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Gave the cats their Easter presents early
I haven't bought wind-up chicks in years since Lydia goes like a serial killer and peels the fur/skin off them. But this is Neptune's first Easter so really wanted to give her one! I should have bought a different colour than green because I was thinking of Minnow when I did then realised on the way back she was gone. I handled her year death anniversary the best I could. My chest was tight all day, and I cried while making some Instagram posts in remembrance. I wanted to get haddie (haddock) bits from Pearle's In Paradise but they haven't opened for the season yet.
Anyway here is 2 short clips of the cats with the chicks where Lydia basically decided they were all hers. I uploaded some pictures on Facebook too.
{ https://youtu.be/2SBj22RvsQ8?si=Ih1aNSfjXxmXi7TV }
Nepytune has her first birthday on May 6TH and she just keeps growing bigger. With Minnow she was like a small human, and Nicki & Lydia are cats. But Neptune is like some creature I let live in the house. Lydia's thirteenth birthday is April 1ST, and Nicolas' fourteenth is May 5TH. I have all their presents either bought already or ordered. Ordered Nick a fluffy purple bed because he has taken to sleeping on my suitcase I haven't washed/put away yet. Lydia I got a multicoloured bird toy (was getting her one of those self grooming brushes that suction cup to a corner bit PetValu only had the type that screw onto). Neptune I ordered some felted wool balls because she loves these pom-poms my adoptive sister sent to them at Christmas but I had to confiscate so she wouldn't eat the yarn pieces she pulled out. The felted wool balls were supposed to arrive already and the Seller resent them this week. I ordered her a little prawn toy just in case though. I also bought a replacement pump for their water fountain since Pioneer Pet is sending me a new clamshell housing & gasket for it. I bought it in January 2020 for Minnow and Nicolas & Nepytune use it. Pretty much the plastic parts are not fitting good anymore or becoming too hard to clean, but the porcelain parts are all perfectly fine still (the glaze darkened because of the sunlight though). I highly recommend the Pioneer Pet raindrop fountain. I run white vinegar through it and clean the parts once a week, and replace the filter once a month. They have them in stainless steel, plastic, and black ceramic too.
{ https://pioneerpet.com/product/6022w-raindrop-durable-ceramic-drinking-fountain-white-60/ }
Anyway here is 2 short clips of the cats with the chicks where Lydia basically decided they were all hers. I uploaded some pictures on Facebook too.
{ https://youtu.be/2SBj22RvsQ8?si=Ih1aNSfjXxmXi7TV }
Nepytune has her first birthday on May 6TH and she just keeps growing bigger. With Minnow she was like a small human, and Nicki & Lydia are cats. But Neptune is like some creature I let live in the house. Lydia's thirteenth birthday is April 1ST, and Nicolas' fourteenth is May 5TH. I have all their presents either bought already or ordered. Ordered Nick a fluffy purple bed because he has taken to sleeping on my suitcase I haven't washed/put away yet. Lydia I got a multicoloured bird toy (was getting her one of those self grooming brushes that suction cup to a corner bit PetValu only had the type that screw onto). Neptune I ordered some felted wool balls because she loves these pom-poms my adoptive sister sent to them at Christmas but I had to confiscate so she wouldn't eat the yarn pieces she pulled out. The felted wool balls were supposed to arrive already and the Seller resent them this week. I ordered her a little prawn toy just in case though. I also bought a replacement pump for their water fountain since Pioneer Pet is sending me a new clamshell housing & gasket for it. I bought it in January 2020 for Minnow and Nicolas & Nepytune use it. Pretty much the plastic parts are not fitting good anymore or becoming too hard to clean, but the porcelain parts are all perfectly fine still (the glaze darkened because of the sunlight though). I highly recommend the Pioneer Pet raindrop fountain. I run white vinegar through it and clean the parts once a week, and replace the filter once a month. They have them in stainless steel, plastic, and black ceramic too.
{ https://pioneerpet.com/product/6022w-raindrop-durable-ceramic-drinking-fountain-white-60/ }
On Neptune!
