Hello and welcome back to Mother May I Sleep With podcast or something in between. As you guys know,

if you listen to last week, we're switching up the feed a little bit and that's going to officially come

in late September. But right now I just want to do a little bit of an update with y'all and check in

and then I'll reveal what the show is and maybe some other

thoughts and plans i really hope you guys like it so i'm recording this on friday august 29th i hope

you're hearing this on sunday but if not enjoy tonight i'm going to dinner with Eric for his birthday. His birthday's tomorrow and keen listeners

to the pod may remember that a few years ago on Eric's birthday, I had to put my cat Blue down.

Blue was diagnosed with a brain tumor and I did eight weeks of hospice care,

which I will say, even though I felt like I kept wags around a little bit past when he was comfortable and I wanted to do it differently with

blue and I do think that I could have made this go longer with blue but it just wasn't kind.

It's still crazy to think back that I did eight weeks of hospice care for a cat, which I didn't

really even know you could do,

but of course you can. And I got shingles as a result, do the stress. You know, Blue was hurting

himself a lot. And I was thinking about how for me and my experiences and also what I've noticed from other people

is that August is a month with a lot of tragedy and grief.

I think there's something about the heat out.

I think there's something about summer coming with expectations and, of course,

the new school year coming up. I think that a lot of people, even past being school age,

once we hit September, we're sort of in a different chapter. And I feel like August is a real

pressure cooker. I was seeing someone today even say that

there's a lot of crime that tends to happen in August, specifically with family

annihilators. Like one example she gave, this isn't a family annihilation but gabby pettito she was murdered by

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