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Top 10 Reasons It Would Be Good To Be A Cat

1. Sleep!  You’d be in nap heaven.

2. You would be the ruler of the house, no ifs, ands, or butts.

3. If you don’t like something or someone, just hiss.

4. When you’re human calls you, you can pretend you didn’t hear them, unless of course it’s time to eat.

5. You can lay around wherever and whenever you want. See #2.

6. If you happen to be in the giving mood, all you have to do to show your human that you love them is rub against their leg a few times. You can purr if you want. Or not.

7. You can boldly snoop into anything you’d like no matter who’s watching.

8. If someone is “allergic” to you or doesn’t want you near them, just jump in their lap. You’ll be shooed away in no time. Then you can go take another nap.

9. If your human tries to get you to play with one of your toys, you can play if you feel like it. Or not, it’s totally up to you.

10. Did I mention sleep?? Because really, you just can’t get enough.

P.S. Happy Birthday Jackie! I hope you have an awesome day!! XOX’s

Oh, how I would have done things differently…. if only I knew then what I know now!

Here are the Top 10 things I would’ve done differently in my life, but not necessarily in order:

10. I would have finished college and gone to dental hygiene school.

9.  I would have waited to get married.

8.  I would have waited to have children, if at all.

7.  I would have liked myself more.

6.  I would have listened to my parents more.

5.  I wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to grow up.

4.  I would have had more fun.

3.  I would have saved more money.

2.  I would have gone to the doctor about my insomnia sooner.

1.  I wouldn’t have eaten that last chili dog.

Now it’s your turn! Go link up your Top 10 at Oh Amanda!

For months I’ve been dealing with the lack of communication between WS2 and I. It has been really difficult to go through.

A few Friday’s ago, I sent BH an email letting him know that I wanted to set up dates for WS2’s summer visit with me. He wrote me back saying that he would let WS2 and I discuss it like we did before with Spring Break. I told him that I have been trying to call and all I get is voicemail and no returned calls. BH said he would tell WS2 to call me again.

Well, WS2 called me about 10 minutes after that email. He called from BH’s cell but only called my home phone. But I wasn’t at home, dontchaknow. I’m still trying to figure out why he didn’t call my cell when he didn’t get an answer at home….. (my guess is that BH was fishing for info to see if I was at home in NY or in TX since he said he didn’t “have good numbers for me”. I let him know that none of my numbers have changed.)

Anyway, BH emailed me back right away to say that WS2 had just tried to call but there was no answer. I told him I wasn’t at home and would he have WS2 call me on my cell. BH emailed me back saying that WS2 was already gone to “a previous engagement”. WTF?? I’m not allowed to know where my son is?

That following Sunday night I called WS2 thinking that SURELY he would answer since he had just tried to call me that Friday before. I thought this was logical reasoning since he knows I call every Sunday night at 8:30.

You guessed it. He didn’t answer.

That’s when I made my decision.

I can’t keep putting myself through this anymore. I need a break from this and the break starts now. I decided I’m not calling him for a while. And if that means that he doesn’t come for a visit this summer, then so be it. He knows that I call, and he knows that I want to make plans for his visit. If he can’t have the decency to answer or call me back, then it’s not going to happen. I want off this emotional roller coaster for a while.

Why should I be treated this way? If this were anybody else, I wouldn’t put up with it. Why should he get away with it just because he’s my son? Why should I subject myself to this form of treatment?

So I’m taking a break from calling WS2 on Sunday nights.

I know there will be people who don’t agree with my decision to do this, but I’m just. so. tired. I can’t handle another week of this right now. I won’t stop calling all together, I just need to take some time away from it. Like I told my mom, I’m putting it on the shelf for a while.

How about you? Have you ever had a one-sided relationship with anyone? And didn’t it totally SUCK? What did you do about it?

I’m finally back in the land of the 21st century.

That hasn’t been the case for about the past month.  Hubby and I decided to go back to our home in NY for a while to, you know, “get away from it all”.  When we left I was really looking forward to being there again for a while. It’s so beautiful there and oh. so. peaceful.  We have 18 acres of woods, we can’t see our neighbors from our house, and the only sounds we hear are the birds at our feeders, the stream on the side of our property, and the occasional 4-wheelers speeding by on their way to the trails. Actually, I was reminded just how peaceful it was when we got home.

If you remember my World Series drama from last year, you know that our house in NY has no cable.

And no cell signal. (We have to forward our cell phones to our land line. This also means no texting.)

And to top it off, NO INTERNET.  *gasp*  (We started out with satellite internet, but it had horrible reception. After that we even went back to the stone age of dial up, but we kept getting kicked off, which made us ticked off.) So in order to get the precious world wide web, Hubby and I would have to go to Barnes & Noble, Panera Bread, or Wegman’s-our grocery store full of awesomeness- all of which are 30 minutes from home.

It was so relaxing! I was finally able to finish reading my book. I started knitting on a sweater for this coming winter. I sat out on our patio in the sun and listened to music. I even baked a few batches of cupcakes.  Very relaxing!! At first…

But then it was as if I’d been sent to Internet Detox.   All I wanted to do was check my email….. and tweet a little bit…… maybe blog a while….. or do some googling….. send a text or two….. pay some bills…..

Is that so wrong?

I was suddenly left with extra time on my hands. Time that is normally spent in front of my MacBook. I guess when you’re sent to “therapy”, you’re supposed to reflect on the state of your life.

So I reflected.

And reflected some more-because that’s what you do when you have NO INTERNET…. I even contemplated life on our loooong drive back to Texas. I came to a conclusion.

I’m addicted to the internet.