NoJoMo Day 6

My Stick Family from WiddlyTinks.com
I’m a little more alive tonight, I promise. Taking advantage of time to get some informal training in at work while I can, I figure the more I know now the quicker I can hit the floor running. With the holiday shopping season coming up on us soon, I figure that as a good thing. Plus that way I won’t be sitting at home bored out of my skull.

Now on the life changes front. I’ve finally snapped myself out of my funk about not giving a shit about how my home looks. I might do a before/after shoot to give an idea of how things are going. I know that right now my house is in bad shape (one of those could be better, could be worse kind of things) and I am doing my best to remedy that. Part of what I’m doing is being brutally cutthroat about what I do and do not keep. It’s the only way I can cope with it all right now.

The pets are continuing to do well. The one downside is that I am now in a position where I have started proceedings with the Oregon Humane Society to surrender Small because although I love him to death, he is peeing on everything to mark his territory. I have tried every single option I can possibly think of to break him of this, but nothing is working. No, he does not have a UTI, as he is very consistent with where he pees and when. This behavior matches exactly the behavior we thought we’d broken him of as a kitten. The final straw came the other night when he peed on the bed. He’s also being more overtly aggressive towards the dogs as he grows older which cannot be tolerated. He needs to be the only cat. Truly this does break my heart, but I know it’s for the better for him and for us.

Andrew and I have a plan for how quickly we’re going to get our debt paid off. We’re going to go full bore on paying off our high balance credit card after we get the smaller one paid off, and once that happens we’ll be looking into him going to school to become an LPN, but he does know that first priority is getting out of debt first.

On a religious front, I have finally found in my heart where I stand. I will say this now, if anyone reading this has any issues with religions other that Christianity, leave now. I do not condone judgment of others for their choices. I have finally determined in my heart that I consider myself pagan, and have also determined which goddesses I identify with most (more on that a bit later).

My love life continues to go well. Andrew and I are squabbling a bit as we get the house in order, but I think that is to be expected honestly. Jesse and I also are doing well, although I am a little annoyed at his ex-wife right now. I was borrowing Jesse’s facebook account to play a game on with his permission, and his ex popped on. I started chatting with her because of that and found that she seemed interesting because she’s a crafty person in the ‘makes things and sells them’ sort of way. She’s trying to get me in the middle of a situation involving them and their son, which I am NOT happy about and have told Jesse as much (more on that later as well).

So all in all, doing fantastic right now. 🙂