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I went to a Friends of Captain Awkward meetup yesterday morning: a couple of hours of pleasant conversation, including quite a bit about cats. I suggested to the organizer that if she is feeling cat-deprived, she could visit me and spend some time stroking and admiring Molly.

Somerville just put on an impressive fireworks show for Memorial Day, which we could see out our living room window. We were eating dinner when the fireworks started, and I put my soup spoon down and got up to watch the fireworks. Given how Somerville tends to do things, I was surprised that they had it on Memorial Day; the city's July 4th fireworks are usually in June.

I have yet another "explanation of benefits" ("this is not a bill") from Tufts Health Plan. This is for blood tests from April of last year. I still have the paperwork from Quest Diagnostics for this bill (we've been hanging onto documentation of medical expenses, in case of a possible tax deduction). I logged onto the health plan website, and this appears to be the third time they're trying to bill for this: last year they submitted the claim twice on the same day, and one was paid and the other rejected because it was a duplicate. I don't know whether I should call Tufts tomorrow, or wait and see if I receive a bill. (I have so far received three identical "explanations of benefits" for my visit to the hand doctor in January, but her office hasn't billed me for it.)

cattitude and I were feeling drained enough by the apartment-hunting process and uncertainty by the time we signed the lease last week that we have been taking a few days to not work on, or even talk about, the rest of what needs to be done for the move. We've been talking about this as "relaxing," but it's a loose value of "relaxing": in addition to walking and Scrabble, we've been keeping up with cooking and basic chores, and I've done a few hours of work on my current freelance project.

I colored my hair purple again this morning. It had mostly faded by last week, and I decided to see using the small bottle of "purple" coloring conditioner when I washed my hair a few days ago. Maybe I should have left it on longer, or maybe this is another aspect of the colors working differently on gray/white than bleached hair: the only visible effect was a bit of darkening. I threw that away, and applied the "blue"+"teal" mix that looks good on my hair.