The vet seems to think Paris just scraped herself against something to cause the hair loss. Which is good; I don't have to panic. And while we were there they took some blood and urine for an older kitty type checkup to make sure everything's functioning okay.

While I was at the vet's, the appraiser came by the house, so now we wait and see what rate we can get with refinancer #2 and how the only semi-functional bathroom affects things. I have the feeling we'll end up going with the people who are currently holding our mortgage; the rate difference, really, is minimal, and we're preapproved with them.

Yesterday Wonderful Husband and I did a bit more running about to look at tiles and tubs and other such fun things but were ultimately defeated by the heat. Prior to surrendering, however, we got tickets for the 9pm 3D showing of Dark of the Moon tomorrow night. And discovered a pimped Bumblebee in the theater parking lot. ^_^

After it cooled down a bit, I shanghai'd him (Wonderful Husband, not Bumblebee) into helping me with the garden. As the devil grass seems to've finally been defeated, we moved the compost bins back into place, filled one of the bins from where we'd been piling things while dealing with the grass (half of the pile still needs to go into the middle bin), chopped down the demon bougainvilla's newest respawn attempts, pulled the no-longer-flowering turnips, harvested pea seeds and tore down those vines, watered everything, weeded a bit, and harvested a big bowl of strawberries.

Is "cat is dumb" a tautology? :) Because after I finished weeding and digging compost into and bordering a new bed in the kitchen garden this afternoon, Sushi promptly went and laid on it. Which of course led to my eventual next step of soaking the bed happening a bit sooner, to keep the cat off of it.

Took the kitty in to the vet this morning since she's been throwing up the last couple days. Took forever. She got a couple of anti-nausea and anti-vomiting shots and I got some take-home more of the same for her. The odds seem likely that she ate a couple of leaves out on the patio that didn't agree with her, as they were among the first things she threw up. Overall she seems in good spirits, her vitals were okay, and the doctor didn't feel anything hard in her stomach or anything. She ate a little bit earlier, and hopefully this will run its course soon. If it doesn't I'm going to take her back to have some bloodwork done up....

Unrelatedly, found Kaim Tachibana's website thanks to one of the doujinshi I spent rather a lot of time looking for in Japan. Unfortunately the site seems to be on hiatus (if I'm reading it correctly) for a few months. And possibly more annoyingly, in reading the author's notes to the last volume of her Charm Point doujinshi series, it seems there is indeed a volume 3.5. Which I could not find. Grr.