Miso
pet: Theo Nakagawa-Reed
Cat
12linked records
62mentions
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2021–2026saved
What the account says about Miso
74 records, oldest first2022
Oct 15
WE HAVE A CAT
Goldenrod Animal Rescue, the St Paul one. shelter name Pebbles (no). about 16 months, they think born june 2021. found under a porch in Frogtown w/ kittens
grey tabby, white chin, one white back toe. spayed, chipped, first shots done
$95, half each. adoption is in MY name, Maren's ID was in the car
Miso.
Oct 16
miso adoption
Nov 2
names miso answers to (none)
miso soup. meeso. the soup. soup. mrs. soup. beans. sergeant. small landlord. the tenant in 204b. gremlin. nugget (maren only)
2023
Jan 19
it's CHICKEN. anything w/ chicken and she throws up within the hour
salmon or turkey only. check the back of the bag, "ocean fish" has chicken meal half the time
- dry: Northpaw salmon & pea, 1/4 cup in the morning
- wet: half a 5.5oz can of the turkey pate at night. other half in the fridge, 8 sec in the microwave, she won't eat it cold
- treats: the freeze dried salmon ones, 3 max
f…
Oct 17
miso rabies done, the 3 yr. 9.8 lb
Dec 10
aldi: eggs, rice 5lb, frozen spinach, onions, canned tomatoes x4, oats, peanut…
…butter, tortillas, the $2.89 coffee
co-op: white miso (the tub), tofu, scallions, dried shiitake, kombu
cat: turkey pate x12, litter
maren wants: oat milk, the crackers w/ the seeds
2024
Jan 7
birthdays
jan 27 dad
jan 30 kofi
feb 11 maren
apr 12 obaachan
may 16 aunt colleen
jul 19 dez
aug 30 jiichan
sep 3 mom
oct 2 priya
nov 9 hana
dec 14 lu
mine mar 22. miso "june 1" (made up by the shelter)
Apr 14
who gets what
ME: miso (adoption is in my name, and she said it herself, miso is mine). flat file. drafting lamp. the green chair. my bikes. records A-M that were mine before. the rice cooker. half the plants.
MAREN: bed + frame. couch (she paid 300 of the 380). record player. the blue dutch oven (hers from her mom, I just used it…
May 19
signed yesterday. gail's summary email:
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Hi Theo, as promised, here are the main points of the lease in normal language. The signed lease is what counts if this and the lease ever disagree, so please read that too.
WHO AND WHERE
Landlord: Fourgable Properties LLC (that's me, Gail Hedlund). Tenant: Theodore K. Nakagawa-Reed. The apartment is 3318 Bracken…
May 27
move, fri 5/31 after 5 + sat 6/1
[x] boxes from the shop (bike boxes are too big, parts boxes are perfect)
[x] dez + his roommate's van, sat 9am
[x] electric in my name, starts 6/1
[x] internet: Loonwave install thurs 6/6 (window 8-12)
[x] renters insurance, send Gail proof
[ ] change address: greywing, marrowfield, loans, shop payroll, MNsure, voter…
Jun 29
where the paper is
- ss card + birth certificate: NOT HERE. mom & dad's, grey filing cabinet in the hall closet, folder THEO - IMPORTANT
- passport: desk drawer, left, the envelope w/ the yen
- car title, signed lease, miso's adoption papers: flat file, top drawer, blue folder
- diploma: the tube behind the flat file
- tax returns: Deb…
Jul 28
pothos x2: water when it droops
snake plant: once a month
fiddle leaf: dying since 2022. moved to the bay
jade from Colleen: south window, every 2-3 weeks
spider plant baby from Annika. miso eats it. not toxic, checked
Aug 25
tomatoes (the ugly ones from the farm stand), corn x4, basil, peaches if under…
…$3/lb, eggs, bread, butter, rice, soy sauce (big), sesame oil, cucumbers, ice
miso: salmon dry food (the 7lb bag), turkey cans
Oct 6
starting this again. I kept one on Wexcombe for about a month and then stopped…
…because everything I wrote was about Maren and then about not-Maren. it's october now and I've been in this apartment since june and I think I can write about other things.
