JSNI, Cats and Weddings
The Japan Society of NI were able to raise £11k after all the events, which was absolutely amazing.
While I was making paper cranes for the JSNI events, Merlin (iPad autocorrect is trying to change her name to 'merkin' ><) dived into the bag and tried to play with the cranes. So I had to scarifice one in order to prevent her from runining them all. A month and a half later, Merlin still goes crazy for it. And with having Easter eggs lately, Mog has had access to her favourite toy; rolled up balls of foil. They both may be 10 in June, but they are still incredibly active.
Merlin has somehow gained most of her fur back. Once again all the vets' work was in vain as she cures it herself. This once again makes us thing the last vet we saw was correct; that it's a behavioural problem caused by her living environment before we took her in. We also changed the type of litter on recommendation from the vet (her environment in her previous home wasn't clean and we think that's where her balding problem stems from) to one without any dust, and we think that has something to do with it. Expensive stuff (we're spending the same a month on litter as food, and the kitties are fed only on Vetnrinary food such as Iams), but if it stops us from having a partly bald cat, it's worth it.
I'm thinking this may be my last year of Japanese classes. We may not have enough people for Stage 5 anyway, but if it does continue, I'm not sure if it's something I can keep up. We get about 10 new kanji per week and with general vocabulary and grammar stuff, I'm just not keeping up, or getting homework done on time. At the moment I'm trying to get to the point where I can really push my business forward to a new level, and with that and the other things I want to do, although I do have the time to do Japanese, I don't have the energy. And I don't want to coast. I want to learn the stuff for myself, not just to get the qualifications.
Ah, what else? Wedding wasn't too bad. Lovely location (on the shore, surrounded by mountains, gardens and a forest), in a castle (a normal small castle, not one of the massive ones you see). And the weather was great (we've had amazing weather for several weeks now). It was quite fun until the food (which wasn't very nice, and I worry about it as Barry got sick that night and I felt a little funny after, even though neither of us drank much) and the party that nit. The band were awful, and did nothing but typical wedding songs. Half the people ended up heading out into another room to escape from it. So, yeah, got pretty bored towards the end, just waiting around until we were able to escape. Glad to get home that night.
Righto, off to get some stuff sorted on this long weekend :)
While I was making paper cranes for the JSNI events, Merlin (iPad autocorrect is trying to change her name to 'merkin' ><) dived into the bag and tried to play with the cranes. So I had to scarifice one in order to prevent her from runining them all. A month and a half later, Merlin still goes crazy for it. And with having Easter eggs lately, Mog has had access to her favourite toy; rolled up balls of foil. They both may be 10 in June, but they are still incredibly active.
Merlin has somehow gained most of her fur back. Once again all the vets' work was in vain as she cures it herself. This once again makes us thing the last vet we saw was correct; that it's a behavioural problem caused by her living environment before we took her in. We also changed the type of litter on recommendation from the vet (her environment in her previous home wasn't clean and we think that's where her balding problem stems from) to one without any dust, and we think that has something to do with it. Expensive stuff (we're spending the same a month on litter as food, and the kitties are fed only on Vetnrinary food such as Iams), but if it stops us from having a partly bald cat, it's worth it.
I'm thinking this may be my last year of Japanese classes. We may not have enough people for Stage 5 anyway, but if it does continue, I'm not sure if it's something I can keep up. We get about 10 new kanji per week and with general vocabulary and grammar stuff, I'm just not keeping up, or getting homework done on time. At the moment I'm trying to get to the point where I can really push my business forward to a new level, and with that and the other things I want to do, although I do have the time to do Japanese, I don't have the energy. And I don't want to coast. I want to learn the stuff for myself, not just to get the qualifications.
Ah, what else? Wedding wasn't too bad. Lovely location (on the shore, surrounded by mountains, gardens and a forest), in a castle (a normal small castle, not one of the massive ones you see). And the weather was great (we've had amazing weather for several weeks now). It was quite fun until the food (which wasn't very nice, and I worry about it as Barry got sick that night and I felt a little funny after, even though neither of us drank much) and the party that nit. The band were awful, and did nothing but typical wedding songs. Half the people ended up heading out into another room to escape from it. So, yeah, got pretty bored towards the end, just waiting around until we were able to escape. Glad to get home that night.
Righto, off to get some stuff sorted on this long weekend :)