First, I have to say that this site can be a real pain in the butt. Every single day I have to delete multiple spams regarding using AI or monetizing my site, etc. They really need help with the spam at WP.

Now on to the point, I am working on finishing up my two Advent Calendar entries. Yeah I dropped down to two. One has turned out to be longish and so it’s taken up more of my time than it should have. I hope to get the second one done too but I hope it will be much shorter. They are both due 11/20 and I gotta say it’s going to be close. My desire to write has STALLED a lot. I don’t exactly have writer’s block, I’d call it writer’s disinterest. And I have so much I have to write coming up. Ack.

And the next part is not going to help me get it done. I am going away on an extended weekend beginning Thursday afternoon. I’m seeing Rick Springfield/Ricard Marx and Pattie Labelle. I think I mentioned that. And am going into San Diego as well. I won’t be back until Sunday evening.

The good news is I have US Thanksgiving week off. The bad news is that it’s past the 20th so that doesn’t help me at all with the advent stuff. I am going to make a pumpkin basque cheesecake for this year’s dessert.

Luna the cat gets her cone off today as they will be removing the staples today. To make a long story short, she had been barfing and seemed to have trouble going to the bathroom so we took her to the vet *by then she was better of course*, but then the vet decided she had two loose teeth and had to have them removed as she was certain they hurt her. So we went ahead with it against our better judgement as she is 12 and the older they are the riskier it is putting them under anesthesia. She also had a fatty lipoma on the top of her head that they’d always sort of ignored when we brought it up. Just said, oh yeah that’s nothing. But we figured since she would be out anyway, have it removed. They did, which is why she has the staples and the cone. They biopsied it and it turns out it was cancerous. So yeah. The lump is gone and we are supposed to watch her to make sure it doesn’t grow back because sometimes they do, rather slowly. Anyway, that’s the deal and it’s coming off today (the cone and stitches) and we all can’t wait. I am sure she’s thinking ‘why do I have to wear this now?’ poor thing. See how sad she looks?