So sorry, amyth.

And all you midwesterners and easterners: stay warm and dry and off the roads!

We're going to get wintery mixed here in NYC.

DJ, that pencil art is awesome.

Muscle memory is going to get you, hard. I didn't realize how many things had become routine in caring for Chloe until I didn't have to do them anymore.

Yeah, this is going to take a while. Especially since Lulu's routine was kind of intense there towards the end, with the diapers and the multiple medications and whatnot. But bonus: I hadn't cut tail holes in most of the diapers I had recently bought, and they are just the right size for C&J's baby, because she is a GIANT. So whether they wanted them or not, they just got a motherlode of free Huggies. The picture of the baby on the box is pushing a Fisher Price lawnmower, whereas their baby is five months old, and has mastered rolling from one end of a blanket to the other, and sitting up. She's already outgrown her one-year car seat.

I don't even live in a place that's snowing anymore, and I'm having snow trauma. This winter needs to END.

I'm over the snow, and I don't even have to deal with it! I feel bad for people who have to shovel, and drive, and park.

AND shit gets plowed like crazy here, and then they take a lot of the snow away, eventually! Not much has melted naturally, but a lot has been trucked away. I was just remembering 95-96, when my street in DC never got plowed, ever.

Yeah, this is going to take a while. Especially since Lulu's routine was kind of intense there towards the end, with the diapers and the multiple medications and whatnot.

It took us at least half an hour to feed the pets for about the last year of Chloe's life. Now it takes 4 minutes. That? Is freaky as hell. When I let both dogs outside, I'd have to physically put myself between the dogs and the top of the basement stairs, so she didn't fall down them, and now I just open the door and Kato hauls ass on through. Also freaky.

amyth, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Yeah, the whole not having to take care of the elderly, special needs dog anymore was hard to grasp. It still is sometimes and he's been gone since last May.

I just told my boss that if the weather's as bad as they're predicting for Wednesday that I would not be coming in to work at all. She wasn't too thrilled

What? Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard? How about she meet you there? Or if she really needs you to work, how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

how about getting you a laptop to take home for Tuesday night/Wednesday.

This! If everyone else can work from home why can't you?

Did she expect you to try and drive during a blizzard?

Yeah, odds are the city will tell people not to drive unless it's an emergency....

My mother was just telling me a story about the job she got when I was little. I guess they were concerned both about her being a mother, and about how far she lived from the office (it was an hour commute). So the first snowstorm, she got in the damn car and drove to the damn office....to find just one secretary, who lived close to the office, there. Of course none of the bosses were there! At least one boss called in, so she got credit for it.