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What's the most expensive thing in your house this year? Mine, you ask?

My cat. $819 today for teeth clean and blood tests - all coming back very well, which is awesome news since she's only a few weeks off turning 16.

But... this year, her total is around $12,000. Would I ever decline to pay? Not on your nelly!! She is my heart and soul, and you can actually read about her, funnily enough:

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Despite having woken up from the anaesthetic about 5 hours ago, she's still pretty spacey - but eating and drinking and very, very snuggly.
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aww kitty!

This year it is probably me with my medical issues depending on what insurance covers. Other years, it varies between two cats. JiJi is my black cat and when she was 1 (she is 6 now), she had to have surgery because she ate string and it couldn't pass through. The surgery was a few thousand dollars but the options were surgery or put her down. My sister's cat, Chloe, who is staying with me had an issues with one of the discs in her spine a few years ago to the point she couldn't use one of her back legs. I paid for the emergency vet and treatments along with medication, plus helped care for her. She can walk and jump now though really shouldn't jump too high (and she's probably around 16 now too).

Good to hear she is doing well. Enjoy the snuggles and purrs.
WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24 Author Icon - Ouch, that's about $1400 NZD. I was lucky, no extractions or mine would have been higher too.
Dawn Embers Author Icon - the family cat we had was also a Chloe, and she'd eaten a lolly wrapper which, needless to say, also didn't pass through. No doubt in paying for the surgery though *Hug*. They are so part of us. It bugs me when people go the opposite route.
Don't forget that entry into A Romance Contest gets you into Schnujo's Doing NaNoWriMo? Author Icon's contest

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Why would you not enter? (Just don't forget - it's an August round..... so entries created outside of August don't count.)
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Thank you for mentioning my challenge! Best of luck to your contest and its participants!
I have been writing it in my mind... need to actually type it up. *Smile*
I have an idea! Now I just need to write it. *Heartv*
My characters are so far roundly ignoring my fascination with the Olympics and are not putting their hands up to be any sort of sporty.

Turns out, I actually don't have many sporty characters anyway. A few do archery, because I do (er, did), and a few do horse racing (as jockeys) because that was what I wanted to do back in the day (like, last century) and a couple are really good at baseball (also a fascination pre 2000s). But that's about it.

However, if I were to make sportspeople out of them, it'd probably all be related to archery, shooting, badminton and trampolining.

What about everyone else?
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So I am totally the type who has watched my school's soccer team lose while I'm playing dungeons and dragons.

I haven't quite had too much bandwidth for it, but I have loved watching Simone Biles.

Aleksei from my project Wilderness of the Gods would be interested in fencing.

Felician from my project The Princess and the Elf would be excellent with sprinting.

Silje from Northsong would be a competitive swimmer.

The rest of my characters are very nerdy.
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Having had a sister who represented Australia, and a father who represented the state in various sports, and trying lots of sports, my characters do tend towards the sporty. A lot of them just go to the gym, though.
I played tennis in high school, but even then I was bad at it and was doing it more for fun. I don't watch sports (with the exception of American Ninja Warriors because my husband is into it and this year's Olympics) because sports aren't my thing. They aren't my characters' thing, either. It has never occurred to me to have a character do any sort of physical activity other than run because something is chasing them. That happens to be my life moto: I never run unless a bear is chasing me.

So there's that...
Happy 11th WDC anniversary.
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Happy 11th, Os!
Kindest Regards, Lilli
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Happy 11th WDC Anniversary, Osirantinous Author Icon! *Heart*

 
Thanks everyone for the anniversary wishes, GPs, MBs and reviews *Hug*. I think that's the biggest response I've had in the 11 years, ha ha *Hearto*

I joined back in 2013 to kick myself into finishing my novel Watching Clouds (as it was called then). Still took me five years to actually do that and publish, but at least I can tick it off.

I love being here reading, writing, reviewing; and talking with others about reading, writing, reviewing. You are all very awesome.
Happy WDC anniversary *Smile*
Happy WDC Anniversary to you.
Happy anniversary 🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳
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Happy 11th WDC Anniversary, Os!!!
Carry on ... *Witch*


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