So! On September 3RD I adopted a little girl named Neptune. I actually saw her back in July as a Yarmouth SPCA adoptable (she stuck with me because her and her sisters had really long tails), but on the week of August 26TH she and her remaining sister were moved to Kings County SPCA. I met her that Friday, slept on it, borrowed money (I only had partial saved from the failed Sparrow adoption), and went Sunday morning to collect her. When I met her Friday we just clicked. It was like when I met Nicolas that I was like "I guess you're my cat now".
Nicolas was fine with her mostly by the 3RD day (I kept Neptune separated until Wednesday), and Lydia was much better than I expected (I worried she would attempt murder). Lydia was being really tsudere by rolling around on the other side of the door and talking to her and trying to reach under being all "I want to see the baby", but when she saw the baby would hiss. But last week her curiosity with the Neptune overruled her being pissed-off and she was mostly okay with her. The calming collar I ordered finally arrived Tuesday so that's helped I think too.
I am too lazy a lot of the time to type much so here is a video of me rambling about her;
{ https://youtu.be/F6e471vbCiM?si=248OIP6OMnc0O-zB }
And here is her kneading my bed ;~~~~~;
{ https://youtube.com/watch/km-sdA22fvk }
Her birthday is May 6TH, and she is from a litter of 5 bottle babies. The 3 sisters I saw for adoption were her, Saturn, and Jupiter.
I have laughed so much these past 2 weeks than I have in months. Minnow would have been disgusted though, probably expecting me to return her like she did with Nicki.
{ https://www.instagram.com/p/CwvNdqLuoL_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== }
Nicolas was fine with her mostly by the 3RD day (I kept Neptune separated until Wednesday), and Lydia was much better than I expected (I worried she would attempt murder). Lydia was being really tsudere by rolling around on the other side of the door and talking to her and trying to reach under being all "I want to see the baby", but when she saw the baby would hiss. But last week her curiosity with the Neptune overruled her being pissed-off and she was mostly okay with her. The calming collar I ordered finally arrived Tuesday so that's helped I think too.
I am too lazy a lot of the time to type much so here is a video of me rambling about her;
{ https://youtu.be/F6e471vbCiM?si=248OIP6OMnc0O-zB }
And here is her kneading my bed ;~~~~~;
{ https://youtube.com/watch/km-sdA22fvk }
Her birthday is May 6TH, and she is from a litter of 5 bottle babies. The 3 sisters I saw for adoption were her, Saturn, and Jupiter.
I have laughed so much these past 2 weeks than I have in months. Minnow would have been disgusted though, probably expecting me to return her like she did with Nicki.
{ https://www.instagram.com/p/CwvNdqLuoL_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== }
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07-27-2023
I originally made a Followers Only Mastodon thread back in May on a friend stress I am dealing with. When it was bugging me a lot because ParcelForce removed the tracking information from the link for it due to the amount of time.
I get horribly lonely and one of the things I wish for most is someone to play video-games or watch stuff together with me. In the past I used to buy people copies of stuff to try to help make that easier, but it never went that way. I would hesitate buying multiplayer games friends were playing even when asked to because I worried they wouldn't actually play with me, or would lose interest and stop playing once I had it. This repeatedly is how things have went. So I stopped doing that, and stopped asking people to do activities with me because it hurt too much. It's the same reason I no longer ask if anyone is around to talk when I am struggling because asking and receiving no response is worst than just trying to distract myself on my own. It also why I limit myself with Animal Crossing despite loving the design and setting. Because I end-up feeling so alone after a while of playing and because of the artificial friendship with the villagers aspect I feel pathetic like I am trying to fill in with things programmed to interact with me.
