so, it turns out tippy's skin woes were due to fleas. the vet gave her a steroid shot to make her less itchy and help her skin heal, and a specials shampoo that's supposed to condition her skin and coat. immediately she stopped scratching, and after the first time i used the shampoo her coat looks ten times better and her skin doesn't look so dry ( Read more... )

this morning john got up and went to the store for products to drain fix our clogged shower, and came back with coffee and breakfast for me. by the time i got up the coffee wasn't quite hot, but i was no less excited about it ( Read more... )

i woke up with such a horrible headache this morning, and it could have been part of the sick i feel i'm about to get, or the fact that i didn't wear my glasses for two days. it took forever to go away, but it's better now ( Read more... )

i went over to the house yesterday to grab my records, most of which i bought while my turntable was broken and had never listened to, because we fixed it, and now i can listen to all of them! which is what i've been doing so far today. most of it is older country, stuff that my mom played for us when we were little. there's this bob wills and ( Read more... )

what's today? the thirteenth. seventeen days! it's getting close. i did find out that we're getting married on a full moon. that's gotta be good, right? totally ( Read more... )

i think something is supposed to be delivered to the apartment today. i can't remember what. not shoes, not jordan almods, maybe unity candle? no, it's 175 sandlewood fans and 175 copper organza drawstring bags ( Read more... )

well, it seems the entire world is sick. or was recently. my dad and cara and john's mom last week, the florist over the weekend, me sunday and yesterday, and now john is upstairs sleeping after puking all night. poor little bear. i'm eating again, which is great. monday is was only fruit, tuesday i expanded to salad and soup, and today i'm ( Read more... )

so, i'm home right now, at my mom's house, with my family and seven dogs. i'm not kidding, seven dogs. my mom's four: weezer, stan, new dog, chi chi; gordon's two: ness and bob (a rescue, he's currently looking for a home); and mine, tippy. bob has decided that weezer is his lady, and he's been humping her pretty much non-stop since he came to ( Read more... )

i've been in this mood lately, for the last couple of days, i've been kind of anxious and stressed and i've been resistant to john's attempts to cheer me up, and i'm worrying him and. i guess i've felt all over the place. right now it's the combination of getting invitations in the mail, (and it's not the writing that's stressful, it's finding ( Read more... )

gosh, today has been long. i felt pretty scattered this morning, really unprepared for class. i left the house thinking that i had an umbrella and a bag of quarters in my car, and i had neither, so i got rained on and i got a parking ticket, another one! i went all semester going hours over my meters with no repercussions, and now two tickets in ( Read more... )