Pooped

Busy, busy weekend including (but not limited to) helping organize a birthday party for moonlightnrain which went pretty damn nicely. It was a little warmer than everyone would've liked but we had good music, good food, good games and good company. I'd never played Apples to Apples before and utterly kicked ass at it. Also the air hockey table turned out to be a big hit and several cutthroat matches broke out towards the end of the party.

Today tersa and I headed up the East Bay to help jakejr move back from Oregon. I exchanged greetings with the usual moving crew and we all joked about how we only ever see one another when we're loading or unloading a Uhaul. We got to see the new house and yard which is lovely and meet Alonzo the Wonder Kitty who's an absolute doll. He reminded me *so* much of Hachi it wasn't even funny. I swear they could be long lost siblings, both gray and white with brownish-gold eyes, short tails and fluffy bodies. They even have the same nickname, weirdly enough, "Bug".

Got home and finished the clean-up from the party (mostly dealing with trash and recycling, putting stuff away, etc.), did the litter boxes, vacuumed and then tersa loaned me her Furminator and I tried one for the first time. I'd been dubious about them mostly due to the price and thinking "How much more fur can they really remove?" Turns out the answer is "A lot". I'm totally sold and am buying one the next time I hit the pet store. Seriously, I took an entire cat's worth of fur off of Pye alone and I can see why all the anti-hairball food and treats have been doing precious little to stop the vomiting around my place. Good lord!

There's more I should be doing tonight but it's already six and I've reached the sit and stare portion of the day. I'll regret it next weekend when I have to try to get all my chores done before my mom arrives the following weekend, but...