Daddy-O has a very bad day

this morning i took Daddy-O to the vet for some routine bloodwork to check his thyroid levels. the assistant who took the blood used the wrong kind of tube, so they had to re-take the test from his other leg. the vet did that one, but the blood clotted up too much and was unusable. (she said it's actually a good sign that it did that, but she'd never seen it happen to that degree before.)

so they had to take yet another sample from his jugular. when they brought him back to me (they had to take him in the back and restrain him for it because he had Had Enough by that point and was fighting like crazy), he was so exhausted he just slunk into his carrier and curled up in the back.

my poor baby. and he was so good for the first test, and even when they insulted his dignity by taking his temperature... tonight i'll have to give him something extra special. yogurt, maybe. he goes absolutely nuts for yogurt.

oh yeah, and

this weekend, as promised, i finished cleaning out the cabinets and unpacked my kitchen! i also finally figured out why i couldn't get that Ikea light fixture to install properly, so the dining room now has light. i still need to get fluorescent tubes and new plastic and some drywall anchors to fix up the kitchen light fixture, but it's all shaping up very nicely.

i still need to pick up a cheap set of shelves at Ikea to hold chiles and wine and cookbooks and stuff, but it's otherwise ready for a good mopping. and i need to get off my butt and assemble that bathroom etagere i bought last weekend, so i can get my bathroom organized. and i still haven't put up my movie posters. and the living room will be full of boxes for the foreseeable future.

still, it's starting to feel like home. sort of. it'll be a while yet, i think, but it's getting there.