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Film and Pop Culture Connoisseur | Lover of all things Strange and Unusual | Paranormal Investigator | Mother of Cats (4) | Broadway performer in another dimension | Can't seem to get enough coffee to be satiated | Curator of useless trivia | Taurus
Letting you all know my Sadie passed away in my arms on Tuesday. I wish I could say it was peaceful, but the vets couldn't come quick enough and she decided she needed to leave us a day early. I hope she wasn't aware or feeling anything in that last hour I held her. There's a gaping hole in my soul.
Having an especially hard Monday morning. Dropped Sadie off for her last appointment with her specialist so we can best determine a date this week to let her go. Then I'm stopping to get her the last pup cup from Starbucks she'll ever have when we come home. I am not in the slightest bit ok.
Struggling. This was on repeat in the car today. We suspect Sadie had a stroke and I don't know how to survive everything that continues to happen. Universe, please give me a win.
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I'm going through it right now too. It feels hopeless. But we mustn't give up!
We’re having some tough senior cat times, but she looks so amazing in her sweater.
My poor Goose had a full endoscopy today from head to tail with biopsies from each section. Please send good thoughts.
This is why (at least one of the reasons) this show is so important to me. It's not a long read, but I think it's worthwhile.
On performing a story about fascism night after night during the year America collapsed
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Insurance denied my back injection. 🙃
Perhaps a ghost mouse, or a mouse in a slightly different dimension she can see!
I can't get a win. I really need one. The $40 Amtrak has cost me because of a train running an hour late and then me not being able to get out of a parking garage in time has been the straw that broke this camel's double disc-bulging back.
Been listening to this on repeat.
This all sounds amazing!
Hope is the most absurd notion.
On the bright side, I was at least prescribed some muscle relaxers to deal with my pain until insurance kicks in. Though it doesn't do a LOT, it does a little, and that's better than nothing.
Alternative hack to make it compact and easy to carry around. However, I do suppose someone who actually saw you with a full flame thrower wouldn't dare even approach you (except me because I'd think your flame thrower was cool and would ask if we could go light some stuff on fire).
Question: just on the basis of the idea of Alien vs. Predator, do you have an immediate response to who to root for? Are you torn? Or are you firmly planted in one of their corners?
I don't even know why they bothered making a color version of Spider-Noir. That belongs in black and white.
The antithesis of Newark Penn Station is Grand Central Station.
Operating on literally about an hour of sleep, my back hurts exponentially worse today, drove to Newark, have had 6 espresso shots, surprise surprise I have a tummy ache now, saw a mouse at Newark Penn Station that was just as horrified to be there as I was.
I felt a sudden urge to defend myself. It's hard to get a job when you're in a mental and physical rut. And I do try to ground myself and have a positive outlook. Sometimes there's just so many beatings you can take & you have to just lay down and recover from there before getting up to fight again.
We're going up to see one last show of Operation Mincemeat before the original cast leaves, doing an Only Murders in the Building escape room, and eating at Craft before the show. But right now I can't help but think how expensive Goose's treatment is and that I don't even have insurance right now.
I don't know what else I got in me. I'm going out to feed the birds because it's one of the few things in the world that makes me feel like I make a small difference. After that I was supposed to clean and get ready for my NYC day trip tomorrow, but I'm just so sad.
Goose needs an endoscopy to rule out GI lymphoma. I can't go through what happened with Sadie again so at least this way he won't be cut open surgically. But it's huge vet bills. If there are any rich people out there who like to help animals, my Goose and Sadie both deserve a few more golden years.
I at least finished the ridiculous unemployment things I needed to be done with for the week today so I can try and enjoy the rest of my week. We have a big Friday coming up, but we also have some worrying news.
I just ate 3 mini tootsie pops. Somebody please come bring me dinner.
Working on updating my LinkedIn and trying to add some simple message or wording to my banner and every search suggests promoting your "brand" and I HATE that so much!
I screamed because it was so unexpected and Tali just RAN so fast, but I'm not sorry.
Piragua, Piragua....we're all going to Puerto Rico now, right? Just absolutely amazing and making it feel like community and fun and love and I need more of that in this country.