I got Phurball a little catnip ball at the grocery store.
As soon as I gave it to him, I realized I would have done better to just get him some catnip. He wasn’t so much playing with the thing as he was trying to rip it open to get at the weed.
After about five minutes, he came over to me and meowed plaintively.
I tore open the ball so he could get the catnip.
Now he’s got the munchies.
There’s a nasty little bug making the rounds. My oldest had it before Christmas, but somehow the rest of us managed to escape it. Some friends had it go through their family a couple of weeks ago—even the dog was throwing up, probably in sympathy—and last Thursday I got a call from the school that my youngest was sick.
When I was a kid, my mom would say “I wish I could be sick for you.” At the time I just thought it was a nice thing to say. Then I became a mom and found it was the literal truth; if I could be sick in place of my kids, I would.
Unfortunately, not only can I not be sick for them, I can be sick as well as them. My mate woke up with it in the wee hours Saturday morning, and by afternoon I could feel the onset of queasiness myself. We had a pretty wretched weekend chez Bertha, with most of us crawling wretchedly between our beds and the bathroom and praying for death.
My older son was fine and perky, if a bit bored.
So anyway, if you’ve been wondering why I haven’t answered your e-mail or something, that’s why. We really didn’t have a lot of interest in anything over the weekend.
Once again I’m fiddling with my blog page. I’ve decided I want to have another go at the cool CSS menus that Eric Meyers has on his page. Of course, I’m not the web guru that he is, so it’ll take me a lot of fiddling and tweaking, but I’m learning about parent/child elements in the process (I hope).
Of course, most of my friends read my blog through the Livejournal copy, so they won’t see it anyway. One of these days I plan to figure out how to get the RSS feed over there working so I don’t have to copy and paste every time I make a post. (I had a script to do it with Movable Type, but I haven’t bothered to make that work with WordPress because an RSS feed would be better, dammit.)