Yeah, I suppose I'm not lurking so much anymore, but I still feel like a lurker. Trying to get over that.
I'm glad Pumpkin is keeping you on your toes, sarameg. I think unfinished basements must be like Disneyland to cats.
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jean A. - Nov 29, 2011 8:54:12 am PST #9079 of 30001
meara - Nov 29, 2011 9:07:41 am PST #9080 of 30001
I have a bad feeling about today. I was going to try to be productive, but shit keeps happening.
Like I woke up to a bad email from Atlanta, and then managed to break a wineglass all over while making breakfast (which did not include wine), and realized I have to fly out on Sunday for my trips next week (don't wanna!) and some ridiculous work stuff is being annoying (people! quit calling someone else who calls someone else who calls someone else, and just make a decision and communicate it to everyone via cc!), and the phone interview I had yesterday hasn't emailed or called to set up a real interview, and mostly my head all "I'm fat and horrible and no one will ever love me"
Hatey rage spiral. And I still haven't cleaned up that broken wineglass.
Sue - Nov 29, 2011 9:09:10 am PST #9081 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I'm so sorry sara.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2011 9:14:21 am PST #9082 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
while making breakfast (which did not include wine)
Maybe it should have, seriously.
I'm trying to set up my sister's laptop, and I've already forgotten one of the passwords. Jesus. Writing the rest down, and looking for a user-friendly password manager for her (me).
sarameg - Nov 29, 2011 9:15:37 am PST #9083 of 30001
(which did not include wine)
I think that might have been the problem....
Beverly - Nov 29, 2011 9:17:37 am PST #9084 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
(((meara))) Days like that should be outlawed.
sara, I've known MK almost as long as I've known you and Devi. I remember when you plotted to 'nap him after you kept him for his absent then-staff. He had a fabulous life with you, and he damn well knew it. He'll leave a gap, I know. But you did the best by him that any human could have done.
All good and healing thoughts to Grace, her moms, and her medical team today.
Atropa - Nov 29, 2011 9:21:16 am PST #9085 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm so sorry, sara.
Kate P. - Nov 29, 2011 9:29:27 am PST #9086 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, sara, I'm so sorry. You gave him a wonderful life, and did right by him all the way to the very end.
(Man, I hope nobody comes by my cubicle for the next few minutes. I'm really not sure how I'd explain the tears in my eyes.)
And many good thoughts to Grace and her moms today.
sarameg - Nov 29, 2011 9:39:57 am PST #9087 of 30001
Man, Bev. That was like...2003? Somewhere about? That's when he got the DB diagnosis (just looked it up.) I don't have email from earlier, but I think I got him in 2001, after my trip to southern Africa? I know his first owners were back in the US after a 2 year posting, but not sure how long they'd been back at that point.
Cass - Nov 29, 2011 9:41:06 am PST #9088 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Mister Kitty's gone. Purred in my lap up until the end. All the techs and vets cried.
I am sorry, sara. He was very well-loved.
I know that the cattery I use will take opened food for the feral(s?) that lives nearby. They also get the leftovers from all of the cats being boarded.
Unopened goes to homeless pets, I think. I have some canned that will never be used and I ought to do that today.