Crazy Cat Lady.

We've been very lucky.  For multiple reasons.  The one I'm thankful for lately is our apartment's amazing location.  We're within walking distance of practically everything we could ever need or want.  (slight overstatement, I'm not within walking distance of horses or friends in Kansas but...you get my point.)  I can walk to work, Octavio can walk to school.  A new supermarket was built right before I moved here within 5 minutes walking distance from our apartment.  And most important lately it seems, we're within walking distance from our vet.  Just down the block actually.  I feel like we're there once a week.  I'm sure the vet feels the same way.  Luckily, he's very nice and doesn't say anything about the obscene amount of times we visit him.  First, we were on a schedule to make sure Lola got all her shots and vaccines.  Sometimes we had to visit him several times a week because the first time we went they didn't have the correct vaccine for cats.  Apparently, most people in Mexico don't worry too much about getting their cats vaccinated or anything unless they're some kind of super fancy breed.  Which, as much as I love Lola and think she's the best cat ever, she's not.  She's just your average (or highly above average in my opinion) orange cat.  But as we're planning on bringing her back to the U.S. with us and dragging her through customs we thought it best to make sure she has all her shots so we can avoid any problems in the future.  Last week we got her spade.  We wanted to avoid any "premios" as our vet likes to say.  (prizes- aka surprise kittens)  And Lola has recently decided that she is fully healed and doesn't need her stitches any more so she has taken it upon herself to remove them.  I can't decide if that move was particularly bad ass of her or just a pain in the ass of her since we then felt like we should take her, once again, back to the vet.  She's doing fine but as I was lugging her back home (she's been eating a lot lately!) I realized how fortunate it was that we were just a short walk away from this particular destination.