In ashes of despair

It looks like no air show for this chicken. It’s raining off and on, and the clouds are low enough to touch. Hell, even the crows got lost in fog during their aerial fly-bys this morning. I’m bummed, but my friend is coming anyhow, and we figured we’d find something else to do. That probably…

My job is weird. I suppose, from a certain point of view, it’s also a little morbid. I don’t go into too many details in this blog as a rule, but the short of it is that I am a veterinarian working in food safety and humane animal handling at a beef plant. The most…

I worked until midnight last night, then had to be up and moving at five this morning. I was due in at Big City Hospital at 8:30 this morning for the ninth of my annual post-transplant check-up. All went well, and they’re talking about cutting down the amount of immunosuppressants I’m taking. It’s hard to…

I leave for the new job in an hour. Between the normal Christmas stressors and this I’m a borderline basket case between the ears. I console myself with the fact that nobody expects much out of you on the first day of a job; it’s the *second* day I should be worrying about. Doesn’t help…

Kitten from Hell has once again wrested the cat bed from Clueless Wonder. It annoys me – it’s CW’s cat bed, has been for years. And he refuses to defend it, just lets her walk all over him. I bought a new cat bed today, so that there’d be enough to go around (Warrior Princess…

No cutesy buttons with this one, just some interesting questions. 5 Favorite Drugs Store Items 1. picture frames (my drug store always has cheap and different ones) 2. miniatures (you know, little toothpastes, little shampoos, little soaps) 3. Hair color (ever since I started last summer, I’ve been staring at the boxes, daring myself to…