Current update: soup in the pot, simmering on the stove. Dog in the yard refusing to come inside and snuffling around in the ice. Mina is angry at the cold and sulking.

“If you’re cold they’re cold, bring them inside” unless you have a GSD/Great Pyrenees combo, that you have to BEG to come back after she goes potty. She thinks we should all be out playing frisbee in this glorious cold.

How we tell the weather at our house: “Dog’s wet” “Dog’s icy” “Dog has snow in her fur”

Cats really pick some random thing to make the preferred place to sleep and then fight you when you try to throw it away.

Ultra Cat

Every morning when I enter my parking deck at work I am somehow behind someone who has never been in a parking deck in their life.

Some beavers built a dam behind our house and my son has now spotted this guy. Heron?

I call this “The standoff”

My son just asked me why I have a kitchen towel that says “Hell winter” because even though he agrees with the idea, he finds it a strange decision.

I am having an atrocious day and fighting with insurance companies over everything so here is a picture of Mina in my wrapping paper tote to make us all feel better.

I know I am running late, but I am currently going through the 5 stages of grief about having to get out of my warm bed and go to work. Please think of me in this trying time.

The whole rest of the couch is empty and this is where our whale of a cat with hygiene issues chooses to sit.

There may be a lot going on right now in the world,, but it’s 70 degrees out, the back yard birds are splashing in rain puddles, and these two are still just hanging out together.

If you wish to pass Human, you must answer three riddles. Or bring treats.

I WAS going to break that down for recycling, but I see someone has found their own use for it.

I just had a patient tell me her exchange insurance is no longer covering mammograms. I thought this remained covered with the ACA. I cannot fathom this.

Thank you Prussia the Dog for alerting us to the opossum family now residing in our shed.

No one ever says “goodbye” before hanging up the phone.

Me to my husband “I’m not saying a kitten would CURE my seasonal depression but it might help”

I’d like to just go back to bed. Is it: A) I am still wiped out from two weeks of the flu B) Seasonal depression C) it’s cold outside and I need to hibernate D) Just (gestures at everything) all of this shit

Why yes, I moved a chair and I have cats. How could you tell?

Parades are weird.

How I am ringing in the new year.

I’m up in a chair! I have shoes on. I just noticed I never tied one of them, but at least they are on the correct feet. Maybe. Oh no.

Flu 2, me 0

Ooops, someone snuck out and just realized the temperature is dropping

Ok, who added “a flamethrower, your mom, cheap weed, monkeys and an aircraft carrier” to our Alexa shopping list?

These bowl game mascots should be progressively more unhinged with each bowl… but tbh nobody could ever top the Pop Tart Bowl.

It’s so nice out! 75 degrees! Sun! Meanwhile I am on the couch with my head on a “Let it snow!” Pillow.

Mina, how? Why?

When I was learning how to cook “southern” from my mother in law, I was told to save the bacon grease, I’d learn why later. This, my friends, is seasoning now.

Me: I’m feeling better! Also me: If anyone moves my tissues I will cut them. And We should have asked Santa to bring more ibuprofen.

Oh! I am late because flu, but happy 8 year gotcha day to Prussia the Dog who celebrated by nibbling low hanging Christmas ornaments and then just being exhausted by having everyone home to watch over.

Picking up a prescription at CVS and I really wish I could tip my pharmacist lol

I am upright! I am wearing clothes that I did not sleep in! Progress!

Flu rule I had forgotten- if you are freezing cold you actually have a fever. Turning the heat up in the house doesn’t help.

I have been felled by the flu.

My bank just alerted me that I have “1 or more subscriptions due this week” and when I looked it was my car payment. I’m not sure if it’s better or worse to think of that as a subscription.

Just a little reminder 🐾🤍 #cat #GentleReminders #mentalhealth

Mina is the only present we need under our tree.

There is nothing quite as humbling as doing physical therapy exercises that look so easy on paper or when the therapist shows you.

Everyone remember to put out some old fashioned ribbon candy so it can get really dusty before kids come over for Christmas.

I’m not sure why I find Sheba slightly threatening.

Me to my daughter “Wait, did you run for college class president out of spite?” Her “Yes. And I’m going to get a doctorate out of spite too”. Honestly, I’m not even mad at that.

My husband found a box of old notebooks and such from our college years in the dark ages and it included a blank book he’d bought me. He wanted to know why I never wrote in it. How can I explain that the book was too nice for me to actually use?

When the cat fountain is empty, instead of meowing like the other cats, Pixel will methodically and loudly dismantle it.

Mina has stopped eating cat food and has gone full dog. Prussia is somehow allowing this.

I like the idea of the warmie plush animals that you can heat up and cuddle, but I just cannot get over actually putting them in the microwave.

We have discovered an animated Christmas special with the voices of Betty White and Tim Curry. It’s… awful.