GrumpysMonkey

Now that SIFF is underway, here are a few tips for surviving the whole process.

Do

• Do arrive early.
• Do bring a book, iPhone, MP3 player, and/or knitting.
• Do be open to chatting with others in line about movies. If you’re not, keep your headphones in.
• Do take one of the SIFF ballots and rate your movie experience.
• Do enjoy your movie experience. Realize that some movies are going to have long lines and some will sell out.
• Do be nice to the SIFF staff and volunteers you encounter. They are working incredibly hard over the next few weeks. Thank them every so often, or just smile.

Don’t

• Don’t bother people with headphones on.
• Don’t hold space in line for 10 of your closest friends who can’t get up to get in line for the early show or want to have that extra beer after dinner. You’re being rude to everyone who gets to the theater early to get a good seat. Hold a space for 1, sure. More than 2 others, definitely not.
• Don’t talk loudly about the plot lines of movies you’ve already seen. The person next to you in line might be seeing that movie tomorrow and doesn’t want the ending given away.
• Don’t chew gum with your mouth open during the movie. Even if you can’t hear it yourself, the person next to you can.
• Don’t take out your cell phone or text during the movie. Those blue screens are really annoying.

Happy SIFF!

I took this video last night. Binky has decided that the bathroom sink is a wonderful, magical place.

I’ve been pretty distracted the past week or so. Last week, one of Wingnut’s eyes turned all glassy. This wasn’t a standard eye infection, and of course, anything that makes little kitties sick and unhappy is not good. So I took him to the vet last week, expecting some eye drops and then all hell broke loose. To make a long story short, the vet said that the way the eye looked, there were several possibilities, three of which were VERY VERY BAD. One of which was so bad that if it was the case, he’d be terminal and there would be nothing we could do.

Obviously, this really hit both of us hard. Poor little guy is only 6 months old. So the vet took blood, ran tests, and more tests. 

Many hours (and tears) later, we’ve mostly ruled out the very deadly disease. There’s no difinitive test for FIP (which is the very deadly disease), but there are indicators that were negative in Wingnut. It’s not feline leukemia or FIV (another immune disease). It is still possible that it could be a different type of infection and there is one more test that we had sent out that won’t be back for another week.

Wingnut is at least very happy and playful, and his eye has started to look better than it did when we took him in. I brought him to the specialist yesterday and they were a little less concerned than the regular vet. Of course, it could still be the deadly diseases, but they are thinking that it is feline herpes (which basically is something that he could live with for 20 years and be just fine with occasional eye flare ups that would require drops or creams). 

So we’re giving Wingnut lots of extra love these days, even though some of that love involves putting drops in his eyes 3 times a day which he hates. Please think some good thoughts for him and hope that we figure this out soon and that it’s not anything serious.