MONDAY/FEB 23 / TATER AT THE VET

MONDAY

FEBRUARY 23 2026

I was up at 4AM. Could not sleep in bed. Had to potty.

I slept on the sofa. I was cold. Riley got up at 5AM. I opened the door for her to go out, but she just came back inside. 

I went back to sleep on the sofa.

Everybody got up at 6AM. Let dogs outside. Hubby went potty. I went potty. Then we brought all the dogs back inside.

I made the bed. Got dressed. Put on makeup. Fixed my shorter hair with steamer. 

Hubby fed the dogs eggs for breakfast. He gave the cats tuna & shredded cheese. 

Hubby got dressed. He wore shorts starting again today because the cold snap is over? Supposed to be in 70s today by 3PM.

I made a hot cinnamon/honey latte for Hubby. Made hot tea, plain latte, and Nanogreens for myself.

I cleaned the kitchen. I put dirty dishes in dishwasher and started it. Hubby got dressed and sat on the sofa to watch YouTube.

Hubby cleaned cat litter. 

Hubby left for work at 8:30AM in the white Jeep. 

I went outside to pick up do poo. I put garbage and more cat poo in the cannister outside. I cleaned up garbage in the garage and organized donation stuff. 

I did bookwork. I ran Payroll. 

I called Hubby to find the clicker for Tater's collar. But he did not remember where it was. I finally found it under a bunch of crap on the table. Tater had been barking at neighbors walking on the sidewalk.

I put away clean clothes. I put away clean dishes. I accidentally broke a bowl on the countertop and had to vacuum it up. 

I tried on a grey wig. It looks ok. I think it will be better to just let my own hair grow out.

PBJR slept in the sun for over 2 hours, she finally came inside and was panting. I gave the dogs some rotisserie chicken from Walmart. 

At 2:45PM, I closed up the house, put the cats in our bedroom. Left PBJR and Riley at home. Loaded Tater into the FMF and drove to the Vet. 

Checked in at 3PM and had to WAIT UNTIL 3:30PM to see the Vet. Called Hubby. He said he would come "soon". 

Took Tater into the see the Vet. 

TATER AT THE VET IN WAITING ROOM

The Vet wanted to take X-Rays. So I had to sign a permission slip and estimate of the X-Rays. It was about $411.00 and AS I WAS SIGNING, I signed the wrong date. THIS IS HOW BAD LUPUS HAS FRIED MY BRAIN. 

I signed August 23 2023. And AS I WAS SIGNING IT, I told the girl, Whoops I signed the wrong date and then went ahead and signed 2023 as I was saying it! OMG. 

WRONG DATE

They took Tater back and got his X-Rays. I had to wait in the waiting room. 

Hubby finally got there a I had told him that I could not load a dopey dog because they were giving him sedation for the X-rays. 

We had to wait until 4:15 before they were done with him. Hubby had to go potty and was not there when they brought him out. I took Tater outside. Then Hubby finally got done and came outside. He took the dog to the FMF. I went back inside to pay. Took another 10 minutes before I could finally pay and collect his Thyroid medicine, and his Carprofen painkiller. 

Tater is not supposed to jump, run, etc for about 1 month. Yeah. Right. 

We drove home. I drove the Jeep. Hubby drove the FMF with Tater. 

At home, we unloaded the dog. Hubby backed the Jeep into the garage as I could not do it.

We had dinner. I had spaghetti. 

Then we watched Psych on TV. I was too tired to do anything else.

STUART WATCHING TATER'S POORLY LEG

I played BALL with Riley outside for a while. Gave the dogs some chicken.

Hubby fell asleep on the sofa.

We went to bed at 10PM.