Daily Ooo's: Monday, January 22: The Yeah, I am Sad Edition

[faerywings]

Yeah. I am sad. And exhausted. But I know it will get better. BTDT.
But for now, I will think that I will see Kibs out of the corner of my eye or listen for her squeaky meowing and be sad.
I am thankful for all of you who were here listening to me for the last week or so, and even before that when she would appear as Catzilla and lie on top of my keyboard in the mornings.

The rest of yesterday was rough. I had a hard time concentrating on much of anything. I wanted- or tried to convince myself that I wanted to- scrap but that didn't happen.

I need to work on getting ready for food shopping tomorrow and I hate that I have no energy to think about it or care about cooking.

I don't have much else that I absolutely need to do. Plenty of things that I should do, but I guess I will see where life takes me.

::grouphug

 

[faerywings]

I have been really neglectful of just about everything in life- esp here at the O. I haven't been motivated to comment in the gallery recently so that should be a priority.
Let me do quick personals and then I will make a run through there.

Trudy- hope that you had a fun weekend, how is the new washer working out?

Nancy- I was so surprised to hear (well, read the transcript) of what Tammy Murphy said at the Morristown March. She had been First Lady for less than a week and already is making a huge impact.
Sorry that your Devils lost but good to know that you have a great reserve goalie. It was nice to be outside with the dogs and not have a million layers on. Luther must be so happy.

Felis- thank you, she was a big ol' mush of a cat. I told her to go look for her big brother Merlin and to watch out for Bunny who was very unreasonable in life.

I feel really bad for Floyd. (He is meowing upstairs right now). We have not had only one cat since 1994. We adopted a kitten right before we got married in 93 and Gary surprised me with a kitten who looked just like him less than a year later. We have had anywhere between 2 and 6 cats since then.

Jean- how cool to see a snowy owl! Did you get photos?
One of my phobias is falling through ice/drowning (I think I watched The Omen when I was too young and it stuck with me) so seeing ice fishermen puts me in a panic. I hope that they are very careful.
How were the football games?

Rae- looking fwd to hearing about your game night!

hugs!!

 

[nancyr]

morning - Chris I think the weather is sad like you as it is cloudy damp and some drizzle. I just got back from walking Luther and there have been deer around I could prints. But did not see any. He was also looking for cats but they hid. Not much going on today but tonight I have a home Devils game against the Detriot Redwings. If my team plays well they can win and they need to win. They lost two players in Saturday's game Brian Gibbons out with a broken thumb and Keith Kinkaid out with a groin injury. The team has capable players to take their spots but I still hate it when players are hurt.

Chris again sorry for your loss. Sending hugs to you and your family. I so remember Catzilla and always thought it was so cute. I cant believe at one time you have 6 cats. Take time to remember.

Trudy I saw the photo on facebook of you at hockeyville how fun! Hope you got lots of goodies in your bag!

Rae looking forward to hearing about game night!

Jean OMgosh a snowy owl. They are just so beautiful. They are one of my favorite birds. We had one show up on the roof of a building where I worked. It was pretty awesome!

Felis hope you had fun in the snow.

Have a great day all!

 

[felis]

We all are sad today, my dear, Chris! I can't stand this beautiful snow world outside in this such a sad day.
I thought for your family often today and the day before. I'm worried for Scott who was doing so well like nurse and probably is so disappointed. And you was mentioned that Cait not deal good with loss. And Gary on which shoulders you all cry. And mostly you. You was start crying long ago all to fall apart, and I'm realy realy woried for your emotional condition right now. I don't have eny words for healing your heart, I don't believe these kind of words exist at all! Accept my condolences! I can't understand what kind of god allows our strongest attempts to fail. But I can see why She or He or They (or what ever form have the gods) called our children to go to them, who don't wana to hug this sweet, kind and loving fur baby! I needs to believe, and my strongest prayers are that exist something BIGGER after this life and all our babies will wait for us there! I hope the waiting room to be really big or mine will be very crowded :cry: .

Poor Floyd! It's not easy to be alone! I'm terrified how heartless my cats accept the death, losing child - "I will create new", losing sister ''I have two more'', but then put them alone for a week and they start to suffer, because of the loneliness after they are live in catpride and group is the only way that they know. Of course you will compensate this with human attention for now! And after few months when will be more decency, I'll remind you that your vet tech was offer you another cat who need salvation and the loss of Heather should not be in vain.

But for now take your time dear! Cry, scream, blame the Gods, the fate, the life and the death! Everything that your heart needs so to can going thru that moment! But keep in some corner of your mind, that we all loves you and hug you strongly! Because, even if right now is difficult for you to believe, we all saw that you give all you can and made everything possible for your Kibs! :rip:

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning ladies... so dark outside this morning, when will it ever be light out again at 7am? I know the days are slowly getting longer, but hurry up already! We had a good time at Hockeyville yesterday and stayed for a few hours, got some goodies for the grandkids, some jerseys and toques and we chatted it up with a former NHL player from my hometown Geoff Courtnall. Got his autograph and spent a few minutes talking with him about the old Youbou days. It was a very fun afternoon. We left just as the skies were getting dark with rain clouds and got into the car before the downpour. Today I get to do the fun job of cleaning my dirty oven yuck! I made DH spray the horrible oven cleaner (so toxic) and it has been doing its thing all night so I get the lovely job of wiping it all up :mmph: Out of all my appliances that I have had to replace this last year (washer, dryer and dishwasher) it would have been my wall oven that I would have happily had to replace, but of course it will be the last thing to go. I better :tape: or I will jinx it and will have to replace that soon also. Hoping to do some scrapping today at some point too.

