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selenayYou know how sometimes life just can't give you a break? It throws everything at you all at once?
Right now, my kitchen is a bare room with holes in the walls, some of them at ground level and large enough for small cats to get through and get lost inside the walls. It's also got sharp nails poking out of the floor. This bare room thing also means that preparing meals involves transporting a table plus any cooking devices (e.g. toaster oven) into the kitchen each time we want to make supper.
Added to this, my car is going into the shop for repairs (someone dinged it) on Tuesday so I will be transport-less for most of the week.
Also, we have workmen coming in most days this week and important deliveries (cabinets!) at the end of the week.
This we can cope with. The cats are with my aunt, mum is home during the day, I can car-pool. Mum and I can cope.
This morning, my uncle in Manitoba died. He and Mum weren't that close, so she's doing pretty well, but my aunt is completely devastated. Mum is over at my aunt's right now.
I'm fine, don't worry. I'd met my uncle a couple of times and spoken to him half a dozen times, so he's a rather distant figure for me.
The problem is that coping with this week was rather dependent on the cats being with my aunt and my mum being here, plus us not needing to go anywhere after the car went to be fixed.
Seeing the problem here? Mum and aunt are probably going to Manitoba on the first flight they can find. There will be three cats (mine plus my aunt's) here, in a house that is currently unsafe for cats and a cooking situation that requires careful, delicate working to avoid lighting the house up. There will also be workmen and deliveries, with my mum not here. Plus there is likely to be running around needed, with no car and no aunt-with-car to help out if we need to get somewhere urgently.
This is going to get very complicated, very difficult and probably insanely stressful. Uncle, you couldn't have waited two weeks to die? (I'm allowed to say this - my aunt said it this morning, we're that kind of family).
Dear universe,
You suck.
No love,
Me
Right now, my kitchen is a bare room with holes in the walls, some of them at ground level and large enough for small cats to get through and get lost inside the walls. It's also got sharp nails poking out of the floor. This bare room thing also means that preparing meals involves transporting a table plus any cooking devices (e.g. toaster oven) into the kitchen each time we want to make supper.
Added to this, my car is going into the shop for repairs (someone dinged it) on Tuesday so I will be transport-less for most of the week.
Also, we have workmen coming in most days this week and important deliveries (cabinets!) at the end of the week.
This we can cope with. The cats are with my aunt, mum is home during the day, I can car-pool. Mum and I can cope.
This morning, my uncle in Manitoba died. He and Mum weren't that close, so she's doing pretty well, but my aunt is completely devastated. Mum is over at my aunt's right now.
I'm fine, don't worry. I'd met my uncle a couple of times and spoken to him half a dozen times, so he's a rather distant figure for me.
The problem is that coping with this week was rather dependent on the cats being with my aunt and my mum being here, plus us not needing to go anywhere after the car went to be fixed.
Seeing the problem here? Mum and aunt are probably going to Manitoba on the first flight they can find. There will be three cats (mine plus my aunt's) here, in a house that is currently unsafe for cats and a cooking situation that requires careful, delicate working to avoid lighting the house up. There will also be workmen and deliveries, with my mum not here. Plus there is likely to be running around needed, with no car and no aunt-with-car to help out if we need to get somewhere urgently.
This is going to get very complicated, very difficult and probably insanely stressful. Uncle, you couldn't have waited two weeks to die? (I'm allowed to say this - my aunt said it this morning, we're that kind of family).
Dear universe,
You suck.
No love,
Me
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Date: 2010-06-20 04:08 pm (UTC)If she's too far away to stay overnight, maybe you can still use her car and leave the cats there, going over to check on them every few days.
Or call and reschedule the car repairs.
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Date: 2010-06-20 07:13 pm (UTC)The cats definitely can't be left on their own for long either, due to the mix of my aunt's car plus mine. They, ah, require a bit of supervision. An hour or two is the most any of us feel comfortable with.
And the repairs can't be rescheduled for a whole ton of reasons. So I need to make the mess we're left with work. I'll be chatting to my bosses at work about working from home for most of the week because all the things happening here were dependent on someone being in the house during the day. If that stuff doesn't happen then we're stuck with the worries about cats and cooking for even longer.
Right now, the only element that I'm really unsure about how we're going to work is getting me from the car repair place back home on Tuesday without taking most of a work day off. Mum and my aunt leave at midday for Manitoba, so me going to work (the shop is near my office) and car pooling home in the evening won't work because the cats will be here on their own for too long.
Right now, we're trying to get hold of the builder to make sure that he'll fill in the biggest holes tomorrow so that the house is at least semi-cat safe.
Really, my uncle is probably up there laughing at all the chaos he's caused right now!