Feh
My head needs to stop hurting. I'm in my office, in the dark, and my head hasn't stopped hurting since Monday. It doesn't feel like a migraine, it doesn't have the usual accompanying migraine symptoms. I thought maybe it was a lack of water headache...not so, apparently. Then I thought it was a lack of protein headache...not so. I figured maybe a sinus headache, especially with the weather being what it is, but sudafed isn't putting much of a dent in it.
Smearcat died yesterday. She was 19. She was my cat...she'd always been my cat, and of all the cats, it was hardest to leave her behind at my parents. She'd been ill for a while, and it wasn't unexpected...I thought Mom and Dad would probably end up putting her down soon...there just weren't really many other options. They didn't have to. She'd started on thyroid medication recently, and seemed to be doing better, but on Tuesday, she was missing, and Dad found her soaking wet and disoriented in the grass...like she hadn't been able to figure out how to get out of the way when the sprinklers came on. Yesterday, she was missing again, and Dad found her hiding in the family room, clearly laboring. He brought her to the vet, and as they were waiting, she died. I'm sad. I'm trying to be pragmatic about it...she was an old cat, she lived a long, happy life, and she was well loved throughout. But it's hard losing a pet, especially one who I loved as much as Smear. Smear spent most of my high school years living in my bedroom...coming in and out through the window, eating on the dresser, sleeping on my bed. She was always there, warm and purring. And now she's gone. And it hurts a bit. Squeeze the ones you love extra for me today, okay?
Does anyone have the Willy Wonka soundtrack? There's a piece in it that I might want to use for wedding music, but I need to track down a recording of it and listen a few more times.
Now back to my regularly scheduled headache.
Smearcat died yesterday. She was 19. She was my cat...she'd always been my cat, and of all the cats, it was hardest to leave her behind at my parents. She'd been ill for a while, and it wasn't unexpected...I thought Mom and Dad would probably end up putting her down soon...there just weren't really many other options. They didn't have to. She'd started on thyroid medication recently, and seemed to be doing better, but on Tuesday, she was missing, and Dad found her soaking wet and disoriented in the grass...like she hadn't been able to figure out how to get out of the way when the sprinklers came on. Yesterday, she was missing again, and Dad found her hiding in the family room, clearly laboring. He brought her to the vet, and as they were waiting, she died. I'm sad. I'm trying to be pragmatic about it...she was an old cat, she lived a long, happy life, and she was well loved throughout. But it's hard losing a pet, especially one who I loved as much as Smear. Smear spent most of my high school years living in my bedroom...coming in and out through the window, eating on the dresser, sleeping on my bed. She was always there, warm and purring. And now she's gone. And it hurts a bit. Squeeze the ones you love extra for me today, okay?
Does anyone have the Willy Wonka soundtrack? There's a piece in it that I might want to use for wedding music, but I need to track down a recording of it and listen a few more times.
Now back to my regularly scheduled headache.