Sadness & Interesting Web Applications- a Perfect Match
So, to add insult to injury, I had to put my friendcat Randall to sleep last Monday. His kidneys had been failing for months, and then he developed an abscessed tooth that started to spread very rapidly due to his general lack of health. When we brought him to the Kitty Klinic (why with the K?), the vet gently confirmed my feelings that the best thing for Randall would be euthanasia. I've never had to make that decision for any of my pets in the past, although I do remember when my mother had our cat Bandit put to sleep when I was in high school. It was really hard, and I felt wretched afterwards. Randall purred up until he fell asleep after the sedative, and passed so gently that I couldn't even tell exactly when it happened. I had one day to cry and feel terrible before I had to pack up and go to Vancouver Washington for a library conference. It's been a rough month. I now have no cats in my house after sixteen plus years, which is really very strange.
- 9 homes- 8 in Seattle and 1 in Olympia
- 6 cat roommates- some ours, some not
- 2 dog roommates
- 7 guinea pig roommates
- 1 child roommate (who changed everything)
- 14 adult roommates
- 4 boyfriends & 3 breakups
- 4 graduations- associate's, bachelor's, master's, elementary school (not me)
- 12 jobs (4 of them Kinko's, 3 at DSHS, 6 in Seattle, 6 in Olympia, 3 lasting less than 6 months, 1 that shitcanned me after a week)
- 7 couches
- 8 human beds
- 11 animal beds (7 for cats, 4 for dogs but hijacked by cat)
http://fluffah.muxtape.com/
If you make one yourself, post your link in the comments. It made me feel a little bit better about life, so I hope it does the same for you.
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let's hang out soon and kill the ills and have some fun.
XO
But on the bright side, that muxtape thing is seriously cool. Once I have a chance on the internet where the roomies aren't playing their fancy MMORPGs I'll make a nice summery mix...some good driving music!
I'm so sorry to hear you lost another kitty friend!! This year has been sucky, I swear. I'm just hoping we're all having our bad luck now, and the rest of the year will be sweet. I went from three cats to one in an amazingly short time, and yeah, that does make the house feel so empty.
Hubby job thing - he got fired for swearing (at a TRUCK SHOP....right, nobody swears there), found a job at another trucking company, then had to quit that job after two weeks when they suddenly changed his hours and told him he'd had enough time to solve his childcare "problem". We don't have a childcare problem, we don't have childcare. We can't afford it, so one of us always has to be home with her, and hubby told them that when they hired him, and they said they were fine with it. So...he's still looking. We were talking about getting a second cat, but that's on hold - heh, along with the second child we were going to have as well.
*sob sob*