We decided to go to Mom’s tomorrow rather than today. It gave us a chance to sleep in a little bit, and Lin has some work he wants to do this afternoon. It’s all good. Well, for us anyway. I think Mom is going to burst before we get her computer back to her. She’s really addicted to her technology. The few times I have been sans computer, sure the first day or two was totally unbearable, but then I got back into doing other non-computer things and only missed it a little. She’s been without a fully functioning computer for almost a month, and she’s about to go totally crazy missing it.

The other day, she saw something on Animal Planet and wanted to look up something about an animal of some sort. She called me to do a Google search for her and read her whatever I found. Instead, I suggested she walk over to the bookcase of various encyclopedias I still have at her house and look it up there. You’d have thought I had suggested she jump through a burning hoop into a vat of acid by suggesting that the Encyclopedia Britannica might be able to tell her in what country a particular animal can be found. Yes, it’s true. Even my mother now thinks that books take too long and aren’t a good resource for information.

The kitties are having an “on” day today, meaning they spent the entire morning running around the house in a destructive manner. I knew I was letting them lay around and sleep too much yesterday! Also, their food consumption has gone WAY up after the day they finally learned what being hungry means. I think tomorrow I am going to measure out how much food they should actually eat in one day, put it all in their bowls, and then see how much is left when we get home from Mom’s. I have the feeling we will come home to find empty bowls and hungry kitties. They aren’t getting fat, but I think I do need to start paying attention to how much they are eating. It’s hard to tell when you just keep the kibble bowl topped-off all the time. I do know I filled their bowls twice yesterday, and that food was gone this morning … and they have HUGE bowls. None of those tiny cat-sized bowls for them. I’m thinking as they get lazier and more adult cat-like in the sleeping all day department (which they tend to do now for a few days at a time) that the amount of food they are eating isn’t going to get burned off and will start producing fat cats. We went through this with Fuzza too, but not until he was about two years old, which was when the vet declared him a little too fat and suggested strict feeding times and amounts. Changing his eating plan was a serious (and literal) pain for everyone. I’d like to get the new babies switched over to regular feeding times earlier than two years so maybe it won’t be so horrifying for everyone when the food bowls no longer overfloweth with kitty kibble.

Some other cat news: Myu’s operation scar has FINALLY really healed over. Oh, it’s healed over a few times since she got fixed, but they are so active and sometimes play so rough with each other that one little spot of it kept getting injured over and over. It never looked infected, and it never seemed to cause her any pain to press on it or anything, so I wasn’t especially worried about her health, but it was something I had to keep checking all the time to make sure it was getting infected or worse in any way. I’d already planned to call the vet when Lin got paid next week if it was still an open sore, hoping maybe an additional stitch would help it heal more quickly, but it looks like that won’t be necessary now. Sort of glad about that. At least I hope so. Trips to the vet are expensive, and we still aren’t entirely back on our feet from Lin getting laid off.

I do have to tell you I did think about putting cones on both the kitties’ little heads to keep them from messing with it, but then I decided that having two wild and crazy beasts in my house with cones on their heads didn’t sound like anything I really wanted to experience if I didn’t have to. Though if it went anything like when I experimented with putting collars on them, which they will one day have to wear no matter if they hate it or not, Myu will lose the ability to move and Ronin will spend all his time fighting with it. So, the cone plan might have worked.

One of these days, I’m going to have to do the collar test again and film it. It was just too funny. Myu went as limp as a bag of rice and couldn’t move at all, and Ronin sat in the same spot for a good 5 minutes pawing at it as though it were killing him, until he got distracted by the bells on it and started playing with them. Ronin will not have any bells on his collar. He’d drive us all insane with them. He loves jingle bells.

I’m getting hungry, so a trip to the kitchen is in order. I started making brunch a few hours ago, but then Lin had to leave for work and said he won’t be back until dinner time, so I better go finish up what I started and eat it myself. It’s going to be a whole lot of hash browns for just little old me, but I refuse to waste the potatoes. Shredded uncooked potatoes just don’t keep well. Good thing I love hash browns!