Happy...I think...?
Well, I think Amazon.com may have hired me, as of yesterday...I am being cautious, because the manager said she would call me when they had "an opening"...but, she also said that she thought it would be w/in a week, or so...I have very little retail experience, but there seems to be 3 weeks of mandatory training, anyway, so they are not throwing me in there, expecting me to just swim and perform miracles...I am so relieved (cautiously!)...I wish to deeply thank the Forces Upstairs, whether this turns out to be win, lose or draw! :>) Am getting the iron out to press those office clothes! On the other side of things, the dr. offices finally called my dad back w/ALL of the test results, this time, and with my dad's 1st dr. appt. for the PAD; it will take place next Wed. Dad's still very upset about all of this, but is forging ahead, now...I don't think this will improve things between he and my mother, but I do think that it proves an old adage: everyone gets a turn in the barrel...period. On the pet front, I got our latest kitty (stray) into the vet's, yesterday, 4 testing, etc. Seems she wasn't v-chipped, but it appears that she has been spayed... Also, no bad feline leukemia/aids, so there were no grim decisions about where to bury the little one, should she need to be euthanized (ugh...that's a horrible task....no one wants to go through that...nothing but heartbreak, there...still, if she had been infected, she would have infected other neighborhood kitties, as well as Angeline...years back, I lost my 1st cat, George, to feline aids...that taught me that what's a pandemic to humans can also be a pandemic to pets...best they not suffer). Anyway, I was greatly relieved that little "Alexis" is disease-free, 'cause Mom and I had been quietly talking about our dr. just disposing of her, should she have tested positive; we couldn't see bringing it home for burial, and then having my dad see that and plummet into a deeper depression...and, anger... Although, when I got to the office, I'd already decided to steel myself to bringing her home, anyway...seemed only fair that when something that helpless comes to you, begging for a home, the very least that you can do is give it a resting place, in the end... Today, I took the other stray ("Sam") in...seems he, too, has a neuter scar (no word, yet, on the infectious stuff, but I'm believing that they would have told me that, first, if he'd had it...); seems he has a v-chip, installed from another vet's office...his real name is "Squeak" (he does squeak, instead of meow), and the other vet's office is trying to locate his "family"...I have mixed feelings about whether this will be successful...if the family can't be located, can I have his v-chip removed and have one of ours put in? Well, I'm getting way ahead of myself...still planning on how to keep these strays safe and warm w/cat&dog housing, this winter, should everyone return to the homestead, here...still, can't stop thinking about this task, at hand... I hope that everyone is doing ok and not too hot, up here, in the northern hemisphere...we are mostly cloudy/sultry, today, w/occ. HOT SUN! :>0 Sadly, no rain, tho, but that's no surprise...
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