I think I told a story that wasn't entirely mine to tell yesterday. I may have to scrub it soon; I'm sorry.
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Overall, a better day today although I did cry--once when the Chappell Roan song "Casual" played on the radio. A few months ago, At and I had joked about how I'm probably like the mom in that song who has no chill and invites the person her kid is casually dating to her house after only two weeks. SLE and I got serious about each other pretty quickly. I can't believe or get over how I will never see her again.
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Nu and I took Max and Huck to the vet for their yearly heartworm shots today. The books we collected for the waiting room made me chuckle--it was the latest Hunger Games book for me and the collected works of Audre Lorde for Nu and not vice versa as one might reasonably expect.
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It was the 101st birth anniversary of James Baldwin this weekend, so I read some Baldwin and lit my devotional candle. And it was my Boss Day today, so I took myself for a long walk, bought myself some perennials that were on end-of-season sale for fall planting, and got Thai food for dinner.
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Pic: Huck likes to climb on furniture because she's the shortest in the family. She wasn't happy to hear the vet say she may have been exposed to a tick bite (blood test results will clarify tomorrow). But she's happy to hear that big sib At will be hanging out with her and Max this weekend and they don't have to go to "boarding school" as she calls it.
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Overall, a better day today although I did cry--once when the Chappell Roan song "Casual" played on the radio. A few months ago, At and I had joked about how I'm probably like the mom in that song who has no chill and invites the person her kid is casually dating to her house after only two weeks. SLE and I got serious about each other pretty quickly. I can't believe or get over how I will never see her again.
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Nu and I took Max and Huck to the vet for their yearly heartworm shots today. The books we collected for the waiting room made me chuckle--it was the latest Hunger Games book for me and the collected works of Audre Lorde for Nu and not vice versa as one might reasonably expect.
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It was the 101st birth anniversary of James Baldwin this weekend, so I read some Baldwin and lit my devotional candle. And it was my Boss Day today, so I took myself for a long walk, bought myself some perennials that were on end-of-season sale for fall planting, and got Thai food for dinner.
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Pic: Huck likes to climb on furniture because she's the shortest in the family. She wasn't happy to hear the vet say she may have been exposed to a tick bite (blood test results will clarify tomorrow). But she's happy to hear that big sib At will be hanging out with her and Max this weekend and they don't have to go to "boarding school" as she calls it.
16 comments:
Oh, I hear you about falling for the kids' romantic interests immediately, too. I just can't help it, and I never, ever learned from the heartbreaks.
James Baldwin was so ahead of his time. I can't ever say (or think) his name without a sigh of admiration and love.
I like that Hucky gets on the furniture to assert herself a bit. I know from experience that being short can become tedious even though you can still Act Quite Tall.
Happy Boss Day, my friend! It sounds like you had a lovely one.
Rex is on a medication for ticks/ fleas/ lice prevention and so far, so good. I mean, he's had lice twice so I thought it best to go on this med. It's a once a month treatment and it's a chewy treat, so he likes it. He's always outside in grassy areas/ wooded areas, so it helps alleviate the stress!
Cute.
Huck is so beyond cute, I can hardly bear it! Just adorable and sweet. I hope the blood work comes back OK -- and glad he won't have to go to dog camp. Greg once had a girlfriend we loved. It didn't work out, which was a pity. He needed that stability!
I'm glad you had a better day. It's one thing to miss an ex after a breakup and quite another to come to terms with their death.
Happy Boss Day! And- I hope Huck is okay. I don't have dogs- what happens if she had a tick bite?
Sounds like you took good care of yourself on your Boss Day. I'm sorry about the grief for SLE. No-one in my kids' circles has died but I imagine I would be quite shaken if that happened. The mother of one of North's friends died of cancer when they were in elementary school. That was hard and they weren't even close friends.
It would be hard not to fall for your kids’ love interests! I know my HS boyfriend’s parents adored me and the feeling was mutual. When we broke up, I think they were quite upset with their son. Which was probably hard for him, in hindsight.
I didn’t know there was an injectable flea/tick option. Mulder took a chewable. I’m curious about the pros and cons of the injection.
My birthday is the 31st day of the month…does that mean I would only get a Boss Day 7 months of the year? Or are concessions made? (Just musing, we don’t celebrate Boss Day.)
"Act quite tall" :)! It should be our motto! (I'm the shortest human in mine.)
And I know what you mean about falling, Nance. In fact, one of your earliest posts I remember reading was about two small humans you loved very much. It endeared you to me so much!
What a good boy Rex is for taking his meds! My naughty ones decided to spit up theirs :/
Thank you!
Aw, Jeanie! Thank you for the Huckie Love! The blood work was ok! Yay!
And your comment about girlfriends made me wonder if people feel lie that about boyfriends too?
Jenny, Yeah--it's a lot. Especially if you're young and have barely figured out life yet.
I found out the answer for tick bites is antibiotics! I was relived to hear there was a simple answer.
Steph--When Scout died, one of the thoughts I had was that I was lucky that it was the first time I was dealing with grief like that in my fifty+ years! We are lucky to have found relatively humdrum lives in this world.
Lisa! I can totally see this! You would have been the real-deal-ideal G/F and they must have been so happy for their son. Did you see Jeanie's comment? Did your parents feel the same about him? I can't remember people feeling bad about their kid's boyfriends somehow.
J, As the inventor of Boss Day, I am chagrined that I did not anticipate a proper redress for those born on the 31st! How about the the final day of the month?!
Mulder 😍. My sillies were taking chewables until they decided they wouldn't. The new protocol is a liquid application once a month for flea/ticks and a yearly injection for heartworm.
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