are you awake?

I am. It's 4:30 am. I'm awake because acupuncture does that to me - I sleep so deeply that I don't need as much sleep as usual. Also, the heater is making weird noises, and it woke me up. Today and through the rest of the week, it's going to get colder, so a heater on the blink isn't a good idea. I do have space heaters, though. I just don't want to leave them on while I'm away from home, but I don't want the cats to freeze either. I can't afford to put them in a boarding facility until the heater is fixed because I've spent so much money at the vet's in the past three weeks.

This was supposed to be my good and fun year, wasn't it? Not such a good start, I think.

Still, could be worse. I could have had breast cancer at 28, like this woman does. Not sure I'd be able to be as amusingly snarky as she is about it.