Party ideas:

1. Make-your-own-Adirondack-Chair Party.

2. Make-your-own-Panini Party.

Wonder which one would be more popular?

WHAT A FUCKING BRILLIANT IDEA!! WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS? (Though I would've come up with a MUCH better name, surely.)

Yummie Tummie--it's a long tank top with a normal top and bottom and a slimming panel around the middle ( Read more... )

I have discovered some amazing things about myself in the past few weeks. I can use the drill. I can sand things. I can use a crowbar. (That is FUN, by the way.) I can touch gross stuff. I can clean filth that isn't related to me ( Read more... )

BAGELS!!! Chewy warm raisin-y ones that are so soft and good that you don't even NEED cream cheese.

How on Earth did I forget about bagels?

I wonder if Bagelstein's is still there...

This morning the vet told me that Astrid had developed a condition called myelomacia. Her spinal cord was dying, she couldn't move her front legs, and she was in horrible pain. Eventually the pressure from her spine would suffocate her. There was no way to cure it and very, very, very little hope that it would get better. So Bill and I decided ( Read more... )

I just saw Astrid again and she snuggled with me lots more. She still seemed a little non-Astrid-like but I felt so much better about it today. Maybe the fact that I have visited two days in a row is helping her know she has not been abandoned, or maybe she is feeling better generally. They took her away before I could call Bill (I have decided ( Read more... )

Astrid still has no feeling in her back legs, and though the doctor has said they usually wait up to a week to be sure there is none, I'm getting to be OK with the idea that she may be unable to walk unassisted. I've done lots of research and I think that once we adjust, it will not be much more trouble than having to take her out to go the the ( Read more... )

Astrid Update (I will get an update every morning from the hospital, and I am worrying about this to no end, so sorry, I have to write about it): the vet called and said "she is doing [pause] OK. She still has no deep pain sensation in her back legs, but sometimes with very severe spine compression like she had, it takes a few days for that to ( Read more... )

Astrid made it through surgery. The doctor said he was able to clean up all the spinal fluid and the outside of her spine looked okay, but he was careful to say he didn't know about the inside and that we will not know if she is going to be able to walk again for a few days at least. I will be able to go in and see her on Monday. I hope that she ( Read more... )

I took Astrid back to the vet this morning because she was dragging both feet, and it turns out she has ruptured a disc in her back. She is in surgery as we speak, with a 65% chance of recovery. Any kind of doggie thoughts or prayers you can send into the universe will be appreciated. We won't know if she'll be able to walk again for a few days ( Read more... )