Oh I love her. I love her so much. She's so fancy and dapper! Purrlock Holmes is on the case!

Did you ever read the "the cat who" book series when you were younger? She makes me think of that. No mystery will go unsolved with her around. Oh she's precious and lovely and so clever! I love that you're teaching her tricks, too. So many people claiming you can't teach a cat tricks, but with respect and patience and if you don't expect them to behave like a dog, you totally can (obviously, since clever Gretel is learning them.)

I'm in the same boat wrt kids. I never wanted them, and then I chose to have my uterus microwaved in 2025. The only grandkids my parents get out of me is my dogs - though all three of my siblings had three kids each so it's not like my family is hurting for grandkids or niblings, laughs. I was the odd duck out to be like "you know what I'm gonna end the generational trauma by ending my part of the generation." On the plus side ... the grand-animal you have brought to the table is very, very cute.

Heckin, good job on remembering the years, that is not a skill I have. It's all a delightful mash of "artist. ua. artist and ua. these were my coworkers and these were the events i worked on," but I have to sit and think real hard about the years. We were such wee lambs back then, and I don't know about you but I'm so creaky now haha.

And I am a champion lurker, haha. Though I try to show signs of life every now and then - the post covid world made us all a little squirrelly about when people go ghost, I think. At least it certainly did to me. I don't wave my little "I'm alive," flag very often on subeta, maybe I should more. Especially after reading Keith's thoughtful post on the daily support goal page. Not that interacting and posting would do much, but it seems like any activity on the site would be supportive right now.

Congratu/dolences on being a normie with the rest of us, depending on which one is appropriate. (Or both, because sometimes it's both.) You were truly an institution on the mod team, thanks for the TWO DECADES of taking care of the forums. ♥

And DEFINITELY congrats on the kitty! The cat distribution system keeps coming for me, and I am running for my life (by which i mean finding them other homes). Not because I don't love a cat - I do. I dream about having my own cat. It's just the allergies are still so bad. I've done eight years of allergy shots (one cycle is five years, and then I went to do a second cycle but life interrupted) almost entirely because of my cat allergies. The seasonal ones getting less severe is nice ... but I want a cat. And the distribution system is getting really absurd about trying to give me one. I adore, adore adore a void. Gretel is a very sweet name - no Hansel to go with her?

hi! It's been absolute yonks - though secretly I'm around pretty regularly. I disappear for a few months and come back for half a year, as life ebbs and flows. I just don't post a lot because wrangling the adhd word vomit down to normalcy is more effort than its worth, laughs, so I slip by unnoticed. How've you been?

Of course! Sorry for spamming your comments with it, I just didn't know if the ping worked. ^^;