the radiators came on today. first hiss of the year at about four, while I was inking, and Miso went and sat in front of the one in the bay like…
Oct 8
miso 10.6. teeth ok for now. screamed the whole drive
Oct 19
the Wexcombe apartment but there's a door next to the fridge I never noticed. b…
…ehind it a whole second apartment, bigger, with tall windows, all the furniture under sheets. Maren is in there painting the walls and when I get close the paint is soup, it's steaming. she says "you could have had this room the whole time." Miso walks out from under a sheet carrying a kitten by the neck and the kitt…
Oct 27
winter hours started at the shop. thursdays and saturdays, fourteen hours. Ines…
…was apologetic about it and I said it's fine, which it is, it's the same every year, it's just that every year I do the math again as if it might come out different.
Lu took me to the climbing gym to "get ahead of it." she means the dark. she's from Tucson and her first winter here she says she didn't understand tha…
Oct 27
when I can't start
- draw the thing nearest my left hand
- miso, 10 poses, 30 sec each, no erasing
- one object from the shop from memory, then check tomorrow
- the view from the 21 bus, one stop's worth
- copy a Hasui print, badly, to see how the snow is done
- a room from the Sorrelwick house, from memory
Nov 26
thanksgiving at colleen + marcel's, thurs 2pm. 1182 Wickersham, St Paul
bringing the squash w/ miso butter + a pie (order by tues)
garage code is her birthday
Nov 28
thanksgiving at Aunt Colleen and Marcel's. eleven people. Marcel's nephew Théo…
…(accent, so we are Theo and Théo, he's nine and thinks this is the funniest thing that has ever happened) made me draw his dog four times until the ears were right.
Colleen looks like dad around the eyes when she's listening. she asked about Jiichan's fall before I brought it up, so dad must have told her, so it's a…
Dec 15
eleven portraits done, three to go, all due out tuesday. my hand is a claw. I s…
…aid I'd cut it off at fourteen and I did and I still shouldn't have gone past ten.
but. the man who came for Mr. Henry today. old lab, grey face, died in october. he'd sent me photos from all fifteen years and said pick whichever. I drew him at about eight, in the back of a truck, squinting. the man stood in my door…
2025
Feb 10
mom called at 4:50 her time sunday. Jiichan died this morning. logistics:
- flight: tues 2/11, MSP 6:05am -> DEN -> SMF 11:40am. back wed 2/19, SMF 1:15pm -> MSP 8:50pm direct. 512.40 on the card. mom wants to pay, said no
- hana picks me up
- funeral sat 2/15 11am at the temple, then the lunch after in the hall
- wed + thurs: help mom w/ the photo boards, dad is doing the program
- I say s…
Feb 20
back. landed last night at nine in a crosswind, took the train and the 21 home…
…because I couldn't face the cold car.
Miso met me at the door and yelled for a full minute and then wouldn't look at me. Annika had left a note: "she ate everything. she slept on your pillow. she is furious with you. I'm sorry about your grandfather." and a pot of soup in the fridge.
the painting is on the wall ove…
Mar 9
okonomiyaki
1 cup flour, 3/4 cup dashi (or water + a pinch of the powder), 2 eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking powder
4 cups cabbage chopped SMALL, 3 scallions, handful of the tempura crumbs if I have them
mix just barely. medium heat, lid on, 5 min a side, don't press it
top: the brown sauce, mayo, bonito flakes (lock miso out…
Mar 15
posting
tues: process (sketch next to final)
fri: finished thing
one miso story a week, 4x the numbers of any art
never post a client's thing before they do
Apr 8
clinic today. I had the list in my pocket and I actually read from it, like a k…
…id giving a report. sleeping ten hours. not drawing. every winter, but this one didn't lift. and then the thing in february.
