Hi...
I just realized that I've been out of touch around here since the end of last month -- it's getting harder and harder for me to keep up. You'd think I'd have plenty of time with just one little beardie and a 625 square foot 2 bedroom house to take care of, but energy is another story. All the calories I eat seem to turn to fat -- very little of it turns to energy. :roll:
Anyway, believe it or not, I don't even know how to post pictures
-- I'd have to get my tech-savvy husband to post them for me in his non-existent spare time, so that's why I haven't posted any. I think the latest "picture" we have of Puff is an X-Ray that was taken this spring when he was emaciated and anemic -- but at least his little skeleton was still in good shape. He seems to have made a complete recovery since then, or at least the adenovirus is back into "remission," we hope for a long time.
No real obvious signs of brumation in Puff's case, and that's typical for him. He slows down a little, and sometimes doesn't come out of his "burrito" until noonish if I don't wake him up, and sometimes zones out early in the evening, but that's really not too different from me at this time of year -- not wanting to drag myself out of bed when it's cold and dark outside. And he's completely lost his appetite for greens again, but will still chase crickets and roaches with some enthusiasm. Back to "normal." :mrgreen: At least he still eats a little butternut squash and some "jelly worms" (Repashy grub pie) if "Daddy" feeds them to him. Then "Mommy" has to wipe the mess off his face afterwards.
Hedgehogs and hamsters are cute little critters -- we might have ended up having some of those if my husband wasn't severely allergic to anything with fur.
I'm not so scared of demons (aka "evil" spirits) as I used to be, ever since I started thinking of them as "wounded spirits" who don't know how to cope -- you know, sort of like mortal human "bullies." But if that's the case, they can still do some damage if you let them, so you would still want to protect yourself in some way. I'd say your dad probably did the best thing by "hanging up" (so to speak) on Zozo with the ouija board.
I've had some pretty scary experiences in the past with feeling a "presence," and I may have come close to being "possessed" once or twice, but never to the point where I blacked out and couldn't remember what I said or did. As a matter of fact, I have some painful memories and some regrets, but I've never thought that I'd be better off if I could forget. Maybe I learned something from it all. Nowadays, most of the spirits that I have any sense of are good ones. If they're the ghosts of the dead, then maybe they're a mixture of good and bad just like living people, but I like to think that the majority are good.
My husband has always advised me that if a spirit approaches you, ask them who they are, and maybe what message they have for you. When we do that, sometimes a name or other words will pop into our mind. Then we get to figure out what, if anything, we're supposed to do with that information. I once commented to my husband that, "Communication with the dead is not an exact science." He responded with, "Communication with the living is not an exact science either." :wink: :lol:
Being able to channel anger into doing something productive is a really good coping skill to have, so good for you if you can do that. I wish I could do a better job with that, since my usual coping strategy is to turn it into sadness before I hurt somebody with it, but then I end up in bed crying and not getting anything done.
I hope your hand has healed up by now. Does raw honey work as well as or better than antibiotic ointment for stuff like that? I've never tried using it as an antiseptic (as opposed to eating it
), although we do have some since it had become available at Costco sometime in the past several years. And did you ever figure out how that happened? Was there a knife hiding under the soap suds or what?
Looks like we're in for a gray cloudy day today (maybe some rain), but you never know around here. Our weather has been unusually warm for fall so far, but pretty unpredictable as usual. One day this last week it was sunny and beautiful around lunch time, and a few hours later in the afternoon it turned nasty rainy and windy, but I guess we should count our lucky stars that we're not in Florida -- it could be a lot worse. I hear that Hurricane Michael made a horrible mess of things down there.
Time for Puff's good morning cuddle -- I just turned on the heat lamps and it looks like this is going to be one of those days when he's not going to come out from under his blankie to do his daily light bulb worshiping unless I coax him. Like we said about the barometric pressure a while back -- he can probably sense that this is supposed to be a sleepy day. So I'll see if I can find us a podcast to listen to or a video to watch and we'll zone out together...
But BTW, that reminds me, have you had a chance to see the season premiere of Dr. Who? If not, then I should refrain from "spoilers" until next time.
(Besides, TLDR again already
)