Happy belated, Hec! I hope your cake deficit is addressed forthwith

I am having a productive Monday getting packed up for my northern migration. Also went for my 6 month teeth cleaning visit. I really like the hygienist so that is actually a pleasant event, although my tongue will be busy the rest of the day checking out the scraped surfaces.

The animals are eyeing me with heightened curiosity as I assemble their travel items.

Happy belated birthday, David!

Ridiculous, my diamond shoes are too tight complaint: my acrylic nails have grown out enough that it makes typing a smidge difficult. I have an appointment at my salon today, thank goodness.

Example sentence with all the typos: look I sloow love having long clawes, but so,etoi9mes the grow out e is a paint eo to deal with.

I officially have Too Many Life Maintenance Things To Do and I need a personal assistant to organize them and an extra week to get them accomplished:

Pick up Rx at CVS
Pick up new glasses at Target
Tim has a medical thing I have to drive him to on Monday 7/6
Friend's birthday party on 7/18
The car has its whatever-thousand-mile service on 7/20
Murderbiscuit needs a checkup and teeth cleaning scheduled
I have to (re)schedule the colonoscopy I started to schedule last year right when Tim was diagnosed with cancer
I need a haircut so badly that earlier today I thought about doing it myself (I will NOT)
I need to follow up on the pinched nerve neck bullshit I was doing PT for (it's about 60% resolved, so probably a steroid injection in my spine is next)
I have a really painful ear infection currently that I'm taking meds for, but I feel like it's not improving, so I should follow up on that

Plus, you know, work and other life responsibilities like groceries and cleaning and maybe some actual recreation.

Okay, writing it all out actually made me feel better, in the sense that I was feeling guilty for feeling so overwhelmed by the shit I need to do, but now that I see it written down, that's actually a lot of shit, and feeling overwhelmed is a reasonable response. Okay! Fuck the Giant List Of Responsibilities!

That is a lot! I also have a prescription to pick up at CVS, so, like solidarity. Not going to list out the many many things that I should do and probably will not, but you are welcome to imagine a myriad (I mean, I hope to do some of them but there's always the possibility that I won't because Fuck the Giant List Of Responsibilities!)

Birthright Citizenship and Vote By Mail survived, that's good.

Almost everything else...is bad.

Steph, that is too many things. You should get a helper monkey.

I'm traveling to visit one of my teams in Costa Rica next week which I'm looking forward to but also starting to feel the pre-travel panic set in (what if I leave the house without my passport? what if my Spanish is even rustier than I think and nobody can understand me? what if this team who is perfectly lovely over Zoom HATES ME ON SIGHT?)

Ooh, Costa Rica, nice!

I can't even with the Supreme Court right now

My left thumb has been twitching for a couple of days. Unsettling. I hope it’s a vitamin deficiency and not something wicked this way coming, because adding a multivitamin to my daily meds is very easy.

Is there a collagen that doesn't make my mouth feel like I've been drinking hand cream?