Absolute Nertcase for sure!

Hi everybody... it's been awhile since I've updated, not much to say. Nert has been here a year now and has gotten well adjusted. My mom gave her some toys for Chritmas, she seems more interested in the bag than the toys although she will play with them now and then... there's one little yellow soft squishy ball she likes to hide under the couch, is she trying to play hide and seek in her own way? Hah... she is so funny... I've been playing with her more and more the last two weeks or so... the other day was sooo funny! She stared at me and as I approached her, she ran away... when I went to find her, she ran again... this went on for a few minutes until she called the shots on when to quit. Tonight I was playing with her and she did a somersault off the couch. She LOVES playing with yellow packaging ties I get from my Avon boxes... she was on the couch and I was on the floor teasing her with it a little bit... swinging it around, hiding it, etc. well she was hanging from the edge of the couch and I was telling her to be careful. At one time she managed to jump off the couch, doing a perfect somersault but she was fine and bouncing all over the place. I love how cats are so unique with their personalities. She's also been more cuddly lately, sometimes a little too much when I'm trying to turn in bed. For awhile she would go and sleep on her tree and then come in to me in the morning, I don't mind her sleeping with me as long as she doesn't smother me! LOL Having a blast! I'll try to update more frequently. :)
Hope everything is well with everybody...
~Diane

Psycho Kitty from Mars??

Hello people...
Not much to say except this cat is nuts! (Yeah? And?...) I have this new (to her0 tall fabric offfice chair that she LOVES! (So much in fact, I have trouble getting her to get OUT of MY chair! She may try to rule the house, but this chair is mine... MINE! LOL... A couple of times when I've been in the chair, leaning forward to type, she'd sneak up behind me and sit behind my back... I'd ask her to please move... and she would get on top of it, just standing there, weighing me down. Swivelling and rocking never helps, wether she's on the back of the chair or in the chair, dumping doesn't either... it's like I've said in the past, it's the same concept as with trying to pick her up.. for me anyway... she just clings to whatever like a ton of bricks. We had a friend over for dinner over the weekend and Sue picked the cat right up... John and I simultaneously looked at each other in confusion... hahaha... I don't get it... Sue has had cats... John has had cats... maybe that's the problem... I haven't had enough personal ownership exposure to cats with the exception of Remi that we only had for a month RIP. :( She is such a funny / crazy cat... the last couple of times John or I have tried to get her to either get down off the chairback, or go to the windowsill, i.e., "make up your mind, one or the other... that was pretty much what john told her last time lol" she went straight to the windowsil.. but a couple of times when she's tried that, she wasn't so successful and she's fallen straight to the ground.. poor kitty... just like a cartoon strip. she gets sick once in awhile but over all we're getting more comfortable with each other although a lot of times when I dangle things in front of her for semi gentle play, in my favor, she looks at me like, 'yeah? you're waving a toy in front of me and your point is?" She still loves the laser pointer, however even it doesn't last long... LOL that's our little NErT case! Hope everyone is doing well. :)
~Diane

CAT LOVERS WILL APPRECIATE THIS ONE!

AHEM! Let me state FOR THE RECORD, I did NOT EVEN NOTICE the actual cat at the bottom of the picture when I took the picture of the soil bag (so you could see what I was looking at) See what 2-3 hours of sleep and medical stuff making you nuts can do to you? UGH!..

Wow, what a day I've had so far. I've been awake roughlly since 3 AM, I keep having insomnia because the pain is so bad. (I just started nuvijil this morning, hope that helps some of these symptoms). I did a little research on my phone cuz I was wide awake. I got up probably around 5ish and stayed up. Took a shower, jumped into my sweats, and later turned up the heat cuz I'm having chills. BTW I'm thinking of starting a blog, or a journal @ CaringBridge.com if they allow just anybody, so keep your eyes open if you want to follow my medical stuff. ANYWAY I wanted to stay on target with breakfast, so ate a little after 8 when I normally get up, took pills, had some tea.

