This fall has been so busy in a good way and I am really trying to slow down and savor it! Here’s some random stuff:

• Penelope gave us another scare last week! It ended up just being a hairball (“just” isn’t the right way to describe this because hairballs can actually be super detrimental to cats) that she had a hard time puking up and the excessive puking wiped her out so she spent an entire day hiding under a chair on the back porch and wouldn’t eat and I was FREAKING out. We just had her at the vet for the exact same symptoms over the summer and spent the extra money for them to run all of the tests etc just for them to say, “Probably a hairball.” So, Henry was reluctant to take her to the vet this time and luckily I was off work on the day. this was happening so I was able to smother her and obsess. She started eating again on Friday but I was so close to canceling our overnight trip to Baltimore even though my mom was going to stop by Saturday morning to feed her. We ended up not leaving here until noon on Friday because I wanted to spend the least amount of time away from her as possible. We just don’t have anyone else to ask to check on her and it makes me a nervous wreck every time. Even though my mom was coming over on Saturday, we were on the road by 6:30AM back to Pittsburgh. I’m a fucking spaz. Happy to report that she is absolutely fine now, peeing/pooping, eating/drinking, playing with her toys, protecting our house from those evil bastard birds.
  • In other Penelope news, she has gained back a significant amount of the weight she lost last winter! We finally found a good food routine for her, AND we finally found a dry food that she will eat after deciding last year that she no longer liked dry food. Now she’s eating a balance of both dry and wet and Henry casually mentioned yesterday as we were leaving Petco that we have spent over $400 on cat food this month alone. WORTH IT. The sound and sight of her eating is my favorite thing in the whole entire world currently.

My little Splenny <3

• I added two new G-Dragon dolls to my collection!!! I’m up to five now. I have been hinting (OK hounding) to Chooch that I want more for Christmas. Hey, he has a job.

This one is from the BIIIG music video – <3

• Some Charmera pic from the Like Roses show last week at Bottlerocket:

• On my day off last Thursday, I walked to Uptown Cafe for an apple butter chai while they still have them. I brought my haunted house journal with me so that I could get caught up for the season but then these two old-ass ladies sat next to me and started screaming about cataract surgery and I could NOT concentrate. I started a fight with Henry that morning because I wanted to take Penelope to the vet and of course he had the car because he is letting his car rot in the driveway and I am stranded here every day without a car and I guess his reasoning is why do I need one since I work from home, WELL EMERGENCIES ARE A THING, ASSHOLE. Anyway, he couldn’t leave work like he normally can because “corporate” was in town (aka his mistress probably j/k but can we ever really trust men, even when men are Henry?) so I popped off and told him I was divorcing him and then hours later when I was at Uptown and Penelope was OK, I felt bad and bought him a stupid snickerdoodle for when he came home but also because I wanted to eat half of it. Then I took these pictures with my Charmera on the way home (also, no one small-talked to me the entire time and for that I was grateful because I was definitely on day one of PMS):

• We finished “Crystal Lake” last night!! I actually really loved it a lot and I hope there is a second season. When Kristy interviewed Joy Suprano last week and I got to observe, Joy did say that there hadn’t been an official confirmation yet but that the viewership for the first week was outrageously high and that she can’t imagine why there wouldn’t be. I would like to brag that this might be the fastest I’ve managed to watch a season of TV in the last decade or so – a week! I am not a binger and I know it drives Henry crazy because he’d have probably finished this in one weekend. I’m also notorious for falling off—I quit “From” and “The Pitt” and there have been so many Netflix shows that I started and forgot about BUT speaking of Netflix, I started watching The Sex Lives of College Girls which is creepy since I’m 47 but it’s such a great show to watch while jump roping, which is what I have been doing off and on all day today (I had today off work too! I’m trying to use up PTO).
  • At one point, Henry looked at me during Crystal Lake-viewing and exclaimed, “Are you CRYING?” Um, yes, Team Jason, thank you very much.
• STILL OBSESSING OVER SPEED THE MUSICAL.
• Did I mention that my mom is moving out of her house? Henry and I went over to help her move the last of the bigger items and by that I mean I stood in the garage and rifled through a bag of pictures while telling Henry not to break anything. I pretty much emotionally removed myself from that house decades ago, but it still sucks. We had that house built when I was in 1st grade, moved in when I was in 2nd grade, and I had some of the best summers of my life there with the woods at my full disposal, a tennis court next door in my aunt and uncle’s backyard that I had full access too, and of course my Pappap’s house being two houses away, and accessible by a path in the woods. But, I also have a lot of bad memories from that house. These feelings are very confusing and conflicting. But my mom needs to get out of there. It’s a 4 bedroom house that she has been living in by herself for like, 20 years almost at this point. There are ghosts there (no honestly I always felt like there was a ghost in the attic AND in the woods!!!). She is moving into my Grandma Kelly’s house actually in the same neighborhood as me. My grandma Kelly passed away last October and I actually went to her viewing the day after we came home from Romania. It was sad but she lived a very long and full life (I believe she was 98 or 99?!). So my dad talked to his brothers and they agreed that he and my brother Ryan would buy the house or whatever that needed to do and let my mom live there, which is actually a really huge and generous deal considering my parents have been divorced since the early 00s.
• We were supposed to see LEENALCHI last Monday night at the Warhol Museum but it was canceled :( I’m not sure exactly why but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Visa issues. Taemin’s US tour was postponed for that very reason. It hasn’t been rescheduled yet but I’m so worried it’s going to be a date that I can’t attend and Ticketmaster isn’t going to refund me. I’m just happy that the BIGBANG and Ten concerts still went on as planned!
• Thinking about having Chingumas again this year! We skipped last year because we had so many concerts that required traveling in the last half of the year alone that we were exhausted and also tired of spending money. These parties cost us more than you would think, even the pie parties which seem so simple! It adds up. Henry is in the process of redoing the Seoul subway sign (AGAIN) because the humidity was making the paper come off, and if he is able to get it done by the end of the month, then I think Chingumas can happen – lol.

OK, I need a snack and maybe another cup of coffee. Also, I want to jump rope again. Baltimore and TEN concert recap coming later this week!

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