Author: Tanie

Geogie is workin’ for the (long) weekend. I mean, her ear tufts are!

I want a tattoo of Sailor Moon’s Cosmic Heart Compact.

Hearts? check
Stars? check
Rainbow colours? check
Huge pink crystal? DOUBLECHECK
Now the question is, would it be overkill to get it on my chest? Or would it be overawesome?

Big thank you to Esme from The Moon Princess for the screencaps.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 74/104; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 75/104; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 76/104

a full list of all this year’s books can always be found here

I haven’t made any posts recently about cooking, mainly because I haven’t been cooking. I’m in a massive food slump and the idea of planning meals and buying groceries and preparing dinner is like, TOO MUCH. Basically the only thing I’ve been making regularly is oatmeal, which is OF COURSE the perfect thing to eat on these cold autumn mornings.

I go through big oatmeal phases, as in: I eat it all the time for a couple of months and then don’t have any for five years, and I guess right now is one of those eat-it-all-the-time times. I bought steel-cut oats instead of rolled and I like them way better. Usually I just do the classic: with raisins and brown sugar, or, if I have any, honey. I have made a peaches-and-should-be-cream-but-he-likes-his-oatmeal-with-no-liquid for Taylor, and an apple cinnamon attempt (wasn’t cinnamony enough). Today I used some frozen blackberries I had left over from Taylor’s and my apple-blackberry pie and a nice glob of clover-alfalfa honey from the Vlad’s Apiary stand at the West End farmer’s market. Not only is it delicious but the berries turned the milk and oats purplish-pink so it’s like a visual treat as well.

Ever since Georgie figured out she could squeeze through the bars at the dog park by our house and run away from me cackling wildly, I haven’t been able to take her. It sucked because I really want her to be well socialized with all kinds of dogs and she had so much fun playing! Then, on Saturday Taylor took her and Kichou for a walk to Emery Barnes Park in Yaletown (the same park where Sym and her friends played in the fountain), which also has a fenced dog area. At first I didn’t think we’d be able to go in because the fence has the same wide-spaced bars, but as it turned out there was a heavy-gauge wish mesh welded to the lower half of the bars so little dogs couldn’t escape. At first there was only a couple other dogs there, but more showed up and it turned into an awesome dog party!

… aaaaaaaand I swear my next post will be about something other than fuzzy pets.

I took Claire to the vet on Saturday. I was pretty concerned about her weight loss and as it turned out she’s lost nearly 50% of her body weight- at her last checkup she weighed over 11 pounds and now she weighs just 6lbs3oz. They called me today with the results of her blood tests, and she has diabetes, which I didn’t even know cats could get! I have to take her in on Wednesday evening and learn how to do her twice-daily insulin shots. Fun! She’s going to hate me.
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