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Some Things 5/5

Posted on May 5, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | 2 Comments

1) A family friend posted a devotional on the Facebook page (she does daily). It started with how sometimes you have friends you have to kick out of your life. I can relate to that. I’ve had to kick friends out of my life. Mostly people who I thought were true friends. Then circumstances revealed it was really a one way friendship with nothing coming back. So yeah, fuck those people. They’re users. They only contact you when they need something or it’s convenient for them. Or maybe they somehow think they are really your friend and somehow justify that you’re too fat to be in their wedding but you’re still their best friend! Yeah fuck you.

Then the further in the devotional it turned out the friends were worry, doubt, and fear – not actual people. My bad. Sometimes people gotta go too though.

2) There’s this guy at work who has a weird accent “problem.” He’s from England but I think both of his parents were American. So he sounds normal American English, but every once in a while he throws in proper British English accented word. Sometimes he’ll say the exact same word a way an American would, but sometimes it falls out in more of a British pronunciation. Accents are usually nice – but not this. This is jarring. He sounds like he’s faking being fancy. Especially when he’s talking to you. Because it’s only a few random words it sounds like he’s trying to correct you on their pronunciation. It’s just really weird. He’s married too and I bet his wife loves it. But every time I hear him slip in a weirdly accented word, I cringe. I know in my brain that he’s not doing it on purpose but in my heart I feel like he’s faking and being pretentious.

I can only compare it to bilingual people. When they’re running along in perfect English but encounter a word in their native language and pronounce it correctly. Like Giatta (Food Network) talking about food and then really going hard on words like “mozzarella.” Or my Puerto Rican friend who has a dad from Wisconsin – so he sounds American but pronounces Puerto Rican or Latina dishes in their authentic way. These cases do not bother me. I find them nice, actually. Like I could learn from them.

But this guy flipping between two different English accents is really annoying. I want to CORRECT him. Like dude, no one says “task” like that. You’re killing me. It’s usually his “A” sounds. He’ll say it hard when it should be soft or soft when it should be hard. SAY IT RIGHT, THOMAS.

3) The pool is OPEN! It’s freezing cold though. Like below 70 degrees. So I haven’t been in yet. Just stood on the tanning ledge and let my feet go numb.

Some Things 03/15

Posted on March 15, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | 1 Comment

So spring is springing. I find it extremely depressing. It makes me miss my mother. She was all about gardening. Flowers, vegetables, any plants. All the plants. It’s time to weed and get things ready for growing. Mom would have been here this weekend helping me weed the flower bed. She’d have been bringing me drinks and insisting on helping rake out the pool area. She’d be fawning over the Candy Corn Spirea showing its true colors for the first time (we only got them last year). The daffodils are in full bloom. The purple hyacinths she bought me last year are popping up under the bat house. It all screams MOM.

I bought new shoes yesterday. Three pairs. I know, I spent far too much. However, if you know me in real life, you know I never buy shoes. I bought the three pairs, trashed five pairs and moved the old running shoes into the tornado shelter. So I netted a big loss in shoes. I’m just not a shoe person. They’re expensive and a pain in the ass to find. I need work shoes, work out shoes, dress shoes, and sandals. So now if I just get a pair of rain boots for gardening I think I’m totally solid for the first time in my life on shoes.

I went to Fleet Feet and they did all their technology to recommend the shoes for me. I got two pairs of HOKA One One’s. Holy shit, they feel like your feet are wrapped in marshmallows and walking on clouds. I got the same shoe (the Bondi) in black leather for work and grey for walking/biking. So I went the old lady route and even though I hated the look, I bought them because they were so fucking comfortable. However, today I looked up the brand and read that they purposefully went for the huge wide foot bed as a style choice and to give you a firmer grip and more padding. That makes sense. And I realized what I thought was a PPU material is actually leather. So I like them more now. I’m really not used to my feet looking so BIG. But my lord, clouds and marshmallows, yall.

The third pair are some slip-ons. They’re actually Oofos recovery footwear. Also, giant marshmallows. I asked her if I could get them in a different, more neutral color. She said they didn’t have anything and couldn’t order anything because doctors send people there to get them and they can’t keep them in stock. Well, I can feel why. So yeah, I got those in galaxy purple. So sue me.

I wish they had more than just athletic shoes. Having them find the perfect fit for me as well as the perfect build for me made a huge difference. She knew exactly which shoes I should try and what my feet needed. And the sizes ranged from 8.5 to 9.5 because “these run short” or whatever. I mean, I know it’s the computer and not the lady – but this shit works. They found me three perfect shoes. Maybe not the prettiest but damn my feet are comfy.

Lastly, I think I’m in the angry stage of grieving. Or just angry for no reason. I’m just angry. I’m quick to temper. I’m bothered. I’m quick to call someone a dumbass on Facebook and then get gang pummeled by people defending them. Only to double down and explain why they’re a dumbass, only to get group pummeled again even so much as to pick apart my profile picture where apparently my lipstick is terribly applied. And I get angry driving, going to the store (fuck people), being at work — I’m easily angered. I have no chill. I hate my job, my cats dying and hates me shoving pills down his throat, and my mommas dead. What do you want from me? Mr C is suffering at work too and has the cough from HELL that won’t go away. I’m just really not cheerful.

