@Graci thank you so much!

@danialexis Edgar and Poe demand breakfast at all hours of the night. They're always up my butt crawling all over me meowing and begging for food.

Sorry it's been so long since I posted here. I miss you @danialexis so much. I've been through a lot in the past several months but I'm slowly getting back on my feet. I started grad school in creative writing and poetry and it's kicking my ass but I'm almost done with my first semester. I got a new kitty! His name is Edgar and I love him very much. It's my birthday today and I'm 43! WTF have I been doing for 43 years?!?

It's so cute how Poe picked me. She mowed at me from across the room and she was in her own cage because of the stitches and she came right up to the door of the cage and meowed, so they let her out and handed her to me and she snuggled right up and started purring.

Me and my new baby Poe Raven Patterson. I went to the shelter to meet another cat, but Poe picked me so I had to take her home.

My houseguest for a few days while her mama Courtney Gilbert is in Washington DC! Hi Kyocat! You're so cute! It's nice to have someone meowing around the apartment again!

Little Mango died today in my arms. She got sick all of a sudden and she just didn't have it in her to fight anymore. I'm gutted.

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I'm a bed

@danialexis Mango would try and chew her foot. Haley would probably have attacked the box.

She comforts me with her purrs and her presence

I think my baby Haley sent me this little angel to comfort me after she was gone. Haley waited until the day before I got my new baby, and then I really think she ran off to the woods to die because she was really sick, sicker than anyone knew because it was too painful for me to share with everyone.

All tuckered out from being a huge pain in 😂 my ass all day.

Got my new baby Mango today. Still miss my older baby Haley terribly.

My baby girl ran away last night. I'm gutted.

It's a trip explaining why you were so naive you trusted someone with your account and passwords to help you edit a manuscript that said person subsequently deleted. I was an idiot. Yes, I realize that now that I've lost three years of blood, sweat, and tears. I'm just feeling overwhelmed and lost now. Can God really give me the strength to write all that again?

This is all I have left of my book, this conceptual cover art and all my notes and drawings from when I was in jail. Everything else was poured out into my manuscript. I should have sent copies to some of my friends and had them keep the copies safe. I was just so damn stubborn and afraid my book was terrible that I didn't want too many people to read it, so I only sent it to a few people. So stupid of me. I trusted the wrong person, and now I have to rebuild everything from scratch.

@danialexis I'd vote for you

@Marc_T_Benedict I was worried about bugging people, so I just shared it on a shared Google doc with whoever wanted to read it and the only hard copies were mine and this other person's. Mine is lost on a computer that died, and hers is deleted. Or my friend TJ thinks she might be planning to steal it and get it published herself. I guess we'll see.

@Marc_T_Benedict And none of my friends saved the manuscript onto their drives because they all assumed I had it saved somewhere other than Google docs. My one friend had it saved on a computer she lost in a move, and she's so sorry, but I really can't blame her. It's my own fault for trusting this person and not trusting any of my friends enough to email them copies to read.