It's been about a month since I last posted. I realized last year the WeHo Halloween Carnaval returned, though the city said they didn't want to bring it back after COVID. I have a feeling that the bar lobby pressured them into reviving it. I didn't go last year, but returned this year. It was overall great, though those shoes tore up my feet. I ( Read more... )

I ought to cram in an October post before the month slips away. I've had to start physical therapy for my leg since my last update. It was getting to a point that sitting down was unbearable. I don't know what started it, but the therapy has been helping. However, I detest that the appointments fuck with my routine. It's now something I have to do ( Read more... )

I didn't realize until just now how long it's been since I last posted. I can't say much has happened. I wound up going out for my birthday, which is the first time I've been out at night in LA since October. At least, out to a bar. I went to the opera in April and it had a bar, but it wasn't a nightlife venue by any means. Aside from that, I went ( Read more... )

I feel like I have more to say than I really do, as it's been a month since I last posted. My anxiety has been on quite the roller coaster lately. This past week wasn't so bad, as three days of it were so busy that I didn't have time to be anxious. However, last night spiked. Although this is a healthy work environment, it's my luck that I have ( Read more... )

We had a high school program at the hospital this past week and I was on a careers panel. I felt vulnerable afterwards, but was open about my career trajectory and the tribulations I went through to get to where I am. And goddamn, did I ever have to walk through fire to get here. The first day of the program involved orientation, and I attended. I ( Read more... )

I saw that I last updated the day I attended Pride, so I never mentioned what happened the next day. When I went to the shelter to see that dog, the volunteers mentioned another who had been there nearly as long. I ended up going back to see her the next day. Five days later, I adopted her. Her name was Savannah, but I renamed her Krähe. I admit ( Read more... )

I went to Pride today, and to be honest I wasn't really that excited to go. I wasn't looking forward to it either, but decided to go because I did buy tickets after all. Last year I got there a little before opening. Today I got to the area only a couple minutes after it opened... but actually stayed on the train and went to the next stop. Now, ( Read more... )

It was my intention to update last weekend, but the day of traveling left me wiped out. And I felt sick Sunday, so I didn't do much. Regardless, I had an amazing trip. The damn thing was canceled in 2020 and I tried to plan it for a later time, only to be stuck focusing on getting a good job up until this year. It was worth the wait ( Read more... )

This is one of those months when I'm saying, "stop the world, I want to get off." It's been a little over two weeks since Peanut's death. I cried every day, multiple times a day for a week even before he passed. Really it's because the few days leading up to it I somehow knew it was imminent. I was doing better, but on Tuesday they gave me his ( Read more... )

When I at age 28 first saw Peanut in his 4-week-old litter, one of his brothers shied away but he came up to me and bit my finger. I knew then he was the one I wanted to call mine. With his small size, I could hold him in one hand. At age 8 weeks, on our drive from his birthplace in Prescott, Arizona, he was afraid and curled in my lap, shivering ( Read more... )