10/17/03

I got into work this morning and started looking through my e-mails and there’s one from my boss. Attached is a spreadsheet with some info for me to enter into CMS and then at the bottom she writes “See you Monday”. I rolled my eyes, let out a big sigh and said aloud “No, you won’t actually”. She’s forgotten my vacation AGAIN. Coincidentally I sent out an e-mail with my contact information for M-F of next week so when I opened her response to that it said to please get that stuff entered before I leave and to have a safe trip. My boss has to be the most absent-minded person I know!

We got the oil changed in the car last night and the pool rinsed out, plus a load of laundry. Something kinda funny happened while we were rinsing the pool. See, hubby had to climb under it and let it fold over him and hang while he stood there with his arms up so I could rinse it off really well. I was really engrossed in rinsing, watching the water, leaves, and dirt rolling off the plastic, it was strangely hypnotic. Anyway, here I am lost in rinsing and our neighbor comes out and yells out “Your trip is next week right?” I must have jumped ten feet in the air. She was still far enough away that she couldn’t hear me say to hubby “You can get out from under the pool now”. When hubby climbed out from under the pool it scared the shit out of our neighbor! She was like “Oh!!! I didn’t know anyone was actually under there!!” After we all finished startling one another we talked a little bit about the kittens. She has someone that might be interested in one of the kittens and she might be interested in one as well. She’s in love with the little grey one but thinks her husband would have a fit if she tried to bring home another cat. I have a sneaking suspicion that the little grey one will be claimed by them when we get back from vacation. He’s a hoot, you can’t not fall in love with him. We’ll see when we get back how many we still need to find homes for. 😉

I’m actually kind of looking forward to sending the kittens off to their new homes. I love them, don’t get me wrong, I wish they could stay like this forever and never grow any older but they have to. We’ve found some great homes so I know they’ll be loved and well cared for. That helps tremendously, so does the fact that I get to keep one! 🙂

*sigh*

Anyway, we leave tomorrow morning!! Realization has hit and I’m excited. I woke up around 3:30am and had a hell of a time getting back to sleep, everything about the trip was just swirling around in my head, keeping me awake. I finally had to do one of my relaxation technique’s to take the focus off my thoughts and put it elsewhere. I fell asleep shortly thereafter. At least I’m not as excited as I was the first time I came to CT for a visit. That was one hell of a night. I was actually still sick with bronchitis, had been the entire week prior to the trip. I still had that awful cough that made it hard to sleep at night though. Between coughing and being excited I was literally awake all night. I finally did fall asleep around 6am but had to get up at 7am so it was a waste pretty much.

We have a 10.5 hour drive to look forward to tomorrow. That’s not bad though. Sunday we’re only driving for 5 hours cuz we’re stopping in IL to meet FallingDog, yay!! Then on Monday we’re driving the other 10.5 hours to Tulsa. My mom told me to call her when we get to Tulsa. My mother, I swear, she worries too much. She’s one of those people that wants to know every hotel you’re stopping at, what routes you’re taking and everything. She’s worse with her parents though than she is with me strangely enough.

I’m going to take my work fishy home. I think he’d do better at home since he needs a green pea once a week. That, and I like to rotate them a little. I’ll probably swap them around every time I take a long vacation, it’s just a good time to do it. I’m probably going to bring Arthur to work with me when I come back. They’re going to have to trade bowls though, I don’t entirely trust Clyde’s bowl at home, it doesn’t have an actual lid, just some netting held over the top with a rubber band. I used to have it at home but that was before Sophie came along, she shows a little more interest in my fish than I would like. I’ll be keeping an eye on her tonight and moving Clyde somewhere she can’t get to him if I think there will be a problem.

It’s going to be sooooo hard to leave the kittens. I always have to make myself believe I’m just going to work when we leave for a trip. You’re supposed to act normal, even when you leave for a long trip. Animals can pick up on your emotions and if they feel that you don’t want to leave and that you’re sad it can cause problems. Actually, any time you leave your pet you’re supposed to act happy and normal. A lot of seperation anxiety problems in animals comes from their people making a huge fuss over the animal when they leave every day. I’m sure after having our neighbor over tonight I’ll feel better about leaving the kittens. She showed a ton of excitement last night about it, she just can’t wait to take care of them!!!! I’m sure they’ll spend a couple hours at our place every day we’re gone.

Anyway, wow, it’s almost 9am already. I should probably get off of here and get to work, get everything done so I can be on top of everything and not leave work today with anything on my plate. 🙂