Skiriki

2024 has started on a wrong foot, I should say. At the end of November 2023, I finally caught Covid-19 despite all the precautions I have taken. I was moderately flattened to bed, and I'm still having lingering effects from two and half week bout it took to start testing not-positive. Easily fatigued, sore throat. I'm pissed off that I caught it, because our city messed up the vaccination program and now I can't get the booster vaccine until three months later and right now variants seem to be spawning furiously. I was supposed to have kittens, with calculated time being New Year's Eve. Wow! What a timing! Unfortunately, Lobsang pulled Oscar-worthy performance of false pregnancy. She had pink nips! She had even milky dots in them! She was affectionate and purring and craving for tummy-rubs (all of those are no-no in her usual mode of behavior). She even tried to give birth three times, with some definite mess involved! Third time was when I and the breeder called false pregnancy and

Sooo, it turns out that now I have 4 cats, two adults and two cattens. Mort and Lobsang are here to stay; Lobsang will continue the line, Carisma is now spayed, and Mort is staying because nobody wants a broken kitten 😭 (Shush! She's not broken! She's the most lovable lil' snugglefluff!). Didi continues being Didi. Both kittens are absolutely crazy about getting wet -- that is, they WILL accompany their hoomins to shower and sauna and both will run under shower water, and Lobsang is especially delighted about being soaking wet and running around like a miniature sabretooth cat in a jungle of her imagination. I'm kinda stuck with my art thing (and now that I said that, all of the sudden I have an idea 😮). I'm going to try and see if I can waken up 3D urge after doing some painting and embroidery in real life. I'll probably have to do some Lootmas cards and such as well. Other future prospects include "I need to bake a turkey, and figure out what kind of stuffing I want to do for it".

So, Carisma's final litter of kittens is here. You can see the adorable bebs in their Twitter. https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/ You can also read what happened, but please heed content notes, they are there for a very good reason.