The first thing that popped into my sleep brain was βdraw me like one of your French girls.β π
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The first thing that popped into my sleep brain was βdraw me like one of your French girls.β π
π€π€ Curious if the memory issue is only speaking or also writing. I had a bad concussion that messed with my ability to remember words when speaking, but not when writing. Got better, but the fibromyalgia brain fog sometimes brings it back a bit. Brains are weird. Hope yours gets a little less weird!
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People do not understand how amazing we are π
FYI: Another federal-level book ban is in the works and needs to be taken down. Hereβs a link to sign a petition through Every Library. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661
Mine too! Itβs their first house, so I thought once they figured out you can get wet in there, theyβd stop. Nope. If I leave the door open when I shower, one will walk on in to see what Iβm doing. No fear of water. Not a Maine Coon. Just a tiny little tux! They leave cat toys in the empty bathtub! π
Came here to say this too. Spouse and child abusers. βItβs your fault I have to hit you.β
For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.
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Was fine until I hit 1200. If my husband wasnβt asleep next to me and I couldβve read it out loud, maybe couldβve parsed it 50-75% of it. I did have to do that with Chaucer in school and could follow if I could speak it, but that was 2+ decades ago soβ¦ π
After my cat was dx with hyperthyroidism, insurance rate doubled. Kept it in case we did the radiation route, but he got cancer and passed before we could. They paid, but spent a lot of time trying to prove the cancer was a pre-existing condition, and therefore not covered. Dropped it after that.
Those frogs sound like 8yo kids playing recorders for the first time π¬
A small, mostly black tuxedo cat with white toes, cravat, and whiskers sits on a square of fabric on a carpeted floor. Heβs looking at you with intelligent yellow eyes and wondering if youβll play with him.
Itβs my first night away since we got Fidget and Sploot. (Writing retreat.) When I texted home, husband told me Fidget has already been using his speech buttons to ask for me and heβs had to tell him βS.R. home later later later.β And oh my heart π₯°
What about taking time to smell the fluffy tail? Tinker takes every opportunity he can get to smell Splootβs very fluffy tail. Sploot doesnβt have stirup pants though. He has capri pants.
During my license test, the DMV guy almost failed me because he told me to turn right at a stop sign and I instead put on my left signal and turned left. I convinced him to pass me since I didnβt disobey any traffic laws, did a perfect left turn. I just mixed up directions because I was nervous. π
We got it up in WA too. Our power went out but the generator kicked in. All the cats were glad because it means their warming beds stay warm. I need to get one for my feet, I think π
Same. I really donβt understand how some of my relatives havenβt found the exit. Some strike me as very curious, but maybe itβs the difference between curiosity and scholarship? Or broad-spectrum curiosity vs. specialized interests. π€
a unicorn sitting down all cute-like and saying 'i survived a doctor's appointment. And for what? another appointment? disgusting. ' mybodyistryingtokillme.com
Just had a call with a new pain mgmt doc today. He was shockingly fantastic. Like he apologized for all the gaslighting and general dismissiveness Iβve faced for decades and validated my pain, the methods I developed on my own to deal with it, and was actually kind. He must have chronic pain too π
π Tinker is 12 and firmly entered his βold man shakes fist at cloudsβ era when the youngsters got here.
Surprising, but Iβll take it.
Fidget is 2 and thatβs STILL how his speed settings work most of the time. The iPad birds help though! π Sploot was mellow at 9mo, but still got into mischief with Fidget when it suited him. Patches sounds like a dream and my heart is so happy youβre helping him!
Aw, so sweet! And his pretty eyes! Patches! π₯° One of mine has a very gravely purr that starts and stops. I always wonder if itβs due to a bad respiratory virus he had as a kitten. His bro still gets boogers because of it, but purrs normally. After Tinker caught it, his purr changed a little too.
Oof. After the π© show of a city council meeting I just went to, def needed this. My nervous system is all discombobulated. Just fascists and their power-hungry enablers ignoring the will of the people because they think they can get away with it. Gonna need to watch this emergency kitten again. π
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My nightstand is full of things I would not liked knocked over and otherwise messed with.
My cats only when theyβre hungry: nice eyedrops, lampshade, and books you got here. Shame if something happened to them.
Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
Iβm having to rely on Profi and Astelin a lot. But Astelin can give me nosebleeds, which, uh, feels like injecting Covid right into my bloodstream. Why do people need to see my whole face in order to talk to me?! π€¦ββοΈ
Iβve definitely needed my husband in the room with some doctors so they take me (a woman) seriously. Itβs ridiculous and he thought it was weird at first and then saw firsthand why it was necessary. π