I had way too much candy yesterday. I kept a lot of it fat-free, but it was still a lot of sugar! Of course there’s still candy all over the place at work, but yesterday was candy day and now I’m going to try going cold turkey again.

Also, nothing makes you feel like a bad cat mommy worse than hearing your always-silent, mostly-deaf kitty start to cry. Amanita never makes a peep, ever - the most we can usually get is a tiny squeak under extreme conditions. But today she had to go in for tooth and ear cleaning and I put her into A’s car. As I was buckling in the carrier, she started crying louder than I’ve ever heard. And of course this is after we had to take all food away last night and she was looking so sad and hungry this morning…yes, we are bad cat mommies indeed!