Corinne didn't write for a while, she just listened, and then she said "that's a lot of winters to do this by yourself." she had me fill in the form with the nine questions. she said the numbe…
May 18
asparagus, eggs, the good bread (it's sunday), butter, radishes, lemons x3, yog…
…urt, granola, rice, tofu, ginger, garlic, frozen dumplings x2
co-op bulk: oats, lentils, white miso if it's on sale
cat litter!!!
rhubarb from Gerald's patch, he said take it
Jul 6
Hana's been here since thursday. she's asleep in my bed with Miso on her feet,…
…traitor. I'm on the camping pad in the living room writing by the bay window.
the 4th: fireworks from the river with Dez and Priya. Hana and Dez argued for an hour about whether a burrito is a sandwich and are now best friends. Priya whispered "she's you but she finishes her sentences."
yesterday the lake. she swam…
Jul 19
afton, 2 nights, w/ Lu + Oskar + Oskar's girlfriend. hike-in sites, 3/4 mile w/…
…everything on your back
tent (mine, the 2p), pad, bag, headlamp + batteries
stove: Lu. fuel: me, the small can
food: I'm on dinner 1 = dal + rice (priya's recipe, pre-mix the spices), tortillas, PB, coffee
water filter: Oskar
sketchbook + the 3 pens, small watercolor tin
bug stuff. the tick key. long socks
inhaler
ca…
Aug 3
maren came by. portland on the 20th, a letterpress job
brought the dutch oven, a bag of miso's old toys, and my half of the wexcombe deposit, 740, cash
gave her the big heron print
Aug 3
Maren came by this afternoon to say goodbye before Portland. I'd been dreading…
…it all week and it was fine. it was more than fine, it was kind.
she looks happy. she got her hair cut short. she handed me the dutch oven at the door like a baby.
the hard part was Miso. she walked straight to Maren and got in her lap and stayed there forty minutes, purring, and Maren put her face in her fur and I…
Sep 13
I said yes to Kettlebird. eight birds, 4,200 dollars, biggest job I've had by t…
…hree times. and then yesterday I spent 816 of it before earning a cent, on a refurbished iPad, because the line work needs to be drawn at a size the old tablet makes miserable.
stood in the store for forty minutes doing the math on the back of my hand. it's a tool. Walt doesn't apologize for buying a truing stand.…
Oct 14
miso 11.2, vet wants 10.5. dental cleaning within the year, 420-610. start an e…
…nvelope
Oct 23
June's studio, shelves to the ceiling, hundreds of cups, and every cup has lake…
…water in it, a different lake each. she's labeling them with a brush. she hands me one and says "this is the one you swam in when you were nine" and I drink it and it's warm and tastes like a penny. Miso is asleep in the kiln and it's fine, it's off.
Oct 26
squash x2, apples (the ugly bag), onions, potatoes, carrots, celery, a whole ch…
…icken (NOT for the cat), stock, barley, bread, eggs, cheddar
miso: turkey cans x12, the salmon treats
june thurs: not soup
Nov 2
three dates with June now, if the conservatory counts. it was 28 degrees outsid…
…e and we walked through the fern room in our coats, sweating. she touches everything. the sign says don't. she reads the sign and then touches it.
she's allergic to cats and came over anyway, took a pill on my doorstep like a toast. Miso was in her lap in ninety seconds.
I like her. I'm trying to just like her and…
Nov 23
dad is in my apartment with his clipboard and tape measure, doing an estimate.…
…he measures the bay window, the radiator, then Miso, nose to tail. he writes each number down. there's a heron in the kitchen and he measures that too, wingspan, and says "you're losing a lot of heat through this." he's walking fine. no cane. I want to point that out and don't, in case saying it undoes it.
Dec 14
going HOME. sat 12/20 to sun 12/28. first time since february.
gifts (budget 200):
- mom: the map print from the Pilcrow book, signed, + coffee (Loon)
- dad: the 2000 piece jigsaw of old radios + coffee (Chickadee)
- hana: a framed drawing of her cat Udon
- obaachan: the 41 steps zine, and I'll read it to her. + new brush pens, she's started doing his sunday painting
pack: sketch…
Dec 18
FOR ANNIKA — Miso, dec 20-28. printed copy is on the fridge.