I have friends, and mostly have better friendships than in the past (don't be friends with someone who you have panic attacks socialising with!). But I don't have friends like other people do. I kinda exist outside like a bystander. I don't have people who will watch stuff with me, or play games together, or even call up. I often feel like I am interjecting myself into spaces or interactions. I used to live tweet audioplays with friends, or watch something while IMing or voice chat. But that was back in the days of MSN Messenger and Gizmo Project. And when I withdrew from online because of the stuff from 2011 most of those friendships moved on to not including me in those activities, or stopped talking to me because I wasn't around for months and didn't respond "correctly" to pressuring or ultimatums/tests. It took my years to feel comfortable interacting because of the wreckage of back then.
And even now through I have friends and fandoms to participate in and that I really enjoy; I spend a lot of time feeling in a cloud of isolation.
But I figured I might as well make a post to get some of those feelings out instead of bottling it up. The friend from the Mastodon thread Follows me on Twitter so I couldn't really vent like I do to get advice or work-out my upset. So here is a DreamWidth post. Below is a quote of the original thread:
{ https://mas.to/@Lady_Noremon/110387749053907091 }
( Read more... )
The hard life time being my stomach issues getting so bad my doctor put me on no work orders, and the terminal diagnosis and hospice care for Minnow. That took all of my energy to deal with anything. The grief and dread everyday during her last 5 months of life. And I couldn't talk to the person I usually would because of the parcel stuff to them hanging over my head. It also made me angry because I ended-up where the money I spent could have been really helpful rather than the waste it was. It wouldn't have been a waste if they had collected the PS4 and such, but it ended-up going to nothing but the Seller to probably resell again. I was so, so excited and that joy draining and dying over those months too.
So here is a post to get things out more longform than a bunch of toots.
I get horribly lonely and one of the things I wish for most is someone to play video-games or watch stuff together with me. In the past I used to buy people copies of stuff to try to help make that easier, but it never went that way. I would hesitate buying multiplayer games friends were playing even when asked to because I worried they wouldn't actually play with me, or would lose interest and stop playing once I had it. This repeatedly is how things have went. So I stopped doing that, and stopped asking people to do activities with me because it hurt too much. It's the same reason I no longer ask if anyone is around to talk when I am struggling because asking and receiving no response is worst than just trying to distract myself on my own. It also why I limit myself with Animal Crossing despite loving the design and setting. Because I end-up feeling so alone after a while of playing and because of the artificial friendship with the villagers aspect I feel pathetic like I am trying to fill in with things programmed to interact with me.
I have friends, and mostly have better friendships than in the past (don't be friends with someone who you have panic attacks socialising with!). But I don't have friends like other people do. I kinda exist outside like a bystander. I don't have people who will watch stuff with me, or play games together, or even call up. I often feel like I am interjecting myself into spaces or interactions. I used to live tweet audioplays with friends, or watch something while IMing or voice chat. But that was back in the days of MSN Messenger and Gizmo Project. And when I withdrew from online because of the stuff from 2011 most of those friendships moved on to not including me in those activities, or stopped talking to me because I wasn't around for months and didn't respond "correctly" to pressuring or ultimatums/tests. It took my years to feel comfortable interacting because of the wreckage of back then.
And even now through I have friends and fandoms to participate in and that I really enjoy; I spend a lot of time feeling in a cloud of isolation.
But I figured I might as well make a post to get some of those feelings out instead of bottling it up. The friend from the Mastodon thread Follows me on Twitter so I couldn't really vent like I do to get advice or work-out my upset. So here is a DreamWidth post. Below is a quote of the original thread:
{ https://mas.to/@Lady_Noremon/110387749053907091 }
( Read more... )
The hard life time being my stomach issues getting so bad my doctor put me on no work orders, and the terminal diagnosis and hospice care for Minnow. That took all of my energy to deal with anything. The grief and dread everyday during her last 5 months of life. And I couldn't talk to the person I usually would because of the parcel stuff to them hanging over my head. It also made me angry because I ended-up where the money I spent could have been really helpful rather than the waste it was. It wouldn't have been a waste if they had collected the PS4 and such, but it ended-up going to nothing but the Seller to probably resell again. I was so, so excited and that joy draining and dying over those months too.
