As the title says, I have a few thoughts. The problem is, none of them are in any sort of order. I'm a tad on the scatterbrained side right now. I have all these thoughts and I still don't know how to start this entry. My main thought at the moment is that I'm frustrated. With what you may ask? With everything! That's my problem. My head is so full of thoughts that I have no room left to organize them.
Randomly, let's start with something everyone can understand. The rest may be a bit too personal to air on a blog. So, I was all planned and ready to tag along on this business trip with Joel to Fort Walton Beach. I've been there once before and was looking forward to seeing those gorgeous beaches again. Then, at the beginning of this week, the week before our trip, Joel finds out he will be going to Las Vegas in February. This is somewhere I've always wanted to go. Joel knew that if it ever came up that he had to go out there on business that I'd be pissed if I couldn't go. So I know what you're thinking, why not just go on both trips? Well, we have Sugar Gliders, Parrots, dogs, & a turtle. I have to have someone that I trust come and house sit and critter sit. I always ask Mom. We commission her. No, we don't pay her with money. We pay her by letting Kolby come to visit them in GA for a little while. Kolby loves it there and they enjoy having him. He also is very useful to them on the farm and around the house. Mom also has a job where she works Tuesday to Thursday each week. I can't exactly keep asking her to come critter and house sit for me. She has regular customers that need their do's done. She's a hair stylist. Plus, she has to find someone to look after Mam-maw. So why am I not excited about the Las Vegas trip? Well, if I've learned anything about Joel's work place it's that things change at the drop of a hat. So where does that leave me this week? I'm no longer looking forward to a trip that is finally here. I'm now facing yet another week without my husband with a "promise" of another trip to look forward to in February. That doesn't exactly make me feel great.
So with the previous paragraph over and you're now understanding one of the reasons I'm frustrated/depressed right now, you're probably saying to yourself, "Why in Blue Hell would anyone take on so many animals?" The answer, other than we're STUPID; Well, everyone has dogs or cats. That's normal. So I won't even explain our 3 dogs. We came across a parrot, Rambo, first. Kolby wanted one for Christmas of 2002. After that and falling in love with little Rambo we became friends with Rambo's breeder. We'd go see her and either rescue or adopt her feathered babies. We now have 4 and some teeny little finches. This breeder also had Sugar Gliders. Joel fell in love with one of them and talked me into bringing him home when the original person scheduled to pick him up never showed. Well, we then learned they're really happier with a room mate. So we set out looking for 1 and ended with us having 4. From there we came across, via a SG forum, random gliders that "needed" a good home. We thought we could save pet population ourselves for a while. Why did we not know how to say no? It isn't that easy when people ask you to take in their pets and you see they're in a bad situation. We eventually learned that, for our own sakes, we had to start saying no. So we have. Not before the critters took over our lives, though. We constantly clean after them, feed them, give them attention, etc... That doesn't leave a lot of time for us. Also, we can't just take off over night like normal people. We brought this all on ourselves. I know. It doesn't make things any easier to admit that, though.
Hmm, what else is frustrating me? Oh yeah, I have a brand new damn illness! I was diagnosed with PCOS. Yay! More medicine! More doctor visits! More issues with eating! Lucky, lucky me! I know I'm throwing a pitty party for myself.
I have plenty more gripes, but who the hell wants to hear that? I would guess that no one would. So since I have to get up early in the morning and fix Thanks-friggin-giving dinner I'm getting offline and going to get ready for bed.
I hate the holidays! I really do!
Hey, I totally know what you mean.. I REALLy would love to take a trip but it just aint going to happen with so many pets.
MISS you R, hope we can chat soon! And wish we could all do the Vegas trip together!
Posted by: Candice | November 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM