There’s a little group called Shivaree headed by they extraordinarily talented Ambrosia Parsley, who writes most of the lyrics. Mostly they’re only known for the song Goodnight Moon which has been used in a couple of movies (Notably Kill Bill.)

Leonard Cohen not only saw COVID-19 coming in Everybody Knows, he predicted the Delta variant that’s keeping us from enjoying Hot Vax Summer.

How about a little Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms

I heard there was a secret chord,

Music is so important to me. It’s often been a refuge from a reality that was way more harsh than I could handle. To pick one significant lyric is impossible. All I can say right now is a song that’s hitting me hard in the heart is “Liability” by Lorde.

Ohhh, that’s a good lyric (although my favourite Cyndi Lauper song is Time After Time, by a mile).

So!

KYLO REN-TAUR

Shelter Cat Update!

Anecdata: I had an ablation and it’s the best thing I ever did for myself. I’ve noticed that my periods are getting a little heavier over the past year - probably perimenopause, given my age - but even the heaviest days are what would have been a light day for me pre-ablation.

Canada has otc tylenol #1 so that was my go-to for the cramping.

I take two tabs of ibuprofen and one tab of pamprin.  And prilosec because my stomach hates ibuprofen.  Jealous of your nap. 

Who has advice on finding a therapist later in life (age 50+) when everything inside you is saying you should just suck it up and deal? I don’t want to ask my IRL friends because I don’t want them to know I’m even considering this, honestly (which I recognize is probably also problematic, so yeah).

Oh god, perimenopause was fun (bleh) but mine wasn’t painful. Also, I’m a straight-up ibuprofen girl, in part because I drink. Wine and tylenol are a bad combination for your liver. You’re better off with ibuprofen and weed (the latter will relax you).

I am 40 years old so you would think I would know my body's signals, but I'm always like, not this week, but next week, then I forget and end up with ruined underwear. 

Hey, at least you didn’t call your doctor and think you had cancer.  I actually did this once ;-) (to be fair, I have a pituitary tumour that has fucked with my hormones for the better part of twenty years, and I hadn’t had a period for about ten years at that point.  I went to the bathroom, there was blood in the…

I had a back ache when I got up and I thought I slept in too long. After three bathroom visits in 4 hours I finally figured out I was getting my period.

I won a very big award at work. Like the highest award for the type of work I do award. It’s very surreal, because the project was a lot of work, but compared to the people and work who have won it before, it doesn’t seem like I did anything new? Or different? I don’t know, I guess it’s what happens when you’ve spent…

Guess who’s depression hit a fever pitch so she laid in bed all week and cried a bunch every time she talked to her abusive mom who’s absolutely great at making it about her

It looks like I’m gonna have surgery to remove my ovarian cyst this coming week and will be in the hospital recovering for a couple of days. After that I will be home recovering for at least a month and unable to work for at least 2 months. So far it doesn’t seem like I have cancer but the doctor said they won’t know…