Life as a list

There’s little coherence to my life right now. Everything is just bits and pieces. Part of it is the nature of my job, and with all the mini-crises going on, it’s hard to settle into anything for very long.

Cooking more than usual, and now own a food chopper. Only the best for Abby.

Listening to Parliament’s Mothership Connection and Deee-Lite. I have no explanation for this.

Playing Perfect Dark Zero. Still. The Phantoms — grrr.

Compelled to buy a pink polo shirt today. Maybe it’ll work with camo.

Two of my favorite things — chocolate and shortbread — are now in one candy bar:
Cadbury Dairy Milk with Shortbread. Picked one up at the grocery today, but haven’t started it yet. This is the kind of thing I’ll want to concentrate on. Cadbury. Shortbread. omg.

Waiting for Days of Heaven and Grave of the Fireflies DVDs. My mood has lifted a bit since placing that order.

Hexic for Palm. Someday…

Crisis not exactly passed, after all

Since Abby’s episode of congestive heart failure, we’ve been working to find a balance with medications to help her heart, but not damage her kidneys. Right now her kidneys aren’t functioning as well as they should, so the toxins in her blood are elevated. She seems to be feeling just okay, which is a step down from her usual energetic gregariousness. She had stopped eating on Monday, but on Thursday ate some chicken and rice, and has gained back a little of the weight she lost. We’ve discontinued one of the heart medications — enalapril — to keep from damaging her kidneys any further, but that means her heart has to work a little harder.

These tradeoffs are so hard to call. She’s eating again, but I don’t know if the protein will hit her kidneys too hard. Her heart’s enlarged and her murmur has gotten worse, but the medication was burning up her kidneys. The other medications help keep her lungs dry, but they’re upsetting what had been the fairly healthy chemical balance of a dog who was aging normally.

She’s going back in on Tuesday for another round of bloodwork to make sure her toxin levels haven’t increased.

Instead of working…

Here’s the Polish Poster Gallery, a collection of posters for American movies. Compare these to the demographically-correct American versions.

When life’s a little too overwhelming: Cute Overload.

A new puzzle every day at Jigzone.