Maybe you’ve kept up with my tear duct saga, maybe not. So here’s a brief recap: With increasing frequency (once every few years, now at least once a year), my eye has gotten very watery/has had some gunky discharge, indicating that my tear duct is blocked. So I’ve tried medicated eye drops and antibiotics and… Continue reading It’s Gonna Be Surgery Soon
When we got Aeris, she was more of a handful than I anticipated. I remembered our quiet, docile, elder cats. I had no idea what I was getting into with a six week old kitten. She was, and has remained, a rambunctious scratcher and climber. When she was young, I threatened many times that if… Continue reading Throwback: On Declawing
Matt bought a wobby stool. Intentionally. Sometimes I think that my husband just hates being comfortable, but he says that it’s supposed to ease pressure on your joints and force you to make micro-adjustments while perching on it that help (kinda) build muscle strength over time. As I said, I think he just hates being… Continue reading Of Wobbly Stools and Busy Days
(As part of our care club through the vet, Gwen is eligible for yearly x-rays, which I took her in for on Monday. What follows is a post I made on Facebook, which I’m copy/pasting because it sums things up pretty well, and this way, I don’t have to re-write it.) We got Gwen’s xray… Continue reading About the Sassico
I love little mantras that I can come back to and chew on periodically. The cliff notes of personal development, if you will. One such note is this:“What do you need where you are at right now?” Literally, I need supper to finish cooking, because it smells really good and I can’t wait to dig… Continue reading What do you need RIGHT NOW?
You know that feeling when you get the sudden rush of fight or flight, and you get that sickening adrenaline from head to toe? That’s what I felt when I saw the news about Chadwick Boseman. I was on twitter, so I took a breath and thought “That’s GOT to be an awful prank”, despite… Continue reading On Chadwick Boseman
I went to the movies today for the first time since we saw Bloodshot back in March. Part of me was giddy – I love going to the movies, and I certainly don’t get out of the house to do much that excites me often these days. As with everything else, this isn’t a return… Continue reading Movies in the Time of Covid-19
I meant to write about this a little while ago – I wanted to wait until I had the whole story, and then time just got away from me. Since we’ve been Gwen’s humans, every now and again, she pees on our bed. It is insanely frustrating, even more so when, for whatever reason, she… Continue reading To Gwen, or Not to Gwen
I’m just going to say up front that this post involves discussion of women’s health, including and especially menstrual cycles. If you’re uncomfortable with this topic, please feel free to skip this post. I know, if you’re a relative of mine, you’re wondering what the heck I’m doing talking about my period on the internet… Continue reading My PCOS Story
As we enter into the second calendar month of covid-19 taking a wrecking ball to the eastern half of the United States, “real life” seems to be slipping further into the recesses of memory. When I was looking at the Cozi app yesterday, I was surprised to realize that I’d gotten our car tuneup just… Continue reading The Before Times