Good news, Dana!

"what if a woman had to orgasm in order to become pregnant?"

In college I read in a book on Renaissance history that it was believed that orgasm in women should be encouraged to facilitate conception.

The new psychiatrist took my mother off the dementia meds this week, and tweaked her anti-anxiety prescription, and she's now having a meltdown.

Jesus. Be concerned about over-medicating young children or otherwise healthy young adults. Don't fuck with an elderly person's meds. They did this to my grandmother so many times, and every time they took her off the Prozac and Ativan there was a crisis.

Oh, no, Suela! And indeed, your poor dad. How awful for him and all of you. And yet, I'm still relieved that, bad as things are, your parents are in a protected place where help can get to them quickly, and, while you're stressed out and panicking, you're not stressed out and panicking and having to shut everything down and rush over there because without you there's nobody else at all.

having to shut everything down and rush over there because without you there's nobody else at all.

Well, at the moment we're paying $26/hour to have someone from outside be there 4 hours/day because the staff isn't providing the type of support they need.

And despite that, when my Dad called me this morning, he wanted to know if I was on my way over...

Congrats, Scrappy! And good news is good, Dana.

Suela, I'm sorry.

Unrelated, I just watched Loki attack his tail.

Oh, ugh. That's... what's the opposite of ideal, again? That awful thing.

So I've been playing clips of the soundtrack to the new The Great Gatsby and The Pumpkin Does Not Approve. Sat up, all alert, ears back, looking around accusingly. So funny and odd. Too bd for her, I'll probably end up with most of the songs. But maybe I just don't play that much music around the house? Dunno.

Loki doesn't care.

Congratulations, Scrappy!

I'm glad the surgery went reasonably well, Dana.

Frankenbuddha, I'm sorry about the fire and your landlord, but I'm glad you're ok.

Consuela, that sounds like an awful situation. I hope your mother's meds can get stabilized quickly.

Ugh Suela, just ugh.

But Dana, I'm glad to hear your mother's surgery went well.

and it led to the evolutionary what-if of "what if a woman had to orgasm in order to become pregnant?"

Well... female orgasm after male ejaculation *is* recommended, but not required.

I wish everyone with crap news got to do what I did today: help feed now 3wk old kittens. ALL SPOKEN FOR NOT BY ME. But they were all frantic and hilarious and then I got to settle a couple down after and purrs and wobbly and then kitten coma.

And OMG, as much fun as they are, I do not want or need a wee kitten. Even a weaned one. I've done teeny kittens, even hand raised some. But the idea of one so teeny, ahhh panic. Hell, even Devi was already 12-16 weeks and that seems so wee to me still! Loki seemed wee, and he was probably 5 or 6 months here: [link]