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edenfalling1. Work, obviously. I may post more detail about that later this week after I have a functional computer again.
2. Went to NJ to pick up Dottie. Had dinner with parents on Sunday night, did two loads of laundry (clothes and linens), and visited Susan Monday morning.
3. Paid my credit card bills for the month. (I need to contact Landlord Dude and tell him I will be a few days late with my rent because of cash flow issues -- my new work paycheck is biweekly, you see.)
4. Photographed my peppers, but couldn't make a post about them because of my dead computer.
5. Baked brownies. Pawned a few of them off on Upstairs Neighbor E as a thank-you for her supplementary dogsitting efforts.
6. Ordered a new laptop battery and power cord from Amazon.
7. Called Cat. She then called back two days later to tell me that her father had died. This was not unexpected -- I'd known he was in a bad way (pancreatic cancer) since spring -- but the end is always a nasty shock, however muted. I need to buy condolence cards for her and her mother.
8. Cooked stuff! In order, hardboiled eggs, a batch of rice, and an experimental thing halfway between fajita filling and taco meat -- basically, substituting ground beef for the normal sliced meat used in fajitas. The experiment was by and large a success, but next time I will shell out for an Ortega seasoning packet instead of going with store brand.
9. Repaired a bra (the underwire was trying to escape) and a wrist brace (it was shredding around the index finger hole).
10. Read two issues of the Economist and two issues of the Ithaca Times which I'd been meaning to get around to for a week or so.
11. Scheduled a meeting with my church's DRE for Monday morning, since I couldn't make a Saturday teacher training session.
Also, obviously, I have fed and walked Dottie every morning and evening, which includes successfully getting her to eat her joint medication pills, much though she dislikes them. Yay for determination, I suppose. *wry*
2. Went to NJ to pick up Dottie. Had dinner with parents on Sunday night, did two loads of laundry (clothes and linens), and visited Susan Monday morning.
3. Paid my credit card bills for the month. (I need to contact Landlord Dude and tell him I will be a few days late with my rent because of cash flow issues -- my new work paycheck is biweekly, you see.)
4. Photographed my peppers, but couldn't make a post about them because of my dead computer.
5. Baked brownies. Pawned a few of them off on Upstairs Neighbor E as a thank-you for her supplementary dogsitting efforts.
6. Ordered a new laptop battery and power cord from Amazon.
7. Called Cat. She then called back two days later to tell me that her father had died. This was not unexpected -- I'd known he was in a bad way (pancreatic cancer) since spring -- but the end is always a nasty shock, however muted. I need to buy condolence cards for her and her mother.
8. Cooked stuff! In order, hardboiled eggs, a batch of rice, and an experimental thing halfway between fajita filling and taco meat -- basically, substituting ground beef for the normal sliced meat used in fajitas. The experiment was by and large a success, but next time I will shell out for an Ortega seasoning packet instead of going with store brand.
9. Repaired a bra (the underwire was trying to escape) and a wrist brace (it was shredding around the index finger hole).
10. Read two issues of the Economist and two issues of the Ithaca Times which I'd been meaning to get around to for a week or so.
11. Scheduled a meeting with my church's DRE for Monday morning, since I couldn't make a Saturday teacher training session.
Also, obviously, I have fed and walked Dottie every morning and evening, which includes successfully getting her to eat her joint medication pills, much though she dislikes them. Yay for determination, I suppose. *wry*
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Date: 2016-09-26 06:42 am (UTC)My elderly husky who recently died was painful to medicate his last few months. One of his tablets was bitter, so if he tasted it, there was no chance of getting any further tablets into him. When he wasn't feeling that great, he didn't feel like eating, so nothing could convince him to take the tablets. He didn't like peanut butter. Chicken sometimes worked. Cookie dough was fairly good for hiding the bitter pills. But it still depended on whether or not the planets were in alignment. Very frustrating.
Well done for convincing Dottie to take her pills.
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Date: 2016-09-26 02:33 pm (UTC)These tablets smell like vanilla (and presumably taste similar). Dottie used to think they were fine, so we could just snap each half-tablet in half again and mix them in with her meals. But now she's decided they taste weird, and also that they contaminate her meals so if you try to sneak them to her that way, she not only won't eat the pill, she won't eat her breakfast either. *headdesk*
My mom suggested I try daubing them with peanut butter, which does help, but I have had to get slightly trickier than that. I have taken to getting a tiny bit of meal-gravy on a teaspoon, dropping the coated tablet onto that spoon, and then offering it to her in a series of chances: first, before I put her actual meal bowl down within reach, then when I bring her back in from her after-meal piddle break, and then again when I get ready to take her out for a proper walk. So far at least one of these options has worked. If she ever refuses at the final chance, I may have to get creative with some other treats.