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After my old host broke WordPress, I’m back with a new host and a clean install. Woot. Last night was a sleepless one…there was some sort of police drama going on in our neighborhood, and a helicopter was flying around until about 1:30. Then Pete got home and said hello, which woke me up. Then [...]
What started out as a productive day ended with a small kitchen fire caused by yours truly. We have one of those stoves that has a ceramic top, and our kitchen has next to no counter space. Peter temporarily moved my electric kettle on top of the stove for some reason. We were reupholstering the [...]
What is RSV, you ask? It's respiratory syncytial virus, an infection that most people get as kids, but you can get reinfected with as an adult (especially if you hold a baby that has it, like I did). So I've been sitting here at home for the last five days, fevering (and under-fevering at a [...]
Penelope Trunk is a blogger and author who facinates me. She's a mom who has Asberger's and openly admits it on her blog, and she has started several businesses, including Brazen Careerist, which is a social network for young professionals like myself. In her most recent blog post, Penelope talks about blogging boundaries, which is [...]
We would have had Tater for six years too short today. Click here to read the post I wrote on the first day I got her.
I would like to introduce you to Finnegan and Thorin, our two new additions. After Tater died, I realized that we needed to start at least interviewing breeders for when it was time to get a new kitten. Once you put a deposit on a kitten that's in a litter, you wait for it [...]
It's been over a week since we lost the Tot. There are a few things that I never knew about losing an animal You have to figure out what to do with the animal after. Tater's body is still at the vet's office. We bought an urn for her that will go in our someday garden. [...]
Horror. Devastation. Heartbreak. Someone ripped my heart out, put a hole in it, and put it back. That's what this feels like. Tater is dead. I don’t know what happened. Half of my heart has left me and I can never get it back. I could go into details about how it happened, but it [...]
