Apparently we're a bit more up and down than was originally suspected

and this is hell. Like, this is the fucking worst.

I meant to carve out a teensy bit of time for myself last night, but I pretty much typed up a locked post and then fell into bed. So now I'm doing it this morning, which cuts into my time with Mommy but... actually, in the past few months she's gotten better at grasping that if I take a break when visiting with her, or don't visit for as long as she would like (all day, every day) then it's not a rejection of her as a person or a mother, I just need some quiet and less people. Hospitals are very noisy, and right now the entire family is there. So I'll go in in a little bit.

In the meantime, enjoy this calming post about a baby pudu, which I guess is a type of ungulate. There's a video and some pictures.

Mommy died today.

She took her sweet time! Stubborn as a mule, that's what. They called us at 7:30 and said to come over but she might not make it that long, and she was still around when we showed up. They stopped the medication and said it won't be long now, and she was still around several hours later. It wasn't until 3-ish that she finally stopped trying to cling on with her fingernails.

We had time to put on the 1812 Overture for her, sent her out with cannons. Usually Mommy narrates it, but this time of course she didn't. I had to do it for her.

Jenn and I were talking to each other when we were with Mommy

and we got into a bit of a debate.

Poll #27518 Raisins and mummies

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Which is correct?

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Raisins are grape mummies
40 (51.9%)

Mummies are human raisins
37 (48.1%)

Now, nobody needs to pop up here and enlighten us all on the difference between raisin production and mummy production. That is REALLY not the point of this conversation, and hence, not the point of this post! Just answer the poll.

Edit: Wow, somebody here answered really fast. I'm not naming names, but I pretty much blinked and - there it was!