I am leaving on a jet plane
I am leaving tomorrow morning for Atlanta GA until late Tuesday for a conference for work, ” The National Conference on Volunteerism and Service”. Yippee <<insert sarcasm here>>
I really am not looking forward to going, and with the week I had I am not organized at all. And for those who know me, I am NOT a southern gal at all. Georgia is not my ideal travel destination.
However the distance and distraction may be good for me right now. I have found in the past 24 hours that I have to learn to live completely alone for the first time in the apartment, how to live without a cat on the couch with me when watching TV, sleeping at the foot of the bed, fighting with me for attention when I read my book, scoot her off my suitcase because I have to pack for my trip, etc… it is very quiet here, Hocus was such a chatty little lady.
There are benefits (sadly), I can lay my clothes out and not have to worry about her sleeping on them. I don’t have to worry about her while I am away at the conference. I can stay out after work and not have to rush home to feed her. I don’t have the responsibility of having a pet.
But after 16 years of having another being living with me, giving me unconditional love, always present, never complaining, it is quite odd, eerily quiet and the adjustment is going to be an emotional challenge.
Hocus will be cremated and her ashes will be returned to me, so that she will be with her brother Pocus who was also cremated. I am trying to work out their final resting place, and have a few ideas that I will share in time.
I hope to be in better emotional space when I return from Atlanta and plan to post a little “tribute” page to Hocus and her brother Pocus. (I am not a crazy cat lady if I do a tribute page am I?)
See you all next week, all my love.
Namaste
the day the Iris finally bloomed…
We have been waiting for this iris to bloom for years now. And today it finally did. A touch of beauty on this sad day.
My friend and companion Hocus left us this morning. And I don’t know what else to say but that right now.
She will be missed.
Lady Slipper
Went for a walk today behind the house. Up on this hill we found these! Lady Slippers, beautiful!
Pretty Lady
Oh the sun is all mine today!
Here she is yesterday content soaking up the sun. She had a good day, eating some catnip, enjoying some reiki, and playing with a pipe cleaner.
I took her to the vet last week to have a second lump I found in her belly checked out. As the doc said, “yup there it is, down the chain, it will have to be removed too”. Hocus goes in for her surgery on Wednesday morning.
I am starting to feel a little guilty and selfish about putting her under the knife. But in thinking about the alternatives, putting down a happy apparently healthy cat or leaving them in – watching and allowing her get “sick”, I have to believe that I have made the right decision. The vet recommends the surgery and it is quite routine. The point is that after the lumps have been removed the surgery will give her a better quality of life after she has healed.
TETHFHPHTE Progress to date….
Hee, Hee, Hee….. cannot wait for my niece to meet it!
I added wire to the horns so you can mould and sculpt them.
I hope to work on the wings this weekend. The wing yarn is a fuzzy “fun fur” purple.
The best part of all is I made it a chain link leash with fun little charms! ( Oh, the craft store is a very dangerous place!)
Stay tuned for more pics over the weekend!
