Games

While we didn't get anywhere near the snow that the East Coast got, we got a couple of inches Sunday night, and when I opened the door yesterday morning, this is what I saw.

A rabbit, I'm guessing, or possibly two?--I'm not exactly a tracker. There are a lot of bunnies around here; I tried to take a picture of one over the weekend, and he sat still enough for me, but he blended into the bush he was sitting beside. The cats were enthralled.

Dinah has now incorporated the cat mat into her "golf ball in a ring" game. I'm not sure how it got over there in the first place, but they drag it around a lot, and Bob put new catnip in it Sunday night, so it's been getting more interest than usual. She lies on it, and it's best if a corner sticks up so she can crouch down and sneak up on the ball. She lies in wait behind the kitty mat blind until just the right moment, then she jabs her right paw out and WHACKS the ball.

Pye just watches.

Pye's favorite game is fetching. If there's no one around to play fetch with her, like in the middle of the night, she'll find a little wadded up ball of paper somewhere and play by herself. She hasn't been up too much lately in the middle of the night--they've been sticking pretty close to the electric blanket--but sometimes she'll get up and go have a quick game in the kitchen. We hear her batting it around and skidding on the linoleum, and talking to herself. I'd love to know what she's saying.

Yesterday someone sent me a link to the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation--who would have thought the condition had not only its own name, but it's own Foundation? There's a lot of information here for people who suffer from it. I haven't read it all, but it does mention potassium. Also iron, which I hadn't thought about, and something else I might be low on, since I don't eat red meat.

I don't consider it a huge problem for me, certainly not something that needs medication, but if I can balance my vitamin and mineral intake to help, that seems like the right course of action. I'm pretty good about taking my vitamins every day, except sometimes on the weekends I don't--my routine is different, and somehow it feels different taking that huge handful of tablets on the weekend.

I take a multivitamin, a generic, but one similar to Centrum, plus two calcium tablets, Vitamin E, Vitamin B complex, Vitamin C, and potassium. Sometimes I take iron, when I have it, but I don't really worry when I run out, since it's so easy to overdose on anyway. And the packaging is so annoying--iron comes in blister packs now, and not just the easy to push out kind, but the kind where you have to peel off an outer layer, then push the tablet through. That never works, the outer layer always tears and peels away before it reveals the tablet, so I end up cutting it with my nail scissors, and it's a pain to do.

Every week I fill up one of those 7-day medication boxes for me, and one for Bob, so we don't have to think about what to take every morning, just dump out one of the little compartments. Saves brainpower for other things. Like actually remembering to take them.