I confess to laziness now that I’m retired, a state (the laziness) that perpetuates itself because I don’t have anyone living with me to nag about the unread magazines, the vacuum cleaner I haven’t moved in days from the spot where I stopped vacuuming, and the inertia that comes as an after effect of dialysis, which sometimes leaves me drained, my built-in excuse! Regardless, details need attended to, laziness must be overcome. Here are a few details that need attended to now, details I can’t ignore.
=(^+^)=
The kitty boys’ groomer schedules them a year in advance. I got the 2017 schedule when I took them in last Monday. (Dougy’s name isn’t spelled with an “ie” on the end, but with a “y”,the way I spelled it when I was a kid.) I need to transfer this information to a virtual Post-It note on my computer because I invariably misplace the schedule I get from the groomer! 
My dialysis nurses have difficulty locating the dialysis fistula on the top end because it takes a turn, then a deep dive. The arrow is a direction reminder: “Hold the needle at this angle to the fistula.” If they don’t, the needle won’t reach the fistula, and it takes lots of poking to locate it. Ick! I need to avoid washing this direction finder off my arm between Friday’s dialysis session and Monday! (Maybe I need a tattoo….)
My photo files are outrageously large. Every kitty photo — yes, most of my photo files are kitty photos! — I’ve ever taken seems to be there, and many are crapo photos that are beyond redemption. I keep them just the same. Here’s one that is a lovely pose of Dougy, but a crapo photo for exposure and potential for a fix. I need to get off my butt…um, get on my butt?… and sort through and delete the crapo photos in my files and save just those that are good. See what I mean about crapo? (Left side = crapo original; right side = crapo attempt to save the photo through manipulation)
I’m sure the guys are the perfect partners for “lazy” days. Ours do even less than I do
You are very right about that!
You seem terribly organized until you said you lose the schedule. Now that sounds more like me! I too manipulate photos for the better effects. I guess you have a similar problem. Shoko’s face is black and her blue eyes don’t always show up so I try the best lighting etc. You’re right. It doesn’t always work out so nicely.
Jean
Weggie boy, you need being kind with yourself. Do take great care. You are so brave, day after day.
Persians are perfect cats, and as every cat, protect those who love them and take care. A kind of angels . Yes !
Toutes mes amitiés et des bises aux kitties – france
Francefougere Les chats aiment quand vous commentez parce qu’ils apprécient l’attention que vous leur donnez! Oui, les Persans sont des petits anges (avec des cornes minuscules … voir la vidéo que j’ai jointe!), Et ils m’aident à me détendre quand je dois ralentir.
francefougere The cats love when you comment because they enjoy the attention you give them! Yes, Persians are little angels (with tiny horns … see the video I’ve attached!), and they help me relax when I need to slow down.
Needles are not fun. I’ve had IVs from time to time, and they always have problems getting them in. You are a trooper, Doug!
They do with me, too. On top of it, Wegener’s granulomatosis is a vascular disease that affects blood vessels, so the problem is compounded. The point of creating buttonholes (sites that are always used to access the fistula) is that the nurses won’t have to figure out where and how to access the fistula as soon as the buttonholes are established. Better yet, they won’t have to stab me with sharp needles then, and will access it with dull needles that don’t create a new hole. .
I think you deserve to be lazy sometimes for going through dialysis. The groomer must be busy to schedule so far in advance.
Part of the reason for the year long schedule is she has to work two kitties at a time into it. If I only had one scheduled, I think it would be easier, but I think they still schedule clients a year at a time. It’s the only grooming shop in town of 8500. There is another groomer eight miles north of here in a hamlet, but (for me) having a great shop just a couple blocks away is a blessing when I wrestle two cats to and back! I am very pleased with the results, too.
Wish you all the best and after dialyse you have to rest.Happy you have two cats so you don’t feel alone.
Thank you! I appreciate your good wishes! And, yes the kitties are good company when I don’t feel like being social with people.
I really enjoy your blog, incidentally, and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys great photography and interesting articles about different plants and nature! Though the translate feature on my PC does a very average to poor job of translating the original Dutch, it does a good enough job so I can appreciate what you post!
http://natuurfreak.wordpress.com/
I agree, I like the blog a lot too and keep going back for more. Maybe I am addicted, haha.
