“Chamber your knee. It’s like cowbell: you can’t get enough of it.”
—Connor’s karate teacher
Twitter Update: It’s All About the Benjamins
Thoughts on receiving a $100 bill as a Christmas gift:
1.) It’s been a while since I had a Benjamin! Check out all the cool anti-counterfeiting measures!
2.) My husband does the grocery shopping… Where do I shop that would be willing to break a hundred?
Status: Staycationing
Wrapping up Day Two of my holiday staycation with some Harry Potter (in book form), Cidergeist, and Christmas chocolates. Yeah, I think this week off needs to become a holiday tradition.
Schnuth Christmas Portrait 2021
Mei Kitty, 2014-2021
You had a good run, baby kitty.
Seventeen is seriously geriatric in cat years, and it was only in the past few years that you really started to feel your age. You were a real trooper with your thyroid pills and acid reflux tablets. We couldn’t believe how OK you were with having medicine shoved down your throat… although treats will make almost anything tolerable. Except maybe nail trimming.
In the end, it was probably your enlarged heart that finally got the best of you. Your abdomen had filled with fluid, and you were having difficulty breathing. The vet told us you were critical, and that you could only get worse.
It’s been exactly one month since we said our final goodbyes in that little room at the vet’s office. We didn’t want to let you go. It was the right thing to do, the humane thing to do, but it was so hard.
So, so hard.
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