So here is a post to get things out more longform than a bunch of toots.
So...A slight chance of a new addition...
I went on vacation for my birthday this year. Went to a motel with my cats to relax and recharge with peace. The weekend before I left an area cat rescue [Cats For Keeps with a lot of CAPS alumni (that organisation I supported for years that ended operations a while ago)] posted a kitten they are fostering named Sparrow. Something drew me to her, but I haven't been interested in adopting any cats. I kept thinking about her during my trip. She is a little mostly grey torbie (Minnow was a torbie but mostly brown), with a black nose, and little black bumper car style tail. She's currently in quarantine with another kitten [Catbird] because of an URI.
They posted another picture of her a week after and I had a big think about her. I decided to call for more information about her from Cats For Keeps. The person fostering her answered and we talked for 20 minutes about her, the adoption process, and my cats. She sent me an application form to fill-out if I wanted to have my name in. The next day I called my vets to talk to them about it. Then I contacted the low cost spay program my mom went through for her cat last year. Then I waited a day and submitted an application for Sparrow.
She still has about 1 1/2 weeks to her next check-up and they won't be sure if she is bonded in a pair with Catbird until they reintroduce them to the other fosters. There is also a vet reference and interview part if the adoption process. So it is not guaranteed I will be picked, and if she needs to go with Catbird then I wouldn't be able to at all. I am trying to keep myself from getting too excited, and thinking too much with planning. But I figured I may as well post here about her too. Talking to her foster about her personality I am so smitten. She is apparently very playful/rambunctious, social, and demanding. She is from a barn cat situation [Minnow was an ex-barn cat], is tiny for her age, and despite the cold has been very active. She has little spots on her belly ;~~~;
I worry about introductions, the future, finances, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera. But it feels like something I will regret if I don at least try. When I sent in the form I didn't have the "OH NO" pit of my stomach panic I usually have after decisions. I know Nicolas would be alright, but Lydia is the hard sell. Part of this is because of Nicki too because he has started crying when he wants to play and Lydia ignores him. He started arthritis treatment recently and had so much more activity, and Lydia often prefers solo play.
I won't know further for like 2 weeks so I am trying not to get myself expectant since so many factors make it less likely.
Facebook | Cats For Keeps post | Sparrow 27-06-2023
EDIT---
07-10-2023
The rescue decided to adopt her out as a bonded pair with Catbird. So not able to adopt her as I just wanted her singular (as you know I already have 2 cats; Nicolas & Lydia). I am irrationally sad over this. I guess just the opening my heart and the mourning of the potential.
First real serious think about adoption with a cat. There's a little ex-barn kitten in the area my grandfather lived through an area rescue and something is just drawing me to her. Her name is Sparrow and she's current unavailable due to an URI pic.twitter.com/EmG7gQ3vpQ
— Captain |Ghost Trick|🐀| Keep On Keeping On 🏳️🌈 (@Lady_Noremon) June 25, 2023
They posted another picture of her a week after and I had a big think about her. I decided to call for more information about her from Cats For Keeps. The person fostering her answered and we talked for 20 minutes about her, the adoption process, and my cats. She sent me an application form to fill-out if I wanted to have my name in. The next day I called my vets to talk to them about it. Then I contacted the low cost spay program my mom went through for her cat last year. Then I waited a day and submitted an application for Sparrow.
She still has about 1 1/2 weeks to her next check-up and they won't be sure if she is bonded in a pair with Catbird until they reintroduce them to the other fosters. There is also a vet reference and interview part if the adoption process. So it is not guaranteed I will be picked, and if she needs to go with Catbird then I wouldn't be able to at all. I am trying to keep myself from getting too excited, and thinking too much with planning. But I figured I may as well post here about her too. Talking to her foster about her personality I am so smitten. She is apparently very playful/rambunctious, social, and demanding. She is from a barn cat situation [Minnow was an ex-barn cat], is tiny for her age, and despite the cold has been very active. She has little spots on her belly ;~~~;
I worry about introductions, the future, finances, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera. But it feels like something I will regret if I don at least try. When I sent in the form I didn't have the "OH NO" pit of my stomach panic I usually have after decisions. I know Nicolas would be alright, but Lydia is the hard sell. Part of this is because of Nicki too because he has started crying when he wants to play and Lydia ignores him. He started arthritis treatment recently and had so much more activity, and Lydia often prefers solo play.
