Yes, and my workmates didn't keel over with the shock of it. Some even took a while to realise it was me, so I got a lot of stuff done!
I was in at work on Tuesday and this afternoon. And will be in again tomorrow - added incentive of a big morning tea and fortnightly drinks at 4.00pm.
Picked up right where I'd left off, and immediately solved something that had been puzzling me in December. Wasn't a problem at all, just brain fade from me back then.
Zeb deals with me being at work by snoozling the time away - I'd swear he hadn't moved from his cosy spot on our bed today if I hadn't noticed the water level in his bowl was lower. So - 5 hours of snoozling with a wee drinks break!
And yes, Zeb back on the bed now, really sleeping. Watch out - the snoring will start soon.
(10 minutes later and my darling Zebby is snoring away, in true Zebbycat form, be glad you're missing it!)
Mickle's Pickle: from our World's Southern most Capital City.
19 March, 2009
17 March, 2009
Still here
Hello dear anyone out there...........
I don't have any brillo thoughts or thunks, I'm still here. Early Autumn is being very kind during the day.
Mickle and Zebbycat appreciate the quilt dear Mickle's Mum's made for Mickle back in 1992 - a large Queen sized quilt is brilliant on our large Queen sized beddybize. For a pear shaped kittycat and his apple shaped loving human.
So, so enjoying cooking and other homey stuff, just don't have the words right now for to share it all.
Nighty night, care and huggles, Mickle .................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I don't have any brillo thoughts or thunks, I'm still here. Early Autumn is being very kind during the day.
Mickle and Zebbycat appreciate the quilt dear Mickle's Mum's made for Mickle back in 1992 - a large Queen sized quilt is brilliant on our large Queen sized beddybize. For a pear shaped kittycat and his apple shaped loving human.
So, so enjoying cooking and other homey stuff, just don't have the words right now for to share it all.
Nighty night, care and huggles, Mickle .................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
10 March, 2009
Daft Council Regulations
From an article in the Sunday Star-Times here in NZ:
In Palmerston North, you may need smoke alarms in your house if you're putting a swimming pool in the garden.
In Christchurch you must put your wheelie rubbish bins a minimum of 50cm apart.
In Manukau you need a building consent if you move a toilet to the opposite corner of the bathroom.
In Invercargill you need a building consent to change tap positions in a sink.
Putting in an above-ground swimming pool in Waitakere requires a building consent, plus a $1000 deposit in case a builder's truck damages the road.
My own favourite:
In Waimakariri district you can't build within 250m of another property if the other owner spreads pig effluent on their lawn.
In Palmerston North, you may need smoke alarms in your house if you're putting a swimming pool in the garden.
In Christchurch you must put your wheelie rubbish bins a minimum of 50cm apart.
In Manukau you need a building consent if you move a toilet to the opposite corner of the bathroom.
In Invercargill you need a building consent to change tap positions in a sink.
Putting in an above-ground swimming pool in Waitakere requires a building consent, plus a $1000 deposit in case a builder's truck damages the road.
My own favourite:
In Waimakariri district you can't build within 250m of another property if the other owner spreads pig effluent on their lawn.
05 March, 2009
Signs of Autumn
The leaves on my Grape Hyacinths are now six inches high. The creeper that has spread itself right down the bank has flower buds forming. The hydraenga flowers have changed from bright blue to a deep rusty/wine red.
And just a week after I moved the spare jam jars to the basement - Quinces are in season! Bought my first today, quince jelly making next week.
Despite my not having been well enough to make it to work this year, I still have a job! I have an amazing Boss who understands my health problems and is an enormous source of encouragement. She values my knowledge and skills and considers I have some worth, and puts up with my warped, dry sense of humour - Wow. I'll pop in tomorrow to catch a presentation on some law changes that affect our work (and I know all about) and then hopefully I'll achieve some real work next week.
Meanwhile the cicadas are chirping very loudly and Zebby-cat has curled up on top of his beloved hairbrush. Yes, it is "bristles up" - Daft Darling!
And just a week after I moved the spare jam jars to the basement - Quinces are in season! Bought my first today, quince jelly making next week.