I came back to the computer and was telling the cat that she's been a very good kitty and how much I love her. I apologized for being abrupt and distant and skittish and not feeling well lately.. all of this while she was on the windowsill. Well sometimes the way she breathes or makes these weird grumbling noises, I know something's up (there have been a variety of cats in the area, stressing her out. For the last couple of days, she's hidden under the dining room table (most of the day)on one of the chairs, which is right next to the back door, with lots of windows, so she can see what's going on.) ANYWAY, sorry this is so long and "Family Circus" like... it takes me forever to tell a story, just ask John. :P So I get up from the computer to take a look, I don't see anything at first, I was very careful with maneuvering the curtains as to not get attacked by Nert, as I sometimes do for scoping out why she's in distress. Uh, I saw what looked like a dead cat, based on John's description of a new cat I hadn't seen yet, sounded like a calico cat. (I called him and asked him to bring a pseudo body bag, explained what I thought was going on, because after flicking the window a few times, no response)... another flick and the cat batted at me. She's done this before, but today was weird. I immediately lost my balance big time, (since I've had this latest health stuff, I've been losing my balance easily sometimes)fell over backwards, into the chair, and kept falling to the ground, taking the chair with me. My reading glasses went flying off my face, and i hurt my left wrist and magnified the pain in the lower right rib area. It was funny but not so funny. After I got up and picked everything up and made sure my pulse was somewhat back to normal, I went outside to investigate... approaching slowly, no movement from the "cat". Upon closer investigation, it was part of the rubble we have in the backyard, an old white bag of fertilizer, some at the top of the bag had dried out unless it was just a pile of natural debris. I was scared at first while approaching it but relieved to find out it wasn't a dead cat. I swear all this medical stuff I've been going through has been making me crazy! =/ I hope this story made you all smile a little bit. :P HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYBODY!!! It's overcast here, and I have the heat up a little bit, am cold with a little bit of chills, hope it gets "warm" later. Oh, by the way, on top of this fiasco, John purchased 2 books of stamps yesterday and this morning asked me where they were. I swear I didn't remember him handing them to me, my memory has gotten very poor in the last month or two. I looked all over cuz he said he handed them to me yesterday, uh, he found them out in the driveway, one of the books was underneath the neighbors truck. I am just scatterbrained left and right, not that that has anything to do with a cat blog. :-/ I NEED SLEEP!!

Not the best day for Nert

Sorry I haven't posted much lately AGAIN, just not a lot going on with Nert, but today has been pretty weird so far. Before John got here, she managed to "missfire" at her litter box. there was a nice little pile in front on the carpet, which she was trying to bury, then a little around the rim of the box, which i tried my best to clean, hard to reach the rest, so... John said he'd take care of it later when he cleans the box. After John got here, more fun and excitement! (?) She was digging at the rug in the living room, so my inclination was 'oh great, she did it again.' nope, she just kept "digging" and scratching over and over even though I tried to get her not to. well, John got here for a few before he had to go to a meeting for the day. I had the window open in "Nert's room" (music room/ /computer soom ) so the smell would kinda air out. John was on my computer while i was in the bathroom getting dressed. I didn't hear anything except sounds from John playing around with the new midi setup.. when I came out and heard John talking to the cat, he was caressing her and saying it was ok, kept consoling her. Well DUH stupid me... the window was open wide enough for her to play around with the screen. Her claws are in need of a trim and she got both of them stuck. (After that I closed the window)... =( I feel so guilty! Poor kitty... so after awhile, John had to leave.. I pet her a few times, she was like "Yeah whatever". i tried putting a few treats in front of her dish, which she usually eats, but she just niffed at them. After John left, she went back onto the winidowsil.. that was at the time I decided to close the window all the way.. (I did close it a little but wanted some air to come in to kidna kill the smell)... when I decided just to close it all the way she was batting at me when closing it. Then she was lying on her tree and i tried to pet her, she had this look and reaction like, "don't you even come near me!"... She was looking down on one the "branches" of her "tree", she was almost looking underneath the level she was on, it was weird, I was waiting for her to do a faceplant but she's napping now. we shall see how the rest of the day goes! I've been tangling with more Dr. and health stuff so I hope the cat will be ok at least. Ugh! I'll keep you posted should there be any new developments.

