Last Halloween

My favorite game has two months to live. In that fact there's more than enough horror for Halloween. Friday the 13th: The Game, I hardly knew you. Just a little over 2000 hours played, during six years.

 

So today I should try to play all day. Last year the true horror of Halloween was all about playing as Lachappa, and I thought about the same thing now. But then I realized that for me the above-mentioned thing would be playing as bunny Deb... I wouldn't want bunny roast :(

Somewhat related: In Finland the free Pluto TV has recently shown the Friday the 13th (affiliate link) movie series on its own channel, apparently in honor of Halloween. I can say that they are definitely not suitable movies for me. But the funniest thing is keeping an eye for familiar places from the game, how well they are implemented in the game.

 

 

Last year I had a long fight with a pumpkin, and the reward was very little edible part. This time I won't make that mistake, I bought ready-made pumpkin puree. I eat it with prepared meatballs (gluten-free). Yummy and so gourmet!

 

There are a lot of ghosts around this Halloween. Cat ghosts. Fresh cat ghosts. You don't believe that? At least this picture proves it. I would have others similar, but I will save the blog from them.

 

After losing the cats my life is meaningless. Nothing can make it better. Nothing. Everything is completely broken and ruined for good.

 

Two nights ago I petted Olivia (again) in my sleep and cried. I knew it wasn't the real Olivia, but she had only come to comfort me.

A cat lady without cats

Home is quiet. There are no more cats.

After 17 years together, all my three cats died within a couple of months.

 

 

On the morning of Kali's death, I felt sick, and I wondered what would happen. But luckily I have been able to eat normally and haven't vomited. However, sleeping has been difficult. My stomach pains have been bothering me for a long time, and now they have gotten worse too. I associate them with stress, or worse. They are not endometriosis pain. This week, my back has also hurt so much that bending over is difficult.

"Can you get used to such an easy life?" It's hard to remember that no one needs food anymore at cat feeding times. No need to feed the cats, wash their food bowls, change their water, clean and wash their toilets. Not to mention the end-stage meds, cleaning asses and cleaning the floors of diarrhea.

The cleaning started immediately after Kali died. I've put the cats' things either in the trash or in storage, depending on the condition. For example, there are plenty of food and drink cups, even unused ones. The toilets that were in poor condition and with stubborn stains all went into the trash, I didn't buy any more new ones, but decided that we'll go with these until the end. All opened dry food (there must have been at least 8 different ones!!) and treats and nutritional supplements in the trash. Prescription drugs to the pharmacy. But I don't know what to do with the scratching posts and the water fountain?

There is an awful lot of cat food left. (Zooplus' last order arrived the day after Kali's death. Adding insult to injury?) 3x 14 kilo bags of cat litter, I avoided opening a new bag. There are lots of unopened phosphorus binders, and a couple of big tubes of diarrhea medicine (and a big jar of kaolin powder). There is also an unopened bottle of Kaminox. We got so much everything that was left unused. But at least I can use up Kali's laxatives myself.

 

 

What I would give now for Olivia to sit in front of the computer screen and disturb me. That she would come to bed in the morning, demanding breakfast.

That Tabitha would be interfering with the changing of the sheets. And demanding that I eat my dinner faster so that she could have the leftovers.

I have constantly seen delusions that Kali is still on the top level of the scratching post. From my seat at the computer, I can see right to the top level through the reflection of a painting.

No one wants to sit on my computer chair anymore, I win the chair game every time. Kali no longer sits on the corner of my computer desk waiting for a treat.

There is no one spreading cat hair around anymore, nor spreading cat litter. I guess I could say that I don't miss the smell of piss and shit, and they were mainly caused by Olivia.

It is completely unnatural that you can carelessly leave the walk-in closet door open when there is not a single cat trying to get in.

 

No, I'm not going to get a new cat. The main reason for that is financial. In my current financial situation, I can't even afford myself, let alone another living being. And this money situation will probably never improve, rather the opposite.

I was really quite an idiot when I got three cats when I was "young". Didn't worry about tomorrow? I would not have survived these last times without the financial support of my spouse. For example, Tabitha's one hospital day cost 1400, Olivia's death cost 1000 euros. Compared to that, Kali's death was "cheap", 600.

Pictured are my favorite things in the world: my cats, playing Friday and vodka. Pathetic? Maybe someone thinks so.

 

Playing Spiritfarer (affiliate link) again is not as simple as I thought. We don't own that game. It used to be on Playstation plus, but it's not anymore. So I should buy it. And I should be patient to wait for it to be on sale.

My cat Kali has died

Last month, 19-year-old Kali was diagnosed with a tumor near her spleen. In just a month, it had spread everywhere. A very aggressive cancer, possibly lymphoma.

