It’s been a rough week. I encountered some issues on Friday with my sleeping medicine and trying to get it refilled. It was a mess. I wound up having to call the after hours exchange on Saturday to get my medicine refilled. I was anticipating another confrontation but actually it was a smooth and quick phone call. I have 30 days of medicine and I see my doc in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully, we will be able to get this sorted out.
Saturday proved to be a rough day. I got busy and tried to stay busy but eventually I wore myself out. I opted to call our EAP and got setup with counseling via phone. I get 6 sessions and it’s totally free. I’m not 100% please with my therapist but I think we are on the road to recovery. He told me to start looking for a new house, volunteer at an organization to meet people and perhaps I will be able to get a man that way. As for my loss of Big Boy write him a letter. You know that was very helpful with my late spouse but I feel funny writing a letter to an animal who if he received it would be unable to read and/or understand it. I get why he said to write it and I have a draft saved. I will make some changes before I settle for the final draft. Then I get to read it to him when we talk again. My plan is after that session I will probably stop. I am inclined to cancel now but I don’t want to rush anything.
So things at home are okay. Marv has begun to realize more about his brother and now I find him hanging out in spots where his brother used to be. This morning for example he was on the couch and rather than make him move, I fed him on the couch. He really liked that. I get it he’s grieving and he misses his sibling probably just as much as I do, if not more. I told him were in this together and were going to be fine. The girls are unaffected but Momma and Gator are glued to me.
Yesterday I went on ant patrol. I broke out the vacuum and moved furniture, put down some more spray. Friday night when I got home they were all over the dry food so I had to pitch it. I wasn’t terribly pleased. The feeder it’s self had to be washed and there were ants everywhere. I got to the point where I thought they were on me and I did have one or two but my skin was crawling. I rinsed out the water fountain for good measure. When I was done and went to empty the vacuum cleaner there was enough fur in there to nit a sweater for 2 hamsters. The ants are still in my bathroom but we had a cold snap so they have diminished, I am sure as the weather warms they will return. I am out of steam but I think next weekend it will be ant patrol in my bathroom. If nothing else it will be a decent spring cleaning.
I did my weekend chores backwards. I went to the store on Saturday because I had a great coupon but didn’t spend enough to take advantage of it. I was going to go back out and just make a day of running on Saturday. However, the therapist suggested that on Sunday I go to the movies. Yeah okay. I instead opted to stay busy by shopping. I had a great amount of money left over from payday. I could have easily paid for Big Boy’s funeral but opted instead to bankroll the money. That is until I made my way through Sam’s this morning. I got a couple extra things that were minor but the real gotcha was my membership was coming due. Long story short I dropped $200. Then factor in breakfast, cat food shopping and filling up the tank. Yeah bye bye money. I’ve got enough to scrape by the next couple weeks for groceries and cat food, plus a couple of trips out to eat.
A fun project I decided to do is organize my photos of the kids and put them all in the cloud. I have a couple different sources but for this I used Amazon Drive, since I am a prime member I get unlimited photo storage. Video storage is limited to 5GB, I am rapidly on top of that limit so I paid for more storage. The bulk of the project is done, there are some minor touch ups but now I can open my phone and pick an album and my kids are all there. I even have photos of them as kittens. Hard to believe they were that small. I got to go back in time and reminisce it was kind of fun.
So there you have it. I am better than I was last week at this time but I am not over it yet. I did stop in at the vets and inquire about his cremains but they aren’t back yet. Hopefully they will be there this week. Even though I know he is gone I want them back as quickly as possible so he can be in his final resting place, that is until I decide to move, which will be years down the road. I’m looking at houses but it’s all just a dream. Sort of like looking at automobiles. You can dream but making the final decision is another thing.
I will be on-call next week and it’s been busy this weekend. While I can use the money I hope that it’s not jumping next week. 15 minutes here or there a couple times during the week is okay. 15 or 20 minutes over the weekend is okay as well.
My back is in knots again so there could be a massage in my future but only time will tell. I hope things are going better in your world and that the sun is shining and the temperatures are warming up.
Thanks for stopping by, it does mean the world to me knowing that someone is reading this.
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