11/5/03
Well, I finally got a decent nights sleep last night. Now the only problem with having Vicki living in our bedroom is that she likes to play with everything! Maine Coon’s are very playful, intelligent, goofy cats. Everything in the world is a toy to her, for example, this morning I found my package of Rolaids opened and Rolaids spread out all over the floor. It didn’t look as if any had been eaten luckily but from now on I’ll have to keep all that stuff in my drawer. I’m used to being able to leave things out. The only thing we have left to do in the bedroom now is to hang the shade we got last night at Target. The office is still a catastrophe, but we’ll get to it, the bedroom is the most important.
They are jack-hammering in the cafeteria this morning, they were doing this yesterday morning as well. Would anyone like to guess how unpleasant it is to be around a jack-hammer when you have sensitive hearing and it’s 7AM!!! I expect a certain amount of umpleasant noises any time I enter a cafeteria or restaurant, loud voices, clanging plates and silverwear, y’know normal everyday noises, not JACK-HAMMERING. *sigh* They’re turning one of the sides of the cafeteria that used to be seating into some “State of the Art” Conference room. *shrugs* I couldn’t care less, I just want to go get coffee in peace! 🙂
We had to go vote yesterday. Voting is one of those things I have mixed feelings about. I always vote though, excersize my right to have an opinion. Woohoo!! *rolls eyes* In addition to what seemed like a million names to choose from we had some questions, like the conservationists want to buy up open land to use for parks for hiking and stuff, to keep development down, things like that. I hope they get that one, our town is slowly going from a nice, small little town to an over-populated hellhole with huge, expensive houses that don’t fit in with their surroundings. Hmm, *checks news* Yay, we got the 2 million for buying open space!!
*sigh* I’ve been battling with not slipping back into being depressed. It seems like there’s a lot of shit going on right now in the world, on the home-front, with friends and family. I keep trying to stay focused on the positive aspects but it can be hard. The hardest thing right now is knowing the kittens aren’t going to be here this time next week. They’re going to great homes, they’re going to be happy and loved, but it’s hard not to be selfish, I love them so much!! I just keep looking into their little faces and man, am I going to miss them. There’s something special about each little kitten. #1 is sweet as can be, he’s outgoing and fun. We get to keep #2, our little snuggly fella, #3 is independent, funny and sweet, #4 is a little sweety with an adorable little face and lovely disposition, #5 is independent, he’s big and soft, he’s the one you just want to snuggle forever but that’s the last thing he wants. He wants to run and play and he’s funny as hell. I don’t know if I’ll survive giving them up this weekend. I also worry about Sophie, as much of a pain as she can be, she loves her babies. She sleeps outside their door since we don’t let her in with them that much anymore, she cleans each one and walks around like she’s keeping track of them when they’re out. At least I know the babies are going to good homes, but she doesn’t know this. All she will know is strange people keep coming in and babies keep dissapearing.
*sigh* Anyway, we’re hoping to get going on refinancing our house here pretty soon. Most of our current financial problems are from trying to pay off problems that happened when we first got married and were flat out broke. A repossession, credit card bills, I have tax debts with the IRS I’m finally paying, stuff like that. Right now we’re barely making it through the winters, during the summer we’re okay on money since we don’t have to pay much for oil, during the winters we start drowning and slipping and during the spring we’re usually playing catch-up. Hopefully all will go well with the refinance and we’ll be able to start fresh with everything rolled into our house payment. Once that’s done I’ll be able to think about creating more debt by way of student loans so I can go to college! 🙂 We’re also hoping to get our rotting roof fixed, new windows and central air installed. We’re working now on getting estimates on all three. Luckily hubbys sister’s husband does HVAC so he’s giving us an estimate on the central air, hubbys dad should be able to hook us up with someone to do the roof estimate so all we have to do is find someone to do the window estimate. I know once all this is done I’ll feel much better about life. Most of my stresses are worrying about bills and whether or not we’ll be able to get the roof fixed before it finally gives way and starts leaking and stuff, things like that. They say money can’t buy happiness, one thing is for sure though, not having enough of it can make you mighty miserable. 🙂
*looks around* Well anyway, I should probably see about getting some work done. Not that I want to or anything. I’ll probably be back later. 🙂