“He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’m still dealing with my kitty, Freya, who is stumping veterinarians with severe anemia. Everyone has been guessing with a diagnosis of IMHA, or Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia. It’s a scary mouthful and an even scarier and often […]
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Only Happy When It Rains
(Reposting from almost exactly 2 years ago as I’ve had another crazy week with emergency vet care for my kitty, Freya.) Mario wasn’t one of those guys who carried on and complained or wilted like a flower when he was sick or had some physical pain. His tolerance was high, bolstered by a masochistic tendency. […]
A picture is worth a 1000 words.
I’m low on sleep and was having trouble coming up with something to write about, so I gave myself a challenge. Find an old photo with Mario and put 1000 words to it. So here we go. Oddly, the photo I’ve selected was taken right around this time (June) exactly 6 years ago. Here’s the […]
Possessions
I stumbled on a YouTube video earlier in the week of a British guy talking about possessions and how he was at a rummage sale and thinking about all the items there were once items that someone cared deeply about and are now being sold for very little money. I didn’t end up watching the […]
The Doldrums
Ever heard the term, “stuck in the doldrums”? The doldrums is a nautical term for the equatorial region of the Earth where the prevailing trade winds converge, often resulting in calms, sudden squalls, and little to no forward progress for sailing vessels. Metaphorically, it’s used to describe the same sort of thing: little to no […]
Needing to Get Back to Balance
If you’ve been reading my posts every Friday, you’ll know that the last couple weeks have had a lot of kitty health issues. Thursday evening Freya and I made the trip one hour north to Eugene, Oregon for a life-saving blood transfusion at an ER vet (side note: I never really thought about cats donating […]
When you don’t have kids …
I’m not sure of the exact percentage, but I know there’s quite a few of us who were married and did not have any kids. For Mario and I, it was a conscious choice. Honestly, for me, it was a choice that happened very early in my life. I just could never see myself as […]
Life’s Ups and Downs
May 3rd marked what would have been Mario’s 53rd birthday. So it was one of those anniversaries. In life, Mario never made a big deal out of his birthdays. Like I’ve mentioned before, I think it was because he knew he’d get a more limited amount of them than some people get. But rather than […]
Hanging with Other Widowed People
I mentioned the first failed attempt at going to a local widow’s group I was invited to join but this Monday rolled around and my friend who invited me texted me to remind me the group was meeting for lunch that day. The struggle is real when you’re an introvert and you’re asked to “show […]
Memorials & Keepsakes
In the U.S., cremation seems to be the preferred method of disposing of remains with 63.4% compared to a burial rate of 31.6%. Pretty sure this has greatly changed over the decades as even when I was a kid I don’t think anyone I knew of who passed away was cremated. The funeral was always […]
A normal week …
Normal is a really relative term these days. For me, normal is nothing overly exciting or unusual or entertaining happened. So this is basically just going to be me rambling about every day life and dealing with insomnia. Monday A local artist friend I know had told me about a local widow’s group that meets […]
Static
I was trying to do some clean up on my iPhone … you know, things like deleting apps I no longer use, deleting text messages, deleting old voice mails. I was going along just fine until I hit the voicemails and realized there were like 600 of them saved. Then I realized that iPhone actually […]