mousme | So, onto what happened today

I spent the morning organising a few things around home. I registered for online banking so I wouldn't constantly be running after my bank balance and so I can pay my credit card online when I remember to instead of two weeks late or what have you.

I then called the vet and got an appointment to have George neutered at 8am tomorrow morning. Goodbye, great big furry ball of testosterone. I think that this is a good thing: come the summertime poor Georgie would have been literally climbing the curtains with all the stray cats in heat out there.

I screamed out of here at 1:30 or so and headed off to Rockland centre to get that fabulous cat litter

firewillow introduced me to a while back. It still galls me to pay $40 for cat litter, but I did the math and it actually used to cost me more per month when I was getting the old clumping cat litter.

Not to mention that this article has made me swear off the stuff forever. Then again, after proving that they can ingest plastic with no ill-effects, my cats don't worry me too much: they have cast-iron difestive tracts.

So I bought cat litter, and found a bi-monthly planner for $1.52. It was on sale at Hallmark at Rockland Centre (note to Firewillow). I was v. pleased with self, as the lack of a planner has led me in the past weeks to have some major scheduling conflicts which I was only able to resolve by doing lots of last-minute juggling. Now I will be able to plan things ahead of time. Not to mention that I plan on using it to plan my finances a bit too.

I didn't buy any books at the local Chapters, for which I was very proud of myself. *pats self on back*

I also bought myself a new cordless phone which I will be installing shortly. It has call display too, which is nice. I pay for the service at Bell Canada, after all, so I was annoyed at not having a phone with call display.

I then hied myself over to my main bank branch, where I was told by a remarkably dim teller that I would have to wait three days for the answers to my questions, and that there would be a $5 fee. I gritted my teeth and told myself I'd bear it until Wednesday. If there are no results by then I will raise a major stink. I don't do it often, but when I do, it gets ugly very fast.

Reminds me of Firewillow's t-shirt: "Bitch: a perfectly nice, kind, reasonable woman who has been pushed too far once too often." Or something to that effect. Well, that would be me.

It was bitterly cold outside, and I still had about an hour left on the parking meter, so I wandered over to Chapters, and spent the next three and a half hours (oops) reading the latest installment in the Bitterbynde Trilogy by Celia Dart–Thornton. I may have mentioned the first book, The Ill-Made Mute, as being a really good yarn written kind of poorly. The second book is better in terms of writing, although the author completely and unashamedly ripped off the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, with embellishments. Otherwise the story was good, and the writing had improved, like I said. Not enough that I was willing to shell out $40 I didn't have, but good enough that I stayed long enough to finish the story instead of leaving it for another day.

I bought myself a hot chocolate after realising I hadn't had a bite to eat since yesterday's souvlaki. Oops again. I was really cold by then, partly due to hunger, so the hot chocolate helped a lot.

I used it as fuel to go grocery shopping, and showed admirable restraint for one shopping on an empty stomach. I stocked up on food for the next two weeks or so, and spent about $70, which is a bit more than I usually spend, but then again my kitchen was *remarkably* bare and I needed a few more things like soap and what have you that I don't necessarily buy each time I go shopping.

I think I'm going to try feeding my cats two small portions of food a day instead of one large one in the morning. They really seem to be ravenous by the time evening comes around, and yet according to the vet and the food packages I'm feeding them the right amount. More would lead to them becoming overweight and having health problems. I figure they may fare better with two smaller helpings rather than one large one. Spread the food out, so to speak. If that doesn't seem to help, I'll talk to the vet about maybe giving them a bit more food. I don't want to starve them, after all.

Am working away diligently at

aparecium_rpg applications. Like

firewillow said, there'll be an official announcement Friday, both of the start of game and the results of the applications.

The only thing I didn't do today was go to the pharmacy, of the things I had on my list, and I got a few things done that weren't on my list, so all in all things are looking good.

Tomorrow I drop George off at the vet's, then I'll be spending the day with my father and the evening with my godmother. I wonder if I can convince my father to take me to St. Hubert's for some barbecue chicken —I have a craving.