FOOD
- morning (whenever you get home from your shift is fine, she's used to 7-8am): a SCANT 1/4 cup of the dry salmon food. the scoop is in the bag. she will act like it isn't enough
- evening (6-8pm): HALF a can of the turkey pate, in the blue dish. the other half goes in the fridge w/ the silicone lid on. next nigh…
Dec 27
Obaachan's ozoni. she made it early bc I leave tomorrow and "you cannot start a…
…year without it, so you will start it now." written at her elbow, she measures nothing, these are my guesses
this is the Kansai kind her mother made (her family was from Wakayama too): WHITE miso broth, ROUND mochi, not grilled. Jiichan's family did the same. dad's side would have clear broth, she says, "if they had…
2026
Jan 1
made the ozoni. first thing, before coffee, like she said. the mochi was the fr…
…ozen kind from the grocery on Nicollet and the carrots were supposed to be plum blossoms and are circles with regrets. the broth was right though. I knew it was right because the kitchen smelled like her kitchen.
put the first bowl in front of the persimmons, since that's where he is in this apartment. stood there.…
Jan 4
monthly, jan 2026
rent 1,095
electric ~40 (winter, no AC)
internet 45
phone 25
student loan 187.34
car insurance 89
gas ~50
groceries 260
miso 55 (food, litter, the vet fund)
subscriptions ~50
credit card 100 (balance 1,340)
renee 80
= 2,076 a month
coming in: shop is ~960 take-home in winter (thurs + sat). so freelance has to net 1,12…
Feb 8
cheap week, 38
rice (have), lentils, onions, cabbage, carrots, eggs, tofu x2, frozen peas, oats, bananas, store brand coffee
miso paste: have. miso the cat: 6 cans turkey, she is not on the cheap week
Feb 9
one year.
called Obaachan at seven her time. she'd already been to the temple. she said the priest got his age wrong and she corrected him in the middle of the chanting.
I used the paper today. one sheet. I've had it for ten years and him gone for one and I took it out of the flat file at noon and it's so heavy and soft it bar…
Mar 1
march first. rent went out this morning and there's 212 dollars and 40 cents in…
…checking.
I made the list. the shape of it is: one client owes me eighteen hundred dollars and is sixteen days late, and everything this month depends on a man named Trevor opening an email.
I've been here before. I was here in 2021 and 2023. the difference is I used to not look. I'd find out what was in the accoun…
Mar 10
vet wants miso's chip #. don't have it. adoption papers?
Mar 10
MISO. threw up 4x between midnight and 6. clear, then foam. didn't touch breakf…
…ast.
called Sevenpaws at 8:01. in at 9:40. gave the gabapentin anyway
Dr. Deshmukh: belly a little tender. x-ray (2 views): a small curled thing in the stomach, "consistent w/ a hair tie or a rubber band." not blocking anything. no surgery unless it gets stuck
did: anti-nausea injection, fluids under the skin
home in…
Mar 10
I thought I was going to lose her today.
she started throwing up at midnight. four times by six. by the last one it was just foam, and she went and lay on the bathroom tile, flat, which she never does, and when I put her breakfast down she looked at it and looked at me.
I called the vet at 8:01. I gave her the gabapentin in my fingers because she wouldn't t…
Mar 11
I'm looking for something very small on the bottom of a lake. the water's clear…
…. Miso is beside me, walking on the bottom, bigger than me, her fur moving slowly. she knows where it is and won't say. every stone I turn over has a number painted on the underside. I wake up because she's standing on my chest, yelling for breakfast. it's 4:55. I've never been so happy to be yelled at.
Mar 12
two things came out today.
one: the hair tie. this morning, in the litter box, intact. black, elastic, not mine. it's June's. it has been somewhere in this apartment since november, under a radiator, waiting. I put it in a bag and then I put the bag in the outside bin. Miso ate a full dinner and attacked the bathmat.
two: the email. Trevor tex…
Mar 17
of all the days. the renewal letter from Gail was in the mailbox. rent goes to…
…1,150 in june. fifty-five more a month.
it's not a lot. it's the correct amount to be the thing that does it. I sat on the stairs with my coat on and the letter in my hand and Gerald started his scales underneath me and I just listened to the whole thing, scales and then the real song, which today was "Danny Boy" be…
Mar 18
Gail is in the apartment with Rolf and they're raising the ceiling instead of t…
…he rent. Rolf has a car jack under each corner. it goes up a foot, two feet. the bay window stretches like taffy. she says "this way everyone's happy." the persimmons are getting further from the desk and I can't reach to straighten the frame. Miso is on top of the cat tree that I haven't built yet and it's exactly t…
Mar 22
28.
