Since "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" Is Lefthanded, Anyway...

#MondayMotivation, #MaltipooMonday, and #MemoryMonday: The Bedhead Whom Helps "Momma" Keep Going

Especially last night (and may this be a good sign for HaChodesh Elul), Reilly patiently allowed "Momma" to wrap up and then take these cute pictures of her:




"Momma" is amazed that Reilly even stayed in that position for that long. As for over the weekend overall:



Of course, Reilly didn't allow too many pictures without belly rubs and scritches:




She also even ended up letting pictures with Cam in them be taken:



(Awww, Ribrat...and with her ear touching Cam's paw in the picture!)

(And may Ri be able to share chodashim haba'im with "Momma" and someone else.)

A Card For Rosh Chodesh Elul From Reilly

A Bit Of A Belated Card For the EST and CST Time Zones. Anyway...

And "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" wasn't lazy about making the card, either 😜.

#TimeTravelTuesday...To Only Yesterday. Still...

Who can deny how cute a puppy who is enjoying belly rubs in pure bliss is? Also, who can deny how cute that belly-rub-enjoying and blissful puppy is when she's enjoying belly rubs from her "Mimi"?



Even better is when the pictures are enlarged:

C(ute collage-maker C)amille loves "belly wubs"!

Somewhat Offbeat: What Having A Cold Has Made "Momma" Remind Herself

For example:

1. She's not to going to be young forever; and Reilly won't be calendar-wise young, either—although she'll always be young, even when she's a senior puppy.
2. She needs to make more of an effort to be a better "Momma" to Reilly, and she needs to nonetheless be fair to herself even when others aren't fair to her—lucky (or rather, in many ways, unlucky) them to simply be able to try minimize and dismiss (and thus lack empathy and quite a bit of understanding of suffering, including in regard to) what often gets in the way of her functioning at her minimal best as a person at all, let alone as a good "Momma" to Reilly.
3. She needs to be a better "Momma" partly by trying to spend more time with Reilly.
4. She needs to learn to be better at being as patient¹ and calm as she can be, including with Reilly.

¹Including re waiting for a certain answer.

Commentary: Rick Gates Just Did In Paul Manafort, Although Paul Manafort Ultimately Did In Himself & Helped To Do In Others

As I'm writing this, it's only seconds after I got the news alert that Rick Gates admitted to doing criminal activity at Paul Manafort's behest. So, Rick Gates essentially proved Special Counselor's case: that D****d ***** used Putin as his puppet to get himself illegally into the White House. This isn't to account for *****'s tweets in which he ultimately trapped himself and because of which Special Counselor Mueller ultimately had to do nothing to pull the Jenga® block out of his tower.

Try to build a ***** Tower in Moscow if Putin is willing to be used as your puppet, meet at ***** Tower HQ with your puppet's puppets to conspire to steal data and change others' votes, and commit a whole litany of other crimes, catch yourself right in your own trap in which Special Counselor Mueller and others knew that you would catch yourself.

Moral of the story: always follow the real rule of law and act ethically and morally, and you won't find yourself in legal, ethical, and moral conundrums.

PS The real rule of law always includes ethical and civil disobedience, and "civil disobedience" includes taking actions such as recording conversations about paying someone to silence her about your affair with her—so what Michael Cohen did was civilly disobedient even if it was illegal per se.