My cat is now a self-injurer. It appears that Sevvy's skin is irritated (and no, he does not have fleas) and he keeps chewing on himself until he bleeds. And the scar tissue where his tail was amputated does not clot quickly, meaning that he bleeds all over the place. I never knew how difficult it was to get blood out of the carpet. The living room ( Read more... )

As far as I know, my stepdad was released from the hospital today, but I haven't actually talked to my mom today, so I'm not sure ( Read more... )

I now fully understand why bounce houses are all the rage. Aisling's birthday party was a good time for all, grown-ups included. I went down the giant slide so many times that I lost count, and went through the giant obstacle course three times, and spent a fair bit of time in the enclosed trampoline spaces. Their music is very well chosen-- we ( Read more... )

It's only 10:18 and I feel like it should be well after midnight. I am tired. This is most likely a direct result of the fact that I spent today (by which I mean six hours) in sunny World's Fair Park, keeping up with an extremely pumped (but surprisingly well-behaved) seven-year-old and five-year-old. AND seeing and meeting children's book authors ( Read more... )

From my brother, aka my lifelong cohort in dissecting all things pop culture: A list of the most racist moments in Disney.

( my thoughts about this list )

Feeling much better... it was a short-lived bug, it seems ( Read more... )

I went to Morristown to get the last of the work done on my car, but it didn't happen because one tiny little man can only do so much out of a junkyard shop. Still, they said they'd get it done today and they didn't, and that's a bit on the annoying side. So, it was a pretty pointless trip, but I did get a very sound solid eight hours of sleep in ( Read more... )

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My cell phone payment is apparently past due. Didn't realize that, but that is entirely like me. Called the 800 number and was asked to enter my phone number as identification-- apparently my phone number does not exist. Well then, I don't see why I should pay for a cell phone that doesn't exist ( Read more... )