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My cat.....

I'm doing MUCH better today!

This morning was a little rough and then on the way to town was sort of rough (to return his unused stuff), but I've felt much better since then.

It's a gorgeous sunny day out and I'm sure that helped. The boys are outside playing baseball!

I didn't buy flowers or even send a card fo rmy friend's DH's funeral last week! But today I returned all of Mikey's unused products ($41 back!) adn I got her 6 of those little Millstone coffees (different flavors for her to try), a coffee mug, a bag of Hershey mini asst candies, the first book in the Beverly Lewis series, a search a word book. I think that was it. Plus I ransacked the clearance Valentine stuff adn got the plastic grass stuff to put in the bottom of the basket (that is also a wicker hanging plant basket) and some clear plastic wrap (w/white dots and roses, but hey no lovey dovey!LOL) as well. I have $2 in the basket, .10 in the wrap nad .25 in the grass. Not too shabby!LOL Bu tI think she'll love it. She can make a cup of coffee, eat some candy adn read a book..........

Plus I had enuf to buy the parchment paper for tomorrow, the kids' snack (the lady in charge of the nursery bailed AGAIN, adn rainbow goldfish for the water park this weekend (we'll need snacks!LOL).

The gift is all wrapped up and ready to deliver! I did take all the Mr. Goodbar's out. I hope she doesn't care. They are my favorite and I really wanted something.....

UGH! I just realized I left her sympathy card IN THE BOOK! The cashier put it in the front cover so it wouldn't get mangled. Hopefully I can extract it w/o tearing up the wrapping. It turned out better than I thought it would and while I hate using plastic, it was only .35 (since she can reuse the basket).

Ok, washing machine jsut beeped!

Mikey is now resting

I'm not sure opening that box was the brightest thing I"ve ever done, but he was set in there very nicely. Like he laid alot.

I thought DH was putting him at the corner of the house in a flowerbed, which was fine. Turns out he meant at the corner of our PROPERTY. He also asked if we had any of Mat's wooden crosses left. I told him no. I had jsut pitched the last one 2 weeks ago. But that means I can get a marker and he won't care.

Ok,, off ot bed............

What a nice surprize!

I forgot to post that also in the batch of mail that I got my medicine shock, I got the nicest card from a friend saying that she was thinking of me today! It sure did make me feel better.........

And Kay, this is a great idea about a moment of silence. But if you knew my 2 boys, not sure that would EVER happen!LOL

getting thru the day....

I'm really scared this 'funeral' will just be a screaming match. I've been thinking the past 2 days about where to put Mikey adn I have no idea. With my luck, Dh will want to put him int he garden or horse pasture. OTOH, I can't really think of a decent spot. I wondered about the flowerbed, but I don't know how feasible that is. I'll tell Dh to dig the whole by himself and then I'll drag the kids out and tell them to stay inline or I'll let them have it. DH hated this cat w/every ounce of his being so I know he won't have anythign nice to say and the boys dont' care. Who does that leave? ME! I don't really know that i want ot say much cuz none of them care--KWIM? I don't want it to be a diasaster, but I am usually the one that handles these types of things while DH stands around (helping w/the boys). Shoes on the other foot so I guess we'll see what he's learned? I will get a marker for him this summer. I'll probalby have a hard time find somethign that's not cheesy tho. I may make him one. Hobby Lobby sells those decorative stone kits and they are nice. Not cheap, but nice.

I found the reciept for the stuff and I'll be getting about $30 back.

And I got my meds today. While that's a good thing, I knew our ins changed. It went from $60 to $100!!!!! I nearly had da fit! I thought it only went up to $70! I need to drag the papers back out and try to read it again. I'd be better off transcribing Greek........

So Dama left and I may try to watch Dr. PHil.  Mikey adn I usually hung out on my bed so I may as well get this over with......

Mikey's gone now...........

Thank for all your prayers. Mike is gone now. He was sauntering thru the living room at 7 and I picked him up. Unfortunately I had to put him in the carrier then (lest he escapea nd I spend too much time finding him) and set him on the bed where he normally sat and talked to him until Dh took him. I just felt like I betrayed him cuz he completely freaks out at hte vet and I didn't go. I'm not sure if DH is being really nice or just flat out scared, but HE just out of the blue said we'd have a funeral tonight (which should be the quitest funeral on the planet cuz DH will have NOTHING to say and I doubt I'll be able to talk) and he called my sister and told her to come over today. I realized he asked Joey last night if we had gone to library adn we hadn't and we had no plans for leaving today (and we didn't leave Monday).

