Today was pretty lazy, even by my own standards. The plans I had fell through, which worked to my advantage given I was feeling decidedly lazy. I managed to accomplish pretty much nothing all day, except to putter around with this here website. Something I hardly ever get a chance to do these days. Honestly, it wasn’t as fun as I used to find it. Mostly it was frustrating, and I found myself having to walk away from the computer for hours at a time because I would have become so agitated I was fearful I might break things. How I ever sat here and wrote PHP code or painstakingly edited graphic files is beyond me.

Yara was in a crazy mood most of the day. She kept coming over and nuzzling me. Usually that’s an indication that she’s bored or wants some attention or even that she might need a trip outside. But there was nothing for it today, I’d pat her or try and play with her and she’d just walk away and lie down in the kitchen. It was totally random. At one point I’d given her a treat and she didn’t even take it at first, instead she went and got her octopus and deposited it in my lap and then she took the biscuit . . . into the kitchen and ate it.

Yara may also have finally gotten full! It took a grand total of nine days from the start of her treatment before she started going back to her old food ways wherein she’s not finishing all that I’ve given her, usually breakfast. I’m not surprised. I’d expected it sooner than that even. She was eating something around seven cups a day.¹ Wednesday and Thursday she begrudgingly finished her breakfast, but yesterday I decided to just give her one scoop in the morning. I did the same today, and she ate both meals without much issue.

And some big news! (Well, for those that don’t follow my Twitter or Facebook updates.) I got a call yesterday from Fidelco and they have informed me they’ll be reimbursing me for the vet costs related to Yara’s tests and treatment. Even more, they’re going to supply the supplements Yara needs at discount cost (i.e., they’ll obtain the supplements and other treatment she might need via their vet at the reduced, no-markup price they get it and charge me exactly that). Really sensational news so far as I’m concerned. I’m so pleased they’re going to help me out. Robbie’s supposed to call me with all the specifics next week, but all the treatment details will have to wait until after Yara’s check up on the 2^nd.

1. This is a rough estimate. The scoop I use to dish out her kibble isn’t a measuring cup like I was using prior to the “add a cup” suggestions. It holds something between 1.5 and 2 cups. And Yara was eating four scoops a day for those initial nine days.

Most of the status updates are the same in both places (and other microblogs) since I generally update via Ping.fm, but since they’re the main places I check I figured I’d link everything together.

If any of you notice something odd going on here, do let me know.

I think everything is moved over and seems to be working properly. If you catch an error or find broken links/images please let me know. I seem to have accidentally lost the comment subscriptions for the time being; sorry! I’ll try and figure out where that part of the database disappeared to.

Anyways, I’m off to bed. :)

In the last twelve hours, Yara’s thrown up twice. In and of itself that isn’t too alarming, but she does seem to be feeling a bit ill. We’re not going anywhere today anyway, so we’ll see how she is tomorrow and I can better judge if this is serious enough to warrant a vet trip.

Actually, now that I received my official membership packet from International Association of Assistance Dog Partners, I’ll need to make a vet appointment to receive some of my membership benefits. Props to Wendy for reminding me to become a member again! Especially since dues just were increased. :)

In other news, Surpass is running their Valentine’s promotion again this year. Somehow as irony would have it, I’ve never timed it properly such that I get a new website during one of their sales. And this time I’m very tempted; I’ve been toying with snatching up gentlewit.com now that I finally named this site. (Thanks again, Liz!) We’ll see, I’m all talk and no follow through with this kind of stuff . . . I’m still needing to get Guide-Dogs.Org off the ground!

Akismet keeps showing a higher tally of comment spam that it has caught, yet I can’t see anything in the Dashboard. It doesn’t do it every time it catches spam, but often enough that I’m getting concerned that legitimate comments are being purged without me knowing. If you’re having trouble commenting, feel free to shoot me an email. Or, you know, don’t.

1. I used to have dreams about falling down stairs. I don’t think I ever landed on my face in them, though. But after having all four of my wisdom teeth pulled, I most certainly looked like I had.

1. I had to restart three times to finally get it to completely boot up this morning. Very odd indeed.