It has a similarity to yours, which I’ve always enjoyed since I came across it. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that you featured your fur friends! The new one featuring Benji is a perfect addition to your work, too!
Thanks! It’s fun to think of the things our fur friends may say if they could talk. Same reason I enjoy your blog so much too!
I just reblogged today’s Life with Benji. I happen to think Ms. Zulu makes some excellent points an=bout dealing with fatigue!
Thanks! I see that you can use some sleep (me too as I saw that I made more typos in the replies to you too), I guess you mean about and not an=bout 🙂
I had a typo in the comment I attached to the reblog…! Ha! I corrected it, but I usually miss them till they’ve been exposed to half of humanity.
Haha, very recognizable.
Andy’s already applying the principles of Zuluism, and I will feature that in the Tuesday blog.I will attempt to post it without typos….! Ha!
Looking forward to it!
Andy’s so cute when he’s sleeping!
I’ll bet!
=(^+^)=
I think you have a valid excuse for being lazy. I am glad you found some energy to write this post. Enjoy your caterday.
LOL! Thanks! I admit my computer time is an excuse in part, but I rationalize that by noting constructing semi-coherent sentences, stringing them together with other semi-coherent sentences till they resemble paragraphs, then repeating the process till I have a blog post ready for photos is a process that helps keep me mentally alert, no small problem once I get older! LOL! The other part of that mental process is discovering all the typos, usually after I post the post. Yep! Then I go mental, for sure!
Well, you can always blame typos on the auto spell checker. And if all else failse blame in on the weather 🙂
I like the fat fingers stumbling over two letters excuse myself, but any port in a storm, eh?! LOL!
Haha!
I stole that one from cb of contrafactual, to be honest!
I just noticed the typo in my reply, so I rest my case 🙂
My turn to LOL!
Oh my fleas! I had no idea that you have to endure dialysis! There’s nothing wrong with resting and enjoying your boys when you get home!! Take it easy, dude!😺
Yes, it is a consequence of my main medical issue, Wegener’s granulomatosis, a vascular disease that kills rather effectively or slowly destroys your vascular system.
Though I am fairly fortunate in that I survived my doctor’s prediction that I’d be dead in two years (diagnosed in December 2003; in remission till 2015, though the 2015 flare was mistaken by me for flu….), I have the so-called “severe” form because it involved and involves the kidneys.
Most people in dialysis have diabetes, which, amazingly, I do not. I don’t mess with common diseases, just the one that only two in a million are diagnosed with each year and that has no known cause!
t is important that you understand I accept my new normal, thanks to my quirky sense of humor and my ability to go with the process that keeps me alive. I do count my blessings, among which are a pretty decent life, the joy of my two kitty boys, great friends and neighbors, and, top of it all, great sisters and brother! For that matter, just having an excellent dialysis unit at the local hospital with very agreeable fellow patients and nurses.
It hasn’t been that long ago I would have had o make a 120 mile round trip three times a week to get dialysis now available at the local hospital.
You’re very blessed to have a good dialysis unit and lots of love and support! And of course, your furry boys! Your positive attitude will do a lot to help too!
Everything centers on a positive attitude, as far as I’m concerned!
Absolutely. Attitude makes all the difference!
=(^+^)=
*purrs*| *head bonks*
And of course, so does the love and support of your family and furiends!😺 And PURROGRAM!
Both Andy and Dougy have big, beautiful Persian kitty eyes that rarely show up well in photos and they have beautiful, subtly shadeful fur that suffers the same fate. When I get one or the other in a photo, I tend to leave the Photoshopping alone. That’s almosr newver!
Mol! Yes – unless you’re a purrfessional furtographer, it’s hard to get good pictures of us dark furred beauties! 😸
It’s all in the lights, the quality of the wand toys, and how much ‘nip you have on hand to bribe Ms. Kitty! LOL!
Mol!😸 Oh yes!!
=(^+^)=
😺
I am looking at the same kind of chores and reminders. My downfall is paperwork. I did so much professionally for so many years, now it tends to get shoved into a box until panic strikes when I can’t find the piece I need.
My paperwork is organized in a messy way, then I “clean it up”, forever losing it or further messing it up when I try to find a specific document. I used to be very organized when I worked, but that went out the door, it seems, once I retired.
Thanks, misery loves company. Condidering I was A CPA and pushed paper for a living, since now I am a home based investor & blogger I seem to have your same problem.
