You know it’s going to be one of those mornings –Â hey, let’s say it’s been a bad month — when your toilet looks suspciously like it’s about to overflow.
I know nothing about toilets. I think I fixed a pull chain on one here once when the toilet wouldn’t flush, simply by reattaching it. I [...]
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Time for another grocery rage post.
I’m at the discount warehouse grocery store. During the day. Every time this happens, I know it’s a big mistake.
This day is no different. I choose a line based on its length to items in cart ratio divided by how many annoying kids there are.
I end up one and a [...]
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Disclaimer: For those of you tired of reading about my cat, skip this post. This is not an attempt to garner further sympathy but just to chronicle how I felt when I woke up Sunday morning.
I dimly awake and hear a faint meow.
I’m so groggy that it’s disembodied.
It sounded like Stinky.
The light in the bedroom [...]
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I thought I had more time.
Yesterday, Stinky started peeing in random places, in little tiny pink pools. Blood. She looked terrible, too, though thankfully I could still get her to eat.
It was time. 17 mostly good years. Years of fighting over bed space, the pillow, over not scratching my scalp as she purred loudly into [...]
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