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we got some bad news on Punkin on Thursday, there was a lump. With his other health issues what we thought was another year or two dropped to months.
Yesterday we got the blood results. we're now looking at weeks, possibly days, and having to make some hard decisions
It hurts.
The worst and hardest news. You can't explain to them, and often not to yourself either. Grief sneaks up and bites you when you least expect it. Spoil Punkin rotten for the time he has left. And don't hesitate to do the best thing for him - which may not be the same as the best thing for you. Hugs to you and His Lordship and other cats.
Hugs to you and your Lordship.
So sorry.
Gentle hugs for you all.
I say this with all the kindness and love in the world: there is no hard decisions. You know in your heart what's best, and its gonna hurt like hell but you've got to do what's best for him. Its the final kindness we can share, and we should all be so lucky to be so loved that our friends and family cant bare to see us suffer.
I'm sure you already know this, I just know when I've been called on to do this in the past (Too many time) I would've given anything for someone to say this to me: You're doing the right thing.
Deepest sympathies. Had to do this twice in 6 months a while back. Fuck cancer.
Iโm so sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to our kitty, and we found out very late so she only had a day. Make sure you spoil Punkin rotten, and take care of yourselves, too
Hugs. It really is the hardest part of loving them.
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Holy shit I've had too many
Time to go to fucking sleep
HBTY ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Happy birthday to you. Go to fucking bed.
Don't tell me what to do....even though you're right
Posted on the wrong thread. Pre coffee, apologies.
Good morning to everyone except those who don't take their backpacks off a crowded train/tram in peak hour where everyone is squished like marshmallows
You're not the only person who did it today. โ
something funky with how its presenting the threads. I keep clicking on the wrong one.
I'm not having that problem.
Got some feedback from the ABC correspondent. He complimented my writing and asked me to narrow my focus down to moving from sobriety to where I am today.
Also, cat that's high on brushies:
I'm feeling ok. I am going to the shops for a bit. Wish me luck. ๐ฌ๐ค
good luck, take it easy out there, very warm outside as well.
I walked as per instructions in the back book. Faster and with arms moving a little. It seems to have worked, I'm not wrecked.
Today's preserving efforts: Marinated capsicum and peach jam with apricot & grape.
Scrap cardboard might be good to practice paint on. I just have to cut a piece, clear somewhere to work, start learning to mix, not get any on the cat... collapses onto face
Annoyingly I'm interested but just weirdly stuck
Edit: Also I walked in the kitchen and got a tiny piece of broken glass to the heel. Wtf. I haven't broken anything in a very long time and vacuumed recently so it must have been tracked in from outside.
Edit 2: I've done a quick vacuum of the area to make sure Melbcat doesn't step on any glass splinters. She's still hiding in the dark bathroom. I'll let her rest.
::: spoiler Art rambles I've cut a flap of cardboard from a box headed for recycling, torn a piece of printer paper into small strips to swatch paint comparisons onto, and grabbed a paper bowl and a wooden spoon to use as a 'palette' and 'palette knife'. (Sorry. I'm just kind of in a major pinch for energy/physical ability - I am at least trying to avoid plastics.) I wish I had some newspaper or a drop sheet but I'll do it on the table beside my bed and be very careful.
That's the prep. If I stop now and pile them onto the cleared side table I'll at least be ready for next time.
The cardboard is light brown but that's ok. It's actually good because it gives a starting midtone. A little light but it could work when making desaturated 'dusty' yellows, greens and greys for Australian bushland. And because it desaturated there'll be a lot of mixing of the same colours into each other, so that creates a colour harmony?
I don't know. I'm just copying the artist I watch on Youtube. :::
DRUNK ON A TRAM DING DING
I guess the cost of living issues are affecting protestors. They are on a budget!
If anyone here is playing helldivers 2 on ps5, hit me up!
No sonnets written,
Too many rules for rhyming,
Autumn's haiku time.
Time for Tom Waits
Dark chocolate of music
Not for everyone.
Time to relax.
Was given a work laptop today but is heavily locked down by restrictions on windows 11.
Been creatively trying to bypass some of the restrictions, now if only I could at my own background image, that would be nice.
Iโll have to do some research to see if thereโs a way to override the organisationโs logo.
I really do wish my face is not as round as it is.
I am also endowed with a moon-face.
But I rather this than whatever buccal fat removal does to ones features.
Erin looks like she eats meth for breakfast lol
You should do sonnet about your full bodied visage
'something' or 'sonnet'? Lol
When I wake up the first thing I do... EGGS
๐ what a strange song
Stupid midnight munchies ruining my chance at a fasted blood test.
I was hoping I had enough apricot in the freezer to make an apricot jam today, but I only had a tiny bit. So today's jam is peach with apricot and grape. Future planned jams are strawberry, mixed berry and peach/plum/cherry mix.
Breakfast ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅญ๐๐ฅฅ๐ฅฆ๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅฌ๐ฅ๐ฝ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ง ๐ฅฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฅจ๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ง๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅฉ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ฆช๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ชผ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฅฎ๐ข๐ก๐ง๐ฐ๐ง๐ฅง๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฅโ๏ธ๐ต๐บ๐ถ๐ฅค๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ท๐ฅ๐ธ๐น๐ง๐
I watched the movie The New World today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhj4b5CzyhU
I often think that Australia and all of us here under the Wallace Line are the normal world and that the rest of the world are the strange ones. And why shouldn't I think like that. Why should I adopt the view of the Palearctic or Nearctic that their world is "The World". When I travelled and lived overseas their world was the strange world.
I suppose it depends where you grow up.
My bus has the dreaded red exclamation mark of doom and gloom
Knew I should've gone to the shops yesterday
Melbcat has been crying on and off all day and looking uncomfortable. Very unusual for her who never even really meows. I've made a vet appointment for tomorrow.
pretty sure the city is crook. A whole bunch of sneezing and sniffling on the train and in the station. I'm still fighting off daycare germs myself.
I have been reading a book about back medicine
TIL that most diagnoses and prognoses of back injury and sciatica are based on American insurance actuarial tables and insurance guidelines and not scientific research.
