Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Kitty had her chair again this week, because she was tired and everything was achy and this was a night job that she was going to be at for a while still tonight.

And maybe in down time she was googling things like Is my night job the reason my kid won't calm tf down at night and let me sleep like a real person, because she was curious.


[Open, no OCD!]

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[died8yearsago]

Next step in forgetting that the beginning of last week ever happened was, of course, the usual swing into the bar to pretend that morose, cryptic Rosa from last week never existed, either.

She leaned on her usual spot at the bar, ordered her usual beer, and eyed the return of the chair. "So when's that thing supposed to pop out of you already?"

Hey, at least the fact that it didn't even cross her mind that some people might take offence to their baby being called 'that thing' was a good sign that she was feeling more herself again, right?

[throughaphase]

Kitty didn't even mind!

"Fifteen weeks," she sighed. "I'm going to get annoying." That was at least part apology.

[died8yearsago]

One of the many reasons why Kitty was Rosa's favorite person on this island.

...not that the competition was that stiff.

"Fifteen weeks," Rosa repeated, doing the quick math in her head, and then wrinkling her nose in an expression of mingled sympathy and disgust. "Ugh. But you're totally allowed. It's hard to picture, though."

Rosa had survived a Gina Linetti pregnancy. It was hard to imagine Kitty even getting close to that level of annoying...although that was sort of Linetti's default setting anyway.

[throughaphase]

"Hard to picture me being annoying? Stay tuned," she said. "I've already told Clint to stop being nice to me when I'm crabby so I can continue to be crabby without guilt."

[died8yearsago]

"I think that's just good advice for anyone, pregnant or not," said Rosa. "Sometimes you just have to be cranky. I hate when people try to...make things better or...ugh, worse, cheer you up."

If anyone could understand the need to just be cranky, it was a woman who was...perpetually cranky.

[throughaphase]

"Yes! If something naturally makes me feel better, fine, but I'm also really good at whining," she said, glad someone got that. "Though I live with dogs so it's hard to stay too cranky for long a lot of the time."

[died8yearsago]

"Yeah, let the dogs do the cheering up," Rosa could definitely toast to something like that. "And the husband can, I don't know, just cook you food or...massage your feet or something."

Neither of those sounded very appealing to Rosa personally, no, but they both sounded like maybe something that pregnant people might like? She had no idea. She thought she was pregnant once and wanted to throw herself off a bridge, so she was maybe a little out of her element here.

[throughaphase]

"The massage I'll take. The cooking... I love the man, but he burns frozen pizza."

There was a reason Kitty was living on Luke's.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa would ask how something like that was even possible, but...she knew Amy Santiago. She still had nightmares about that Thanksgiving...

"Take-out, then," she amended. "From whatever random place on the mainland you want, which gets him out of the house for a little while for you to mope with the dogs."

[throughaphase]

"I like this plan," Kitty said. "Don't get me wrong, he's been the best."