plz send ark, help needed
Best thoughts to paladin3, mandyrob, and anyone else in Ike's path. ♥
Also, holy shit, wow, rain.
It's been sputtering rain off and on since Monday; yesterday it started in earnest and today it's just pouring down. It's supposed to let up some this afternoon, but the Des Plaines River is predicted to hit 11.3 feet (its flood stage is 5 feet.) I tried to take the cat to the vet this morning and Skokie Boulevard was a fucking lake. The asshats in bigass pickup trucks did not help matters by going flying through a foot plus of water and throwing up six-foot-high walls of water to either side of them, endangering everyone nearby. THANKS ASSHOLES, I HOPE YOU CRASH. I got to the vet without too much trouble (Boco is a game little thing and he just kept on going!) and then took a different route home, that looped around about 6 miles out of my way but got me home safe and sound without too much hassle.
Cat is certified to be losing weight, which is good. Now the vet won't yell at me. I also am certified to be losing weight - I went in for my checkup yesterday, and whereas I weighed 153 in June of last year, I now weigh 134. GO ME, I ROCK. Even better: I basically didn't do anything to lose said weight, except quit my heinously high-stress job. Kitty is pleased! (Well, okay, the Month of Moving probably helped.)
I have to say, though, it was nice to wake up this morning and not have to get up immediately, and be able to just snuggle and listen to the rain outside.
Mike will be over later (we discussed a variety of safe routes from his place to mine) and then we will snuggle in with video games, computers, and each other and everything will be happy.
Sometime later this weekend, I'll be posting up some stuff about my new favourite writing software. I had thought that chapter 2 of Every Light was going to be up, but it's turning out to require more tweaking than I thought. Have I mentioned that I hate editing? Because I really, really hate editing. It makes me want to tear my hair out.
Okay. LJ, then Persona 3!
Also, holy shit, wow, rain.
It's been sputtering rain off and on since Monday; yesterday it started in earnest and today it's just pouring down. It's supposed to let up some this afternoon, but the Des Plaines River is predicted to hit 11.3 feet (its flood stage is 5 feet.) I tried to take the cat to the vet this morning and Skokie Boulevard was a fucking lake. The asshats in bigass pickup trucks did not help matters by going flying through a foot plus of water and throwing up six-foot-high walls of water to either side of them, endangering everyone nearby. THANKS ASSHOLES, I HOPE YOU CRASH. I got to the vet without too much trouble (Boco is a game little thing and he just kept on going!) and then took a different route home, that looped around about 6 miles out of my way but got me home safe and sound without too much hassle.
Cat is certified to be losing weight, which is good. Now the vet won't yell at me. I also am certified to be losing weight - I went in for my checkup yesterday, and whereas I weighed 153 in June of last year, I now weigh 134. GO ME, I ROCK. Even better: I basically didn't do anything to lose said weight, except quit my heinously high-stress job. Kitty is pleased! (Well, okay, the Month of Moving probably helped.)
I have to say, though, it was nice to wake up this morning and not have to get up immediately, and be able to just snuggle and listen to the rain outside.
Mike will be over later (we discussed a variety of safe routes from his place to mine) and then we will snuggle in with video games, computers, and each other and everything will be happy.
Sometime later this weekend, I'll be posting up some stuff about my new favourite writing software. I had thought that chapter 2 of Every Light was going to be up, but it's turning out to require more tweaking than I thought. Have I mentioned that I hate editing? Because I really, really hate editing. It makes me want to tear my hair out.
Okay. LJ, then Persona 3!