Tubbs showed up overnight, so I didn't get a picture. But he left me 41 silver fish, so hey. Snowball keeps leaving me gold fish. I think she feels sorry for me.

you're all succeeding at surviving this life and making something of yourselves in the ways that matter: rich family lives, jobs or hobbies or side-efforts that you are passionate about, a close circle of found family that provides support and love.

This is all that matters to me.

I put the pyramid out and got Ramses! Slowly inching my way to a remodel. I'm thinking the Zen garden.

I bought the pyramid this morning -- I'm hoping for Ramses.

I forgot to bring home the papers that I wanted to grade over the weekend. Oops. I supposed I could go to campus tomorrow morning to get them, but I don't really want to. I can grade them on Monday.

((Cindy)) So, so good to see your pixels 'round these parts again.

She was basically tactful the way she said it, less like she was disappointed in us and more like she knows there's no point in comparing the outsides of people's lives to the insides of our lives. I don't *want* the careers my cousins have. I don't want their lifestyles. And my mom gets that, but it's still the first hint I've heard that she has some issues of pride going on there, about how her kids measure up.

Haaaaa, we were just talking about that in therapy today.

I got Xerxes IX!!!!! I am very excited, I've been waiting for him for days. Four! Four days.

Tubbs showed up and ate all the Frisky Bits. But at least I got a picture of him.

I went to the funeral today. No crazy traffic, thank goodness. It was a weird day. I felt like my cousins were mourning a grandfather that I never got to know. Then I came home and TCG kept ltc occupied while I took a two hour nap.

New to me Pickles showed up and left me two gold coins. I've been getting a lot more gold coins since I started using the autoset that someone here pointed out.

I adore the way kitties look in the glass vase and in the small box.