I've been sick all weekend.

I've been sick all weekend. Kira said she was sick this morning. Now Shaun is feeling even worse than before. Ugh. 😭

I have some good things to share...

I have some good things to share as well as a couple of bad things. Most everyone is doing well, but I lost an Echeveria Ester and my Royal Flush. 😭 I only watered my Royal Flush once in the time I had her. I guess the timing was completely wrong. 🙁

I think this bloom wants to make a friend. 😍  Under it is one of my beheaded plants. I still feel bad about that.

Looks like my Frizzle Sizzle is working on a bud. 😁

I just adore my table of funky cacti. 💜

This is my surviving Echeveria Esther. The other was in the same pot, with the same lighting and water, but she rotted and I don't know why. 😭

My babies after I put them into different dirt. They have noticeably grown, and I'm so excited! They were previously in the "granola dirt" and in separate pots, but I didn't want to repot them all individually, so they ended up in a tray together, temporarily.

Even this Propeller Plant noticeably grew after a change in dirt. That makes me so happy! 😊

When I was working on my plants the other day...

When I was working on my plants the other day I put my babies in some different dirt.

The good news: They have grown a noticeable amount in 2 days time.

The bad news: The dirt was dusty and it made my nose itch. Now I'm sneezing and my nose is running like crazy. Woo. 😕

Geometry study buddy. 😍

Geometry study buddy. 😍

Or he's a distraction. Whatever. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

He chased Faith back to her bed. He said "Mind ya business!" 🤣🤣🤣

(Yes, he's acting out. Don't ask groundhogs about Spring - ask Nom. 😂😂😂)

I'm 99% sure I just failed my Differential Equations exam.

I'm 99% sure I just failed my Differential Equations exam. I'm not terribly upset because it's a hard subject and I have time to retake it if I need to. It helped a lot to take Linear Algebra twice; I felt like I really understood it the second time around and understanding is what I'm going for. I'm still going to do my best, but I am no longer interested in beating myself up for not getting it perfectly the first time around. I'm doing things that most people won't even try, so... 🤷🏻‍♂️ #TiredOfStressing #TakingCareOfMe

I'm trying to study...

I'm trying to study for my D.E. exam but my Celexa is hitting me hard and I can't concentrate due to drowsiness so let me tell y'all what happened today.

When I was on my way home from school I guess there was an accident on 21 and traffic was diverted off to some road I'd never been down.  Traffic was moving at a snail's pace and it was a LONG ROAD so I ended up having time to observe what was going on around me.

In the car ahead of me a lady was driving with a dog (it looked like a black chow).  I'm guessing it was her dog.  So he seemed to behave pretty well in the car - he stayed in the front passenger seat just looking out of the window.  At some point we were stopped in front of a field with donkeys in it and I saw her urge her dog over to her side of the car.  She had her arm out pointing the donkeys out to him and I thought that was so precious.  He came and looked at them until we passed by and then went back to his side.

Well a bit later there were some horses in a field and she did the same thing.  This time the dog leaped out of the window and ran up to the fence.  Cue a heart attack for me!  The horses came towards him; I guess they were friendly and curious.  But then they ran away like he was barking or something.  The lady seemed pretty calm the whole time and she let him run for a minute or two before getting out, opening the car door, and calling him back.  He jumped in the car and they continued on their way.

I don't know why he chose to greet the horses; maybe it's because they were a lot closer to the road than the donkeys were.  In any case... had my dog jumped out of my window I would have FREAKED THE HELL OUT, which - I know - would be the exact wrong thing to do.  I must be getting cautious in my old age because now I seat-belt my dogs in place.  😂

But anyway, I'm glad that story didn't have a tragic ending.

I have a few succulents...

I have a few succulents that etiolated for various reasons; a couple stretched before I bought lights, but most of them were, sadly, purchased that way. I know that arrangements of plants are pretty, but it just doesn't seem good for them especially when sitting in places like Lowe's and Home Depot for an extended period of time.

So... since you can't un-stretch a plant it's usually recommended to cut its head off (😮😥☹️😭) and also cut the plant near the base and let those two pieces dry out, then you re-plant the head and treat both like nothing happened. 😬 The section of plant that you removed from between the base and the head usually has leaves so you can carefully pull those leaves off and 🤞🏻hopefully, propagate them into baby plants.

I never had the confidence to try this... until today. I hope I haven't damaged my plants in a bad way, but I was really careful and they are pretty tough.

Here is my tray of leaves that I would like to propagate. If all goes well I will have lots of babies in a few months. Babies that I don't need or have room for, but I couldn't throw them out like trash. Supposing they live, they will be up for adoption with the only request from me being that you try your best to take care of them. Of course I catch feelings for basically every living thing so these would be my grandchildren and you really have to love them. That's the rules. 😂😂😂😍😍😍