I have to keep moving my cat next to me until he eventually stays, but it takes a while. I can only hold him up with one arm for so long, when he sits in my lap (in between me and my laptop) with his head in the crook of my arm.

LA cold? Spoiled kitties!

Mine love my bed. I wake up to Devi and Loki on either side of my legs and Mister Kitty's stinky catfood breath on the pillow next to mine. So worth it to get a bigger bed and extra pillows. Now I can have my own. They aren't too much ON me while I sleep, just plastered against.

Found some more cable and ripped it out. I really need to figure out what to do with all my trim. Shitty paint job means it peels, so some stripping going to be involved and since there is probably lead paint underneath....uhg.

the one brownstone building with 9 apartments.

Ahem. Yes. Best not go to porn.

Apparently me too.

They also seem to be my most flattering accessory. They make me so much more attractive.

deleted because sometimes a rant is just another way of begging for bad luck.

I really need to figure out what to do with all my trim. Shitty paint job means it peels, so some stripping going to be involved and since there is probably lead paint underneath....uhg.

Well, I'd suggest not licking the trim.

That it's just as hard to have a relatively okay kid get diagnosed with a weird renal disease that may effect him once every couple of years as it is to have a kid with a trache.

I don't know -- I think the thing to remember on both sides is that it's as hard and scary now, but not all the time for years. I mean, shit.

I guess, Jesse, I didn't mean hard. I meant scary. And it is. It's also possibly more maddening for her than it would feel for me because I had a buffer between me and the system for much of the really hard part. And I've always had a super supportive team of people who oversaw Noah's care and still oversee Grace, people who knew how to navigate it all.

I can only hold him up with one arm for so long, when he sits in my lap (in between me and my laptop) with his head in the crook of my arm.

Leo does this same thing, often with his head tucked under my chin. It's so very cute. I just hope my work laptop doesn't die of cat hair before its lease is up.

I'm not saying you need to win some competition, but maybe this will make her understand your situation more? I don't know.

OMG -- my cat is back on my lap! ISTG.

Jesse, that's exactly what I keep thinking. We don't talk, but I keep probing K to see if she senses a shift. But I'm not so subtle in my probing (no surprise to you all) and I'm getting unsatisfactory answers.

I think I'm going back to delete my entry. I've vented. I don't need to let bad juju hang out for the universe to read.