Ocean Dreamer

I’ve been vegetarian for about ten years.  In that time, I only ate chicken on a trip to Italy, because I wasn’t sure what gluten free food I would find.  In all that time, I never had any craving for meat.  Not once.  Yet for the past week, ever since visiting my lovely locally-owned co-op [...]

Yup, not-so-lovely Aunt Flo appeared this evening.  This is only cd25, only 11 days after I inseminated.  I really thought I might be pregnant this time - had all the cramping and bloating I had with my chemical pregnancy this summer - and actually got my hopes up a bit, so Aunt Flo’s arrival this [...]

My sweet Miss Zoe has been diagnosed with a number of allergies.  You may remember that she has had ongoing health problems.  Well, she’s also had a cough since she was about one (she’s now four).  Vets kept saying it must be kennel cough, they’d treat her for it and it wouldn’t make a difference.  [...]

Seattle had its first snow of the season yesterday and today.  When I lived in Maine, we would get sick of the snow by the end of the winter.  In Seattle, though, we usually only get snow once or twice a year, so it’s always a real treat.  Someone forgot to tell the city that, [...]

Zoe’s fourth birthday was on September 1st.  The sweet girl had what I think was a lovely day.  She spent most of it with me (a *big* plus for her) and got a new rope-ball toy.  She promptly chewed the ball off and tore it into bits.  She’s been playing with the rope ever since.
Happy [...]

So since I last posted, I have:

visited 4 states (not counting those I drove or flew through),
finished my coursework for the summer,
gone camping on both sides of the country,
gone to my first Single Mothers by Choice (SMC) meeting, and
found out that I am definitively not pregnant.

I saw Pam (my acupuncturist) yesterday and she mentioned [...]

My sweet, sweet girl is sick with a kidney infection. This is her second one in less than two years and I am really sad and worried about her. One vet told me she might not live that long, which really upset me. That was after the first kidney infection, though, and until [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week.  Its been a pretty busy week between school and life in general.
I had friends over for a BBQ on Monday - it was a random mix of people but everyone seemed to have fun. The weather turned out to be nice (they were threatening [...]

The Wonder Dog is a smart one, that’s for sure. Check out her new trick. First, the setup: I am sitting on the couch with Cassie curled up beside me in what is clearly actually Zoe’s spot. Zoe’s old routine was to jump up on the couch and try to push Miss [...]