Not off to a great start
June 15th, 2008
This day is not getting off to a great start. I just got back from a somewhat puny run. My goal of 5 miles is feeling very distant to me right now, unachievable. My mini-goal for tomorrow is just to get back to 3.1 miles of all run, no walk.
DH and DD9 are off camping this weekend. I couldn’t go because I have too much work to do. I had a restless night. Can’t blame that on DH being gone, though, because I haven’t been sleeping very well with him here either.
Woke up to a crying cat. Got up and made sure she was not locked in the bedroom with me, but no, the door was open, so she was free to go to her food and her box. Got up and got ready for my run, headed downstairs to be greeted with a giant mound of cat poop on my new shag rug from Ikea. $&*^%! Cat!! Went into the bathroom to get cleaning supplies and found a big puddle of cat pee on the brick floor. Ugh! Threw the cat outside, but she ran back in when I finally left for my run after cleaning up her messes. We had this problem a while back, and then it went away, and if it is back now I don’t know what I am going to do because I really cannot deal with an incontinent cat in my life right now. Not to sound harsh, but I just can’t. I guess my attachment to the cat isn’t all that strong, because if she’s going to be pooping on rugs and peeing on floors she has got to go.
Went into the kitchen to get a yogurt before I left and the garbage is literally overflowing. My last words to DS19 before I went to bed were don’t forget to take out the trash. Don’t worry, mom, I’m on it. Thank God DH is not home or WWIII would have errupted over this. DS19 has been extremely lazy lately (lazier than normal, which is saying something) and DH is ready to kill him.
Added to the garbage situation, the kitchen was a complete disaster from DD21 and DS’s girlfriend making smoothies last night. Yes, they made them with low fat yogurt and they were really good but, hello, clean up your eff-ing mess when you’re done. Jeez.
Final straw is that I am having huge allergy issues, eyes are just watering like crazy to the point I am having trouble focusing to read. And I need to be able to read, because I still have work to do. Not much, thankfully, I am almost done, but it’s still hard to focus and concentrate when you’ve got tears flowing down your face and your eyes itch.
I guess that wasn’t the final straw. Sorry! Actually, the big underlying issue to all my bad karma I think has to do with DD21 and her upcoming move. I am having a really hard time dealing with her. She lives here in my house for another couple of weeks, and I can’t be nice to her. I am trying, but I can’t. I am angry. I am angry at her choices and her lifestyle choices and it makes me snarky and mean, and snarky and mean is not how I want to spend my last few weeks with her before she is 2,000+ miles away. But I am being snarky and I am being mean and I don’t know how to stop.
Time to hit the shower and then go to church, then back home again to finish up the last of the hearing that I am transcribing. Then a late lunch/early supper @ 3 pm with two girlfriends, halleluiah!
June 15th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Could your cat have a bladder infection? Our cat pees in blankets when she is having problems. Our vet said to bring in a sample when she has problems. I asked him how I was supposed to get a sample from a cat. I pictured myself with a cup behind her waiting to pee in it. And he said they have special litter that will get a sample that the vet will need. I would give that a try.
Good for you for getting out there even when you feel crummy!
Hope you had fun with your girlfriends!!
June 16th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Your cat probably has a urinary tract infection. A quick trip to the Vet should fix things up
June 16th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I’m sorry to hear about your cat. I had a cat that was peeing and pooping in the house. We took her to the vet, no UTI. We thought she was mad because we had introduced another new cat. I finally got to the point of taking her to the vet to get kitty prozac. We were all set to leave with the meds. I was going to have to get rid of her if it didn’t help. Right before we were going to walk out the vet noticed that my pissed off cat was still on the table and had not jumped off. She asked if she could do an X-ray and sure enough my cat had hip dysplasia. The lid on the litter box was high enough that she wasn’t comfortable jumping over it. We switched to a lower one and all was well.
I only mention this because she almost didnt get diagnosed. The kitty prozac wouldnt have helped and we would have gotten rid of her. So, if you take the cat in and it isn’t a UTI, make sure they check for that.
My cat also wasnt jumping up on high things. I had attributed that to her being a fat kitty.
Abie