#CancerUpdate
Thank you for all the good and supportive love and energies! I am healing beautifully, said the surgical oncologist. I will still have restrictions for a couple of weeks, but they are less extreme than what I had up to now. I am also cleared to start radiation on Friday! Currently at lunch w @junation and telling myself we have reason to celebrate. Ergo dessert.

#Bridget and #Balazs would not want this #Caturday to end without a photo of them.
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Performance face for #bellydance at the Krampusnacht Ball tonight

An exercise in being flexible: the friend who was going to symbolically clear the stage for the group choreo at tonight's #bellydance performance, dropped out at the last minute. So I will introduce our group, explain our mission, do my solo, then 'clear' the stage for the group. With this scimitar. With which I have never practiced, much less performed. It's fine. Everything's fine.

Story of my life

Sometimes, you just gotta grab cocoa powder, cane sugar, and whole milk, and cook yourself a hot chocolate to make PCPs weep. Like today, for instance. Because it turns out my fucking potassium is low again. Wanna know symptoms of low potassium? Fatigue, dizziness, and weight gain. And here I was thinking that I just couldn't bounce back from surgery. Ergo hot chocolate.

Ever wonder what the perfect mix of dejection and suspicion might be? #Malcolm got you.
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Since I will not be getting chemo but doing radiation, it was time to get a refresh haircut (as opposed to a short pixie). Took of three inches, got rid of thinned out dead ends, got subtle long layers to better show off my natural texture, and got the stylist to diffuse - dry it. And to 99.99% of people it does not look like I got a haircut at all.

Happy #Caturday from #Bridget who has inflicted cat paralysis on me. We are currently waiting to see if the laundry will do itself...

@LnzyHou as promised, here are pix of dress rehearsal tonight. Because #bellydance is my best #MentalHealth intervention and because I will do a veil solo on Dec 9 💃

I don't know if I am the only one who needs to hear this, but even if I am, I am posting it as a practice of reminding myself.
#MentalHealth #SelfCare

No rhyme or reason why today specifically is a high #anxiety day, but it is. So it is also a good day for cinnamon apple bake mix from Aldi and ice cream for lunch.

I don't know who Mama Wolf or Raven are but I need to talk to them.

#Floofs4Funds
@Minholkin this is a cheat, because the floof in question is *invisible* you understand

Took a dive into dominant culture and decorated for Christmas. Sort of. By putting a gay wreath on the outside and a tinsel tree on the wall inside where the dogs cannot get to it. Feeling super accomplished in how well I can navigate this culture thingy.

For the "you gotta do what you gotta do" file. Nov 24 is our wedding anniversary - the fifth this year, because although @junation and I have been coupled for 13 and a half years, marriage was a late addition. I got my #Covid booster on Nov 17 and given the spread around us, we both mask up when we leave the house, until my booster is at 2 weeks, because cancer. We went masked to a deli to buy our anniversary dinner.

Happy #Caturday CoSo! Today I wanted to share the face #Zoli made when he realized we were not sharing Thanksgiving dinner with our cats
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Those little leggies are not long enough to steal a box that used to have crackers in it, so #Neville outsources the theft to tall and athletic #Mozart and then he proceeds to look 100% innocent while participating in the destruction. I am really really doomed 🤦‍♀️
#DogsofCoSo

You may think you have RBF down pat - until you see #Twin ! He is fragile, diabetic, will be 12 next spring, we adore him and respect that he is the original cat who started our clowder.
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#Balazs and #Bridget heard 'serve a look' and they wanted to do that and found this tray and completely misunderstood and you are welcome
#Caturday #CatsOfCoSo