I spent a most of my time crunching measurement data on hydraulic and industrial hoses made in the factory where I worked as a quality analyst. Perhaps our affliction is a revolt against the tyranny of numbers! LOL!
Speaking of that, I had two sayings that kept me from being absorbed by my numbers: This Italian saying ~ “A thousand probabilities don’t make one fact.” (One thing I dealt in was statistical control of process variation, which is based on probability theory, of course.) The other saying: “Torture numbers and they’ll confess to anything.”[Gregg Westerbrook] I had to keep those in mind so I didn’t become a Numbers Nazi.
Love them both and will borrow freely!!
Great! Please do!
My sister in laws Dad has been going through dialysis. I hope your experience isn’t as bad as the stories I’ve heard. Don’t worry about being lazy. Sometime it’s really nice to take it easy. Time to take it easy and be gentle with yourself. Hope Dougy and Andy are taking good care of you 🙂 Hope you guys had a yummy Thanksgiving. My cat Jiminy enjoyed a little chicken and plain cheesecake. Chewie doesn’t like people food so he had turkey flavored cat food.
The kitty boys got a late Thanksgiving of people quality albacore, which they love, love, love! I had diarrhea for Thanksgiving. You know, coming out, not going in. LOL! That’s OK. I wasn’t in the mood for food in consequence. There’s always next year.
Some people have problems with dialysis. Stomach upset is one problem. They have vomit bags available at the dialysis unit, and at least one of the people there regularly needs one.
Another problem is muscle cramps, but that can be handled at the time by adding a saline drip.
I’m not aware of any other problems off hand. Oh, low blood pressure! That’s my most common issue, but I had that before I became I had end term kidney failure. They do a saline drip for that, too.
My kitties look interested in many foods , but there are no human foods other than tuna that gets them really excited. Andy likes butter and cheese, but I don’t feed him those things simply because they are not healthy for cats. (He sneaks tastes of these two items if I’m not careful with dirty dinner plates..!)
My thoughts and prayers are with you. You guys take care. I’m happy Andy and Dougy are there to keep you entertained. They are adorable.
Thanks! They are that, I confess, though I am prejudiced!
…. 🙂 Thank you dear WB, Love, nia
=(^+^)=
There are always things to do in the home dear WB, even I don’t have anyone who can help me 🙂 My husband, he works, and weekend he wants to take rest. So, we are doing all these routine things/words together, with who? can you guess 🙂 with my Princess, cat. About photography, I am sure you are better than me to get them in files, and named it, etc. Mine is a big chaos… one day I should work on them. make a good files and I can find easily or I need an assistan! Dougy is so lovely, give million kisses to them both, Thank you, you know my best wishes for you all, always, have a nice day, Love, nia
My files are sort of ordered chronologically. I usually give them a date followed by a small description so I can locate them easily for downloading on WordPress, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to find later!
I actually can find some more easily by using the search feature on my blog! Then I save them to a file (a duplicate, then, of another file with a different name..!) that I can locate easily for whatever use I want to make of them that moment.
No, I doubt my files are any moire organized than yours!
Dougy doesn’t like kisses (he’s a boy cat!) but I’ll give him some nice face and ear rubs for you. He loves that! Hope you have a lovely day, too!
Be glad you have two cats, not two lively little dogs.
I definitely do give thanks for that! Though I like dogs of all sizes, I know small dogs often are very energetic and require lots of activities to keep them happy!
At this stage of my life and with my medical issues, I’d make a poor candidate to have pets that required lots of physical activities to be happy.
My Persian kitties like to play, but they definitely are low activity cats compared with Bengal cats, for example. I can keep up with my kitties!
Dialysis sounds like a major pain. I can definitely imagine it makes you want to be a lazy crapo! (Stealing this word! 😀 )
The set up part can be a pain, literally, but they create what they call a buttonhole but using the same spot every time for the two needles they insert.
They eventually can pick the scab off the needle holes using a tweezer, and insert a dull needle through the buttonhole into the dialysis fistula.
The quirk in the fistula, with the turn and dive, makes creating the buttonhole problematic, but eventually it saves some of the discomfort of inserting needles. I’m not quite at the point (no pun intended!) where they can do the set up with dull needles.
Feel free to use “crapo”! LOL! It isn’t copyrighted after all.