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Sorry I'm here

mek wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:04 pm

Sorry I'm here

I'm glad you're here! Without you I would be down the presence of an excellent human, and also who would unionize the Drimogemon??? Who would help me torment Leon and pitch ideas for crop tops his possible werewolf boyfriend should wear????

erikavonkaiser wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:11 pm

mek wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:04 pm

Sorry I'm here

I'm glad you're here! Without you I would be down the presence of an excellent human, and also who would unionize the Drimogemon??? Who would help me torment Leon and pitch ideas for crop tops his possible werewolf boyfriend should wear????

Light-heartedness aside, you're one of my favorite people, and I'll always be grateful you let me get to know you again. It's been a pleasure!

I am glad you exist. I love spending time in your company. Would like to exist in proximity to you, active or not.

Migraine aura, whee

So in this episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved, Ryan and Shane visit an exorcist and watch him attempt to exorcise a woman who is there for cluster headaches

He blames her for reading horoscopes

Fails to exorcise her

Blames her for not believing hard enough

Says that since they have a little extra time he'll exorcise Ryan and Shane

Fails, too, to exorcise them because they "don't have enough time" to keep doing it

Thank god he's probably a charlatan and the entire thing was bullshit because I feel like quitting partway through an exorcism is like the #1 thing you shouldn't do, assuming exorcisms/demonic possession are real

I'm really gonna need these boys to stop spotlighting these people. At least the voodoo lady didn't claim she was going to help a person in pain and in need of medical treatment and then blame that person for not cooperating when her bullshit didn't work

Oh my god that one doesn't have a followup, how disappointing

"Do you know how boring this show would be if I [believed in ghosts like you]? It would just be one of us going 'aaa I'm scared!!' and the other going 'aaa I'm even scareder!!'"
"That's every other ghost show in existence."
"Is it really?"

He is nevertheless not wrong

Oz has always had inconveniently long claws -- they catch on fabric, so when she walks across carpet or the bed she has to walk like she's constantly stepping in something wet to shake her claws loose. It's gotten worse as she's gotten older, and more recently she gets caught while trying to jump off something and screws up her landing. Last night she got her claw so stuck on the side of the mattress that I spent several minutes trying to help her get loose while she yowled and bit at my hand whenever I touched the clearly painful paw.

She did eventually get loose with no damage done, she's fine, the claw in question has bled a little internally but there's no other signs of trauma and she's not favoring it at all. But I definitely need to start trimming her claws regularly again.

I've never done that myself. I'm so, so scared of hurting her and that's a pretty easy thing to do when trimming claws, even though it's unlikely to do any real damage even so. I always had the vet (assistants) do it, back when I took her to Banfield. But that's not an option now, so I have to suck it up and do it myself.

Luckily Oz has been very acclimated to having her paws (and ears and mouth and stomach) touched, ever since she was a kitten. I put a lot of work into that. So she doesn't mind that I've been taking a pair of nail clippers to her claws this afternoon, but the process is apparently still weird enough that after one or two of them she decides we're done and pulls away. So I'm going a bit slow at it, stopping for a while and then getting another one done.

Also luckily, I don't care how short they end up so long as they stop getting her stuck, so I'm leaving them a bit long and making damn sure I stay away from the quick. If they still catch on things, I'll come at them again and go a little shorter.

Successfully trimmed all her claws, now I just wait and see if any of them need to be made shorter