I won't know further for like 2 weeks so I am trying not to get myself expectant since so many factors make it less likely.
Facebook | Cats For Keeps post | Sparrow 27-06-2023
EDIT---
07-10-2023
The rescue decided to adopt her out as a bonded pair with Catbird. So not able to adopt her as I just wanted her singular (as you know I already have 2 cats; Nicolas & Lydia). I am irrationally sad over this. I guess just the opening my heart and the mourning of the potential.
A video on Minnow's death because I am not up to typing 03-27-2023
{ https://youtu.be/hOCZnwB6z30 }
Her liver values had gone down to normal and things were stable, then sudden decline.
{ https://www.gofundme.com/VetBillsandDonairs }
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Minntiddles is gone
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06-12-2022:
"on the 13TH last month Minnow was acting sick. Lethargic, goopy eyes, vomiting, and acting like she had taken Gabapentin without it. I took her to the vets, and she was given antibiotic & antinausea injections. It was diagnosed as a URI and no big deal. We made an appointment for bloodwork and a recheck later in the week. That Thursday she had a recheck and bloodwork, and the results were good except her liver value was up. The doctor we had that day figured it was because of her body flushing the infection. But the she stopped eating, so I took her back on Saturday the 19TH. That's when the doctor on that day recommended an X-ray. Which found the gallstone we found previously had grown and moved, and what may be a tumour in her lung. Also her arthritis had exasperated from the previous X-rays. A diagnosis she wouldn't be able to recover from. So we started into basically palliative care for her. The gallstone may be blocking bile ducts so things are terminal. After that visit she hadn't had a poop all weekend, so I took her back Tuesday. I dreaded that maybe something had twisted or there was a blockage. But the vet then and I decided that since Minnow was present and otherwise eating/drinking/active to give her an enema as a last ditch try. And she pooped. And has kept pooping while getting fibre powder daily. She gets thyroid medication (which we started this summer after rapid weight loss and it finally showing hyperthyroidism on her bloodwork. The hyperthyroidism likely hid/helped the liver with increased blood flow at the cost of fucking her over otherwise), Gabapentin, an antacid, and her Onsior anti-inflammatory. And has been eating so much pork roast I cook especially for her.
So it's a matter of taking each day as it comes. Assessing if she is still comfortable, and searching for signs from her that she still wants to keep going."
{ https://www.gofundme.com/VetBillsandDonairs}
09-12-2022:
{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvmSSLwTjc }
10-12-2022:
{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8quWScN__s }
"on the 13TH last month Minnow was acting sick. Lethargic, goopy eyes, vomiting, and acting like she had taken Gabapentin without it. I took her to the vets, and she was given antibiotic & antinausea injections. It was diagnosed as a URI and no big deal. We made an appointment for bloodwork and a recheck later in the week. That Thursday she had a recheck and bloodwork, and the results were good except her liver value was up. The doctor we had that day figured it was because of her body flushing the infection. But the she stopped eating, so I took her back on Saturday the 19TH. That's when the doctor on that day recommended an X-ray. Which found the gallstone we found previously had grown and moved, and what may be a tumour in her lung. Also her arthritis had exasperated from the previous X-rays. A diagnosis she wouldn't be able to recover from. So we started into basically palliative care for her. The gallstone may be blocking bile ducts so things are terminal. After that visit she hadn't had a poop all weekend, so I took her back Tuesday. I dreaded that maybe something had twisted or there was a blockage. But the vet then and I decided that since Minnow was present and otherwise eating/drinking/active to give her an enema as a last ditch try. And she pooped. And has kept pooping while getting fibre powder daily. She gets thyroid medication (which we started this summer after rapid weight loss and it finally showing hyperthyroidism on her bloodwork. The hyperthyroidism likely hid/helped the liver with increased blood flow at the cost of fucking her over otherwise), Gabapentin, an antacid, and her Onsior anti-inflammatory. And has been eating so much pork roast I cook especially for her.
So it's a matter of taking each day as it comes. Assessing if she is still comfortable, and searching for signs from her that she still wants to keep going."
{ https://www.gofundme.com/VetBillsandDonairs}
09-12-2022:
{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvmSSLwTjc }
10-12-2022:
{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8quWScN__s }
PROPRIETY Prompt for the Barbatos Birthday Collaboration 2022
🌶️ Suggestive
— Barb Collab 2022 - (@Barbirthday) August 21, 2022
🍵 Propriety @drawanyssadraw & @Lady_Noremon collab
Read it here https://t.co/Y1gYmA0Kkg#OMBarbatosBirthday #obeyme #obeymeBarbatos #HappyBirthdayBarbatos pic.twitter.com/wstIkclGzQ
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LiveJournal
I exported my LiveJournal to here years ago but there's a several year gap in when I started cross-posting to here from there.
Today I exported to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lady_noremon_2022 since I have slowly been trying to copy some of the gap time posts here but I am unmotivated so to keep content (and I didn't want to risk a reimport on this account). Most of the gap time I was full of panic, depressed, dealing with toxic social circles, and being harassed/stalked. The posts often reflect how miserable I was and that makes it uncomfortable to copy. A lot of that is why I haven't been blogging much the last few years.
Anyway just a note to backed-up content on 2022 account.
I also did another February of vlogs this year; which can be found on my YouTube & Instagram:
{ https://YouTube.com/LadyNoremon }
Today I exported to
lady_noremon_2022 since I have slowly been trying to copy some of the gap time posts here but I am unmotivated so to keep content (and I didn't want to risk a reimport on this account). Most of the gap time I was full of panic, depressed, dealing with toxic social circles, and being harassed/stalked. The posts often reflect how miserable I was and that makes it uncomfortable to copy. A lot of that is why I haven't been blogging much the last few years.Anyway just a note to backed-up content on 2022 account.
I also did another February of vlogs this year; which can be found on my YouTube & Instagram:
{ https://YouTube.com/LadyNoremon }
Updated Ladys_Rambles here
I have a Community on LiveJournal where I used to post creative things like fanfic I did. I imported it over here years ago, but since June 2021 I did update it with a few Obey Me! fanfics I've written. So now the AO3 links are posted over here too. Most are smut with fluff.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladys_rambles
[I haven't been posting actual blogs either place because of a lot of factors. I'm mostly active on Twitter & Instagram where I am alsolady_noremon]
ladys_rambles[I haven't been posting actual blogs either place because of a lot of factors. I'm mostly active on Twitter & Instagram where I am also
lady_noremon]
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I love The #Lifeline Community~
A very important message from Grampa @dave_justus to The #Lifeline Community:
— Lifeline Fan Server (@Lifeline_Server) March 28, 2018
💗💗💗💗 pic.twitter.com/7Of7SujOST
{ https://twitter.com/Lifeline_Server/status/978829827569569793 }
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3/8 courses passed!~
First year of Museum Studies completed!!!!~
— Sarah E.A. Dumphy (@Sarah_Dumphy) March 8, 2018
☆Museuma 101
☆Museums & Community
☆Museum Management & Governance pic.twitter.com/BnSOKG3FLp
{ https://twitter.com/Sarah_Dumphy/status/971703099634135046 }
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"Ghosts of Miami" Animated Opening
{ https://youtu.be/RJD2LCJvALc }
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I've been playing "Ghosts of Miami" a detective visual novel with dating sim elements set in 1986 with a queer protagonist. Private detective Chelo Martínez specialises in missing persons cases.
{ https://pillowfight.io/ghosts-of-miami/ }