Author: kazbah33pics

Rude. Rude. Rude That’s what it was. I was minding my own business having a nap on the chair under the table Outback yesterday morning when the Mummies swooped in out of nowhere and forced me into the cat cage and before I knew it I was in the car and M Kaz and I were on the way to the … nail salon (read: vet). It didn’t take long there – Dr Donna was very good – and then we were on the way to the petrol station. Petrol station? Couldn’t that wait until I wasn’t in the car M Kaz? Apparently not. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a petrol station before – and thank goodness M Kaz had the forethought to leave the windows a little open so I didn’t suffocate while she out ‘pumping the gas’.

Well, it may not come as any surprise but the Kallax shelves (the first one) are still sitting across the two chairs in the living room and at this rate I don’t think she’s ever going to start putting them together.  I did hear on the phone though talking with someone about ‘assembling the flatpack’ so it looks as though she might be hiring someone to do it for her.  M Kaz would ask Aunty Syl to help her but it seems as though they have enough to do – carpeting the upstairs area and epoxying the garage floor at their house has been mentioned.  I have no doubt M Kaz can make this happen – I just wonder if it will be this year!

And speaking of year – it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around Jannie.  M Kaz went shopping today and came back with more Christmas shirts – I say ‘more’ because they already have a few of them between them.  To be fair though, they didn’t have one that was from the movie ‘Die Hard’ (a Christmas movie, really ?) – Yippee Ki-Yay.  I wonder if there was supposed to be anything after that?  I had to try on a couple of the shirts, of course, and M Kaz was kind enough to take some photos of me so I could show off how festive I look in them.

My nails look good too but you’d hardly notice with me in my AI-added outfit. 

That M Kaz must be feeling a bit better because she’s taken herself off this morning to see Aunty Jo – leaving M Sooz in bed, sleeping, with what they think is the lurgy which M Kaz so kindly passed on to her. Thank goodness the ‘feel better’ supplies are still in the house so M Sooz could start using them straight away. Just as well Nigeys don’t get sick like that although it would be a good excuse to try those lemonade ice blocks that M Kaz has for her throat.
The storms have stayed away for the last couple of days but that doesn’t mean I have been staying out of M Kaz’s office. Yes, I was there when she opened the electricity bill and almost fell off her chair when she saw they had used 175% more electricity than for the same time last year. What? 175%!! Yes, M Kaz did read that correctly and then realized it was because as she and M Sooz had been overseas at the same time last year, Uncle Wayne and Aunty Wendy (who both stayed here during the the time the Mummies were away) wouldn’t have used as many cooling devices as M Sooz does because she needs to stay cool; she feels the heat a lot!
I don’t think I mentioned that while M Kaz was at Costco a little while back she had found something called a ‘cooling blanket’ which – if you have the correct side on your body – does cool you down. It’s on M Sooz’s side of the bed now and yes, it does have a cooling effect. Who knew? That being said, though, there was still the air conditioner and one of the fans running overnight – I know because they had the bedroom door closed to keep the air conditioning air from trying to keep all of Jannie cool.
M Kaz was feeling well enough to go out to the garage to get a new bag of litter so she could completely refresh my litter (it doesn’t do so well with rain on it). She was lamenting that we only have four bags of litter left (read: 40 kg) so she was very happy when she received an email this morning saying Katz-Loo (provider of litter for Mimi and I) are having a 25%-off sale so M Kaz will be ordering some of that this afternoon. Hmmmm … there’s plenty of room in the garage (even though M Kaz didn’t manage to get that old shade sail in the next door’s blue bin before it was taken away – and that there’s still three boxes of Kallax out there waiting to be put together) so I wonder how much she will order. Doesn’t matter how much really because she knows I will use it all. (Smiley face.)

Hmmm … where are the pics of me M Kaz?  I know you’ve been sick – but that sick?

There are storms over Jannie again tonight and M Kaz is awake and keeping me company. I wonder if they scare her too. I like sleeping on her desk in the office when there are storms about – probably because it’s the furtherest away from the lightning and the thunder – and there’s certainly been a lot of both of those tonight. I’m surprised she’s awake because she went to bed a couple of hours ago – just after 8pm. Yes, she’s being a bit woozy because she hasn’t been totally well. That’s how loud it’s been with the storm – it woke her up and while she was up having her lemonade ice block (for her throat) she called because she knew I would be scared. She’s having a cup of tea now that the storm is passing and I’ll just finish dictating this post so we can both go back to bed. Luckily M Sooz hasn’t seemed to catch whatever it is that M Kaz has. People need to take a lot of things when they’re not feeling well. M Kaz is still taking her cold and flu tablets, the throat spray, anti-dripping tablets (ewwwww) and handsful of tissues travel with her – especially when she goes out. I don’t think they were just for her cold today though when heaps and heaps of tissues went with them when they went to see ‘Wicked: For Good’ with Aunty A at the cinema. M Kaz watched the first ‘Wicked’ here the other night and there were certainly some tears throughout. I hadn’t seen it before so it was quite a surprise to see green people on the television screen again (it’s a while since we watched ‘Shrek’) – and from what I saw it should have been all the other people in the film who were green (with envy over Elphaba’s powers). I’m not saying I could hear the crying from here while they were out but M Kaz certainly looked like she’d been crying when they arrived home (but don’t tell her I told everybody).

The other problem with the storms is that they seem to be coming from totally different directions these days and they’re encroaching more and more into the Outback. If M Kaz has to move my litter tray any more away from the sides of the Outback area, it’s going to be back inside. Wouldn’t that be good!

And before anyone asks – no, those shelves aren’t out of the box yet – but M Kaz has been sick!

We had huge storms here this morning and I have to tell you that I was a little bit frightened by the thunder and the lightning. Those Mummies were of no comfort really although M Sooz did at least get out of bed to check where I was and that I was okay; M Kaz just rolled over and went back to sleep, although to be fair, she hasn’t been totally well. She’s had the cold and flu tablets and the throat-numbing spray out, and she’s been using them. And at about 3 o’clock this morning she was sitting on the couch with a lemonade ice block – her go-to when she has a sore throat.

I like it when they go out and come home with presents. They went to Ipswich yesterday and came back with six large anodisid (read: very colourful and shiny) cups. Aunty Sooz loves them but it’s going to take M Kaz a moment to use them because she’s in love with her Yeti cups.

Believe it or not, M Kaz has not finished putting the Kallax shelf together but as she told them all at breakfast yesterday, she has made a good start: she has opened the box – and read the instructions. She had most everything she needed except a spirit level and yes, we all know about when she and Uncle Wayne went shopping for the spirit level (which is now travelling with him because she could see no need for one) – so it was music to M Kaz’s ears when Aunty S said she had some. And imagine M Kaz’s surprise when she mentioned the spirit level in Ipswich and Aunty D & A pulled a spare spirit level (which one do you want?) out of their “junk drawer” and insisted M Kaz bring it home to Jannie. The other thing Aunty S mentioned was that she was happy to help put the shelves together! Will M Kaz be able to accept the offer of help. Stay tuned!