January 08, 2008
Pure Gold
My Aunt found a notebook that her mother (my grandmother) kept. Not only are there recipes from her but lots from HER mother. She's loaning it to me to scan into the computer. Here's one of my favorites so far:
Helen was my Grandmother's sister. Funny.
Amnesia
How do I keep forgetting that the toilet will never be too gross for a guy? This contest of wills is definitely one-sided.
January 06, 2008
Clean Slate
I am very happy to see the back end of 2007 and move into a fresh new year. Maybe the worst part of the year was when I took our sweet kitty Ixtapa to the vet thinking she had an infection and it turned out she was very, very sick with lymphoma.
Faced with the options of chemotherapy (for a life extension of maybe 8 to 12 months) or steroids (works long enough to "get us through the holidays") we tried to be as unselfish as possible.
I don't think I could take my sweet kitty home knowing I would have to come back in a couple weeks and put her down. The vet said on her own she would likely die in less than 24 hours so we decided to end her suffering in as humane a way as possible.
Now the only one more lonely and sad than we are is our other kitty, Oso.
Sweet rest my darling kitty. We wish you were with us longer.