After 9 days of terrible Costa Rican Cuisine and being unable to use the restroom.
Although to be fair, I didn't have their seafood and I had heard their fish was good.
But being everything they said about Costa Rica was wrong, it probably was bullshit.
Annnnd no fried banana chips do not count as a substitute for tortillas...EVER.
Their bread could be used as a weapon.
(Pause)
Against...
After a trip to the vet, we learned that our cat is in kidney failure (his creatinine, the lab correlated with kidney function was 8.1; anything above 1.6 is abnormal and anything greater than 5 is stage 4 full on kidneys are about to shut down).
It's hard not to believe there isn't a depressed Russian novelist writing out my life.
Like what the actual fack. We got the cat as a therapy animal...
Woke up to a beautiful thunder and lightning filled, warm rain, tropical storm after closing my eyes for a few minutes.
"How many minutes Noodles? Like a short 20-45 minute nap?"
Sure.
Possibly a couple minutes more.
Fiiiiiiine it was a 4 1/2 hour nap and I don't regret a minute of it!
Deep sleep too, none of that "Did I leave the oven on?" sleep, where you keep waking up for no reason....
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