Chris - I am so sad for your loss of your kitty and yes I am sure you will be seeing her out of the corner of your eye every time you go upstairs for awhile. I still think I see my Mr. Abu sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for me , they will forever be with us! Take time to mourn and be good to yourself, all that other stuff can wait for a bit. :hug:

Nancy - Yes Nancy we had fun at Hockeyville, it was funny when we walked into one of the buildings there looked like there was a NHL game on and DH said, that game isn't supposed to start until later tonight. The young man that was working there said, its not the real game its a video game LOL. We couldn't believe how realistic it was! We got lots of nice comments on our Bruins gear that we were wearing, but also some nasty looks from many of the Canuck and especially the Habs fans LOL. DH loved it! But it was just a fun way to spend the afternoon!

Jean - Sure nice to have spotted the Snowy Owl, we used to see many when we lived in Saskatchewan. Hope your pork roast was much better than my last one, it was very disappointing. Will try again making my own recipe instead of the store bought prepared one next time.

Rae - Hope your weekend away was a lot of fun for you! A nice break from the everyday life is just what all of us need once in a while!

Felis- You are so filled with kind words to our poor Chris, you must be a very loving person! I hope that you will be able to get out and enjoy your freshly fallen snow today!

Ok ladies I am sure DD will be FaceTimeing with me very soon, so I will grab my second cup of coffee and then decide what to do with the rest of my day. I hope you all have a good Monday ! :wave:

 

[felis]

Nancy, do you was on The women's marches?! I have friend which was previous year, but I have to ask her do repeat this too. It's so strange and unfair that even in this modern world women aren't treated equal. I bet Luther is had lovely time to smell around and look for deers! We have a lovely snow day and my snowman came few times to try tempt me to play till I cleaned the stairs from the snow, but I wasn't in condition. So finally he go to play alone. Yesterday my dad was see him to play with another dog at our neighbor's yard, but when he come back home and share this with us no one was see it. The house is empty and they don't have a dog, so probably is been some of the homeless.

Jean, oh Snowy Owl so exciting! Did you manage to take pictures? At the wildlife hospital once I touch a little wood owl, so precious feeling! In this kind of birds really have some magic!

Oh, Trudy, we are cross posted give me few minutes to read it . The hockey fan meeting sounds very fun! Uhh, but not fun to clean oven. I really hate the smell of fat, when I have to clean after baking food for the cats, so mostly boiled. The smell of fat, is most disgusting smells for me, seriously, I prefer to clean the litter boxes. It's be so fun if they could gives you discount for every next appliances that you bought, isn't it?!

 

[bcgal00]

Good morning, ladies. My weekend was busy but enjoyable. We spent Saturday in Washington, checking on our trailer, paying our strata fees and did some grocery shopping. I bought some different flavors of Luna Bars (the only protein bar I eat as it has limited ingred, no refined sugar) that we don't have in my neighborhood stores. Came home for a bit, then got ready to go out for game night with friends. They loved my salsa chicken and pumpkin/chocolate loaf I brought. They couldn't believe it had no refined sugar in it. We played a dominos game our friend had brought home from his trip at Xmas to Mexico. I sipped on my bourbon chai tea and shared with a friend b/c she tried it and loved it too. It was a fun night.

Sunday morning I zipped over to VV when they opened as they had a members only sale (50% off) so I thought I'd see what I could find for myself and Bailey. Of course, you all know where this is going LOL. I can home with a ton of stuff and I know B is going to be so pleased when she sees what I got for her. I then went to the local farmers market as luckily my jam lady was going to be there so I had asked her to put aside some sugar free jam for me. We chatted for a bit, she was interested in my story and she told me more about herself. She uses her own fruits/veggies for her canning and only uses stevia and honey to sweeten. I told her I'll be a customer for life, her jams are so good. It'll just be a matter of stocking up when she will be at a market/fair close to home (she lives about 1.5 hrs away from us). Came home and Jen was already here, waiting for me, wanting to look at some of the old photos my cousin had sent me. She marvelled at the clothes I had gotten from VV and agreed that B will love what I found for her. D and I will be going up on Saturday to Bowen Island for the day and will attend another seminar there. I also bought an essential oil bracelet for B and will bring some lavender for her to put on it each day.

Today I have desk work and paper work to keep me busy. I'd like to get a LO done later as I haven't scrapped much at all this month but I'll have to see how busy work keeps me.

Chris - hugs for your loss. It's so hard to lose our fur babies. It gets easier with time but they never leave our heart. Hope you are able to have some quiet soothing time today to calm your mind.

Trudy - I saw your pic with GC. How cool! He was one of my mom's fave players back then. You looked great in the photo! Cleaning your oven....hmmm.....that is something I should be doing this week too. It's long overdue.

Felis - you have such a kind heart. I know your words help Chris. Enjoy the beauty of your snow. We have nothing but rain for days now, it gets so dreary. Sure looking forward to longer days of light and less rain although that won't be for quite awhile yet.

Everyone else....hope all is well.

I'm getting another coffee and getting to work. Have a wonderful day, everyone.