Outing, First With Cat

I was dreading it, yesterday’s visit to Mr. Fluffle’s vet, but as it turned out, there was no need to anticipate the worst.
His former owner, a friend, and I brought him to the vet a week ago for a check-up and blood work. We got a call a couple of days later that the lab dropped the sample, so I had to schedule a second appointment.
My friend had offered to help me get him in his carrier. This sounds silly, he’s only 15 pounds, but this early in our getting to know each other, he can be unpredictable: the other day, he bit me while I was brushing him.

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The Friday Five

It’s back, courtesy of Live Journal.
What activity can you not believe you survived in your childhood?
Hospitalization for not one but two hip surgeries.
What activity can you not believe kids get away with today?
Playing video games constantly.
If you could be anyone else in the world live or dead, who would you choose to be?
Thomas Jefferson – rich, brilliant, successful, lived to a ripe old age (83). Jefferson, obviously, was not perfect: I would like to think that I would have been moral enough to develop an alternative to slavery and would not have committed adultery with Sally Hemings.
A lot of people think they’ve been in love at 15 or 16 years old, do you think you now look back and think you were a stupid kid or do you believe that you were old enough to know what love is?
I think I knew what love was then, but haven’t a clue now!
Do you think it is possible to remain in love with someone you once loved, but haven’t seen in a year?
Of course.