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The Tuna of Desperation

  • Mar. 8th, 2008 at 9:39 PM
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I am le tired ("So take a nap. Zen fire ze missiles!"), and while I did manage to get out and acquire Red Bull for the morning, I completely spaced on acquiring catfood. I love my cats dearly, but I am just too beat to hell to summon up the energy to go out yet again. Plus, the best I could do at this hour would be Iams from the Safeway hell and gone from here; I could maybe force myself to stumble down the block and get catfood at the corner store, but it would be bad dry catfood in a small overpriced box, and I'd rather not inflict that on the beasts of the house.

[info]miss_education was over here helping me with some javascript foo, and we have come up with a name for the canned tuna that one feeds the cats when one is too wiped to go acquire proper catfood: the Tuna of Desperation. Well, hey, at least they like it.

And according to [info]miss_education, it beats the alternative that her roommate has come up with in the past: pouring a big bowl of dry kitty treats, calling her up, and telling her, "Kitty's having Doritos tonight. You might want to get some more catfood." I cannot stop laughing.
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[info]pandorasfox wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 06:07 am (UTC)
heh. i'm so proud of myself, my cat hasn't had any tuna of desperation in years now. and god knows she's certainly had her fair share in the past though.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:12 am (UTC)
I really have no excuse, either, since the store that sells the really good catfood is walking distance from my apartment (though it does look kind of weird to carry a 40-pound bag of catfood over my shoulder through the Fillmore, which is a fairly ritzy shopping district). Work is just eating me alive lately.
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[info]feyandstrange wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 06:23 am (UTC)
Mmm, tuna. It's good people-desperation protein as well. And while I have not had a cat in years who was allowed to consume it, I still reflexively want to drain the juice from the tuna into a dish for the cat. It's like pouring out a 40 for my kitties or something.

Had I a cat I would keep a patty of ground turkey in the back of the freezer as emergency cat food, I think. Or break into the cat food I would also have stashed in the quake kit.

But "kitty Doritos" is too much fun.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:08 am (UTC)
Yep. I love me some tuna salad sandwiches, but sometimes Emergency Tuna ends up being what gets me out of the house to get proper food.

Damn do I ever wish Mollie Stone's delivered.
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[info]feyandstrange wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:40 am (UTC)
Safeway delivery keeps me fed. I'd starve without it. Well, no, but Kai would get cranky about having to run out for food all the time.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:57 am (UTC)
I should really sit down with Kai (or both of y'all) sometime and collect tips on how to minimize the small day-to-day frustrations of caring for a partner who isn't as mobile as he used to be. I love [info]enochsmiles and I want to do everything I can to help him, but I can get pretty cranky about having to run out and do errands all the time too. Attempting to shut up the crankiness has really not been working out for either of us, so figuring out how to change my/our lifestyle so as to reduce crankiness-causing events makes more sense.
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[info]feyandstrange wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 05:01 am (UTC)
I'd be more than happy to be as helpful as possible, although we'll probably be a lot less cranky ourselves once we're through the move. But I like to think I'm a treasure trove of helpful handy gimp hints, so I'm happy to be a resource. If either you or enochsmiles can remind my foggy brain what the health situation is, I'll happily spew what of my collection of gadgets, ideas and etc. I have to offer.

And a support group/bitch session for y'all awesome caregivers might not hurt either, even if it's an informal once-in-a-while beers-at-bar sort of deal.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 07:34 am (UTC)
we'll probably be a lot less cranky ourselves once we're through the move.

Totally understandable -- I am hell to be around when I'm moving. Lemme know when people are coming together to shift stuff from the old place to the new, btw, and I'll be happy to help out.

If either you or enochsmiles can remind my foggy brain what the health situation is

His lower and middle back are fucked up. No one's been able to figure out how. (It is probably related to $chronic-condition-which-is-under-control-but-isn't-directly-responsible.) X-rays and MRIs and stuff all come out within normal tolerances; he has moderate osteopenia but it shouldn't be causing this kind of pain. He walks with a cane, and not very quickly, and just generally hurts all the time.

Edited at 2008-03-10 08:04 am (UTC)
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 07:39 am (UTC)
And, yeah, a semi-regular get-together would indeed be awesome. I prefer informal, myself.
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[info]grimmtooth wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 07:15 am (UTC)
Hah. You always bring with the best stuff (Mars is laughing at us!). Can't wait for the Klingon remix.

Of course kittehs like the Tuna of D. They rather like it more than the stuff we're supposed to be feeding them, it appears (based on our little crowd of spoiled cats).

But I love the Doritos comment.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:10 am (UTC)
My two are rather picky; they get used to a certain kind of food and then glare at me suspiciously if I have to change it up on them. [info]enochsmiles' Sasha will eat anything, though, and frequently eats things just to find out if he can. I am glad that spider plants are kitty-safe.
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[info]grimmtooth wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:26 am (UTC)
Don't get me started on the plants. There's a reason they're banished to the outside.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 04:39 am (UTC)
We had to give our San Pedro cactus away because Sasha was acting a bit too much like his namesake.
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