And I miss mom. I miss having that connection and our conversations. I need her opinion about my new shoes.

Some Things 2/13

Posted on February 13, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | Leave a Comment

I used the last of J’s first kidney pill prescription today. 90 pills. I’ve given this cat 90 pills now. Has it gotten easier? Fuck no. He’s no quitter. He’ll take that pill when you shove it down his throat while he fights you off. 90 times.
Did you know you can use GoodRX for pet medications? You can! I can get his pain meds for half the cost at Publix and same for his IV fluids on Chewy.com. Also, Chewy.com sells IVs and IV fluids. Interesting.
Chop Chop is way over priced. It’s a damn good salad, don’t get me wrong. I don’t even like salads. And it’ll fill you up. But come on, $17 for a salad and a cup of water? Did I move to LA? What the fuck?

Some Things 1/15

Posted on January 15, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | 1 Comment

1) I’m trying to get stuff for the funeral organized. We need to pick a photo for the main mom photo. But my sisters are still too distraught to look at photos. Sister I was talking to said she didn’t even leave her room yesterday. She just ate some cottage cheese she had in the fridge down there. Okay, thats not healthy.

Also, I can’t shut down. I have a job and a mortgage and a husband and a cat I had to take the the vet today. I know she’s fucked up and grieving but I kinda want to smack her. Get off your damn ass.

2) Took the cat the vet today. The good news is, all of his levels have improved! I think the vet was very impressed that I followed directions. She basically treated me like I was a good dog. I’m cool with that. Go me!

Problem is he’s still in kidney failure. I got the copies of his labs so I could look stuff up. He’s right at the bottom levels (good end) of stage 3 failure. Ugh. So I don’t think he’s going to get off the fluids and stuff. He has an average life expectancy of 2 years at this point. Let’s make ’em good.

After the bath, he was licking himself so much he had a hair ball… in the new heated cat bed. He was obsessed with it and now he wont go near it. Fuck. It’s like Mr C and grape juice. He’s traumatized now.

3) Someone was using “my” bathroom stall at work and it was surprisingly weird. There is like one bathroom per floor where I work with 6 stalls. I always use the same stall. Row 2, Stall A. It’s a good one. Row 1 Stall B runs forever. 1 A flushes too much (sensor calibration issues). I can’t use a handicapped stall so I stick with my safe 2 A. But the other day someone was in there! I had to use one of the handicapped stalls.

Am I the only one who always uses the same stall?

Some Things 1/10

Posted on January 10, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | 2 Comments

1) K came through with the most adorable, soft, crocheted blanket for my familiar. It’s now adding more padding and a shit ton more style to his heated cat bed. What a good friend. It’s such a sweet comforting gesture when I could REALLY use it. I wish I could show mom. I love you, K!

2) I saw a Lysol commercial today. We’re still smack in the middle of Covid (for future reference). Has ANYONE seen a bottle of Lysol since February last year? Why are they spending money on advertising? It’s not an old commercial either – it said it kills the Covid virus in the commercial. We fucking KNOW, Lysol. Put your money into getting that shit on the shelves. You think you need to advertise your product right now? It’s aerosol gold.

Wait. Let me check something.

There is literally an 8 pack on ebay for $129.99 plus $19.99 shipping right now. People are scalping Lysol. And they’re advertising.

3) I’m using wool dryer balls now. How hippie is that? We finally ran out of dryer sheets and these things are supposed to last forever without all the chemicals. Do they really prevent static? We shall see… free-trade, ethically sourced-from Nepal, hand-felted by little old hippie ladies, happy sheep dryer balls. We shall see.

Some Things 1/05

Posted on January 5, 2021 | by cursingcats.com | 3 Comments

1) Per Request, I’ve tried to get an email subscription set up for the blog. On the side bar is a place you can enter your email to get notifications of new posts. Test it out and let me know if it works. Or not, I won’t be insulted. It should send my new posts to your email box so you don’t have to bother visiting the site to see if I’ve posted.

2) I added two pages to the menu at the top. A contact form so people can bitch at me, and an about me page. But what the fuck do I put on my about me page? Suggestions? Is a picture of my cat allowed? I don’t want my name associated with this site, but once you find this site, you’d know it was me pretty easily so is showing my cat a problem? Hell, is showing me a problem? Opinions?

3) My precious got a heated cat bed and a third kidney food to try today. I was disappointed in the cat bed at first but then I woke up from a nap on the couch and he was in it. So success! If it’s super successful, maybe ill clean off my night stand and put one there. Don’t tell Mr C.

4) I just mangled the spelling of successful so badly that Microsoft word was like “I got nothing” when It tried to help. Fuck you, you knew what I was trying to say.

5) K, is knitting my cat a little blanket for his new bed! How SWEET! Like you know someones your friend when you’re upset and they decide to knit your cat a blanket. Thats fucking awesome.