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Finally Settling Down

Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Finally Settling Down

Well, it has been a crazy as hell emotionally the last few days.

As you have seen in my last few posts and on my twitter posts, one of our babies got out Saturday night.  It ended happily when Sakura was found about 24hrs later.  We are so happy and relieved that she is home.  Our biggest fear was all the roads around us that are very busy.  If we lived in the country, we would’ve worried but not have been driven to the level of anxiety that we felt.

Sakura was very timid for couple of hours once home.  But is getting back to normal.  I haven’t seen her play with her mice yet, but I’ll work on her tomorrow for that.

Before Sakura took off, we were having a pretty good day Saturday.  Hubby attacked the garage, got things reorganized and made more room and I attacked our storage closet.  We found a bunch of stuff to donate and made even more room.  We worked on cleaning the house and laundry.  And even had time to start chilling out and enjoying the day and then Sakura happened.

After we got her back, I finally was able to focus my brain and attack some work.  Made a very good dent in it, still had a pile waiting for me today.  But much more manageable.

I did about 15miles of walking looking for our nutty cat and putting up fliers this weekend.  I normally get about 4 miles in on non gym days.  Where we live we have a ton of hills and they can be steep…so it wasn’t an easy 15miles.

Even so today, we still went to the gym, to get back to normal, I did really good on the treadmill.  My old trainer’s voice in my head saying that you need to push it more when you have no motivation or it is harder then normal…..but boy did it hurt.

Then once we got home and showered, we headed out again.  We had to take down the fliers that we posted and pick them up from the businesses that I dropped off at.  Nothing I can do for the ones that I left in doors, mailboxes and gave out, but we made an effect to clean up.  So now I’m really paying for it.  My legs, thighs, and butt hurts from all the hills…..ouch.  I’m still going to push it tomorrrow, just need to remember to take some ibuprofen.  =)

Once we got all the fliers taken care of, it was time for work.  I had a bunch, ton of email, support tickets, company books….etc.  I finally got that done and was able to take care of our books and bills.  =)

I even been able to catch up with my friend’s feeds on my facebooks.  =)

I know that I have more work tomorrow, but it is more manageable.  And it is suppose to be another stunning day, so we are going to work on getting rid of some yardwaste in the back, change litters, and take care of the trash.  I do hope that I can take my laptop outside to work for a little while.  I really want to enjoy the sunshine.

Time for me get to bed.  Still playing catch up on sleep since this weekend.

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Pauline’s Daily Happenings

Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Pauline’s Daily Happenings
  • Already walked around couple of times looking for Sukura, making more flyers and heading back out. #
  • I was able to drop of flyers @ most of the businesses down the street, I doubt she headed that way, but maybe their customers have seen her. #
  • FOUND HER!!!! She is scared & timid, but safe…made her way back & was hiding in an outside circulation vent. I was scared of the roads. #
  • I want to thank everyone for your words of support & encouragement, been zombie like on responding. Now I can eat w/out feeling sick. #
  • If we lived out in the country, away from very busy roads, bus stops & train tracks….I wouldn’t not have stress it at all. #
  • Finally got to some work…..there is a ton. Need to attack more of that & the company books tomorrow…& need to take down posted fliers. #
  • Amazing how much work you can get done when you aren’t stressing out…….so glad that it is over. =) #

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Humans: Some are good, some just suck.

Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Humans: Some are good, some just suck.
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Good: Last night I received a call from a girl who was looking for Sakura, she told me she and her boyfriend were bored and it was so nice out they thought why not go look for a black cat in the pitch black? They was aware of the reward, but never once asked “how much”.

I answered her questions on what Sakura looked like in more detail and thanked them. Around 10:30 pm she called back and said they may have found her but didn’t want to get too close where it would scare the cat off. They was 3 blocks away so I ran over there and verified it wasn’t Sakura. So we talked for a few minutes and I gave more insight of Sakura and this girl was actully sad for us. So I thanked them and left and thought to myself, that if anyone is going to get a reward from Sakura, I was hoping it would be her.

Suck: While standing from the upstairs balcony for Sakura I saw a kid run up the street and into a house across the street, I than walked to the back room to look for Sakura and found a big dog in our yard which I recognized as from across the street so I put 2 + 2 and got “lost dog” so We took the dog back home and when we got the owner and explained to him what and where we got “oh… yeah ok”

This dog was very freindly and of course had no tags, I have been majorly stressing Sakura and I had the thought of “Karma” when we was taking the dog back, and to find someone who didnt give a rats ass when I am on the verge of tears just pissed me off.

But back to Karma… Sakura did come home about an hour right after I took that dog home…

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Sakura came Home!

Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 by | Comments Off on Sakura came Home!
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AND I’M GOING TO FUCKING KILL HER!

I really have been stressing all day long so bad Im on verge of a panic attack…. I need booze.

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At A Lost

Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 by | Comments Off on At A Lost

I don’t know what else to do.

Harold has called the shelter in case someone brings her in.  We have put up & handed out flyers.  I have spoke to nearly everyone I have encountered and showed them her picture.  She has a purple collar (break away), tags with her name, address, phone number, country license, and her chip number.

We have both walked the neighborhood.  I’ve done about 12miles, 9 of it yesterday and the rest 1st things this morning.  I’ve gone about 7 blocks away, don’t know if I went far enough….spending a lot of time in the immediate area because that would mean less streets for her to cross.

I just about camped out on the back deck hoping she would show up, spent the night by the patio door and jumping at every “cat” noise I heard and taking more walks shaking their cat treats that they come running to.  I keep hoping that with all the birds that come to our back yard feeders that she will return just for that.

I dreamt that the she came home all dirty and that thought it was so real that I woke with my heart racing and hoping.

I had never seen a cat run as fast as she did when she got out….she was a blur and it scared me.  What worries me is that she doesn’t have that much “fear” in her and she is so quiet. She rarely meows and when she does you do a double take because it is so quiet you don’t know if it came from her.  She doesn’t really like to come when you call her…it has to be on her own terms.

I have friends offering words of comfort, stating that they have know cats to get out and will turn up days, weeks even months later and not to give up hope.  I know that is true and with the neighborhood full of outdoor cats, that it can happen.  But I don’t I know how well I can handle that.

I’ve never had a cat get out on me like that and then lose them.  =(   The only time one of our cats got out is when we had a roommate and he came home late at night and didn’t notice Aurora get out.

We got lucky there, because when I discovered that she was gone, I went calling for her in the neighborhood.  And a few days a later a neighbor 5 doors down came to us.  We guess what had happened is that when he was bringing in groceries she sneak in since he left his door open since he didn’t have animals.  Plus these were house depluxes and all looked a like, so she thought she was coming home.  She got into a corner space under the kitchen cabinets and he hadn’t seen her, just heard her.  Thought that it was a racoon.  So he called animal control and they had set up a no-kill trap…with no luck.   Once he heard about us missing her, he came down.  I knew it was her, as soon as I called her name when I went in and she meowed at me right away.

We got so, so lucky and I’m so hoping that we get that again.  Because I don’t know what I will do if we don’t.  =(

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