{"id":489,"date":"2015-03-11T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T05:07:45","slug":"quick-update-on-georgie-and-the-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/quick-update-on-georgie-and-the-van\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update on Georgie and the Van"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Georgie:<\/span> <\/strong><\/h4>\n

He had been throwing up after everything he ate, starting Sunday. He’s a baby and had never had that happen. It scared him. He ran through it, then ran all around decoratively adorning the laundry room and kitchen with his artwork.<\/p>\n

Yes, that was as jolly fun as it sounds. Buckets of cleaning solution later, the mess was dealt with.<\/p>\n

Georgie likes to eat things. Whether they’re food or not. He bit the head off one of his toy fuzzy mousies? I didn’t even know you could do that, I don’t know how he did it. They appear to be all one piece. Not anymore. He cleaned off his fringie stick of all the feathers and fringies.<\/p>\n

I suspect he may have eaten something non-food that gave him a problem. Monday he wasn’t much better. He wasn’t completely lethargic, but he was too quiet for Georgie. I grew more worried.<\/p>\n

I had visions of god-knows-what entangled in Georgie. I had visions of sick kitten and hella-expensive surgery to unclog him.<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning after telling work I’d be late, I had my finger literally poised on the ‘call’ button to dial the vet when Roseytail said, “Wait!” Georgie seemed to suddenly be acting more himself. We fed him a small amount of breakfast. He kept it down. We fed him some more breakfast. He kept that down too.<\/p>\n

He began ricocheting off the walls in true Georgie fashion. He gleefully stalked a most unappreciative Maggie. Go figure! She secretly likes him. She washed his head furiously last night until she noticed I was watching with the camera. Then she quickly acted thoroughly disgusted with him and jumped down and ran away.<\/p>\n

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\"I<\/a>

I am adorably cute. I get away with many shenanigans due to this! You want to floof me, don’t you?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The van:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

I was pretty close. I was right on with the problem being a failed bearing, except it was in the alternator and not the water pump! Excuse me while I barf out some more money to cover that one.<\/p>\n

The repair shop told me they just looked over the entire van (to ‘make sure it was good for me’ – that is a direct quote) and also tried to sell me:<\/p>\n

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  • A tranny flush for $200.<\/li>\n
  • New brakes all around for $900. (It will need brakes soon-ish, but I’ll have a second opinion elsewhere as to what it actually needs. They admitted they never had anything apart on the van to know whether it needed all-around brakes or not!<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  • And front-end work to the tune also of $900.\u00a0 (Again, if you didn’t have it apart, how could you know this?!)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I must look like a live one. You know how people sometimes have toilet paper fluttering out of the back of their pants or stuck to their shoe? I looked to make sure I hadn’t gone in there with dollars fluttering out of my rear-end crack and given them a mistaken impression.<\/p>\n

    Here, why don’t I just give you my check-card, my PIN and some blank checks and you can go to town? I told them, “Just fix the alternator!”<\/em> I contemplated trying to get it to another shop because I was so disgusted with their let’s-drain-what-little-she-has! tactics, but it was necessary and needed to be done immediately as it was seizing up.<\/p>\n

    But Georgie is better(!), the van is no longer squealing horribly and it’s been in the upper 60s to low 70s here so we’ll call it good for now!<\/p>\n

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    Did Georgie get better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,32,108,26,7],"tags":[107,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}