Nigella …

M Kaz does keep on trying, I’ll give her that. In the last week she’s given me three different of cookies and several different types of wet food. She does love me; even when I turn up my nose at everything she offers me to eat. I sometimes don’t but that hasn’t been the case lately.

I slept on the Mummies’ bed the other night. I had to leave my table box to do it, of course, but it was cool enough to be in there at the moment. I still like it outside best though but sometimes I just want to be with them – and watch M Kaz staying as still as she can lest I spag her while she’s sleeping. I’m sure she thinks it would make a change from spagging her while she’s awake. That would also be known as cuddles and kisses while she’s sitting at the table – ignoring me. I know she doesn’t mean to (ignore me) but she gets so involved in doing “stuff” she sometimes forgets to look down and pat me.

I do have a talent for picking a moment when she is deep in concentration to lavish my attention and affection on her. I do try to attract her attention by first rubbing my head against her leg but that doesn’t always work.

What M Kaz thinks does works is the spray bottle. I’m letting her think it does. I don’t think she’s noticed I’m getting closer to the front door every day. Not long now and I’ II be able to waltz straight out. And I have the television in my sights as well.

M Kaz has started locking herself in her office again – I think it’s because she’s ‘gone back to work’.  She seems to be having a good time and doesn’t seem to mind that we on the other side of the door – that would be me and M Sooz – could be missing her when she’s locked in there.  I said ‘could’.

I’ve never thought of M Kaz as an Indian Giver – but she earned her place there today.  She came home from seeing her friend Jo (and visiting JB HiFi) with a box for me – well, she said it was for me and she put it on the table, and I jumped in – but then, not half an hour later, she was moving me out of it, putting the new air fryer back in it – and then she took it out of the house.  She took my box out of the house!  She really did that!! And I’d been having such a nice time in it too. 

It was okay though because she came with another one a little while later.  As it turns out – and I know this from when M Kaz was telling M Sooz, the first air fryer came with a plug so it can be used in the UK not here in Australia.  Hmmm.  That won’t work here.  but she didn’t realise that until she had it out of the box.  Anyway, now that it’s back, I love my new box – actually, boxes because there are three of them.

M Sooz is not yet completely back to her happy, smiling, able-to-walk-in-a-straight line happy self.  She’s much better than she was last week though so when Dr Sam said the side effects (if she had any) would be ‘transiet’ (aka they would go away).  Her hair is growing back though and M Kaz likes patting it as much as she loves patting me!  Those Mummies are strange sometimes.

M Sooz has had a bit of a setback following her hospital visit.  She is having a problem with her left eye drooping – she can’t see out of it properly and she can’t keep it open.  M Kaz keeps taking photographs of it in case it gets worse so they can show Dr Sam what happened and how quickly.  M Sooz isn’t too worried about it though because Dr Sam said there could be some side effects like this – it was just good he warned them about it or they might have gone into a bit of a panic (we know that’s what M Kaz does sometimes because she doesn’t read up on things as much as M Sooz does).

It has been raining a bit lately (again) but that’s okay because it’s dry Outback and I enjoy being way up high on my tower (not too high though).

M Kaz has been spending a bit more time in her office and sometimes she lets me in there (when she’s not actually doing any work) and she lets me sleep in the drawer of her desk, right next to her.  Of course, I do have to try to dig my way deeper into the desk but she doesn’t seem to mind that.  Most of the time anyway.

HAL has been quiet the last week or so although M Kaz was setting up his cleaning schedule so he will go around the house this afternoon.  He doesn’t do a bad job although sometimes I do see M Kaz sweeping things into HAL’s path so she’s sure it will be picked up.  I think it’s a bit like when they tidy up before Aunty A gets here to do cleaning.  Funny thing is I don’t see M Kaz out there in the yard before Chris comes.  Hmmmmm. 

Poor M Sooz.  I’m not exactly sure what happened to her while she was away but she came back without hair.  She had it when she left on Monday but when she came back on Wednesday it was all gone!  The least M Kaz could have done was to warn me!  But did she?  No, she did not. 
So what did M Sooz have done?  Would you believe it was brain surgery. (‘It as least proves something’ M Sooz told M Kaz earlier today.  I’m still trying to work out what that means.)  So the brain surgery was to help M Sooz with the tremor she has in her hands.  They did one side this time, her right, because that is her dominant hand.  It is an amazing procedure and even though it was only done the day before yesterday, it has made an incredible difference.  There may have been tears when M Kaz was watching her eat.
While M Sooz was away, M Kaz was in their bedroom clearing out some of the things on M Sooz’s side of the bed so there’s now room for me to lie on the floor there and look out the window.  I like it – and now M Kaz has put a chair in there so I can be under it too.
Aunty M came to see me this morning … she took M Sooz out to breakfast – but not before M Sooz had chosen a cap to wear.  Of the five caps M Kaz brought in from the garage (is that where the caps live now?) M Sooz chose the black one.