But you're a creepy perv tbh, just admit it.

Did I ever deny it?

Cool. About time you got to relax and unwind. Enjoy it, Steph: you've earned it.
Also, how come your bf is the only person on Earth who has not a birthday, but a birthday weekend? I want a birthday weekend!
We're all creepy pervs. Especially me.

Nah, Astaroth.

A weekend's nothing, come February I celebrate my entire birthday month.

I'm afraid to say this out loud because I might jinx it, but I think things are on an upswing for me.

I love both of my jobs and I'm finally putting some money away. I swear I've seen more money this month than the entire rest of the year trying to scrape it together from odd jobs. Saw Arcade Fire a couple of weeks ago and that was an amazing experience despite them touring a ****ty album. My mother had a biopsy recently for a lump in her armpit that is apparently NOT cancerous, which is great 'cuz I can finally unclench after a month of twiddling my thumbs. It seems to be some kind of spurious bone fragments though. It's quite painful for her and the first specialist she saw said they were not qualified to remove something like that surgically. So that kinda sucks. Fingers crossed she can get it removed and I can stop worrying about her. Other than that, yeah. Things are good.

My cat got out and ran away last night :(

Don't have a baseline from which to measure it. Thanks for being a dick as usual.

Awww ****. Hope there's a happy ending. Was he/she chipped?

Yes. But apparently they company doesn't use the chip to geo-locate and find your lost pet. They just have veterinarians and shelters scan all animals they come across for a chip and log that chip number to see if it is one on the list of missing pets. So, basically, $90 down the drain.