rodo's journal

And so am I. Like, I pretty much collapsed and have only barely started to recover. But I’m done with all my exams – still don’t know my grade, feel shitty about the oral part, but I passed (they told me that much), and that’s the important bit. It was a lot of stress, and I’m beat, mentally and physically. And as always, it’s never just one thing, it’s all the things:

► Shortly before the holidays, the cat started horking up clear liquid/spit in the mornings. Not every morning, at worst twice a week, but enough to have us worried. We thought there was something wrong with her stomach, but there wasn’t. It’s her heart. She’s getting medication, no more horking so far, but she’s almost twelve and I am so not ready to lose her.

► My mother is getting a new hip next week and losing it, pretty much. Too much to prepare, too much to keep in mind, and on top of it, she’s got to organise voting by mail (thanks, Lindner). I’ve got an upper GI endoscopy two days after, because my stomach problems have not gone away.

► To top everything off, the car stopped working this morning for a short while for reasons partly unknown, and we’ve got fibre optics guys in the house on Friday after a tense back and forth via email – so I might not even have internet for a while.

I need a break.

... and there lies the problem: I can't decide on a name. At first I thought Dusky because she has the same colours as the dusk in these parts. But her mother's humans called her Pünktchen because of the little dot on the tip of her tail (the kittens looked so much alike that that was the defining characteristic). I like that one too - in English I suppose it would be "dotty" or "little dot", but less grandma-ish.

Help?