Mod Mischief

We very sadly had to have Simone put down this week as she was suffering from severe kidney failure. We miss her very much; coming home isn't the same when she's not there at the top of the stairs to greet us.

Chris' mom wants to see more photos of the cat. So this is Simone, doing her best impersonation of Maru .

This house is killing me. Okay, that might be overly dramatic, but when I can't breathe, my eyes are all red and I can't sit still because I'm itchy from head to toe, it feels like I might rather die. I never used to have allergies, but when I hit my twenties I started to notice my nose was always runny and things got progressively worse. It's now normal for me to go through at least one box of Kleenex a week (thankfully they're compostable!). Since moving into the tta, it's become unbearable. I recently got tested and was not at all surprised by the results. Culprit #1: the cat We've never let her into the bedroom, but Simone still manages to shed her hair and dandruff onto every surface in our apartment. I'm also allergic to the rats but they're so much smaller and contained it wasn't a big problem when I only had them to deal with. Culprit #2: the carpet When we were apartment hunting I knew I didn't want carpet, but this pl...

I've been painting like crazy over the last week to have enough records to bring to Ladyfest's Tarts N' Crafts Holiday Sale.  I'm so glad that it was all worth it. Chris and I had a great day at the sale. Here's some of what we brought with us: Slash Pink Floyd's Division Bell Sparkly David Bowie Jim Morrison Photo crasher Simone was a little disappointed that she didn't get to come to Tarts N' Crafts too. All my blog posts about painted records can be found here .

We gave Chris' cat, Simone, a bath today. She is now less stinky and also less than pleased with us.