 

 

So it's no wonder Kali didn't want to eat anymore. The most surprising thing is that Kali did not show the same pain behavior as in last December, when she was clearly in pain and suffering. Now she spent the last weeks of her life on the top level of the scratching post in the living room.

Before I found out about the tumor, I was hoping that Kali would live until next summer, i.e. until the age of 20. But that dream had to be forgotten when the tumor was found.

Less than a week before she died, Kali came to lie on top of me for the last time.

 

 

A few days before Kali's death, I noticed that her stomach was swollen. At first, of course, I thought I was just imagining it. I also wondered why Kali didn't lose weight even though she ate so little.

Kali's kidney levels ​​had skyrocketed in a month. Kali was given the painkiller Metacam for three days, and at first it made Kali to eat. But Metacam is a dangerous drug, it can cause kidney damage. Before I knew about the spread of the tumor, I was afraid that we killed Kali by Metacam. Even if a smaller dose than the instruction was given.

 

In her last days, Kali was only interested in visiting the balcony. Too bad it was too cold there. On Saturday, the temperature was a bit warm for a while.

Even though food no longer interested her, on the day before her death, i.e. Sunday, Kali was still interested in the birds flying outside. She even made the screeching sound that a cat makes when it's frustrated when it can't attack its prey. Kali would not have been able to do anything to the prey as she was almost toothless.

 

Kali's mother was a homeless cat, and my friend got Kali as a kitten from an animal shelter.

 

 

With her previous owner, Kali had three litters of kittens. The firstborn of the first litter was my youngest cat Olivia, who died in August at the age of 16.

 

I got Kali for myself exactly 15 years ago, in October 2009, when she was 4 years old.

 

Kali was an extremely kind cat and really social, she wasn't afraid of unknown people or new situations in general.

 

Kali was the only one of my cats who was taken out in a harness, it was too scary for the others.

 

 

RIP Kali Elektra June 5, 2005-October 14, 2024

 

 

Movie review: Salem's Lot (2024)

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The movie Salem's Lot, based on Stephen King's book of the same name, was finally released on Max. It was originally supposed to come already in 2022, and to cinemas. So a late release is never a good sign?

 

 

In Salem's Lot shit hits the fan in a small town. I don't know if this is a huge spoiler, but it's about vampires. Bad things happen to children in the story, so if you can't stand it, don't watch this movie. Personally, I don't appreciate the fact that in King's books the main character is always a writer, and this is the case in Salem's Lot as well.

I was surprised that this new Salem's Lot is set in the 1970s (like the original book) and not moved to modern times, as seems to be the trend.

I hear this movie got bad reviews, but I happened to like it. The 70's were executed nicely. Things are moving fast, some say too fast. There really is no idling. In the past, only mini-series have been made about this book, which may be better suited to this story in terms of length.

 

It hasn't even been that many years since I re-read Salem's Lot, so I guess I should be able to tell you how faithful this movie is to the original work. But I can't say that I remember the details of the book very well.

After watching this movie, I would like to change my necklace pendant to a cross...

World Animal Day?

I'm worried about my cat Kali. She has been living on dry food and dry treats for years, and now she doesn't want to eat them. Instead, Royal Canin's kitten mousse would do, i.e. wet food. I've been putting off placing the Zooplus order for a while, because I'm afraid that Kali might be dead by the time it arrives. Anyway, I'm drowning in cat food, and still I should get more so that it would be the kind Kali would like.

Kali has started channeling Olivia. She wants to go to the balcony all the time to check the temperature, has summer come back? But I'm terribly afraid that summer will never come again. At least not for Kali.

Kali has also started to have a pretty scary-looking sleeping position at times.

 

I used to do a picture post of my cats on my blog on World Animal Day, but now I won't do it. Before Tabitha's death, I was going to make a post about it under the title "Kuopio's Leaning Cat". We have a slightly crooked cat scratching post on the balcony...

The playing of Friday every day has started quite well. Because I realized to make it my goal to ragequit in every match... or that I don't even dream of escaping. I have to act like this so that idiots don't disturb my peace of mind. When idiots happen I just calmly ragequit. But it was especially nice when a Jason from Sweden did a ragequit because of me. SWEDEN HAS BEEN BEATEN

 

It had been a long time since I made an Iherb order, but now I got a 28 percent discount on everything. I really had to get lip balm, and you can't get that from anywhere else? When sending the package, Iherb claimed that it would be delivered by Matkahuolto. But soon a message came from Budbee that the package was coming to them. That could be a bit of a problem when, at least according to its website, Budbee does not operate in Kuopio. The package arrived in Finland on Friday, and after that the status was just "Your order is on its way to our nearest sorting center". Budbee took a WEEK to get the package to Kuopio within Finland. That is, longer than it took for the package to come from the USA to Finland... Well, miraculously, the package finally arrived, and by home delivery as it should.