Our backyard stray cat, Calico, died last weekend. She was curled up like she was sleeping in one of her usual spots, except she was dead. There were no injuries/scratches on her, so I'm hoping that she just died of old age in her sleep and didn't suffer. Even though the backyard is horrible for digging, I dug a hole, Sara played a song ("Mercy of ( Read more... )

Sara and I both had to work until noon today. There really wasn't much to do at my job, and I spent almost the whole half-day sorting through our latest order of pocket folders, which turned out terribly. We are planning to find a new folder vendor because it was so "jacked up" (my boss's expression). It was easy, unstressful work, but boy, was it ( Read more... )

For no real reason, here are a few snippets of recent conversations between two crazy old cat-ladies:

Sara: "Do you know how to make gifs? I want to make some gifs of Tovah and Mayim."
Me: "Yes, that's just what the internet needs -- more cat gifs."

Sara: [watching The Waltons pilot episode -- don't ask why, but we've started watching that show ( Read more... )

I interviewed for my job three months ago, on Friday the 13th in September. Last Friday was also Friday the 13th, and that night, my managers treated me and all my coworkers to dinner. (Apparently they do this every year during the holidays.) Honestly, I was not looking forward to it. I've never been good at navigating social situations, and rather ( Read more... )

Sara and I dropped Tovah off at Mom's house last night. When we packed up her dishes, litter box, and cat tree, she got so scared that she hid under Sara's bed and spent the whole drive meowing like she was begging for her life. Maybe she thought she was going back to the pound. But once she saw that she was just going to another house where she's ( Read more... )

This week was my dad's deathiversary, so his name was read from the bema during services last night. At least, it kinda was. The temple secretary accidentally transcribed his first name as Don instead of John on the yarhzeit list. (I corrected that right away.) But I'm just happy his name was finally read. It wasn't last year, even though he was ( Read more... )

I meant to post this some time ago, but I forgot about it. At least I got it up while we're still in January (barely). A list of a few exchanges I've heard over the past month or so.

Random guy: "Happy new year!"
Sally: "I wish people would stop saying that!" [She sounded so grumpy when she said it that I just had to laugh. Like, "How dare people ( Read more... )

Sara: "Why didn't Moses get enter the Promised Land?"
Me: "Because God decreed that he wouldn't."
Sara: "Why? Because Moses didn't invoke God's name when he struck the rock to yield water in the desert?"
Me: [jaw hanging on the ground]

Honestly, I don't know when I've ever been more shocked. She also decided that Sable's Hebrew name is Shlomo (which is ( Read more... )

All these LiveJournal hiccups have been getting on my last nerve! Most people are having trouble accessing the site, right, not just me? I read a crazy-sounding theory that it's a massive hacker attack launched by pro-Kremlin forces in Russia, where LJ is the main platform for political dissenters. All I know is that not being able to get to my ( Read more... )

I had a long, nonsensical conversation with my sister the other night, in which she kept ordering me to bring her a "dog pet," then a "dog pillow," and got mad when I didn't know what the hell she was talking about. We went on in that vein for a while before I finally realized she was talking in her sleep. (Heaven help me, she's crazy even in her ( Read more... )