In addition to the pandemic still being very, very, pan

I've got my period. Again. You'd think it'd take a break for the global emergency, but no.

Maybe it's just me, but I always have a nagging suspicion that Finn licks me more when I have my period. I can't quite be sure, though - to be honest, I'm a little scared to try to quantify this!

In conclusion, this sucks and dogs are gross.

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( Pandemic links )

I bit the bullet and made Finn an appointment with the groomer

We've been hand grooming him with scissors, and he doesn't look that bad, but he won't let us get his face or his butt, and not only do those now look comparatively awful but he's had poop stuck there (edit: no, not "there" on his face). So it had to be done. I'm gonna tell the groomer to shave him all down - the longer we can go, the better.

Went to the store in what I think is the first time in a month

Not the supermarket, just the corner store. I needed ice cream. They had toilet paper, sugar (not powdered sugar, which I need to bake a birthday cake - or to frost it, anyway), and flour - but man, $3 for a shitty, loosely-wound off-brand of paper towels? $2 for a bag of chips which used to be $1? (Those chips aren't gonna drop back down when this pandemic ends, either. All the potato chip brands have been itching for an excuse to raise their prices for years.)

The possibly-mentally-ill (probably) cashier sounded alarmingly rational when he spoke about current events, too. He doesn't usually, so I wonder what that says about the current timeline.