kusogaki

 Short one today, even though I was unable to make a post yesterday. It is a bit hard to work 10 hours, make food, take care of the critters, and still have the mental energy to try to do anything but veg out and hope to unwind. So this post is just going to be a quick list of just a few things I've got going on.

My mail in ballot finally came in. I'll admit things have been looking pretty damn bleak political wise lately. It's easy to feel as if the whole system is fucked, but not doing anything sure as hell isn't going to fix it. I'd like to get more involved; casting a vote is the least I can do.

It's starting to get cold. It's still very warm in the afternoons, but last night's cold snap withered some of my veggie garden's plants.

I planted way too many tomatoes this year. But! As a result, I have learned to make tomato sauce from scratch, and it is pretty damn good. I used what is very likely to be the last large batch of the season to make tonight's spaghetti. Yum!

Grizz has renal disease. He's doing okay, but his bloodwork doesn't look good. Phosphorous, creatinine, and BUN levels are all elevated. The poor little guy has lost weight, and he'd rather starve (literally) than eat health food. I've given up on trying to get him to eat his prescription diet, and have instead been making him simple meals with low phosphorous ingredients. Probably not ideal long term, but realistically he doesn't really *have* a long term. I'd rather him be happy in the time he has left. The meds he's on seem to be keeping him fairly comfortable for now.

I decided to take a bit of time off early November. I don't have any money to take a real vacation, but there are some projects I'm hoping to work on that I'll talk about more later

I need to go through all my old icons. I had some really fun ones, and if I'm going to be using this journal more often, I should have plenty of opportunity to use them again ^_^