java, thanks. My instinct was to hold her, but I eventually just sent her and mac to the back room where he sat with her on the couch like normal.

Ah that's so great. I don't usually offer advice about stuff but man oh man it was such a revelation to me when I finally learned. And I really had wished I knew it so much sooner. I am so glad you guys adopted Bailey!

Her marriage ends. She shacks up with Steven Segal.

Yikes. Wouldn't a return to old-fashioned stoning for adultery be more merciful?

Daily Beast is saying *he* is the one who broke it off months ago.

Interesting.

javachik, thanks. I think I will go ahead and task some rabbits.

Folks are here right now looking at the house to rent! I'm really hopeful about this one, and of course the sooner it rents the better.

I’m beginning to suspect that the whole CIA is a false operation, meant to divert people’s attention from the NSA, where all the real work takes place.

My grandfather worked for NSA, so I can't confirm or deny that.

good luck vibes Raq.

I'm still in the middle of my house selling hades. I am hoping this deal closes, but I am getting emotionally prepared for the house to be empty and have to relist in March.

Well, I just bored the shit out of a random social worker. She's not one of the ones on my pain contract, so she was a little distracted and under-invested. Also, when I told her that technically my issues could be addressed safely in less time with less drugs and with less of a drain on hospital resources she brushed the idea off, saying no one was admitted unnecessarily (you said you read my chart...). I tried, then, to explain to her the situations where I was given twice as much pain medication as was usually effective, but in such a way that it didn't help....

She's going to make a note in my file for the social workers on my case.

After all that, the nurse practitioner (I'm admitted again) came over to express her disbelief at the whole foufurrah, since I'd never shown any signs of negative reactions under observation in her area, and she assured me that she was making explicit notes to that effect in my file...again, because she's the third doctor/health pro to say the claims were unsubstantiated THIS MONTH, but none of those three are in the ER.

Suffice it to say, I'm tired. But admission has given me the recommended amount of medication within the recommended window.

That's not a little thing, that, so good on that.

Thanks to my parents house, my girls now have fleas.

I know I'm gross, but I'm also proud that my kitties have been pesticide free for over two years. No problems with fleas, worms. The ocassional tick. Maybe the health problems will catch up and I should have pet ownership rights revoked, but a big part of me sees the whole rabies/etc. fear-mongering as a way for the companies to make money. My kitties are living in a threshhold tolerance that seems to be working.

I mean, wild animals have fleas and ticks, and they're not dropping dead in a pandemic.

Also, the idea that a flea/tick has to bite my cat in order for the pesticide to work . . . hasn't the feared infection already been passed to the cat?

But admission has given me the recommended amount of medication within the recommended window.

Glad to hear they got something right.

What makes me angriest is knowing that there are people there who know what's the what and yet still every week, week after week, it's a fight to get them to follow the drug plan.