One More Day . . .

Today's a big day!

Today is my last day of work for a week. I'm pretty excited about that, believe me! My daughter's coming from Tahoe on Monday to stay for a couple days(yep, WITH the drooling dog!) and we'll have our Thanksgiving celebration on Monday. After that, the fall decorations will be packed away until next fall, and I'll start to decorate for Christmas.

Today is also the day that my work "kids" get their bar results. Passing the bar examination in California is by no means an easy thing to do, and I have known other very good attorneys who didn't pass the first time they took it. Then again, I've known several idiots who passed on the first attempt. Come to think of it, maybe it's a little like getting a driver's license--there are plenty of idiots out on the road!

I've worked with the "kids" for a couple months now and I'm pretty confident they'll both pass, but you just never know. I hear the pass rate in California for this sitting is somewhere around 70 to 75 percent. They'll get their results at 6 p.m. tonight, and you can bet I'll be staying a little bit late at work to find out how they did.

When I checked my email Thursday, I found that my niece Kelly had left a comment to my post about the difficulties of giving my older cat antibiotics. You just never know who's reading your blog, do you?! Hey, Kelly! Just in case you're reading, thanks for leaving me a comment! Unfortunately, I don't have Kelly's email address--as an aunt, I guess I'm a bit of a slacker. I DID make her a quilt for Christmas last year though. Kelly's been involved with riding horses all her life and has been in a number of big shows--her accomplishments are really impressive. Anyway, this "cowboy" focus fabric cracked me up and I decided to make her a quilt using it. Truthfully, though, I think one of my nephews liked the fabric a lot more than she did, but that's another story. Anyway, here's the quilt:

And by way of catching up, my cat finished her course of antibiotics a couple days ago and seems to be doing fine. Not only that, but I still have all my fingers and nothing's infected from scratches or bites. We finally worked out a system where most of the time, I'd hold the cat cradled in my arms with a good grip on her paws, and my husband would pry her jaws open and pop the pill in. As soon as he got it in, he'd hold her jaws shut until she swallowed. That really worked out well. Thanks for all your suggestions and help!

It seems like there were one or two other "updates" I was going to mention but I can't remember them now. I really shouldn't be messing around on the computer in the wee hours of the morning because I think portions of my brain have already gone to sleep. Both last night and tonight, I sent emails, logged out of my email program (last night I had actually shut down the computer!), and had to log back in to double check that I really DID send the emails to the people I meant to send them to.

I think one of my problems is just not having enough time on the computer during normal waking hours. I've even fallen behind on a lot of my blog reading. I plan to remedy that, though, while I'm off work. Just one more day . . . .