so it didn?t take me as long as i thought it would to finish reading this. i ordered Tales #10 from Things From Another World and it arrived today.

i wanted to blog about this last week, but due to circumstances, i’ve been much too anxious, agitated, angry, sad, and just all around moody (plus i’m PMSing). a week ago this past Monday, the staff at IOP decided that i was doing well enough to decrease the days i attend and then to phase me out. i’d been going M – Th, and my new schedule was to be M, W, Th. i didn’t realize that it would start that week. so that’s what got my anxiety rising. other than that, i was doing really, really, well.

Tuesday i find out from Brian–who the Program Coordinator called, and not me–that i’ve maxed out my outpatient mental health benefits for the whole rest of the year. this includes visits to my psychiatrist and therapist. when i left IOP Monday afternoon, i felt rattled. when i got this news, i felt fucked.

obviously, when i started IOP at the end of June, the Program Coordinator didn’t check to see how many visits i’m allowed so we could plan my treatment and discharge accordingly. i was really nervous about having Tuesday “off,” and then Wednesday was to be my last day??? what the fuck???

there’s more to tell, but i’ll leave it here for now. besides, i don’t want to get all worked up about it. it’s bed time and i need to try to relax.

well, it isn?t taking me forever, but it?s going to take me longer than usual because i don?t own Tales #10. Tales, Vol. 3 includes issues 9 ? 12.

i don?t actually own any TPBs (trade paperbacks) because individual issues are better. the TPBs that Dark Horse publishes are very, very, VERY poorly bound.

clearly i have not been working on this in the past five months or so, nor have i been weighing myself until recently. the click-to-enlarge chart on the left measures my weight from the time i started this endeavor up until today.

my original goal was to go from 145 to 125 lbs. i have since changed my goal to 120 lbs., so now i have 17 more to go. well, as of today i’m at 137 lbs.
i have more to say about all of this, but i can?t right now because i?m too agitated.

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It’s the return of Friday Cat Blogging!!! I’m positive that Mark will be absolutely thrilled!!! FCB is here today, but no guarantees for next week, OK?

And I know, I know. It isn’t a solo photo of one of the cats, so just think of me as a prop. This was taken early in July when Angelo, our resident tough guy/rock star as most of you know, had to pay a visit to the scary bad lady vet. There’s more to the story, but I couldn’t remember it (ECT, you know) so Brian sent me an e-mail. I doubt that I could retell it any better, so here’s what he said. Once upon a time…

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The carrier was dirty — someone (Hopper, I think) had pooped in it the last vet visit, I think, and we didn’t clean it right away, and then it had sat outside on the back porch for months.

Rather than clean it (we were thinking we’d throw it away (editor’s note: it was really old and cracked)), we decided we’d take Angelo using his harness. We had found it, a few weeks before. However, the morning of his vet visit, we couldn’t find the harness, so we had to use a leash, which was basically just made of thick string.

We thought we’d be OK with this, as we did it once before to their previous vet, and he seemed to enjoy riding in the car (editor’s note: he was looking out the window!) and being out at the vet’s, but this time he was scared — shaking in the car by your feet, hiding under our chairs in the waiting room — even trying to run out the door when someone came in.

You were really mad at me in the waiting room and the exam room, before the doc came — blaming me for not cleaning the carrier. But then you calmed down and we apologized to each other and made up, and then took pictures of Angelo hiding behind you on the bench in the exam room.

That’s the story.

Well, folks. As Brian concluded, that’s the story. And now we’re living happily ever after!

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Angelo says: More pet pics are available for your viewing pleasure at this week’s Friday Ark. If you post your own pets’ photos, leave them a trackback or comment and you’ll be listed there, too. And remember — they don’t limit pictures just to cats!