Saturday morning brought us a clean house after a coffee fueled cleaning frenzy, all hail our 10 cup percolator. A nagging, shallow cough has me convinced that our house is full of dust, or mold, or cat dander, or an insidious lung-tickling mixture of the three, so after a sleepless hacking Friday night I raced…
Category: Everyday Adventures
Welcome to Mayberry
My beautiful fat cat is sitting on her beatiful fat mom’s lap (that’s me), purring and eyeing the 4 squares of Cadbury’s chocolate that I was trying to savor but now must gobble to protect my claim to it. The chocolate polishes off a wonderfully greasy meal at the local pub, and my lone dining experience (whilst my…
Chilling Out on Sunday
It has dropped from 70 degrees on Friday to 30-something degrees today. We have guests in town – two friends and their 4 month old baby. The cat’s been pretty good – very sniffy, not very scratchy, which is how we like cat-to-baby relations to be. I thanked them for bringing their guinea pig –…
Precious
A precious night at home. Dinner is angel hair pasta with ragu and a large glass of red wine, eaten in front of a pretty bad movie. Tomorrow I go to the beach – tonight is for relaxing. I decide to run a bath – then look with raised eyebrows at a soap scummy tub…
Life Threatening Experience
Oh my gosh. I had a life threatening experience today. At least, my body sure thought it was. My heart pounded so hard I could barely hear. I got nauseous and short of breath, and even got the shakes. For 6 whole minutes, I felt like I could die at any second. I went…