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Interesting Couple of Days

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Sun­day night both Ariesna and I were feel­ing a lit­tle run down. Mon­day we both woke up sick. Not sure what her symp­toms were, but I had a sinus pres­sure so bad I was dizzy. I slept through almost all of Mon­day, but around din­ner time got up enough energy to head down­stairs. And that night we had an unex­pected visitor.

I was watch­ing some videos on my com­puter when all of a sud­den Ariesna was shout­ing. I looked over and saw some­thing fly­ing around. Turned out a bat had some­how worked it’s way into the house but then was scared and fly­ing around freak­ing out Ariesna. We locked our cat in the bath­room. Closed as many inte­rior doors as we could and opened the door to our porch. Then after much curs­ing and effort we were able to drive the bat out onto the porch. All the time we’re doing this, our cat is wail­ing and cry­ing most piti­fully from the bath­room. Though as soon as we let him out, all was well. *shrug* Go figure.

Then Tues­day we’re both still feel­ing under the weather. I work from home lib­er­ally dosed with cold & sinus meds and feel­ing a bit tired, but closer to being back in the land of the liv­ing. Later that night, I mute the TV dur­ing some com­mer­cials to talk to Ariesna and we hear some rather piti­ful wail­ing from our porch. I look out through the win­dows to inves­ti­gate and find one of our neigh­bors’ cat (was wear­ing a col­lar) is sit­ting out there. Since it was a warm night, I just left him alone but I felt kind of bad about it. I did check the neigh­bor­hood email list but there wasn’t any reports of a miss­ing cat. Plus sev­eral of the peo­ple in the area feel it’s ok to let their pets run free¹ so I fig­ured it would just go home soon after­words. I did keep look­ing out and after a cou­ple of hours it even­tu­ally left but I still feel kind of bad about leav­ing it out in the cold². Mind you, I’m not going to let a strange cat into my house with our cur­rent cat. But I sup­pose I could have let it into the screened por­tion of our porch.

Today I made it into the office, still slightly down but sig­nif­i­cantly improved. Ariesna stayed home sick again. Then she went to the doc­tor and found out she’s got pneu­mo­nia. *wheee* She gets to stay home the rest of the week as she can’t risk trans­mit­ting that bit of plague to the kids at her preschool. It also blows our plans for Fri­day and the week­end. Ain’t life grand? *sigh*³

¹ No, I do not share that opin­ion. It’s dan­ger­ous for the pet (could be kat­napped, run over, hurt, lost, etc..).
² The weather recently warmed up, so it wasn’t all that cold but still…
³ Yes, this post is mostly a pity party for us. :p

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