Today is the day I'm supposed to be taking the Seneca to Iowa and bringing back the Saratoga. But it isn't happening. Freezing rain just doesn't do it for me on flying...and even if you can get above it, which would be in question in both the light twin with boots that could fail at any point and in an (unfamiliar) non-icing equipped single-engine, it's not exactly a stress-free trip. Honestly, I don't know if I could get in or not, it might have been possible, I haven't gotten the tops, but at this point it's too late and I truly don't feel like this kind of trip on this day. The guy can wait just a bit longer. Any time I start "reading" the NTSB report in my head, it just sounds like a stupid trip. ;) Besides, I have too much else to do here.
This morning I picked Roadie up from the vet, and she's looking very perky and bright-eyed. She's walking a little carefully, but all in all she looks good. I put down some snacks for her and Dulce both, and she snarfed hers just fine. Now the real test will be to see if she potties where she's supposed to or if she got so used to peeing wherever she wants, that we'll have a real problem. Dulce again hissed at her and stared at her like she'd never seen her before, stalked her, etc. I wouldn't let Dulce attack her, because Roadie is weak right now, but Dulce was again acting like this was a new cat. I don't know if it's the vet clinic smell that she hates (I know I do!) or if she's just a dim (but cute) cat who doesn't realize she's now lived with this same cat for months now.
Kaylee woke up already tired, and still complaining that her ear hurt. She mentioned that it keeps popping and it doesn't feel better, so I asked her if she could feel it crackling down inside her ear, and she said yes. Ear Infection. Dr. Mike called in some antibiotics for her, and we'll go pick them up shortly. After lunch, where she ate very little and spent a good portion of it lying down on the seat, we headed to the bank, then the post office, then home, and she was SO tired, I laid her down in bed. Last night she'd walked in the door and said "Can I please go to bed Mommy? I'm so tired." I almost asked her to say that again for the video camera this time, since I'm fairly sure I've never heard those words come out of her mouth before. Today I put her down for a nap, and she said "No, I don't want to." seconds before she grabbed her Sherbet Bear, rolled over, and passed out. She's been asleep for 2 hours now. I went in and tried to wake her up so we could go get her meds, and she's just so exhausted, I am making the mistake of letting her sleep. This means she won't be going to sleep at any reasonable hour tonight, but man, she hurts and she's exhausted and she's cute all cuddled up and I can't bring myself to wake her up. So shoot me. :)
I have PILES of laundry. I am trying to get all the laundry caught up so we can pack. We're supposed to leave tomorrow. Kaylee's got an ear infection, Roadie just came back from "emergency" surgery and is supposed to be watched for the next several days for infection and not allowed to chew on her sutures, I'm supposed to be getting this plane that doesn't belong to "us" any more to Iowa, I haven't gotten all our Christmas presents yet, our first stop is recovering from the flu, we don't know when we're going to go to our third stop yet, we may not have the Seneca to fly down in, the Baron is in the shop for the right engine so we may not get to borrow that either, the Bellanca may be an option, but it's smaller and not as well equipped which limits our capabilities in weather, etc., Kaylee's ear infection doesn't help with flying by any means, and oh yeah, if we drove, my car has a bashed in side panel with wind noise like a hurricane and probably isn't road-worthy for a 14 hour round trip drive, and the Jeep has an unknown shimmy so that Steve doesn't want to take IT on a road trip either. That leaves the Corvette and the motorcycle. Yeah, that'll work. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... :P
We're playing all this by ear at this point. Don't know what will be ready, what won't, who won't, what's going to happen when to what or whom. All I know is that I get twitchy thinking about what I don't have done yet! At least I got some stuff done--house bills, laundry is being worked on as I speak, got a little picking up done so we won't come back to Hurricane Alley, the cats are doing okay, Kaylee is resting, and I'm doing my darndest to catch up here!
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