Aw Jesse. I'm glad he's getting care.

I hate Ross. It's disorganized, overly crowded and filled with hateful people. Marshalls blessedly arranges Chidren's shoes (my main discount retailer purchase) in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and easy to shop.

I go into Ross et al. and go "I *still* won't pay this much for X! Who pays these retail prices?" I don't get coupons for them as they're not part of my shopping universe. I'm afraid WalMart is my budget. The poor don't get to be fussy about how evil our purveyors of underwear are.

Kitties!

Some pictures from Tree House cat shelter, where I just started volunteering.

I don't think Ross does coupons? (If they or TJ Maxx do, quick someone let me know where to get that shit)

And on the running thing, I just did W4D3 of Couch to 5K! I had to pause in the middle of one of the runs to tie my shoe, but I'm still counting it. Week 5 starts with Run 5/Walk 2/Run 7/Walk 2/Run 5. Not sure about that. Week 4 didn't have that long a run AND it was Walk 3! Hrmph. (I guess if they ramped it up more slowly it would be, like, a 20 week program instead of 8)

Kitties! Are those all your pictures, tommyrot? They look very good.

Only two classes left, maybe I will finish today after all...

Finally made an experimental batch of Mango Foam with the whip siphon and some agar agar. It's not as stable as I'd like, I suspect because I used a bottled apricot/mango blend that no doubt has a lot of added water. Tasty, but thin. I've got about 8 servings of it left in the siphon, I don't think I'll get through it very fast, mostly because that's kind of a lot of sugar for my current diet. And I really want to try the microwave cheese danishes I have lined up for my next siphon-based equipment trial.

ETA: you can do it, meara! Week 5 will tremble before your might.

Are those all your pictures, tommyrot? They look very good.

Yes they are. Thanks!

Yeah, meara, my mother and I had put him on the list at three places, but it's hard to get a man placed -- there are only so many male beds. Apparently easier from the hospital, but also we're going to have to expand the radius my mother is willing to travel, I think.

There was something beautifully sad that the forgetting was both the problem and the solution.

I love that kind of story. Although it does make me feel even more negative about the worse nursing homes we looked at.

tommyrot, those are BEAUTIFUL! You're giving those cats and the shelter a great chance. Thank you.

Pumpkin was a menace tonight. Paws have been cleaned, smudges wiped clear and fur removed from varnish. It figures they'd wait to be trouble until I was doing the last coats of varnish, at least it wasn't the tinted stuff. (I decided to put another couple layers of floor-quality varnish on the places of highest 'traffic'- aka bases of the posts [me and my vacuums and mops] and the tops of the posts and the handrails [cats.])

Although it does make me feel even more negative about the worse nursing homes we looked at.

Well, yeah. I think elder care so often errs to fix/control rather than accommodate. It's so complicated, but I think the more organic the care, the easier it is on both the staff and clients. The radio piece reminded me of that article on that village that takes in mentally ill that you posted on goodstuff. Or the 'village' for dementia patients. It requires society to bend and rethink things.