Kitty Concussion

Let me paint a picture for you. There are cabinets in the room we call the utility room, they are both connected but there are two doors, one above the other. The top part of the cabinet is where the cat and dog food and treats are, along with about a million other things crammed as tight as they can get. There is also a desk next to this cabinet. The cats have gotten into the habit of jumping up on the desk when someone opens the top cabinet door, thinking they are about to get treats.

Last Saturday I went to the cabinet to decide what I wanted to make for breakfast (the bottom part of the cabinet is where cereal, rice and other things are kept) and the little girl cat followed me. I opened both doors and as they swung open the cat, who was in the doorway, jumped towards the desk but smacked into the cabinet door pretty hard. It was obvious that it hurt quite a bit, her left eye was closed and she ran away from me when I tried to pet her, which she never does. I watched her all day and am still watching her. Her pupils are the same size and they are responsive to light and she is walking and eating like normal. So, I guess she is fine, but I was pretty worried. I'm not sure if cats can get concussions, but if they can I would guess jumping into a door would be enough to cause one.


Enjoy the videos, I know they make me laugh. But attempt to ignore my extremely messy room.

Now for my knitting related incident. I am working on a very popular pattern called My So Called Scarf. Just to let you know, on Ravelry 2,497 people have already made it or are working on it. It was going pretty well if you don't count the two times I had to rip and start over when I first started it. It is now about two and a half feet long and I was knitting away when in the middle of a row I had some sort of brain block. I could not for the life of me remember how to work the next stitch. I tried as many ways as I could think of and nothing looked right. I finally had to look up the pattern again to remind myself and it turns out I had forgotten an entire part of the pattern. It was so crazy I don't even know how to describe it. It would be one thing if I had not been working on the scarf for a while and forgot how to do it, but I was in the middle of a row! One stitch before I had known what I was doing. My brain is a weird, weird thing.