It's been awhile, sorry, have been busy. Last weekend nert took a vacation at the kennel while we went to Chico to visit some of John's family. She wasn't sure what to do when we first brought her back home, but she settled right in as soon as she found her food dishes. :). She has been a very good cat lately. :). Tonight would have been the perfect comic strip scenario. I grabbed a hanful of food to put in her dish, and as I was about to put it in, she hovered over it and pigged out so I waited for a few. Then she scooted back a little, and as I bent down, she hovered over it again. Ok... Then she moved our of the way and when I finally put in some more food SHE WALKED AWAY... it was pretty funny! :). Hope she survives the rest of the weekend with firecrackers and 'works. I'm clearing closet floor and leaving door open, I just hope she doesn't get engulfed somewhere. Lol

Nert - the weirdo

Well I haven't posted in a little while - not a lot to say I guess. She's just living every day as a "normal" cat. The other day I tried to brush her, and she tried to bite me, then when I was walking away, she tried to bite my foot. She's really weird. She got sick this morning.. ugh. We tried starting her on chocolate PetoMalt a week ago and she's not liking it.. I'm wondering if we should try chicken flavor... we need to get some more cat fod in the next day or two so might try a different flavor. Somewhere on the web, I read to coat your cat's paws with petroleum jelly - that just sounds icky and cruel, but if it works for some people so be it. I couldn't picture licking / swallowing vasoline.. Anyway, John just brushed her fur and she was purring up a storm and liking it a lot, and curling up into balls and being sweet. Well after a few minutes, she came over to me and attacked me with a little scratch, not bad but it actually hurt more than all the other ones have. I didn't even touch her. I'm wondering if she's still having adjustment problems, I donno, it's been 3 months already, that in my mind should be more than enough time. She has her moments where she's very sweet, then there are the other times. She always likes to come up to me, start purring, and licking my arms, she tried purring at me a LITTLE bit this morning earlier, too early to get up, it was 6 I think. When I finally got up, she wasn't around, that's when I noticed she had gotten sick in her water. =( I don't want her to get sick but if she won't eat the PetoMalt, and doesn't want me to brush her fur, I am not sure what to do. One thing that I've found kinda funny though... anytime she's cleaning herself, sometimes I will just be sitting there and watching there... if she catches me, she will completely stop, turn around and keep cleaning. Haha... weirdo! Also when she's scratching her ear, sometimes she'll freeze if I'm looking at her, then she'll continue after a couple of seconds. Every cat is so unique it's amazing.. I just wish she was a nicer cat - I'm starting to be convinced that she likes John a LOT more than me... maybe because she doesn't see him nearly as much? Who knows. =/ So that's pretty much it for this update.. :)

Nert update

Sorry I haven't blogged for awhile, not a whole lot to say really. This morning, Nert got sick.. yesterday she bit me after she was playful with mom, then mom left, go fig. :P For a good part of the afternoon Nert had been quite talkative... but last night when I went to bed, she didn't join me. I left the door open ajar, and woke up this morning with no cat, and the door had been shut by the furnace air. (A few days ago she didn't sleep with me either; she camped out on the couch). Today she has been VERY quiet, sleeping most of the day, she ate a LITTLE bit, was not in the mood to play much, I got her to play with the laser for about 5 seconds. I usually keep all her toys out on the living room rug so she can pick at whatever she wishes to. Tonight she seemed a little weird; anytime throughout the day that I would try to pet her, she'd either flinch or run away. I'm noticing she's liking John more. I'm also thinking I may have developed a new cat allergy. While I've had allergy type problems for a long time due to various things, I think having cats around had just magnified it. When I was tested a few years ago, the test said no cat allergy, but dog hair. It was suggested to me that we remove the carpets. (I'd love to remove the shag any day) LOL but I love having carpeting... the house has carpeted bedrooms. The hallway & living room are hardwood, and the kitchen is tile. John brought up a good point though; this house suffered a fire MANY years ago (remember his mom is just down the street so he grew up there), and there may have been some damage to the flooring. I'm thinking I'll probably just vacuum more. I have been wanting to schedule an appt with an allergist recommended by my ear Dr. I know I've gone way off topic of the cat, sorry... Nert for the most part is a good cat, but tonight she just seems kinda lost. :/ She's sleeping at the foot of the bed, I'm hoping the night will be uneventful, I don't want to disturb her sleep. I'll update if necessary, we'll watch her for a few days.