Lighting a candle

Vogue
Thank you for your individuality, your loyalty, and for all the stories you’ve starred in. Your people will miss you greatly, but you left a cat-shaped hole in other hearts as well.
Thank you for your individuality, your loyalty, and for all the stories you’ve starred in. Your people will miss you greatly, but you left a cat-shaped hole in other hearts as well.
The Professor has finally brought himself almost completely around to a diurnal schedule. He went to bed an hour earlier than I did, and awoke an hour earlier than I did. This is a huge change from just two weeks earlier when his schedule had him going to sleep at six in the morning and…
The world is burning. Mother Nature turns arsonist. Matches become weapons. Touch the button, a bomb explodes. The timer hits zero, shrapnel flies. Depress the key and the inflammatory cocktail whizzes along an electronic pathway to detonate at its assigned address. Forget to set the parking brake and the car becomes a missile, its targets…
I just finished making two dozen cupcakes (from a box mix) to take with me on my triumphant return to the workforce tomorrow. Baking is not my forte, but how wrong can you go with mix, one cup water, half a cup of oil and three eggs? The cupcakes came out really nice looking, and…
LintaSossy had this on her most recent diary entry. I was intrigued. After all, I used to be wicked at Monoploy. Your score is 30 The most frequently received point is 4 (4/10) Take the Monopoly Piece Quiz! I’m afraid it’s the utter truth.
As a kid I was a spindley little thing. I never ate if I wasn’t hungry, and I frequently wasn’t hungry. It got to the point that my parents (neither of whom were great believers in going to the doctor) ended up dragging me to our family doctor to determine what was wrong with me….
As regular readers are aware, my LGS, the former Kitten from Hell, has been dealing with some serious medical issues over the last couple of years, the most recent being diabetes. She had been well controlled with twice-daily shots of insulin, although recently her blood sugar numbers have been climbing into the high 200âs to…
Oh dear…
So sorry.
*sniffs*
BassPlayer was home for lunch when I got notified about this, so he saw it, too. We both thank you very, very much for this, and for your encouraging words elsewhere. They mean a lot, coming as they do from someone with your own background in veterinary medicine.
And no, it’s not too early to joke. As I told someone else, I’m sure that if there’s a cat heaven, Vogue is probably trying to put the fear of God into God himself right now. Heh. 🙂
What a gorgeous little face! I really wish I had known her.
rest in peace Vogue, i didn’t know you but i do know that your kind are true innocents in the world and bring amazing amounts of joy with no strings attached.