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At 6:58am our Jaegermonster turned a year old. I had hoped to have something really great to write but honestly like most parents of an active one year old I'm usually too tired to think. It has been at times awful and other times awesome. Mostly it has been a year of awe and awwwww! Watching my son experience things for the first time and learn and grow has been amazing and I look forward to many more years of it.

 Some stuff has been claimed but some of the original stuff is still available and more has been found. From the original post (which you can see in <lj user="laurion>'s journal) the TV, dorm sized ironing board, glass vase and Easter things are available. Additionally we have a rice cooker to give away, another fan, this time a tall oscillating fan which has a remote (if we can find it)  a giraffe mug and an unopened bottle of diet caffeine-free Coke. I don't have pictures of any of the new stuff. If I find the time to take them i will add them. Items need to be claimed an picked up before Sunday August 29th or they will be going to the Salvation Army.

Yesterday my entire family (parents, both sibs and their SOs, the niece and one of my local aunts and her husband and kids) and C. and I all went to the Topsfield Fair. Yes it was raining the whole time, and my niece was grumpy, but we actually managed to have a nice day of it. My mom had planned the expedition weeks ago and gotten tickets so rescheduling wasn't really an option. We ate ourselves full on fair food, including fried dough (of course) and maple sugar cotton candy, which is awesome. We dropped by Prospect Hill Forge's set-up and said hi. My niece was so enthralled by the smithing, that only the promise of going to pet some of the farm animals could lure her away from the forge, which is high praise from a two year old.
We bought things we did and didn't need and saw the nearly 1500Lb pumpkin that won the prize for largest this year. We have more local honey and I stared in wonder at the 60lb buckets of it that could be purchased (for only $198.00) and wondered who would actually use that much.
We also ran into learnedax and cat9 on our way out. All in all it was a great time, though probably would've been better if it had been a bit less soggy, though for once it was easy to get to and the parking lot wasn't full.

Last night about twenty minutes after I went to bed C. and I heard a weird sound. In the hallway I found both my cats with a corncob they had stolen off the counter. About a quarter of the corncob was missing. I thought it likely that Ozy was the culprit, but couldn't rule out Tica, so I packed them both up and headed out to Tufts. Rads showed a lot of food in their tummies, no obstruction at that time. They each got a shot to induce emesis. As suspected Tica did not eat the corncob. Ozy had gobbled a quarter corn cob in a short period of time and had no chewed it very well. I think it all came out though he is being watch today just in case. The ER agreed that Ozy must be part Labrador, because corncob is a common cause thing to see in the "ate an inappropriate item" catagory of patient, but no one had seen it in a cat before.

So a few hundred dollars later and both my cats seem fine. I'm very glad I had a place to bring them ( and that my student discount was still in effect). I could do with never having even a tiny emergency with them again though.

I PASSED THE NORTH AMERICAN VETERINARY LICENSURE EXAM!!!!!!!

Getting all of my patients home for the holidays so I did not have to wake up at 6am this morning and go in. I got to relax and wake up with my husband and our cats, it was wonderful.