Jen, congrats on the smoking thing, but this part about your sleep schedule has me laughing:

I'm thinking 11a-7a

Man, you are going to get some GOOD sleep.

Ok, so we are pretty sure someone just tried to come into our house while we were still lounging in bed. Very glad we have Kaylee. Police are coming to take a report. Didn't see anyone--just heard the little three beeps of the alarm system that means someone is opening a door and heard Kaylee start barking madly at the back door by our bedroom. We assumed it was our guest in the back house at first but then found out it wasn't and called the police to file a report. Belated adrenaline dump.

For a D&C local anesthesia is standard, I'm pretty sure. Doctors don't like to use general unless it's absolutely necessary because the potential risks are so much higher.

They're definitely not using general! Much as I'd like to sleep through it, I don't react well to general; I'd say no anyway. No, the problem is more that they didn't mention ANY anesthesia.

Yikes, Pix! Good work, Kaylee.

...little beeps, huh? My alarm system blares like the zombies are attacking when a door is opened. I've scared the crap out of myself and the cats more than once by opening a door when I've forgotten the alarm was set. I need an alarm system like yours.

Zen, if the alarm is set and goes off, it makes a loud noise (not that I even know how to set it, to be honest). This is just the standard alarm standby beeping. Kaylee needs a biscuit.

Pix, yikes! Good job, Kaylee. Extra ear scritches for you.

Good for Kaylee! And stay safe you!

The Biscuit woke me up by barking early this morning, but I'm pretty sure it was a coyote, since he was standing on the bed and barking out the bedroom window, and the other neighborhood dogs were kicking up a fuss too.

Eep, Pix. Here's hoping it was the wind or something?

I have decided to give myself a break. I was kind of beating myself up for not doing anything today, BUT! I was exhausted at the beginning of yesterday, and still spent all afternoon traipsing around town and then went to a movie. So I think I needed the sitting-on-my-ass time today. And I did make some good progress on the freelance project. And tomorrow is another day!

go JenP! good dog kaylee nice cake , kat

ask lots of questions zenkitty

Currently my job seems to be to kep the kitten from picking on the bigger cat who would like to nap next to me without being disturbed

Yay for tomorrows! We need to get back into the Onerous Task day swing, don't we?

Well, the canning is finished. Or, cooling, anyway. No obvious disasters, although you can tell the one I forgot to clear bubbles from. We'll eat that one first. But that was a lot of work for five pints of tomato sauce. I can see doing it in greater volume, because today's work would could have gone double for the same amount of effort. Still, exciting, and I will have organic tomato sauce. I could probably do another two batches of that, plus double that for canned diced tomatoes, but I think we'll have to do jellies next.