play. She likes “biting” Echo’s paws, which is really just taking one of her paws in her lips – no teeth involved at all -, playing tag, or poking her with her nose and retracting before Echo can swipe at her. I feel a little guilty: Luna has been my puppy since I brought her home and now I have to pay so much attention to little Echo. I really need to just break down and call Sterner Veterinary Clinic; I’ve been resisting since it cost us about $100 last year for just Heartworm and now she needs ALL her shots. Still need to get Echo into the Vet’s too; she’s about due for her first shots now too. But Sterner’s is the ONLY vet clinic in this retarded little town and they’re super expensive.

The new space is up and I have most everything transferred over. After the last time I tried to move the fanfiction script, in which I lost everything, I was really expecting worse… instead, after I got over my fear, it transferred without a hitch. I know I warned everyone to have it ready by the 10th, but after it went over so easily I decided to do it now. Fanart is another story, that I lost everything and now that server is down so I can’t continue my manual transfer. -_-;; I didn’t bother saving anything in the Oekaki; I figure I’ll advertise on Bender’s board and the RL… maybe Gaia too and get some activity. Now just to see that the domain has been renewed. They received my money at about 2:14pm EST today, so hopefully this weekend or Monday they’ll renew my domain and then next week I’ll change my nameservers and update my domain info. 12 – 72 hours later, Lunaescence.com should point to the new server.

Still nothing on the house. The showing today didn’t happen; around 5pm they called and canceled. We’ve had it. We’re getting really close to calling a couple companies that buy houses and asking them to buy ours. There isn’t many houses in our price range, so we keep hoping praying that a trailer we’d been looking at sticks around a while longer. I don’t think we can afford $300/month lot rent, but we certainly can’t afford to stay here. It’d put us back in the old neighborhood, near our family and friends, and only 20 minutes away from some serious job hunting grounds. Frankly, so long as we get enough money to pay off some bills, pay our moving expenses, and get the hell out of this place – I think I can deal with extra crap.

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