She came to me a little over 14 years ago as a scrawny little kitten, all random colors and fuzz and whiskers. She had a voice that could melt any heart. She would sleep in twisted positions you wouldn’t think any cat could form without having broken their spine. She wanted to be near people […]
We buried Rebecca last night in the raised flower bed in the back yard. I had thought briefly about taking her in for an autopsy but I decided that it wouldn’t make any difference one way or another and most importantly it wouldn’t change the fact that she was gone. Richard got home before I […]
I’m not sure what happened to September. It’s not that there weren’t things to write about; it’s mainly that I just never could get around to writing them. And – much like a lot of other things – what I needed to write about just kept building up and building up until it was too […]
The one thing about doing this new eating plan is that it’s forcing us to seriously rethink how we do our meal planning. Funny how many meals included breads or pastas, even though we were being careful with serving size before. Now we ration it out - high fiber, whole grain bread at lunch, whole […]
It’s been two weeks since I started the allergy shots and with only two exceptions I’ve gone in religiously, twice a week. I’m still finding the whole experience vaguely amusing, although for a few weeks I was getting this weird side effect where my entire body would start itching insanely after the shot, and that […]
I love pomegranates. I love them so much that when we were doing our garden plan I insisted that it had to include at least one pomegranate tree. And this past spring our tiny little tree produced exactly two blossoms, both of which fell off shortly after they appeared. But that’s okay – I wasn’t […]
Yesterday I did not touch the pomegranates at all. Instead I got up early and dressed up pretty and picked up a friend and then she and I headed down to San Francisco for the bi-monthly tea. This time it was in a little tea house which was right across the street from the Botanical […]
My fingers are still all kinds of yellow-green lovely, but that is because I shucked the third bag of pomegranates last night, thereby not giving the stain from Friday night a chance to wear away. I am hopeful, however, that a bit of energetic scrubbing later on today will get rid of the worst […]
October, I have decided, has it in for me. Or rather, it has it in for my cats.
First there was Rebecca, who keeled over on my head last Monday and died shortly thereafter. I’m not going to be over that one for a while, although I’ve at least stopped tearing up when I think […]
I’ve been avoiding going to the gym for the past few months because I really have not been enjoying it at all. A few weeks ago my mom asked me about Curves, since there’s one in town, and so last week we started going together. And this morning after doing a free week’s trial (mainly […]
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