Kitty

So we saved a cat because we're superheroes.

We were driving along East Boundary Road which is 4 lanes divided by a median strip when Fab goes;

'Nani. Slow down. Nani, stop. Nani THERE IS A CAT.'

So, I slow down, barely enough because I assumed by the time I got to where the cat was it would've run right acroos. Alas no, the cat was very slowly coming to a complete stop right in front of my car.

The cars behind me were getting all annoyed and were beeping and stuff, so I tentatively go 'beep.' One tiny little beep just to make the cat run, to which it turned towards my car and kind of turned it's head to one side curiously.

It then took a few small steps to the right, then to the left and then finally decided slowly to hop up onto the median strip.

We continued driving and I realised 'that cat won't make it off the median strip' so we chuck a u-ie and I park near where the cat was and put on the hazards and Fabian gets out to find the cat.

He finds it, just standing there, doing not much in the grass and he starts circling it in a very Steve Irwin fashion determining how 'dangerous' the cat was. Eventually he picks it up and comes into the car where the cat immediately lies down on his lap and starts to purr.

Dangerous indeed.

The cat had only 1 eye (an old operation) and was very well looked after. It was really clean and super soft like it had been brushed every day of it's life. It had a collar and was registered so we pulled over into a nearby street and called the mobile number on the collar to no avail.

We couldn't just let it back onto the street because it obviously had a death wish with how slowly it was crossing the road so we took it to the Emergency Vet that saved both my dogs, Frieda and Billie, in the past.

They were lovely and the cat was microchipped so it didn't take long to find the home number of the owners. The cat's remaining eye had a massive cataract on it and after doing some clapping tests the vet nurse realised the cat was not only completely blind, but profoundly deaf too.

No wonder it didn't respond to the beeping of my car! Anyway, the owners had been super stressed out that their cat was missing - the guy had been on a conference call so our calls weren't getting through.

Turns out they lived in the street we'd initially parked in when we were trying to call them so we offered to drive the cat home. It was on the way anyway.

The people were lovely but I was secretly sad we didn't get to keep the 1 eyed deaf cat. I really liked him and that's a pretty big deal because I don't usually like cats.

Nani x

Sink

Since I got back from Canberra there seem to have been a lot of things happening in the world of Nani.

Unfortunatelly, not all of them good. A dear friend of mine who I go to uni with had a stroke on Saturday and is in hospital at the moment in an induced coma. Things don't seem to be very good, he had haemorrhaging in both sides of his cerebellum. We're waiting for the fluids to be drained from his head before there is chance of him waking up and then we'll see what damage has been done.

I've felt quite strange since I heard the news, it seems surreal and I haven't quite been feeling affected by it. Mainly because i've been waiting til the next piece of news and i've been able to put off the feeling that anything bad has happened because we don't know how bad. To be honest though it's starting to creep up on me and I just had my first cry over it. He's only 30, so this is a big shock.

Some good news today however, I got my exam results and I smashed the shit out of everything, distinctions for all my subjects except for Pathology which I thought I failed but got 71 for. So I'm very pleased about that, in fact I did a fair bit of singing in the shower after I found out.

I dropped a pearl earring down the sink which was really annoying because I thought dropping jewelery down the sink only happened in movies.

I'm going to hang out with the Lewis sisters tonight which will be nice.

Hopefully my next post won't have such a morose tone.

N x

Home

I'm home! Finally! 8 hours, 3 rest stops and 1 Big Mac later I'm back in Melbourne.

I feel absolutely exhausted. I didn't realise until just then when I sat down at my laptop to put some music on. I'm trying to do some cleaning which desperately needs to be done before I start back at uni.

Now that i've sat down I don't know how i'll go standing back up. My eyes even feel stingy, very go-back-to-bed worthy.

Canberra was great, I really liked it as a place and had a lot of fun with Libby and Chloe. There were a few dramas with Chloe not being able to come but then showing up at the airport which was cool.

The actual place is tiny and huge at the same time. No people, massive roads so no traffic to speak of which makes it seem huge and empty - though we were able to drive around the whole of Canberra in about an hour!

It's highlighted how much I love Melbourne, though that happens every time I leave Melbourne for more than a day! I'm such a sucker for being home-sick. I always miss my dogs and my mum and sister.

I'm looking over the top of my laptop at a huge pile of clothes, dust and a vacuum cleaner that may never be turned on. Libby is on her way over to my house (like we didn't get enough of each other over the passed few days) because we have some stuff we decided while we were in Canberra that we needed to get done.

She claims whenever she comes over i'm cleaning. That's because my rooms are always a mess and I only just manage to make them look presentable before people walk in the door. Well. Not this time my little friend.

Bah, now I feel guilty. Up I get, must tidy at least a little.

<3 N x

Exhale

I am on holidays and actually feel like it. What a relief.

Fabian and I have just been hanging out doing nothing and everything and it's been so good, no horrible fast paced QUICK GOTTA GET EVERYTHING DONE moments. Just...sitting in front of the fire, deciding to pop over to the gym, cooking, playing with the fish, sleeping in and having no alarm.

Kickass.

It's been so great not working too. (I still work at the Chinese Medical Clinic but i'm only there one day a week, so it hasn't felt like my holidays have been sucked up by work).

Oh, i've been wonderfully boring and have been making all my music properly labelled so that when it goes into my i-tunes it's all properly under the right album, genre, title and artist etc. Pedantic, I know, but it gives me joy to have it all so perfectly laid out on my i-pod.

Also, I was having a bit of a crisis where I felt I was going nowhere and doing nothing - so I'm working on an idea which I want to be ready by Christmas but depending on how well it goes and how hard it is to organise it may turn into a mega project that won't be ready until the following year! It'll give me something to do with my time when I feel useless.

Oh! I played this really cool game the other day first with Fabian and then with Aleks and Nova. It's called Settlers of Catan and it rocks my world. I will happily play with you if you would like to give it a go.

What else? I am going on a bit of a road trip with Libby and Chloe for a couple of days to Canberra, where we will stay with Libby's parents, freeze to death and hopefully have a lot of fun.

I feel the itch to go and label some music now.

Au revoir,

Nani x