Despite my not having been well enough to make it to work this year, I still have a job! I have an amazing Boss who understands my health problems and is an enormous source of encouragement. She values my knowledge and skills and considers I have some worth, and puts up with my warped, dry sense of humour - Wow. I'll pop in tomorrow to catch a presentation on some law changes that affect our work (and I know all about) and then hopefully I'll achieve some real work next week.
Meanwhile the cicadas are chirping very loudly and Zebby-cat has curled up on top of his beloved hairbrush. Yes, it is "bristles up" - Daft Darling!
01 March, 2009
Still Here
Apologies for the lack of posts, I'm switching stuff from my heirloom PC (which is keeling over) onto Dear Dad's cast off laptop. Wow, the laptop is sooo fast in comparison I've been having fun playing on it.
What's been happening here in Mickle-land? Zeb went back to his vet for a check up last Monday. He has healed beautifully so we morphed the visit into his annual check up. All going fine until he was taken in to another room for blood tests. The puss that returned was growling and grouching, he was now in a real grump. Zebby continued to grumble as his temperature was taken, his joints checked and vaccination given. Only the third time in our three years together that I've heard him growl.
He disgraced himself and me by pooping in his cage on the way home in a taxi. Cab driver not amused!
Rest of week ticked along with me cooking, Zebby snoozling when he wasn't being either very clingy or easily spooked by nothing at all. And Summer ended yesterday with rain pouring down all over the country. So that was February!
PostScript: - Okay, Yeah, not feeling brilliant -innards and complications as result of continue, still clicking into new depression medication (don't bother with Prosac jokes - it had stopped working for me hence the new stuff) and other bits (like gynae) still cause problems. And I am appalling at asking for help, support etc.... Zebby does help, seems to pick up when I'm worse than usual. If only I could sense that in myself too.......
And a laugh - since entering the blog world as I find myself writing/commenting to many with English as a 2nd or 3rd language I find I am consulting my Concise Oxford Dictionary* more and more, to check I've got the words and/ or the spelling right in my only language - please laugh with me,
Huggles, M'dears, Care and Huggles
* 1982 version of the Seventh Edition. It includes such new words as "Cruise Missile" and "Ayatollah". In 2009 these 2 words seem very usual. So the World moves on..........
What's been happening here in Mickle-land? Zeb went back to his vet for a check up last Monday. He has healed beautifully so we morphed the visit into his annual check up. All going fine until he was taken in to another room for blood tests. The puss that returned was growling and grouching, he was now in a real grump. Zebby continued to grumble as his temperature was taken, his joints checked and vaccination given. Only the third time in our three years together that I've heard him growl.
He disgraced himself and me by pooping in his cage on the way home in a taxi. Cab driver not amused!
Rest of week ticked along with me cooking, Zebby snoozling when he wasn't being either very clingy or easily spooked by nothing at all. And Summer ended yesterday with rain pouring down all over the country. So that was February!
PostScript: - Okay, Yeah, not feeling brilliant -innards and complications as result of continue, still clicking into new depression medication (don't bother with Prosac jokes - it had stopped working for me hence the new stuff) and other bits (like gynae) still cause problems. And I am appalling at asking for help, support etc.... Zebby does help, seems to pick up when I'm worse than usual. If only I could sense that in myself too.......
And a laugh - since entering the blog world as I find myself writing/commenting to many with English as a 2nd or 3rd language I find I am consulting my Concise Oxford Dictionary* more and more, to check I've got the words and/ or the spelling right in my only language - please laugh with me,
Huggles, M'dears, Care and Huggles
* 1982 version of the Seventh Edition. It includes such new words as "Cruise Missile" and "Ayatollah". In 2009 these 2 words seem very usual. So the World moves on..........
13 February, 2009
Making Progress
Zeb is getting better. In this pic from March last year he is posing in our (yep - his and mine) kitchen doorway. *
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A happy room for him this afternoon when he got some fresh fish for dindins (NZ species - Terakihi).
!!!
Purring and snoring are back to normal levels (super loud). Wacking Mickle for attention has remained at the same frequency throughout.
!!!
