Long time no post. I read all your posts, but just haven’t had it in me to talk about my life, other than in comments. No idea why. No idea why I can’t seem to do a book review, although I *must* work on that today or at any rate soon. Nothing horribly bad has happened, but nothing extraordinary has happened, either.

Mother Nature seems to hate us ( Read more... )

Hoover and Natasha hate the medicine. It smells kind of… peppermint-y? Not something I would think a cat would like. They struggle mightily against being given it, and Natasha has gone into hiding. I reach into the closet and pull her out, give her the meds, and she goes and hides again. She comes out at night and eats and drinks and runs around ( Read more... )

For our latest adventures, three of the four cats are sick and I’ve either got allergies (bad ones) or am also sick. I’ve just got a metric fuckton of snot running down the back of my throat, giving me a sore thoat. The cats, however, are sneezing. Little girl has runny eyes and sometimes snot out her nose, blowing bubbles. Hoover is sneezing. It ( Read more... )

Today Christmas went away. Well, it didn't go *away*, but it got taken down and boxed and bagged up. And actually sorted, vintage from modern. Taking it out of the house or up on shelves will take place tomorrow. I miss the colored lights. There is still a swag over the one mirror, but it's white lights and the flowers & stuff aren't Christmas. I'm ( Read more... )

Yesteday I got up with a headache, so I was slow to start. Thankfully it ebbed a fair bit by the time we got to C's house, and I was able to enjoy myself. Food was a buffet of small things- cheeses, guacamole, homemade onion dip, a hot nut mix, crackers, chips, all sorts of things. I couldn't stop eating (again thankfully, I controled myself on the ( Read more... )

Not a good day today. Woke up with my LEFT shoulder/neck hurting with nerve pain; that's a new one. It did not feel like that when I went to sleep, so apparently I managed to hurt myself in my sleep. Then when I reached my left arm out and twisted my wrist around to turn an awkward lamp on, my shoulder blade did... something. Not sure what it was ( Read more... )

The tree is done! Put the ornaments on yesterday- all ones from Tim's family and a few from mine. Today and put the tinsel garlands around it. Then I put ornaments and star garlend on the light up wreath I got at the thrift store, and got it put up. If I had the energy, I'd clean up the side board (it's got a box of cassette tapes- we no longer ( Read more... )

Spent the whole middle of the day down at Health and Welfare, trying to find out if Tim qualifies for any help with his Medicare payments & Medicare supplements- and if he does, if it will throw me off *my* help. The answer is... we might. Didn't have bank statements with us or printouts from our life insurance's cash out values. Have to get those ( Read more... )

Went out back and got a tree- first one we've had in a decade at least. Found one growing way too close to another and miraculously, it had decent branches on all sides. So after furious moving of stuff, it's not in a five gallon bucket of water and wired to the ceiling so the furry little contingent can't knock it over. That's as far as I got, no ( Read more... )

So, this morning I counted 23 wild turkeys out under the bird feeder, trying to scratch up dropped sunflower seeds. I cannot even imagine them finding enough for one turkey, let alone 23. Oh, and I didn't count the ones who were on other sides of the house when the big flock was outside the sliding door. Our avian haunters are back, big time ( Read more... )