hi kids
man i dunno what to say-i can’t seem to get my ass to post. it’s really sad. not sure if any of you are still out there….maybe it’s fitting this way.
so it’s been a hellish, rewarding, terrible, stressful wonderful month. we moved. we bought the house and moved. it took 3 weeks 1000,000 trips between houses but we did it (well 98% of it) we are in the new place an have had various utility people, contractors and the like out to fix build and do other shit. it has been the most difficult process of my life.
on top of that we put our cat tyler down. he was the most needy yet social cat we had. he was pretty much my cat, as he hopped on my lap as a kitten and i decided we should take him home. he would pester me incessantly, though now that i think of it, he did that to everyone. about a year a go he stopped shitting in the litter boxes. we tried everything. we moved to a bigger house, hoping that it would help (oh there were other reasons certainly) it didnt’ help–he started shitting in the bathtub. finally, after much consultation with our vet, we decided, nay we admitted what we’ve known for a long time–he was fucked in the head–wired wrong, and though he could be cute, he was detracting from our lives more than adding. so, in essence, we killed him.
why not give him away, or take him to a shelter. fact is: cats with ‘elimination’ problems are not adopted, ever, seriously, i’m not fucking around, no one whats a cat that pisses everywhere. rather than start letting him out of our back yard, where he’d be exposed to foxes, raccoons and other shit, we put him down- it was really hard, harder than i thought to be honest.
but it is done. i miss him from time to time, but when i wake up at 6 am, instead of to him meowing at 4;30, like today, i can’t hlep but think it was the right thing to do.
so we did a fuck ton of work to the old house, some ourselves, some we brought people in. i tried listing the house on craigslist in hopes of selling it ourselves. we did get 2 hits on it, but not much. our agent admited that this is as bad as any market she’s seen. yay. i love life.
work for it’s part is super busy. as you know i’m an offical employee at the dftu client, and it’s actually yielded more work that before. oh, did i mention that my boss quit/got canned last week? no stress there, really.
so that’s me for the last 6 weeks kids. i’m alive but it’s been rough. people have it rougher, no doubt. but they’re not whiney bitches like i am.
so there
5 responses so far ↓
1 Jen // Aug 21, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I still read you. I just don’t comment ’cause you have to log in to do that, and that’s a lot of extra clicks for my liking. Anyway, I don’t think you should quit.
2 Jen // Aug 21, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Oh, and I like the expression “fuck ton.” You should try to use it in every post.
3 Natty // Aug 21, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Thank you for mentioning Tyler. Yeah, it was really hard, especially when you have to explain it to a three year old boy. He mentions Tyler from time to time and says we should go pick him up from Dr. Ward (the vet), though he seems to be accepting it now, on his own level. I should add that Tyler decided to start peeing all outside the box, too, once we moved. That really brought the issue to a higher priority. And for any of you who may be critical of our decision, I hope you never have to be in the same position and have to make these kind of choices- not that I expect the Jefke readers to be harsh, but I got some shit from some “holy-er than thou” types. So ready to criticize, but not at all willing to take the cat, so there you have it. Guess it just goes to show that it’s not about saving a cat for them, rather about being sure to openly judge the decisions of others. Ok, I am done ranting. Maybe I should get my own damn blog.
Thanks for posting, Jefke! Nice to have something new to read. Someone please buy our old house!
4 don // Aug 22, 2008 at 9:20 am
Sorry about the kitty. Sounds like you did what needed to be done. And for those who would tell you otherwise, they can fuck off.
Sounds like the move has been very stressful and kept you guys busier than I’m sure I can even imagine.
We’ll have to get together soon! I miss talking to Jefke online. Come back online Jefke!
5 Jimmy // Aug 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Man, thank god there’s RSS feed so I can see when this thing gets updated.