Too bad it rained all yesterday and was chilly (for here) today. No, he wasn't sitting with his legs crossed - we share a bathroom. I get the hand basin shower and loo, he gets the litter tray and the chance to give me very odd looks when he sees me in the shower.
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Zeb currently purring quietly and contentedly on our bed.
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My Sciatica has eased - just have to watch my posture etc..... Dodgy innards doing their thing. New anti depressant seems to be doing something that has improved matters. (Don't think I've lost any weight but Zeb has.)
???
So pity my workmates who may get to see me for the first time this year on this coming Monday.
!!!
1 and 1/4 hours left of Friday the Thirteenth left in Wellywood. Hope your Black Friday goes well. Huggles and Purrs from Mickle and Zebby xxx
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*Happy Valentines Day? - Zeb woke me up on Saturday morning with a huge great whack to my face. Yes, his claws were out. Then the daft lad purred at me!!!
11 February, 2009
So, here in Wellington I............
Noticed an unusual "situation" on Zebbycat's lower left lip. Swollen and distended, oozy with gunk.
Luckily got an appointment at his Vet Centre this afternoon, and Zebby lad was lucky enough to get one of the owners of the practice, lovely vet Seton ( and this bloke is wonderful, has a really natural way with pets and their pesky humans i.e. mickle).
Dear, darling Zeb has an abscess there, right where his upper left "fang" comes down. Probably from a claw whack from another cat.
Zebedee Cat was amazing though out the vet session. Only minor squirms when his temp was checked (okay, normal, squirms and the temp). And very laid back when he was given two (yes, Henry in France - two!) injections to deliver immediate dose of antibiotics and then an anti inflammitory for pain relief.
And Zeb has lost some weight - he is now less than 7 kilos. A much loved rescue cat, he delivers such care and affection to me....
The news from Victoria in Aus just gets worse and worse - toll 181 confirmed dead last time I checked the news here. Vic Police sadly fear it will become much higher.
That individuals went out and lit fires on purpose......................... anger and rage, and disbelief,
waa, what, what the f**k, why.......................
Is raining here at last. While we need it, Weather Gods - Victoria and South Australia and New South Wales need it more.
Yes, Anger, astoundedness, rage, disbelief
I have raved and raged way too much here, yet is how i am feeling.
Off to snuggle down with Zebbycat, the now healing lad. He seems to have realised his visit to his Vet centre was really needed. My dear daft darling tried, but he can only hide a health problem for sooooo long.
he is now happily washing his face on that side - yahooooo. His tablets are liver flavoured so I can easily put into his fodder. Now I'll stop rambling too......... and go to snoozling land with my Zebby
Luckily got an appointment at his Vet Centre this afternoon, and Zebby lad was lucky enough to get one of the owners of the practice, lovely vet Seton ( and this bloke is wonderful, has a really natural way with pets and their pesky humans i.e. mickle).
Dear, darling Zeb has an abscess there, right where his upper left "fang" comes down. Probably from a claw whack from another cat.
Zebedee Cat was amazing though out the vet session. Only minor squirms when his temp was checked (okay, normal, squirms and the temp). And very laid back when he was given two (yes, Henry in France - two!) injections to deliver immediate dose of antibiotics and then an anti inflammitory for pain relief.
And Zeb has lost some weight - he is now less than 7 kilos. A much loved rescue cat, he delivers such care and affection to me....
The news from Victoria in Aus just gets worse and worse - toll 181 confirmed dead last time I checked the news here. Vic Police sadly fear it will become much higher.
That individuals went out and lit fires on purpose......................... anger and rage, and disbelief,
waa, what, what the f**k, why.......................
Is raining here at last. While we need it, Weather Gods - Victoria and South Australia and New South Wales need it more.
Yes, Anger, astoundedness, rage, disbelief
I have raved and raged way too much here, yet is how i am feeling.
Off to snuggle down with Zebbycat, the now healing lad. He seems to have realised his visit to his Vet centre was really needed. My dear daft darling tried, but he can only hide a health problem for sooooo long.
he is now happily washing his face on that side - yahooooo. His tablets are liver flavoured so I can easily put into his fodder. Now I'll stop rambling too......... and go to snoozling land with my Zebby
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