Sunday! Again! I’m not sure how it comes around so quickly but M Kaz is currently getting ready to go to the Markets. It’s not raining so that means the group will be meeting at HOTA today rather than at the Isle of Capri. M Kaz is taking a camera with her because she’s still thinking she might go to the Gold Coast Show. She almost went yesterday – something about the pull of the showbags, the rides (or photographing them), the blue heeler puppies, the Dagwood Dogs, the camels, the little trains ferrying folk up and down the Parklands. She didn’t go, though, because it started raining just enough for her windscreen wipers to start (they’re automatic) and at that point, she went off to JB Hifi instead.
M Sooz is not back to normal after her treatment on Tuesday but at least she hasn’t been too bad, except for the pain levels. Thank goodness for effective pain relief.
Can you believe M Kaz hasn’t taken any photos of me over the last couple of days. That hasn’t stopped her taking photos of other things – like the sunrise, pelicans, swans, the moon … just no Nigey!
Aunty Wendy came to visit on Saturday with her and M Kaz’s mother and while M Sooz had a nap (she had already been out to breakfast with Aunty M and M Kaz), they went down to the Broadwater for a drink and a look at the water. There were a few pelicans there as well because it was coming on to the Pelican Feeding Time but they didn’t stay until then because they hurried back to Jannie so they could collect M Sooz and go off to Yum Cha. I don’t know why they don’t bring any home for me. Everyone knows I love green beans, chicken wings, pork buns, steamed rice and … well, I like just about everything those Mummies bring home for me.
Can you believe that since I took that new friend in to M Sooz in bed, she’s been taking things in there as well. I can’t tell you how surprised M Kaz was when she found a handful of strawberries in her bed. Or how even more surprised she was when Aunty Wendy told her she had found a Mandarin in her bed. Must be a Gemini thing said Aunty Wendy.
M Sooz had her next/last chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday – it was supposed to be on Monday but her platelets weren’t quite behaving themselves when they did the blood test last Friday so they did another on Monday to see if they could go ahead. They could, but because she also needed to do a blood transfusion they decided to do it all on the Tuesday (with an early start). The treatment really does knock her around. As M Kaz transcribes this for me, I am on M Sooz’s recliner, just keeping an ear out to make sure she’s okay.
M Kaz has been going down to the Broadwater in the mornings to take her sunrise and Pelican shots. I’ve been enjoying helping her go through the shots … or, I think it would be truer to say that I have been enjoying watching her going through the shots. And watching her think about the Gold Coast Show that’s on this weekend – and liqourice show bags. Mmmmm … liquorice. I probably won’t get any of that either. Grrrrrr.
Did someone say “growl”? M Kaz has been a bit short some evenings. I’m not sure if it’s because she hasn’t been sleeping well or because I need to have my nails seen to or because I’m so darned persistent or something else completely. Sometimes a Nigey never knows. That doesn’t stop me sleeping on her bed, or her or between her knees … or on M Sooz’s bed or. In one of my many many boxes.
I have left a friend in the bedroom for M Sooz to play with. As yet she doesn’t know who it is but she is fairly certain (or at least hoping) that it isn’t a Cecil. She thinks it could be a Kermit – but she would be wrong. M Kaz did sight it this morning – it has come out from under the bed and is currently under M Sooz’s recliner in the living room. Yes .. it’s a dinosaur – and a pretty big one at that. Okay, it’s not as big as the one M Kaz will be seeing in ‘The End of Oak Street’ this afternoon – but plenty big enough … maybe just a T rather than a T-Rex.
M Sooz is still recuperating from her last round of chemotherapy – she is still fairly tired and happy to stay resting in her bed – especially if I am resting in there too and keeping her company. Like I’ve said before – whatever I can do to help.
It has been difficult to get M Kaz’s attention the last few days. It’s all to do with her photography – and the Pacific Airshow that she went to on Saturday and then spent days sorting – well, it seemed like days! I heard her tell someone she had taken over 4,350 shots and by the end of the sorting sessions, she posted fewer than 50 to her FaceBook page. Phew … talk about a big job – and a massive time-sucker-up-er-er.
The cat grass is reaching the end of its – whatever. I didn’t like this crop that much. I know it’s the same batch of seeds so it should have been okay but … no. Hopefully she’ll start the next batch soon so it’s ready for when I turn my nose up the last time at the current lot. I do pretend to be interested fro time to time – I wouldn’t want M Kaz to get discouraged about her grass growing because she’s been doing a decent job (this time) – even remembering to water it without me having to tell her.
M Kaz has started calling me RBG. Hmmm. It took a while but I have finally worked it out. I am sure she means Ruth Bader Ginsberg and that I am possibly her reincarnated. What a wonderful thing for M Kaz to think – although I think she’s wrong because RBG was still alive when I was born. But still … RBG. What a wonderful person to emulate. (That means to be like.)
Hmmmm … well, that didn’t last long. As it turns out what M Kaz meant by ‘RBG’ was Rubber Band Girl – because I do love a rubber band. But that’s nothing new. I still have my large red RB which I take around the house and put in different places for the Mummies to find. It gives them something to do although it has been in the bedroom near the door for a couple of days so far this week.
I slept on the recliner for most of last night – until M Kaz woke me up anyway. I don’t know what she was doing in the kitchen at 3.14 am but I don’t think it had anything to do with pie or pi. I think it did have something to do with a snack – something cold out of the refrigerator and a can. Do you know those lever contraptions you can use for opening ring pull tab lids? Well we now know that M Kaz couldn’t work theirs this morning – and the can opener was a bit of a challenge too. Come to think of it, M Kaz has been a wee bit challenged this week – which is why she was at the computer repair place yesterday – after she had spilled a cup of coffee on her laptop keyboard. Who knew M Kaz could move that fast? Hopefully Adrian will be able to fix it – he thinks he can but it might be a couple of days before he finishes it because they are busy. M Kaz wasn’t sure how many coffee-related repairs they had lined up but she was hoping she wasn’t the only one who had been silly enough to mix keyboards and coffee.
Otherwise there’s not much to report from Jannie. M Sooz is still recovering from last week’s chemo treatment and I’m doing my best to provide some good quality company for her – especially in the morning when M Kaz goes off to do her sunrise photographs. A Nigey has to do what a Nigey can to help out around here.
Nigella ... 