I didn't want to do anything and they made me. pho, the four of us. Lu, Dez, Priya. they'd agreed beforehand that I wasn't allowed to look at the bill.
Priya's present is a print of my own bay window with a tiny Miso in it. Dez's is chili crisp. Lu's is a spoke wrench. Hana's box had a photograph I'd never seen: Jiic…
Mar 31
last day of march. I want to write this one down whole, because I know I'll rou…
…nd it off later into "that rough month before the book."
on the first I had 212 dollars and a list. the list said: if one man pays me, I'm fine.
on the third the car died, and it wasn't the battery, it was the alternator, and it was 95 for the tow and 486 for the part. I walked to work in slush. Kettlebird paid 450…
Apr 9
HERON BOOK KICKOFF. thurs 4/9, 1pm, Pilcrow & Pine office, Larkhollow St, 3rd f…
…loor (the elevator is a freight elevator, you pull a rope).
in the room: Odette Marchetti (art director), Wanjiru Kamau (editor), Hollis Trent (production, the one who knows what the printer can do). on video from Bemidji: Liesl Aamodt, the author. she's 71, she had the notebook in her hand.
THE BOOK
- Grandfather H…
May 24
they leave tomorrow. mom and dad, in Minneapolis, in my apartment, for the firs…
…t time in the two years I've lived here and the ten I've lived in this city. writing it now while it's all still loud.
thursday I picked them up in the car and dad got in the front and looked at the dash for a while and said "no air conditioning" and I said no, and he rolled the window down by hand and put his elbow…
May 28
newsletter draft
"Hello from the bay window. Three things:
1. I'm illustrating a picture book. I can't say the title yet but it has a heron in it, which will surprise no one. It comes out next fall from Pilcrow & Pine Press.
2. Kettlebird's spring coffee has a phoebe on it. Somewhere on that bag there is a kettle. So far two people ha…
Jun 14
market: strawberries (2 quarts, one is for Gerald), snap peas, new potatoes, th…
…e bread guy, eggs from the egg lady, scallions, a bunch of dill
store: rice, soy, tofu, butter, lemons, yogurt, seltzer, ice cream
miso: turkey cans x12, litter, a new crinkle ball
Jun 28
JAPAN, april 2027. Obaachan turns 88 on april 12 and is taking some of Jiichan'…
…s ashes to Yuasa.
who: Obaachan, mom, dad, Hana, me. Kenta (the cousin) is meeting us in Wakayama
dates (mom's draft): leave SFO sat 4/3, home wed 4/14. Osaka 2 nights, Yuasa 5, Kyoto 3
my costs:
- flight MSP -> SFO -> KIX: ~1,350 round trip if I book by november
- rail + food + my share of rooms: ~900
- mom + dad ar…
Jul 22
Miso dental yesterday, home by 4
- one tooth out: upper right premolar, resorptive lesion
- the rest cleaned + polished
- pain med: the liquid, 0.3 ml in the cheek every 12 hrs, 3 days
- SOFT FOOD ONLY 5 days. turkey pate + a spoon of warm water. no dry till sunday
- no feather wand for a week
- recheck in 2 weeks, free
538.00. I'd saved 540
Jul 22
miso weights (vet scale)
10/2022 9.1 (shelter)
10/2023 9.8
10/2024 10.6
10/2025 11.2 <- target 10.5
3/2026 10.8 (hair tie, hadn't eaten)
7/2026 10.9 (dental)
dry food down to a scant 1/4 cup
Jul 22
Miso had her teeth done yesterday. they took one out, a premolar that had a hol…
…e in it under the gum. the vet says it would have been hurting for months. she ate every meal. she purred. she never said a thing.