And there aren't many traces of Mikey left here. The litter boxes are gone and I've cleaned (and mopped and dusted!LOL) the bathrooms. The things he laid on (that had his hair) are in the washer. This was harder than I thought in some ways.

I sure hope my kids out live me cuz I don't know how I'd survive that.......

I have the entire house clean but I didn't do under the bed. I'll do that after my sister comes. The kids (who are completely unaffected by this) are just being kids and I want some quiet.

1 down.....1 to go.........

Ok, I got rid of the basement litter box. I refuse to vacuum today cuz it traumatizes Mikey so. But tomorrow the house gets mopped, vacuumed, dusted, bathrooms cleaned and things windexed.  First I have to tear apart the litter box upstairs so I can mop that area. Then I'm goign to take everything out from under our bed and vacuum all that stuff. It was Mikey's favorite hang out and full of his hair......... Then I"ll wash up all the stuff of his and get taht put away.

I decided not to leave the house tomorrow either. I can't justify driving that far into town just to return his stuff. So I will do it on Thursday. Ideally I'd do it before library since taht ends at noon and I wouldn't have to listen to them whine about being hungry. But that makes it very tight on time for me. I need to do laundry Thursday morning as well.

And I need snacks for this weekend. I have the stuff to make whole wheat poptarts (from the recipe posted) to take. But I can't remember if there is a microwave!LOL I don't think there is, but the kids can have them that next week if that's the case.

I have bfast bars to take and that's about it. But I guess that's all they'll need. Something to take the edge off and not ask to eat every time they see food!LOL

still moping around about my cat

I promise I'll quit soon. I've had him longer than both my kids (put together), longer than DH, over 1/3 of my life. I got him when I was 22 and had my first place. He was dumped on my parents and my mom litterbox trained him and gave him to me.

I found his hiding spot under hte bed this morning so I pray I can find him tomorrow morning. As soon as DH gets up, Mikey fleas for safety.

Pictures of my Mikey.

spinninggma & kayinpa

Thank you for your kind words about my cat situation!

I set it up for 7:30 Wednesday morning. I need to run this past DH. He's not going to be happy about having to wait to pick the cat up and what he's going to do w/teh cat until he gets home is beyond me. He might drop Mikey back off here. I can't see him riding around w/him in the truck. It's supposed to be cold,b ut still.......

I was fine until she asked for the cat's name. I was able to crack out one word answers, but I was praying I wasn't going to have ot spell it or I'd have never made it.

My cat..........

I am so upset right now. Shortly before we were leaving for lunch, I watched my cat baldly coming in the bathroom and PEE DOWN THE VENT! I lookeda nd this isn't a first! I've smelled urine in their before and thought it was the grout around the toilet. I can't even tell you how upset I am over this. I caught him trying to pee in the bedroom last night. He gets VERY agitated when we have overnight guests, but this is the last straw. I don't know what else do w/him and I refuse to let him pee all over the house. Needless to say I was very upset on the way to town and then got into a nice 'I hate living here' pity party adn things started going downhill fast. We both loathe living in this area, but I try really hard not to think about it. It was aggravated earlier this week when Dh suggested moving. I told him we'd never agree on a place cuz he wants to be closer to his work and I want to be a little closer to a big city for HSling opportunities for the boys. He understands that. Plus we'd never land a mtg rate like we have now.  But changing houses isn't the issue. I've just never been in such an unfriendly place in all my life. The actual town we live in, I know TWO PEOPLE! The slightly bigger town isn't much better. We've been here over 6 years and I have ONE irl friend outside of the libriarians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've grown accustomed to it in alot of ways, but it's so depressing sometimes.

I was a nice wreck by the time we arrived for lunch (Dh and I drove seperate from the ILs as they were leaving for home straight from lunch).

So I guess I have to call the vet this week and see about getting him put down. I can't justify giving a mean, people hating, won't use the litter box cat to someone. I"m the only person on the planet he's nice or even remotelly social to. I just don't know what else to do. I've had him for over 13 years. I sort of hoped God would take care of this issue for me, but He hasn't.

The cat has also been a major source of tension in our marriage and I think this was the deal breaker for me. If ANYONE else in this house cared about the cat, it would be easier. But it's always me hearing DH yell at the cat about something. The cat started peeing in one corner of the bedroom adn DH nearly had a cow (rightly so) and we got that stopped, but there is no way I can prevent him from doing this all over the house. He's always been an inside cat nad he's declawed so letting him go outside in the dead of winter isn't humane.

Alright enuf blubbering about me and my cat. I'm just so upset.........