There’s something cool about voting. It doesn’t matter who or how you are voting but it’s like the entire country is in step together. Everyone is smiling and it seems like there in the air there is a feeling of hope.
It’s also nice that the election shenanigans will all be over and we can focus on what might happen with the next administration.
What a great country we live in - where if we don’t like what is going on, we can enact change.
Earl went missing on Sunday. I went to the humane society on Tuesday and
didn’t see him there and my neighbors all kept an eye out for him.
Yesterday (Thursday) around 2:30pm, I was walking out the back door and who should plop into my backyard out of nowhere? Earl.
Filthy and looking around like “Hey guys, what’s going on?”
He did eat two cans of cat food so apparently his hunting skills aren’t as good as I thought.
No sooner had I relaxed because all the boys were home, when I realized I hadn’t seen Bandit in a while. (6:30pm). It was wet food time and they are usually all three circling around me like sharks.
I went out side and heard this faint meowing…as I followed it, it got louder and louder and more urgent sounding.
Then I saw him.
30 feet up in my neighbors tree.
We couldn’t coax him out so I had to leave him up there last night. This morning my gardener saw me shaking a treat can at the tree and came over to see what was up. He actually climbed the tree to get my cat down. Bandit took one look at him and took a flying leap out of the tree.
Onto pavement.
Then he booked it a few houses and I haven’t seen him in 1/2 hour. Hopefully he is alright.
This has been a supremely shitty few weeks. Supremely. It’s not looking like it is going to get much better. I’ve just been really depressed and stressed out. Things at work aren’t going like I want them to and I’m starting to not care about anything.
The holidays are coming up and if anyone out there is keeping track, it was about this time last year that the ExH came home in the middle of the day and said that he had a girlfriend. Then on New Year’s Eve I get a text message that he isn’t coming home and doesn’t think he wants to be married anymore. So as you can imagine, what should be a great time of year with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas just is really blowing ASS. I’m not wanting to participate in any of it.
Christmas is the worst. Our wedding was just prior to Christmas and so we got a lot of Christmas related wedding presents. All I want to do is smash them. I don’t want to even put Christmas out because that means I have to look at all that stuff - all the christmas ornaments that we collected.
FUCK!
I’m selling our Christmas Tree at a garage sale. I’m an “all white lights” girl and my ExH was a multicolored lights guy. When we bought the pre-lit tree, I had asked him to get an all white lights one but he picked up on accident a multicolor. It’s always pissed me off so I’m getting rid of it. I don’t know what I’m going to do about decorating my house.
FUCK AGAIN!
I’m stressed about $$ too. Not really about the stock market…my investments are long term and I’m nowhere close to the end of the term, but as of this month I have to put out a minimum of $1000/month for health insurance and copays. ONE THOUSAND FREAKING DOLLARS. Now, I have the money to pay it, but for fucks sake…I have plenty of other things to do with that money. PLENTY.
And then, because I haven’t been hit enough lately….
My cat Earl disappeared this past Sunday.
He’s an outside cat but he sticks around the house and always comes home for wet food in the evening. He is a mean cat (abused as a kitten, I got him as an adult) but still, he’s mine. SUCK.