I keep thinking about that. that you can live with someone and not know.
I'd saved 540 for it since october, ten or twenty at a time in an envelope in the desk, and the bill was 538. I'…
Jul 24
Miso dental
est was 420 to 610 · Miso dental
Jul 28
Miso can talk but only out of the side where the tooth is gone, a little whistl…
…e on the s. she's sitting on the radiator cover telling me what's been wrong with the apartment the whole time. it's a long list. the north window. the outlet. "and you never look under things," she says. I'm writing it down as fast as I can because I know she'll stop when the gap heals.
Sep 10
Miso flea stuff
Sep 13
six spreads done, four inked, four in pencil. the left wrist has started clicki…
…ng again from holding the iPad ten hours a day. I've got it propped on the drafting table now with a rolled towel, and I do the soup can exercises from two years ago while files save.
the year-going-by spread scares me. it's four seasons on one page and if any one is wrong the whole thing is a calendar instead of a…
Sep 18
Miso annual + rabies
Sep 19
FINCHLEY, saw it w/ Dez at 10. Dale Okerlund showed it, 60s, quiet, fixes thing…
…s himself, lives 3 blocks away. current tenants are a couple moving to Madison.
GOOD
- the sunroom. 9 x 14, windows on two sides, radiator vent in the floor so it's warm. north light it is not, it's south/west, I'd need a shade for afternoon. flat file fits on the long wall (measured: 112")
- bedrooms are equal-ish.…
Sep 19
saw the duplex on Finchley this morning with Dez. upper floor of an old house,…
…two bedrooms and a sunroom.
the sunroom. I walked into it and knew. windows on two sides, a floor that slopes a little to the south, room for the flat file and the drafting table and still a place to stand back and look at a thing. I've worked in the corner of a living room for six years. I measured the wall while t…
Sep 21
for the Finchley application, my half, so I can copy it out
legal name: Theodore Kenji Nakagawa-Reed
current landlord: Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106. here since 6/1/24
EMPLOYER: Crooked Fender Cycles, 2411 E Hollis St, Mpls 55406. bike mechanic, part-time. started 9/14/2021. supervisor Ines Aguilar 612-555-0137, shop line 612-555-0110
pay: 20.50/hr (since ap…
Sep 27
called Hana about Finchley. I laid it all out: the sunroom, the money being abo…
…ut equal, the bay window, the lease, Gerald, the fact that Miso will have no radiator to sit on.
she let me finish and said "you've lived alone for two years and it was the right thing. you needed to find out you could. you found out. you don't have to keep proving it."
I said what if living with Dez wrecks it. she…
Oct 1
squash, apples, onions, garlic, ginger, tofu, eggs, rice (10lb), frozen dumplin…
…gs x3, coffee, oat milk
miso: salmon dry food (small bag, she's still on the diet), turkey cans, the flea stuff refill
white miso for the squash thing
Oct 4
this week
- the lease, leaving early. then Gail
- Finchley application, my half, to Dez
- call Obaachan
- tabs for the car, they run out in about 3 weeks
- Miso's vet appointment is next week. pill 2 hrs before
- passport. the form's been printed since august
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Theo Nakagawa-ReedMiso is pet of Theo Nakagawa-Reed
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Mom · 1 record Dad · 1 record Hana Nakagawa-Reed · 1 record Obaachan · 1 record Jiichan · 1 record Aunt Colleen · 1 record Dez · 1 record Priya · 1 record Jonah · 1 record Sam Haddad · 1 record Lu · 1 record Kofi · 1 recordQuestions
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q051 how many of my notes mention Miso q054 what's the policy number for Miso's pet insurance q001 what's my SSN q013 what address is printed on my license q014 I'm filling out the rental application for the Finchley place. Pull together what they'll ask for: full legal name, date of birth, where I've lived the last five years with dates, my current landlord and her phone, what I pay in rent, employer and income, my car, references and an emergency contact. q021 Summarise March 2026 for me. What happened? q022 what can't miso eat q036 what's miso's microchip number q037 when was miso spayed q041 when is miso due for her shots