Almost there. :)

We're getting down to the end of the countdown! =D  I'm very excited for Johnny to be back soon.  I can't say exactly when he'll be back, though, so we'll keep that on the down low.  We'll just leave it at soon. :)
I've had to have some repairs done around the house lately and I'm having the exterminators come this week because some really giant cockroaches they call "water bugs" here have been coming in the pipes and were sneaking in under the closed back door, but I had them fix that, though I probably will continue to spray Raid Barrier by the back door with how many bugs hang out in the vicinity. o.o  The good thing is you only see one or two water bugs at a time.  They aren't like the ones that infest unclean places and stuff.  So, that was a big relief to find out because I was really freaked.
As for Miles, he relapsed a couple of weeks ago. :(  His numbers were all back up to where they were when I first took him in. =(  So we've been back on all of the medicines and the daily subcutaneous fluids as well as some new shots to help his tummy because he gets feeling so sick he'll vomit  and have no appetite and won't eat, so then I have to give him a shot to help him feel better so he'll eat again.  The fluid for the injection stings as it is injected though so he jumps and hisses while I give it, which makes things very stressful.  It makes my hands shake a lot which makes giving an injection tricky. :\  (Good thing I'm not a surgeon.)  But he's starting to do better from what I can tell.  We'll check his levels again soon.  He's also been very stressed about the bugs.  He tends to be OCD about things and now checks constantly anywhere we've seen a bug.  We make each other more and more paranoid. x.x  Zoe helps us both lighten up with her happy personality.  Nothing gets her down.
It doesn't seem real that Johnny will be here again.  Being apart this year has been the hardest thing I've had to do.  I just want to be together.  To see each other and talk to each other and... just go get fried pickles together and just be.  I miss his laugh.  I miss talking about pointless things.  I miss joking around.  I miss him wanting to eat ramen noodles every meal.  I miss his joy when he gets to be the little spoon when we cuddle. (heehee)  I miss grocery shopping with him.  Gaming.  Watching movies.  Him playing with the cats.  Everything is just more special if he's here.  My life is empty without him.  And I don't mind admitting that.  And I don't care if that makes us codependent or whatnot.  We do our best as a set and when we're apart we're just not as happy.  We can still function and do all we need to do (one of us might freak out a lot more about bugs getting in the house than she should... heh heh)  but we are aching inside the whole time.  It will be nice to feel whole again. =)

Adding some brightness

We always stay home on the 4th of July to help our kitties through the scary fireworks.  Both of them stayed under the bed for a while.  I turned on the dishwasher and the TV to try to help drown it out a little and I talked softly to them and acted calm so they wouldn't be more afraid.  Zoe seemed to think there was something inside the house making the noise and ran out from under the bed and around the main floor looking for it and then stood in the middle of the biggest room on her back feet like a little meerkat for several seconds, then went back under the bed.  The cutie. :)
I shouldn't be surprised, but John's arrival date is now a little later than I thought so he'll be home at the beginning of August rather than the end of July.  We had been told since he was in a small group that went early last year that he would get to come back early.  However, trying to plan things a year away is tricky.  But it will still be soon. =)  They also cut his leave in half, so we won't have as much time together as we thought before he goes back to work, either.  It's been very frustrating.  A year ago, I was looking into moving back to Utah to be close to family and then they changed his departure date so we suddenly only had 2 weeks until he had to leave.  So, unless I had driven across the country with two cats by myself in a ten year old car... I had to stay here all alone.  It has been very hard, but it's made me stronger.
Miles has been vomiting almost every day this week.  I'm waiting for the vet to call me back about it as I write this.  Holding back on fluids made the blood count go up too much so we've been doing fluids every 2.5 days.  His back has been healing up nicely, though. :)
I've been cooking more simply the past little while.  The heat and Miles leave me less inclined to stand at the stove for very long. xD  And lately I've found that I really love having some acid in a recipe.  Vinegar or citrus or something like adding tomato to a recipe that is normally bland or rich gives it a new character that I enjoy.  A brightness.  =)  I like it when acidity can cut through the heaviness of a dish like that.  Like how shrimp scampy can be too buttery without the lemon in there to lighten it up.  Same with hollandaise sauce. :)  Just something I've found cool lately. ;)

About 4 more weeks to go.  We can do it!