cat poop, Lyft
on the way back from the vet, as is his habit, Nar stress-pooped. a fairly large volume, too. fortunately we were close to home, because the Lyft driver went from chatting merrily about his cat to rolling down all the windows, covering his nose/mouth, and gagging. so I had him drop me off as soon as I could, and walked down the back trail, carrying Nar. fortunately I was able to remove most of the poop fairly easily, since I'd put a towel down in the carrier.
dream
I decided I didn't like this plot twist at all, so (they were back on Earth) I caused a truck carrying a load of lumber to fall on its side and the lumber to fly up in the air and *all* come down on top of the corpse, alien, and wife. splat! end of dream.
... I have some *weird* dreams. 9___9
dream
evidently they had a small child, and a pet fox (?), and an aunt/other relative was taking care of the house while they were off in space.
eventually the husband and researcher figure out how to get back to the ship with the aliens on it, and the wife shows up again, but ~stuff happens~(??) and the wife ends up using a corpse to incubate the alien xenomorph into its next stage, and then is getting ready to implant it into her husband (???)
dream
he brought both of the couple back to Earth, but while the husband stayed int he lab discussing the problem, the wife went wandering around the neighborhood for undefined reasons, which turned out to be procuring explosives, with which she blew up the lab, hoping to remove the wormhole to their spaceship so they wouldn't have to go back.
the researcher was very upset about paradox and time loops, and sent the husband to check things out, but the wife went home.
dream
they knew it would animate and become a xenomorph alien. so they were panicking, trying to figure out what to do, when a strange person suddenly appeared on their ship.
the strange person was a time/space traveler, who had opened up several wormholes from his Earth-based lab. the researcher was in his early 20s, but on their ship he was an old man, because of the time distortion. he knew about the alien problem, and was talking with them about a solution.
dream
a husband-and-wife team were in a spaceship, doing a long-term exploration mission, when they found alien life--two small (squirrel-sized) dormant husks, but still exciting. they brought the husks into their ship. one of the husks responded to the change in circumstances and animated, causing some undefined problem and had to be destroyed. the other was in a water bath, and slowly reviving. for some reason they couldn't take it out or just toss it out an airlock, even though...
I hate doing this but i’ve gotta get some unexpected ($$$) dental work done so if you’ve wanted to buy something from my threadless store now would be a super great time to do it!
to-do list--I DID ALL THE THINGS
+ eat a thing
+ shower
+ go to store
+ call Dr. re Rx
++ make Dr appt for next month
++ make sure Costco is doing their part to expedite Rx refill
*** call Dr. AGAIN TOMORROW because Costso says they sent THREE FAXES ALREADY wtf
+ change hummingbird food
+ clean catboxen
+ make cookies
+ laundry
+ dishes
Thoughts on social media and caring
Social media encourages us to be more performative about our thoughts and activities, including the things we care about. A down side of that is that if someone isn't performative about something, it can seem like they're not doing it or don't care about it.
Remember: people can care about things without it being a public performance, and calling someone out for not making a public performance of their very real care does very real harm.
to-do list
+ eat a thing
+ shower
+ go to store
+ call Dr. re Rx
++ make Dr appt for next month
++ make sure Costco is doing their part to expedite Rx refill
*** call Dr. AGAIN TOMORROW because Costso says they sent THREE FAXES ALREADY wtf
+ change hummingbird food
+ clean catboxen
? make brownies/cookies
+ laundry
* dishes
to-do list
+ eat a thing
+ shower
* go to store
+ call Dr. re Rx
++ make Dr appt for next month
** make sure Costco is doing their part to expedite Rx refill
+ change hummingbird food
+ clean catboxen
? make brownies/cookies
+ laundry
* dishes
My theory that Gary Larson cartoons work better without the caption is just this one image so far, but it's very promising. https://glitch.social/media/8QI4UbXEq9znsOTer2I
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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