Damn but the days pass quickly now. I live mostly in a constant state of fear or frenzy. The job, as poor paying as it is, demands much. During the course of my seven and a half or eight hour day (depending on which day of the week it is) that I get to sit…
We seem to have survived Irene quite nicely in my little corner of the world. Lots of rain, less wind than I anticipted, and sump pump keeping up with the water means that all my area got out of it was some heavy rain. I don’t even see any branches or debris littering my front…
And so we wait for the winding widdershins winds. Areas close to us have gotten the first bands of heavy rain, but the patterns are diffuse and arbitrary at the moment, with only the outermost bands of Irene barely brushing our area. That will change as the day progresses. Preparations are mostly complete. I’ve done…
OK, this story starts two years ago when I purchased a Barnes and Noble card during the Christmas holidays. I was book wrapping there a lot to earn money for the cat shelter, and I ended up saving more money than I spent on the card from the discounts I got on meals there. You…
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….
I picked up WP’s ashes on the way home from work tonight. When I got Clueless Wonder’s ashes back some years ago they came in box covered in a bright red satin print. I ended up finding a nice raku art piece that doubles as an urn. WP’s ashes came in a beautiful little wooden…
The Prof renamed her “Molly”, after Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter series. She didn’t look like much, but she was pretty incredible on the inside. When I went to see her for the last time she couldn’t find a comfortable position until she sat next to me with her front paws on my lap…
Tonight I had to rush my foster to an emergency veterinary clinic half an hour from my house. This morning she was occasionally doing some open-mouthed breathing (never good in a cat), and as the day progressed she began refusing most food (never good in a diabetic). Her belly, which has always been distended since…
Weird and bad week. The new job is stressful (I have a new appreciation for the foot-soldiers out there in the world of retail and commerce). The loss of Warrior Princess weighs heavily on me. Friends are troubled, and I cannot help. The Prof is reluctantly in his state of origin for a visit with…
Three of us went to the vet clinic tonight. Two of us came home, leaving a large piece of our hearts behind. Sometimes doing the right thing hurts like hell.