Becca Stareyes

So, when I don't update Facebook or keep my cell phone charged, I get concerned emails from Mom wondering where I am and what I'm ding. Which is fair, since I need to get a local ICE person who will get notified if I do have trouble, and be responsible for making calls and stuff. (I need to ask someone around here.)

Also, my cousin Martha had her baby, giving me a sixth 'child of my first cousin'*.

Anyway, I'm all right, besides spending yesterday having a headache that meant painkillers and sleep. Better today, though the weather makes me want to ditch work early, pick up some staples at the grocery store, and then pretend the cold, cold universe doesn't exist. I've still got some tomato soup in the fridge, and supplies to make noodles 'n veggies.

Grace the cat is settling in fine, besides being convinced I don't spend nearly enough time petting and brushing her. I took a drawer out of my shelves to locate some Computer Stuff, and she decided that the empty spot was perfectly cat-sized. Then starting chasing her tail in it. She also discovered the shelf next to it, where I had, among other things, two pipe-cleaner dolls mirisa_ardruna made me. What I thought was her octopus toy this morning was the head of one, which now needs to have repairs done.

* A first cousin once removed, but this also covers my mother's or father's first cousins.

My mother has two cats, Peppy and Geno. Geno is the older one, a part-Siamese shelter cat that we've had for a decade and named after a video game character in an effort to get Ben interested in the cat -- his original name was Whoop-de-doo. Peppy is half Geno's age, pushes him around to no end, and is named after Pepe le Pew, because of the way he walks with his tail up -- he was named Batman by the shelter people because of his ears, but he really isn't a Batman at all. We got Peppy after our old cat, Lily, passed away from pancreatic cancer -- well, she was euthanized, but because she was in terrible pain from the cancer. Peppy is one of the few pets Ben loves to no end -- the two roughhouse all the time, which is weird in a cat.

( And I got photos! )

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