Castaways

Yesterday was alright.  Didn’t get much done but the day was kind of full of surprises so I just rolled with them.

On my daily to do list, you can see that the first item “Pick up flooring” has been scratched off and replaced with “Drop Sagan up [sic] at the vet”.  This was the first time my plans changed and it wouldn’t be the last.

You see, the cats been having trouble peeing for about 3 days now so we figured we should get it looked at.  The vet thinks it’s nothing serious and that it's related to a fairly common condition in cats that usually passes after a few days.  Unfortunately, while she was examining him, she found that he has some pretty nasty teeth, so we have scheduled an appointment with a pet dentist (or whatever) to have that looked at.

I did manage to get the propane before coming home after work but not much else was accomplished as my mom’s old friend showed up really, really early.  So early that we hadn’t had time to prepare any food so we ended up ordering a pizza which breaks the “NO EATING OUT DURING THE WEEK” rule but, okay, whatever.

The visit was fine.  She’s definitely crazy and she spent a long time telling us stories about how she’s involved with a secret, psychic, spy ring that’s helping to bring down a rouge shadow government with the help of Trump and Putin, but she was never mean or ugly.  When she wasn’t talking crazy it was fun.  She even brought us some gifts which was very nice.

Sadly, she seemed to be trying very hard to get me to care about my mom and yes, I do care about her, but I’m not going to deal with her so long as my father is around and those two are connected at the hip.  It’s all way more drama than I want to get into here but I think I disappointed her when I told her that my mom was an adult who could make her own choices and that I’d offered her a place to visit or stay at anytime and that if she chose to stick with my father, then that was obviously what she wanted and there was nothing I could do about it.

She did tell me a lot of things that my father had said about both me and my wife which weren’t very nice but honestly, I respect that man so little, he could tell everyone in the world his opinion of me and I wouldn’t care.  He’s one of the most selfish and self-centered people I’ve ever been around.  Things have been better since I cut him out of my life.

When she left, we agreed that if it was at all possible, we’d visit one another again.  Like I say, it was pleasant.  She got cut off from my mom because my dad didn’t like her and she wanted someone to talk about it with.  I was glad to be there for her because I’ve been in that position myself and it's really confusing until you just get used to it.

Hey, I also finally lost some weight yesterday!  Yay!