Cobalt
I am a woman living with three cats but that doesn't make me a crazy cat lady. It's all the other stuff I do that mark me as crazy. The cats are purely incidental.
A Fragile Equilibrium
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Expert advice in Well now
A popular television cat whisperer says that cats, especially housebound cats, need mental stimulation. Due to their curious natures and inborn hunting instinct, you should challenge them on a d...
Locker room talk. Hilarius, right? in Deplorable thoughts
Okay, I haven’t talked a lot about the elephant, I mean the gorilla in the room with any sort of specifics. I don’t want to and will not begin a debate about things that are so incredibly obv...
There is no intelligent debate possible in Well now
Nathe says he’s not trying to annoy me. (This is how it always starts.) He says he values my opinion and just wants to know what I think about these absolutely ridiculous and vindictive diatribe...
There are three other brains in my house but I live alone in Well now
Such a sweet sight, Esme all curled up, sleeping on my tablet on the worktable an arm’s reach away, keeping me company as I work on inventory for upcoming crafts fairs. My needle slides in and t...
Oh come on now in Well now
I get it that this house is falling apart. I understand that the wood siding outside is barely hanging on. I know the ancient ductwork above has more holes in it than I’d ever care to count. I am...
Skull fracture in black and white in Well now
I’m watching an old movie, a romantic comedy from 1938 you’ve never heard of, starring people I’ve never heard of. The husband rushes to the hospital where his wife has been taken after a fall do...
Imaginary value in Well now
Them what is in charge of such things has sent me a notice. The value of my house has gone up 5% in the four years since I bought it. Well, that’s a good thing, right? Sure, if I were going to se...
Scritch, scritch, scritch in Well now
So I am standing in the laundry room scratching my head. I’ve come here with a purpose, to get something, I think, but I cannot for the life of me remember what. I look around for clues. There...
The cat race in Well now
I usually clean up small wounds and put adhesive bandages on them for good measure, but today’s minor mischief will need to make do with the quick rinse in the shower. See, I don’t mind that my c...
Slow of hearing, long of memory in Well now
All this talk of closed captions. How silly. I’m not hard of hearing. Why would I use closed captions anyway? In a word, Mom. In the few years after the storm, when I lost all that (oh so ultima...
Son of Oof ! in Well now
Tonight’s episode of “Vikings, the Closed Captioned Experience.” Another Episode, another bloodbath. Closed captions read: “BATTLE CRIES RISE TO A DEAFENING ROAR” Doesn’t that seem a rather cruel...
I am currently watching a television series called “Vikings.” As usual, I have the closed captions on. Battle scene captions: “YAH!” “OOF!” “UNGGH!” “AARRRGGHH!” I don’t know why find that so abs...
The giggling gods have corporeal handmaidens in Well now
Vacation almost over. Sigh. Got very little done on the task list I optimistically set for myself. The Good - My sisters, knowing that I am severely limited on funds lately and would be doing not...
Okay, am I the only one who's getting freaked? in Well now
I know that the internets are spying on me. I know that they’re gathering cartloads of digital data on me in order to paper my electronic life with adverts for any and every thing they think I mi...
Politicats in Well now
What with all the election and the conventions coverage, everyone is talking politics these days. I don’t really enjoy such discussions because they aren’t actually discussions. People either a...
Day without number in Well now
I haven’t been to the gym yet. Seriously, that’s wrong on several levels. I’m spending money I barely have on a service I don’t use. I need to exercise - ask the nasty little guilt monster strap...
Despite grand intentions, I do not feel that I got much done yesterday. What I did accomplish: I got two loads of laundry washed and dried, ----- Though not all folded and none of it put away Cl...
The first day in Well now
Today is the first day of my two week vacation. Cash strapped and debt-ridden, I have no plans for travel. Sigh. Recent events have pounded the British pound to lows not seen in decades. Oh, wha...
Silly little soul in Well now
Cats are obviously less intelligent than we with their walnut sized brains and their lack of opposable thumbs, but as a species of animal they aren’t all that unintelligent. We domesticated dogs...
Forehead slap EDIT - Summer stock in Boystories
Here’s the edit and the admission. I’m an idiot. My life is so slow and boring of late that I have nothing to write about and still have the compulsion to write something anyway. (There’s also a ...
Sunday morning predawn and I’m sitting at the computer doing the adult version of homework. I’ve brought home stacks of registration forms for summer school to transcribe. It’s work that I shou...
Random thought in Well now
It occurs to me, apropos of absolutely nothing, that the calendar is just wrong. Shouldn’t October be the EIGHTH month of the year? I mean look at the (Latin) prefix. For that matter, shouldn’t S...
Turning one in Well now
Quiet late night here. We’re all gathered in the study, on and around the big square table I use as a desk and work surface. The kittens are sleeping. Coco is just a foot or two away, draped ...
The glory that was Rome in Well now
Watching “Treme” a finished HBO series set in New Orleans just post Katrina. I missed it when it was being broadcast originally because I didn’t get HBO, but it’s showing on Amazon now, so, well...
It’s strange how your mind can alter the elsewhere highly disciplined passage of time. Joy seems to disappear in an instant, while moments of “oh god, this is going to hurt” stretch out forever....
