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Not enough cereal to make a full bowl. Too much water in my grits and chevre. Ugh. Today has started off with a morning of disappointment and empty stomach, and if this keeps up I should just end up investigating biscuit recipes that freeze well. Actually I should probably do that anyway. After breakfast, Japanese, and the exercise I haven't gotten the last week and a half or so.

(Of course I say that and then in the next five minutes I end up picking up Little Bit and plopping her into my computer office for breakfast, so, yeah. I have no idea what's going to happen now. Look, the boy said we should bring her inside, this was not my idea initially.)

Yeah, I'm going to pause this here and not count this as my daily check in till things settle and I figure out what the hell I'm going to do with a maybe-feral maybe-domesticateable cat.

ETA: Since we haven't yet decided what to do, um. Well, she's meowing LOUDLY so far, but it's not a frightened meow, I've interacted with enough cats with enough different personalities to know what that sounds like, it's a very loud, very pronounced barbaric yawp. She also bunts, winds around ankles, her ears and tail are mostly up and forward/looped respectively, and she's eating with quite a healthy appetite. That part I kind of expected. We put the blanket she normally sleeps on in the utility room in the room with her, too, and she's eating the same dry food she always ate, so there's that.

Yeah, I have no idea what we're going to do with her. Right now as far as I can tell the options are move her into her usual spot in the utility room at the end of the day, keep her in the computer room as a quarantine until we can figure out whether we can afford a vet visit or need to fundraise for it because, again, financial uncertainty. If this were last week I'd know that even if we didn't have the ready cash we could stick it on our credit card and pay it off next month, but now... ugh. She seems healthy otherwise, though. No fight scars, healthy appetite, healthy energy, no strange growths, haven't looked at her eliminations yet because we've only had her maybe forty five minutes. Um. But, yeah, vet visit. I still have no idea what we're going to do with her.

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Okay. Now that I have some hope of breathing calm and even again. It's not just the cat either.

Okay, so. Little Bit is currently residing in our computer room under quarantine (we haven't been using the computer room much anyway, for reasons) and she has food, water, her blankie, and a little litter pan in the adjoining bathroom. (Yes, my office has an attached bathroom, I love it good.) She's had a fair bit of human attention till we all had to go places, to which she responded by meowing loudly, bunting, rubbing up against us, settling in our arms when we picked her up, and generally walking around with her tail up and her ears forward. By this we interpret she is a cat very comfortable with humans and okay with being in a house. This goes with our findings last year when she pretty much nested just outside the utility room door and only scampered away from us when we came barreling into the utility room with our great big bins of laundry. Which, our housecats do that too. She'd go under the stairs and sit out of the way and watch us, and go back to her bed when the noise and clambering was all over. We could rub her ears, her back, beep her nose, she would take a food from my hand, and I rubbed the belly. I'm assuming I could do that now, too, she just wasn't laying down any of the time I was in there.

So at this point the only question is, do we keep her, foster her until the local adoption folks adopt her out, or turn her back to the utility room. Though at this point I kind of wonder if she just wouldn't try to come into the house again any time we opened the door. Certainly she's trying that already now. Additional food and litter bills wouldn't be terribly significant, we're already operating on a four pan basis, one more cat isn't going to add more mess to the room (which I need to tidy anyway, heh, it's full of planting stuff) and we're already feeding her. It'd be the cost of another couple plastic plates to put out, and everyone would have to put up with less wet food.

(At the moment our cats free range from a dry food bowl and get two small cans of wet a day divided amongst the four of them, it's more of a treat than anything. This seems to work out fairly well, only one of them needs to go on any kind of diet. Mostly because we have to stand over him lest he eat everyone else's food. Little shit. Well, not so little.)

And this isn't even the most disruptive thing, just the cutest. The most disruptive is the boy may have new employment, giving us a considerably less amount of time with financial insecurity than expected. There would be a slight pay cut, and it would be 12 hour 3rd shifts rather than 8 hour which, ouuuch. Hopefully something more like 3 and then 4 days per week though, rather than anything else. Workable, ish. Plus the VA may be hiring soon, which would be nice because then he might actually get a pay bump if he gets paid at the same grade at which he was discharged from service, and I believe they're unionized. So. Yeah. I'm not sure which way he's going to jump? But either way, it looks like our instability might have resolved for the better so far. I hope. The place that might be hiring him now is half the commute time that he's making now too, at most. So. That's another thing that happened today!

I just. Oogh. Suddenly things are moving very fast and I have no idea what the hell is going on, how good it is, what's going to happen except that we seem to be covered as far as the basics, etc. I have no idea what's going to happen with the cat or how we're going to manage vet fees. I have no idea about so, so many things and I feel incredibly spun about and confused. Fortunately we're not moving on top of everything, so maybe the solution is to get all my writing type work done during the day, since work seems to be slow, and do a lot of house cleaning tonight by way of grounding myself in what I do have and know for certain. We'll see.

Things that are less chaotic: I did get a bunch of writing done yesterday, though I don't think I posted my OC October, so I guess I'll do two today. I did get some good movie watching in, some good studying. A whole bunch of day job work done. I got to relax a fair bit in the evening, I did get the chicken chopped and cooked so that won't go bad and we won't be wasting food at a time when I'm still not entirely sure of our finances, and all the usual day stuff got done. It's just today that's punching me in the face with chaos. Go figure.