Still alive

Nothing like an internetless dayjob to turn this into a ghost-journal. To recap:

Dayjob: fun
Puppy: bigger
Cats: roughly the same
Book: recalcitrant
Black Friday: looming

Mr. Hedgie, Gretchen's oldest and most faithful stuffy, only has one leg now. He bleeds green fluff. It's a hard life for faithful companion hedgie.