I'm off schedule!! Oh No! I try to stay organized and on a schedule or I don't get everything done. Sometimes that's hard to do. It throws me for a day and then I re-group. Yesterday just wasn't going as planned.
Usually on Tuesdays I do office work all day. This consists of mailings, letters and computer work for our Financial Planning business. (My real work that actually makes some money, as Hubby reminds me). I had already figured that office work may not get done this week because we are leaving Sunday for a 7 day cruise to Bermuda. I'm very excited, especially to get out of this chilly, rainy weather we've been having. Although I must say, yesterday was beautiful here and today's not bad. This beautiful blue bird now comes to visit me twice a day.
I ended up working in my garden all afternoon yesterday. I had to! It felt so good! It was too nice to not be outside and the gardens are still a mess from being buried under old Autumn leaves and then snow on top of that all winter. That was my Tuesday afternoon. My Tuesday morning was a complete disgusting bust.
I walked downstairs first thing Tuesday morning to feed Calli, my cat, and to bring my storage boxes of summer clothes upstairs to decide what to pack. I've never been on a cruise and I've never been to Bermuda. I have no idea what to expect in the way of activities, weather (it better be nice!), and comfort.
Yesterday was supposed to be the start of the packing. But instead, I woke up to a smell in my basement, which is a finished family room. Hubby and I decided it was cat urine. Our cat, 16 year old Callie, lives down there since she doesn't get along with the dogs upstairs and she sheds so much. I used to limit her domain to the furnace room, but fairly recently I started letting her occupy the whole downstairs. She loves to just lay on the couch, which I have covered with towels and sheets.
Well, for some reason she had just recently peed behind the furnace. At least it's a concrete floor and not carpeted there. She's never done that! What was that about?! She's an indoor cat and doesn't have claws so I can't just keep her outside all the time. Anyway, I spent all morning scrubbing, bleaching, and washing the furnace room. I was mad, in tears and ready to put her down. I even called the vet and asked her about it. Then I cried some more. I know, it sounds like no big deal, but I can't stand the smell of cat urine and it is so hard to eradicate. Then the cat goes back to the same place to go again if the smell stays there. I just can't have that! I got to thinking, though, that we had company over the weekend and my cousin and his son slept down there. They invaded her new space and she got mad! Once I decided that may be the issue, she got a reprieve! She's old but she's healthy and the thought of just making that decision to put her down because I was mad at her made me so depressed. And I don't think I could find another good home for her because she's a 16 year old cat that maybe pees where she shouldn't and doesn't love a lot of people. Who wants to take that on?
So that has been my quandary for a few days and it's just been making me sick. But after the big clean up and the company has left we seem to be settled down again. Now, though, we're going to be away for a week and my neighbor is going to come in to feed the cat. How is she going to react to that? The neighbor has done this before for us but Calli is getting funny in her old age. If I come back to a smelly mess I'll need to do something. Any suggestions? I know this maybe sounds trivial and dumb, but it's a big deal to a clean freak like me, but yet loves her "babies".
Now in writing all these thoughts down, I think for now anyway, I've maybe answered my own question. I'll just keep cleaning whenever I have to and let Calli live a happy spoiled life until she dies an easy natural old age death. If she starts to suffer, versus me suffering, then I'll make that hard decision!. That's my feeling today! Yesterday was, and tomorrow possibly could be, a different story!
Usually on Tuesdays I do office work all day. This consists of mailings, letters and computer work for our Financial Planning business. (My real work that actually makes some money, as Hubby reminds me). I had already figured that office work may not get done this week because we are leaving Sunday for a 7 day cruise to Bermuda. I'm very excited, especially to get out of this chilly, rainy weather we've been having. Although I must say, yesterday was beautiful here and today's not bad. This beautiful blue bird now comes to visit me twice a day.
I ended up working in my garden all afternoon yesterday. I had to! It felt so good! It was too nice to not be outside and the gardens are still a mess from being buried under old Autumn leaves and then snow on top of that all winter. That was my Tuesday afternoon. My Tuesday morning was a complete disgusting bust.
I walked downstairs first thing Tuesday morning to feed Calli, my cat, and to bring my storage boxes of summer clothes upstairs to decide what to pack. I've never been on a cruise and I've never been to Bermuda. I have no idea what to expect in the way of activities, weather (it better be nice!), and comfort.
Yesterday was supposed to be the start of the packing. But instead, I woke up to a smell in my basement, which is a finished family room. Hubby and I decided it was cat urine. Our cat, 16 year old Callie, lives down there since she doesn't get along with the dogs upstairs and she sheds so much. I used to limit her domain to the furnace room, but fairly recently I started letting her occupy the whole downstairs. She loves to just lay on the couch, which I have covered with towels and sheets.
Well, for some reason she had just recently peed behind the furnace. At least it's a concrete floor and not carpeted there. She's never done that! What was that about?! She's an indoor cat and doesn't have claws so I can't just keep her outside all the time. Anyway, I spent all morning scrubbing, bleaching, and washing the furnace room. I was mad, in tears and ready to put her down. I even called the vet and asked her about it. Then I cried some more. I know, it sounds like no big deal, but I can't stand the smell of cat urine and it is so hard to eradicate. Then the cat goes back to the same place to go again if the smell stays there. I just can't have that! I got to thinking, though, that we had company over the weekend and my cousin and his son slept down there. They invaded her new space and she got mad! Once I decided that may be the issue, she got a reprieve! She's old but she's healthy and the thought of just making that decision to put her down because I was mad at her made me so depressed. And I don't think I could find another good home for her because she's a 16 year old cat that maybe pees where she shouldn't and doesn't love a lot of people. Who wants to take that on?
So that has been my quandary for a few days and it's just been making me sick. But after the big clean up and the company has left we seem to be settled down again. Now, though, we're going to be away for a week and my neighbor is going to come in to feed the cat. How is she going to react to that? The neighbor has done this before for us but Calli is getting funny in her old age. If I come back to a smelly mess I'll need to do something. Any suggestions? I know this maybe sounds trivial and dumb, but it's a big deal to a clean freak like me, but yet loves her "babies".
Now in writing all these thoughts down, I think for now anyway, I've maybe answered my own question. I'll just keep cleaning whenever I have to and let Calli live a happy spoiled life until she dies an easy natural old age death. If she starts to suffer, versus me suffering, then I'll make that hard decision!. That's my feeling today! Yesterday was, and tomorrow possibly could be, a different story!
