#lost replies

I should wind up with an excellent scar running more or less parallel to my childhood scar-under-my-chin (don’t run on tile floors in socks, kids!).

I am really quite lucky to be related to the artist, who will probably make me another mug (and who wants her work to be used, even though that means sometimes it gets broken).

But I hate losing things I cherish, especially when it’s arguably due to my own carelessness. So it helped to make a cry of ARGH and have so many respond. <3

So I couldn’t quote you, but thank you for the birthday wishes, @coppermarigolds, @bettydice, @thievinghippo, @fourthage, and @shadoedseptmbr!

<3 <3 <3

Wow, these are three really wonderful people wishing me a happy birthday. It’s been a good day. Clio gave me sparkly earrings and board games and baked a carrot applesauce cake, there were dogs at work I could play with, free pizza at a union meeting, and now I’m watching Critical Role. So, low-key and pleasurable, which I really needed after the last few weeks. (And there have definitely been kittysnuggles.)

I’m still so moved by all your comments and advice. I copied them to a separate document for ease of reading and in case this hellsite decides that post tastes particularly good, and I’m slowly working through, Googling things, following links, thinking about options. The replies come to about 3,000 words (with another 1,300 in @bloomingcnidarians‘ separate nail polish post :D). I never dreamed I’d get so much advice and support (and I’m incredibly grateful to all the people who replied with congratulations and support and hugs, advice or no). Y’all are wonderful.

Thank you for asking! I mentioned this briefly in a very long post, but didn’t say anything very conclusive there.