cat obsessed

Sorry, Renoir and Chagall, the Garfield with bacon and eggs face wins.

a caturday well spent

I remember wishing I could be reborn as a house cat.

Growing fur during the day. Shedding it at night.

Nestling beds out of someone's leftovers and whatnots.

Chasing intangible beams of light.

And dreaming. Visions of conquered flies, falling leaves and all those little delights I've seen cats cry on and on about as if announcing their triumphs in finding such things.

To be continued.

There was a war in my body. I won.

I am finally ready to stomach this post. My post food poisoning immune system was not quite ready to relive the slime encrusted memories two weeks ago, but I'm pretty much 100% now :) Read on, man!

From what I can tell by others' experiences, there seems to be food *cough-cough* I guess... poisoning (indigestion), capital-F Food poisoning (sitting on the toilet all night and feeling queasy) and all caps double underlined FOOD POISONING!! (do I need to describe this kind?) which is what I had.

Things I never, ever, ever thought I'd do in front of another human, much less my mom and boyfriend:

• Throwing up on myself
• Asking someone to hold up my body while I sit on the toilet
• Asking if I was going to die of "typhoid fever" (sad, funny and embarrassing!)
  
• And in some nightmarish overture, asking for more empty trashcans to throw up in while I am sitting half-naked on the toilet
  

Thinking back about it, I'm sort of like dot dot dot um, whoa. Obviously my mom was whatevs about helping me with my earthquake diarrhea and geyser vomit because 1) she's my mom and 2) an ICU nurse at a University Hospital has seen worse. But Marc? One day we're 'normal hi how are you' dating couple and the next we're 'seen you at your absolute fucking worst' couple which seems like a larger step than moving in together. I don't know. This ordeal makes the Can I Fart In Front Of Him question mean nothing. (Although I still don't, duh. I like his image of me to not involve gas fumes and flies buzzing around my bottom.)
And finally, a Mitzvah is produced because of my virus: I am entering Moshe into a Therapy Cat program!! He sat next to me and purred for most of the night, putting his paw on my hand and wiping the sweat from my forehead with his tail so I'm hoping he'd be a great comfort to kids or adults going through whatever in a hospital :)

P.S. So FYI about sugar and brown bags: I had a headache and couldn't feel my hands or forearms for some reason so my mom fed me sugar under my tongue and made me breath into a bag and I almost instantly felt my arms again and my headache went away. She said your brain only wants oxygen and sugar and when it doesn't get it, it gets mad at you and gives you a headache (that is literally how she described it to me because even though I am 26 I will always be her sweetheart who likes to hear anthropomorphic story explanations.) And putting sugar under your tongue is the quickest way to get it into your system without a needle. Imagine that!

P.P.S. I never figured out where I got the bug from! Hrmph!!

It's another hurts to move morning

Remember this?

Classic cartoons from the early 90's feel like home cooked meals.

fall walk in nob hill, 2009

I have set a goal for myself... (besides the sort of extremely crucial ones like getting a paying job, figuring out grad school slash returning to school, saving up money to move, FIGURING OUT WHAT THE EFF I AM DOING WITH MY LIFE.)

I'm forcing my brain to think it's time for chemistry finals and with that same impending doom rush rush! energy I'll publish all those damn drafts I've been writing about. I'd like to get them done before my 26th birthday picnic. A clean slate for my new age :)

My other scans had little drawings of forest animals and squiggly portraits of my classmates in the margins. I thought these looked more professional. Also, why do I still have these notes?

Here's the first one, a lovely walk in Albuquerque's Nob Hill neighborhoods, cutting our feet on broken beer bottles.

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Mom's Day

MADE IT!!! (But just barely!) Mother's Day, guys... WOOO! My mom worked all day today so I get to celebrate Mother's Day with her tomorrow :) It'll be great. We're going to take her out to lunch and then maybe a movie or hiking!

Here are some interesting photos from the 80s and one from 1993 of MY MOM! and our awesome family :)

Dad, Puppy, Mom and Baby G in the family garden.

Mom and little G chillin' in the linoleum kitchen with Velcro sneaks and top form 80's fashion.

Little G and Mom hanging out on the backyard picnic table. Cah-yuuuute!

Little G and Mama getting sand blown in their eyes at beautiful Jockey's Ridge, Nags Head, NC.

Perms, mustachios and flannels. It was the 80's. Little G and her fam at the time. Baby J wasn't born yet!!

Little G's mom took all the other mom's to school in looking fine. Circa 1989.

Rio Rancho, 1993. My first southwestern suntan with my mom! Notice our blatant display of the Parcheesi board game! (Barf, just kidding!)

My Grandmom raised me just as much as my immediate parents did :) I'm lucky to have been raised by two super loving moms!

(Grandmom is on the right) Looking pretty and posing for cameras run in our blood.

Picture Perfect.

I consider myself a cat mama so I thought I'd share some photos of my babies from over the years. The boys didn't know it was Mother's Day, however I noticed that they were extra snuggly and licked my face more than usual today, which is slightly more disgusting because one of them has been dragging rancid food from the alley dumpster into the house and eating it :-/ AND I STILL LOVE THEM TO DEATH!! :)

Chompers has been taking naps on my lap lately.

He only wakes up when I get phone calls or someone walks up to the front door. He gets frightened by the mailman.

Moshe and I have a long tradition of him sleeping on my neck :) Ever since he was a little 1 pound kitten!

Baby is loco, chu know?

Belly rubs!!!

The boys and their cat mom, me!

Awww! Someone fell asleep while he was still sitting up :) Cute!

Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies out there taking care of someone, some pet, or some plant! It means the world to give someone or something your whole heart and expect nothing back :)