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Nov. 28th, 2020 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesThanksgiving was soup (homemade) and pie (chocolate cream, storebought) and a short Zoom with the parental units and my favorite aunt and uncle. Not at all what I wanted, but all I was going to get. And then I got a headache on Thanksgiving night and had it all day yesterday besides.
Today, not much headache, but not much patience either (still no word from the shelter). I cooked the small turkey thigh and got 2.5 cups of cat treats out of it (skin and meat chopped up small). Lily approves quite some, to the point of making a pest of herself about scraps. But at least I know she still likes turkey.
I got my 15-year Harvard anniversary "order yourself a present" packet in the mail yesterday since my 15-year anniversary is December 1, and normally I wouldn't have bothered because I don't need any more junk. But they offered a set of luggage, and I've never particularly liked my last-minute TJ Maxx suitcase. And I'd like to think I'll be able to travel again some year. So I ordered the luggage, which will theoretically arrive in January sometime and hopefully won't fall apart if I look at it sideways.
The luggage may have fended off the Instant Gratification Monster, which is getting rather annoyed about the shelter situation even though it knows that nothing gets done on Thanksgiving week. The MSPCA would be easier, but the Boston location has barn cats and special needs cats at the moment, and I'm not looking for either of those. Well, mostly. I can cope with a missing eye or a missing limb, or even an identified allergy, but not with chronic systemic diseases.
Today, not much headache, but not much patience either (still no word from the shelter). I cooked the small turkey thigh and got 2.5 cups of cat treats out of it (skin and meat chopped up small). Lily approves quite some, to the point of making a pest of herself about scraps. But at least I know she still likes turkey.
I got my 15-year Harvard anniversary "order yourself a present" packet in the mail yesterday since my 15-year anniversary is December 1, and normally I wouldn't have bothered because I don't need any more junk. But they offered a set of luggage, and I've never particularly liked my last-minute TJ Maxx suitcase. And I'd like to think I'll be able to travel again some year. So I ordered the luggage, which will theoretically arrive in January sometime and hopefully won't fall apart if I look at it sideways.
The luggage may have fended off the Instant Gratification Monster, which is getting rather annoyed about the shelter situation even though it knows that nothing gets done on Thanksgiving week. The MSPCA would be easier, but the Boston location has barn cats and special needs cats at the moment, and I'm not looking for either of those. Well, mostly. I can cope with a missing eye or a missing limb, or even an identified allergy, but not with chronic systemic diseases.
