It all fun and games until someone loses an eye.  Because and alligator is eating their face off.

Despite my chronic greyness, some of you know I’m trying to get pregnant, and was miserable about my painful late disappointing disappearing period this month. I’m really in need of the anonymous support of some internet denizens because TURNS OUT THAT WAS NOT A PERIOD. The “period” pain got so bad I rang my doctor…

Weekly Achievement Thread! What have you done this week that you’re proud of? Let us know so that we can cheer along with you.

When I was a wee lad lo these many decades ago, my uncle (long haul truck driver) brought me a surprise gift from Florida. A tiny lizard. Very cute.

Shelter Cat Update!

We couldn get my daughter's six foot long iguana to stay in his tank, so finally gave up. He was my sweet lovey boy, slept on top of me when I was sick and followed me to the bathroom. RIP Joey, Mommy misses you :, (

Watching the video of those Catholic School boys taunting Native American demonstrators, and that kids smarmy face is stuck in my head. It’s driving me crazy, because I know what I’m seeing very clearly. The kid looks so pleased with himself, even though he’s making no point and hasn’t even come up with an argument of…

Job update: trying not to go insane from waiting. The hiring manager and pharmacy manager are meeting Monday morning, so I should finally have an answer then. I will hopefully have exciting news to share with all of you next week if I haven’t lost all of my marbles due to a combination of waiting to hear about the job…

and then wally bit joie’s hand off.

Hi kittens! My cat Blanchie had all of her teeth removed in surgery this week, and she’s absolutely great. Woke up from surgery purring and has been a calm, much happier cat now that she’s pain free, for probably the first time in years. I’m so happy the vet checked her mouth at her well visit and found the lesions…

Still haven’t gotten quite everything I had in mind for this month done yet; still feeling fine about it (progress!). Plus, the month is only just past half over, so, arbitrary goal or not, no reason to stress about it.

“living room pond” is a terrific phrase. I had a coworker who ended up being the primary caregiver for an iguana after her sons entered their teens and lost interest. He loved his two-legged mom; he kept breaking out of his tank to be wherever she was, once actually shattering the glass and crawling into the kitchen…

I had a migraine this past week, so I’m upping my self-care game this long weekend. (Also Tuesday is my birthday, and BossLady gave me half a day off.) I have dark chocolate and herbal tea and hot chocolate ready to go.

My mom was in the hospital this week for her second bowel obstruction in less than a year. She’s not even 60. Luckily , this one didn’t require emergency surgery. My mom and I have our issues but I feel like I’m the only one she really has. I’ve been a mess all week but she came home on Thursday.

Here’s Pete.

I’m sitting here distracting myself while editing the latest episode of my podcast, Boring Books for Bedtime, and fairly tickled pink that it recently hit some milestones in less than 3 months of running.

Obligatory Archer

I’m in Australia but it’s just an aggregator site of ye olde newspapers that have been scanned and “translated” into a searchable database.

I live in a neighbourhood where most of the houses are 100+ years old, so sometimes I like to research the ‘hood through old newspaper articles. A friend recently asked me to see if I could find anything that happened in her house nearby and I found that a woman who lived there 70+ years ago had an illegal abortion…

Girl, learn to do your makeup BEFORE you start the mockery.