The patient is coming home!

The vet says Sophie can come home today! She said the wound wasn't really abscessed, just swollen, and that we'll need to apply warm compresses to it, though I don't know for how long. In the meantime, here's a pic of post-surgery Sophie with the drain. I happened to catch her during mid-lick--isn't that adorable?

Just call me Nurse Lisa...

Last Thursday, I went home on my lunch hour to find that one of my mean boy kitties (probably Nigel) had bitten my sweet little girl, Sophie. I took her to the vet who said they could do surgery on the would to clean it up or we could try to let it heal on it's own, but it could abscess. I opted for the expensive ($192) surgery, wanting to be a good kitty mommy and save her the pain of an abscess. We then had to irrigate the wound twice a day with an antibiotic solution, give her Clavamox twice a day, and keep her separated from the boys. On Tuesday, the drain came out, and by the very next day (yesterday), it had started to get infected. I took her to the vet--again--this morning, and she's there getting it drained. Oh yeah, AND we thought Baxter may have broken a leg at 3:30 yesterday morning when he got somehow hung up on the footboard while jumping off the bed. We took him to the emergency vet, expecting an even bigger bill (I was told it's $75 for the visit and $90 for each X-ray), but he was miraculously healed in the car ride there. An even bigger miracle was that the vet didn't charge us anything! I think he probably took pity on the crazy cat lady with her four cats, one of which just had surgery. Oh the trials and tribulations of being CCL.

Okay, I know I'm a little early...

...but I'm already thinking about Halloween and having a costume party. The thing is, I've never gone to an adult Halloween party and have no idea what to do. This will NOT be an excuse for drunken revelry, more of an excuse to force everyone to wear costumes and bring theme foods. So when people get there, then what? What could we do to make it a fun evening? Somebody please help me! There won't be many people there, not many people will fit in our small house, maybe a dozen at the most, and that's pushing it. So, games, movies, Halloween movie Pictionary? Anybody been to a party that had something that was a huge hit? Anyway, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.