a wee bit late…

okay, so it’s a little bit after midnight, so officially i missed blogging for “yesterday” but i’m still awake and to me it’s still the same day, and i have a really good excuse. we just got back from the after-hours vet. one of our kitties was not acting like herself at all (moving slow, meowing painfully if you picked her up, being pukey and totally not interested in food) and she kept getting more pitiful, so we finally decided to take her in to make sure something wasn’t seriously wrong with her. they think that maybe the antibiotics that she was on because of her dental surgery last thursday were making her nauseated, so they gave her some shots and she’s feeling much perkier already. they also gave her a subcutaneous shot of fluids to keep her hydrated, so she has this amusing (and kind of gross) floppy camel hump on one shoulder. bleh. anyway, we’re home with high hopes that she’ll be back to her old self by tomorrow. she usually bounces back pretty fast.

but on to the more beautiful bits of the day! i subbed for another librarian this morning and pulled together a storytime from thin air (the kit full of materials that normally circulates between the branches hadn’t arrived). my favorite part was when i was singing the itsy-bitsy spider (and the teensy weensy spider and the big hairy spider….) one of the girls piped up with “what about the princess spider?” and i said, “oh i haven’t heard that one” (this isn’t completely unusual for a kid to suggest a different spider. the unusual part was what happened next.) she then proceeded to sing an acapella solo of an entire verse of the “princess spider” who by the second mention had become the “beyooful spider” and by the last line had once again returned to simply being itsy-bitsy. she got a spontaneous ovation. it was great.

then, on my way from that library branch to my own library, i just had to pull the car over to take pictures of the amazing trees. generally speaking, i am not fond of the ice part of winter storms, but the one exception to that is what ice + sun can do to tree branches. oh the sparkle! it was like driving through a forest of glass, sparkling, silver trees! so incredibly beautiful. every tree. delicately outlined in ice and the bright sun and the blue sky… glorious.