quickie

 

Things have been a bit hectic.  The ordeal with Bailey turned into a big deal.  Turns out B was due for his shots in January, which is when we were dealing with FIL stuff.  We had to board him for the remainder of the 10 days (5 nights)  I was beside myself, I felt really dumb for letting that happen and like I had really let him down.  I picked him up Monday and he is starting to act like his normal self.  Honestly, it was probably harder on me than it was him.  I don’t think the neighbor will sue, fingers crossed. 

Had my first appointment with the new therapist.  She seems fine but it is too soon to tell as I felt like the entire session was me trauma dumping on her from all the stress I have been under.  I scheduled an appointment at my primary doctor for the next day to see about changing my anxiety meds and to see about my weight loss.  He thinks they are connected and gave me some daily medication and one for acute anxiety.  Both him and the therapist made the comment that sometimes just knowing you have that will help.  It is a fairly low dose of Valium, which I have never taken before.  So, my current weight is somewhat problematic.  On his scale it was right at 100 and at home it showed around 98.  The daily anxiety meds have been making me nauseous so that doesn’t help.  I forced myself to eat a half a peanut butter sandwich yesterday but that was about all I could stomach.  I have to figure something out.  I wouldn’t mind staying around this weight, but I know it will not be sustainable once I get everything lined out.  Who would have ever thought I would have that problem? 

My mom is going through it right now too.  She took her little 2 pound dog to the vet a few days ago and he had a heart attack and died while they were doing blood work.  She feels so guilty.  I told her she was 100% not to blame, she was trying to make sure he is healthy (spoiler alert, he wasn’t).  She is taking it really hard.

In other animal news I found Frankie a home and I thought all was well until I got a message yesterday saying their other cat was really aggressive towards her and they weren’t going to be able to keep her.  So tomorrow me and my mom are going to go get her.  I guess we will try and introduce her to my herd.  I’m not sure how that is going to go.  I am going a work trip next week so the timing couldn’t be worse.  I tried to talk my mom into taking her but she said no way in hell.

For the first time since I have lived in my house the fireworks om the 4^th didn’t sound like a Russian invasion.  I think the huge brush piles at the curb dissuaded most rational people from going overboard.  They finally issued a state of emergency and I applied for a disaster relief loan through the SBA.  The interest rates are like 2% so it’s worth a try.  I need to replace my privacy fence and my roof among a few other things.  I don’t know how long that will take to review.  I am a little concerned that I will take a hit on my credit report, which I have been really working on lately.  That was fast, I already got an email that I was denied.  I will have to call and see what the deal is but I’m really not surprised.  I am not sure what the criteria is but if nothing else going through it will help me at the next hurricane mission.