a wolf angel is not a good angel

Now that I’m done with Veronica Mars, I need another show to watch. I like Buffy, Sopranos, House, Dead Like Me. I liked Six Feet Under but watched it only irregularly.

At lunch today:
my sister orders an egg salad sandwich
my mother orders the salmon entree
my grandparents each order bagels with lox
I order pancakes
Eventually, the waiter brings out bagels with cream cheese for my grandparents. They mention they actually wanted lox, too. The bagels go away.
Then the waiter brings out a salad with a scoop of egg […]

When I was little, my grandfather used to carry me on his shoulders and walk out into the ocean.
I’m older now, and he’s older (85, I think, this year. 85!) and he has never carried my little sister like that, he barely even goes into the ocean himself anymore, and not chest deep when […]

I read a couple of cat rescue blogs, when I can. And you know, I can never decide if I’m someone they’d even want to adopt out to. I mean, I gave my cat away. Sure, I can — do — have excuses. He wasn’t happy here; he was happy at my parents’ house; he […]

One of the things I never have been able to do is describe people. How can you, in a half dozen adjectives, give the gist of someone? Is it even possible? (Note: it is possible to do this for negatives, at least for me. Super easy for me to describe the negative aspects of people […]

It is 6:30 in the morning. I have been up for TWO HOURS. I want to fall back asleep so very much but lo! here I am, awake. Not wide awake — please, I got to bed past midnight — but awake. I am trying to consider what I could do to fall back asleep, […]

Adopt another cat, should I? Matilda really doesn’t like other cats very much (this is why Sammy moved to my parents’ house, where he is so happy). But there are so many sweet, needy cats on petfinder. And she’d get over it. Eventually. Maybe. Maybe I could get two other cats, and they would play […]

My very very old icq number still works (and I remembered the password). Not that I use icq so much anymore, but hey, it’s a 6-digit number (they’re now at 8 digits). Yes, this is total meaningless snobbery, why?

A family friend’s son had a very small wedding (20 people? 10?), to which my parents were not invited. They sent a gift.
Their daughter had a not-small wedding, to which my parents were also not invited. They did not send a gift.
Appropriate or not?
More facts, which should heavily weight people on the side of totally […]

My grandparents have been unhappy in the facility they moved to. They chose the cheapest place available (note: they have always been thrifty and thus now have lots of money leftover), and they’re in a 1-bedroom, so one of them sleeps in the living room. I’m not totally sure what all their complaints are, really; […]