life still too lifey, urgh

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... yeah, I fell off the face of the internet again. It happens. Especially when there's a lot of stuff going on.

I think the biggest thing that happened since my last post is that Hannah passed away on July 3rd. Long story short, she had an autoimmune condition where her body started attacking her red blood cells, and it seemed to come up out of nowhere - it hadn't shown up on her blood tests at the end of March, and even the vet was surprised by it. The treatment for it would've been intensive (blood transfusions and steroids, and the poor girl was so damn done with getting medicated by the time I found out about her diagnosis) and there wasn't any guarantee that her quality of life would've been good, so I made the decision to let her go.

At least the last few days we had together were good, and our last night together was spent snuggling in my bed with me reading Dungeon Crawler Carl to her. J was there with me when she was put to sleep at the vet, and I was a wreck for a week. I still get emotional thinking about her, but I knew it was her time. She was sixteen years old and had a very good life - she was spoiled and she knew it, and at the end she was surrounded by people who loved her very much, wrapped up in one of her favorite blankets, and she went peacefully.

Lucas and I adopted a pair of new cats about a month ago - Will and Moira. They're young - Moira's not quite a year old yet, and Will is somewhere around 2 years old - and very playful, and they get along well. I think they're on their way to being a bonded pair; they came from the same colony room at the shelter and play together well, which makes me happy. I have to take them to the vet for their first checkup on Wednesday, which I'm a little stressed out about, but that's mostly because Will didn't handle being crated well when we brought him home from the shelter, and this'll be my first time ever taking two cats to the vet at the same time. I'm sure it'll be fine, but people who've known me for a while know I worry about everything too much.

Today's the first day of the new school year at IU. It's been quiet for me so far, but that could change - it's early in the afternoon, heh. (Speaking of work, though, I should probably go focus on that meeting I'm supposed to be in...)

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