Also kofi donations go through much faster than purchases on itch, so if you're in the holiday spirit and willing to help me keep my wife healthy, here's the kofi link ko-fi.com/covencrown

I am also just so fucking burnt out from my day job that I am so irritable and tired *in general*.

Maybe I am just not equipped enough to be her cat parent. I feel like I can't do anything right, something always doesn't work in the way I need it to for her, I then have to spend my limited energy trying to research & read, my very limited money to try and fix my previous well-intentioned fuck up.

And now she won't drink from the new one because it's a lot more noisy than the last one, so now I have to re-set up the old water fountain so that my cat will fucking drink so she doesn't dehydrate herself, and I am just. I am trying so fucking hard.

so I could clean up the mess, and then proceeded to break down crying, and then she started crying because she was in the bathroom by herself, and I don't even know how I'm supposed to do work today now because I'm so fucking mentally tapped out.

finally took me to figure it out to get it to half work, Bean knocks over the old water fountain, spilling what was left in the reservoir all over the carpet that I had bought to protect the hardwood floor in my apartment from cat puke.

I immediately saw red, picked her up, put her in the bathroom

kitchen, I don't have counter space and am already using the top of my stove as storage when I am not cooking. I thought it would be fine on the floor. It takes me longer than expected to fuck with the new water fountain (because it doesn't work as it was sold and only half works). In the time it

water fountain. I unhooked her old fountain, set it aside on the floor in my office because I needed the open space on her food mat for the new one, and because I fell asleep early last night, my sink was too full and in a galley

CW: cat emesis mention

she decided because I wasn't paying attention to her/had left the office, that she would come out into the living room and throw up. So then I had to get up to clean it up, and now my deathly tired ass cannot go back to sleep. I decide to use the extra time to set up her new

I tried waking up at the normal time for her this morning so she could eat. she eats, she goes and sits in her cat tree, which means she doesn't want anything to do with me because she's bird watching. fine. my cue to go lay down. as I was falling back to sleep,

it's almost like it explains everything!

I bet this feels as wonderful as it looks! This is a wonderful color!

I am pretty sure @catlinggun.bsky.social at one point in time wrote (either myself or someone else on the interwebs) the phrase "assbutt" in Gothic Calligraphy because I have it saved to my phone and reference it often when I need a laugh

Thank you for the kind shoutout, John! You're a pleasure to have in my ttprg sphere as well. 💕

I would say don't encourage me buuuuut