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Lee's Guide to Curing What Ails You

We’ve been in Seattle for over a month now, and in retrospect, it has been a very long month. I can’t believe it was just 33 days ago that we suffered through carrying a howling, pee-covered Siamese cat across the country. The memory is but a flitting nightmare.

Speaking of which, I’ve had lower backaches all week, and after spending a few days wondering why the pain suddenly appeared, I realized what was the cause in the middle of the night.

Bed Demons Bed Demons

Lee has realized that it is cold in Seattle, it gets down to the forties at night (even when it is in the sixties or seventies during the day). Being a cat and thus also a heat-seeking weasel, it occurred to him that the warmest, toastiest spot in the house was where Henry sleeps, which also happens to be on me. So lately I’ve had two full-grown male cats sleeping on me – thus the backache. Chris always says I should just shove them off the bed, but I feel bad about bothering them. He says I shouldn’t, since it isn’t like they need to wake up early in the morning for work.

Cats: Nature's Freeloaders Cats: Nature's Freeloaders

So life is short and goes by faster the older one gets, so we’re trying to think of an interesting vacation to take this summer. I’ve been lucky to get to travel often for work the past few years, but work-trips to El Salvador, Panama, Belize and Key West aren’t exactly vacation parties.

The Belizean Beach was clearly a hardship zone The Belizean Beach was clearly a hardship zone

But seriously, we’re thinking about going somewhere in March, when trips to non-Spring Break related places are extra cheap. I went to Europe in March when I was 16, and it was pretty affordable and not too bad as long as you didn’t want to spend too much time traipsing through the Salzkammergut or something.

Traipse! Traipse!

So right now it is nearly 8PM, we have one of the balcony doors open and it is probably 12 degrees outside right now. I guess I better prepare to make room for catapalooza tonight.

Seattle at Night Seattle at Night

Tomorrow’s blog entry will be stellar, I am sure. It will be titled “Chris and Laura’s Adventures at the Washington State DMV!” I don’t want to make a judgement on the street people you see here in Seattle, but I think I will want a hepatitis booster after sitting in the DMV’s waiting area.