I'm so sorry, Katie Bee.

Katie Bee - I am so sorry. I am glad you all were with her.

Cass - correction - I sent you a FaceBook IM.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, Katerina Bee.

Hey Sheryl. How is your day going?

Gabapentin in capsules is the way to go... open the capsule into wet food, stir it in, no flavor. That is how Harvey gets his twice daily, since the last time I pilled him my medical bills were higher than his trip to the emergency vet because cat bites Are Bad.

Some of the PetMate plastic carriers are easy to simply take apart around the cat. I have done that a time or two. This style [link] with latches holding the top half to the bottom half instead of screws. Also, your mom may want to consider leaving the carrier out all the time, throwing treats into it, so it is part of kitty's daily life and is less alarming when it comes out for trips to the vet.

Right now I leave mine out all the time and Petunia gets in it sometimes just to sleep. But I had her from a kitten. Miss Bobo was more like this cat, they sort of undersold her drawbacks. And I learned to live with them which I would not recommend as it lead to having my whole apartment cleaned by professional body removers eventually. So I am sure there is a good middle ground.

Also, when Petunia was spayed, they had a gabapentun liquid you could shoot with an eye dropper, which was preferable to pilling.

If you don't or can't have room for carrier to be out all the time, it's still worth it to get it out a couple days before the vet visit, so that they lose their suspicion through it being inert.

I really enjoyed the Zoom visit. I kept thinking that I really wanted Ed to see my Buffista shirt, and then kept sighing to myself.

The most exciting my Thanksgiving plans may get is that I could drive over for Legal Sea Foods take-away. I've not been big on Great Big Family Event T-Day ever since as a child that meant a horrible boring car ride to distant boring (and opinionated) relatives who had no kids and nothing in their house to play with. I swear, my personal best-ever Thanksgiving was going to England for a week, where it was just another goddamn Thursday.

I'm sorry I missed the zoom yesterday, I was actually zooming with my best friend, whom I haven't talked to since March.

I feel like I've fallen down on actively trying to maintain some friendships, so I am making an effort to reach out to more people right now, especially since the stress of the election is (sort of) over.

Katie B, I'm so sorry about your cat, that's so sad. But I'm glad you were with her.

Just did a big grocery run and bought things I probably didn't need, like fancy cheese and ginger beer. But I also suspect I won't be going to the store as much in the next eight weeks, so it was good to stock up. Got my sister the very last bag of white whole wheat, too.