Nigella …

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.

Hmmm. Just because M Sooz has had her next lot of chemotherapy doesn’t mean all of the Mummies’ time should be consumed with that. What about me, Mummies … what about me? I’ve got needs too! Although one of them was not a new food bowl, M Kaz. The good news is that she got the message – I only had to harass her, kiss and cuddle her, scratch at the door of the office while she was in there (hiding from me!) and generally be a pain until she finally, finally, finally realised I was not going to eat anything out of that green bowl – even if it was my very favourite cookies. And how sweet was it that M Kaz thought the reason I wasn’t eating my cookies was because they may have changed the formula – not that she’d changed my bowl without my permission.

The cat grass is thriving at the moment thanks to M Kaz’s dedicated ministrations. She keeps remembering to water it – okay, sometimes it does tend to be overwatering but that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that she wipes up the water that overflows onto the window sill.
It’s cool still here at Jannie and the Mummies and I are all looking forward to the start of Spring – and the warmer weather – in a couple of weeks. Before then though M Kaz is getting all excited about the Pacific Airshow that she’s planning to go to this weekend. Hopefully she won’t bore us all with the photos of the last one she went to before she goes.

There was a humungous (that means very big!) lump in the bed last night. I know people talk about the princess and the pea – and let me tell you I’m no princess (well, I don’t think I am but don’t ask the Mummies) and I could certainly feel this. And it moved! Yes … yes, you’ve guessed it. It was M Kaz. When I came to bed she was taking up so much room (on purpose?) that rather than looking for a spot where I could stretch out, I just jumped on top of her! I’m not saying it’s the most comfortable I’ve been, but I was warm.

I’m not the only one that takes a rubber band with me! M Kaz came home from the water this morning with a picture of a seagull carrying a rubber band just like one of mine. And she’s also had a picture of a seagull with a fish since then. (Yes, it’s no longer Sunday – M Kaz has been a bit slack with this post!)

M Sooz is at the end of her second treatment cycle and is still very very tired. While they were out getting M Sooz’s blood test today, M Kaz dragged her out to lunch at the Signature Cafe where they have a Steak lunch special. I couldn’t believe it. They went out to have steak rather than having it at home – with me. I love steak!! What were they thinking?

M Kaz continues to hog her bed. I’ve tried to talk with her about it but I swear all she seems to hear is ‘blah blah blah’ or she’s just plain ignoring me. Yes, she would do that.

Aunty Wendy went home yesterday.  She arrived last Friday night and I have to tell you, I love her – in fact, I love her more than I can tell you.  It’s not because she was my first mother – well, it’s a little bit of that but mostly it’s because she loves me.  She loves me enough to make up our bed specially for me when she leaves, and while she’s here she gives me the option of sleeping in with her or with the Mummies – or somewhere else entirely … even in her handbag.  She knows I can’t fit into her handbag but she lets me think I could if I wanted to.

She had some good news while she was down here.  She has had a problem with her hip for the last 18 months and now it appears that she will be getting another one sooner rather than later. She was so happy and relieved that she cried when she found out. I wonder if she’ll give me her travel-roller-thingy when she doesn’t need it any more.  You would think M Kaz could have taken a photo or two so I could look at it while it’s not here.  Hmmmm … maybe she could find me a picture of it on the interweb.

But Aunty Wendy wasn’t the only one who came to visit.  Aunty Teagan and the kids also came too – and they had fun playing with some of the other furries the Mummies have around Jannie.  Mind you, one of those furries went home with Aunty Wendy.  We all thought is was going to be the capybara but it was actually the cow/steer/bovine.

M Sooz is spending a lot of time in bed at the moment – recovering from the last bout of chemotherapy she had – that was last Monday.  Hopefully she will start to feel better soon so she can go out to breakfast with M Kaz and Aunty M on Saturday.

M Kaz went to a movie today – it was nearly three hours long and can you believe it did not have one cat in  it.  No, we’re not counting the leopard or the tiger or the pather or the lion as cats in this particular instance.  There were a few dogs though!  And pigs.  And really big people – there may even have been a Cyclops – the ‘person’ in the cave certainly only had one eye – which … no, I’m not going to repeat what M Kaz told me about it because it was a bit savage.  The movie?  Chris Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’.  Even though M Kaz had only gone as a birthday present to Aunty Roz, she really seemed to enjoy it – except for the brutality and cruelty and the aforementioned savagery.  She said there was some nice scenery and sunsets.  And some acting.  She gave it a 7.5 out of 10.  I wonder if I’ll ever get to see it.