It’s been a horrible week. I barely feel like blogging about it but I haven’t updated in a while so I should. Where to begin.

I had Sunday and Monday off. Sunday was okay. I went to see a movie with my friend Mike, we exchanged Christmas gifts and then I went skating with some other friends in the evening. Sunday was fine.

Monday I went to town with the kids and found out my old cat Cali was incredibly sick. To make a very long story short, Charlie and I took her to the vet and found out her liver was failing. Our options were to put her down or to start testing immediately. The vet said her prognosis with treatment was still very poor and would cost us at least $1000. With very heavy hearts, Charlie and I decided to end Cali’s suffering and have her put to sleep. I’ve never had to put an animal to sleep before so it totally broke my heart. The vet said we didn’t have to stay and watch but we did have to decide what would be done with the body. I didn’t want to take a dead cat home with me so I paid for a cremation / pet cemetery service. I wasn’t expecting things to be so bad with the cat. Allison came to the vet with us so she kept asking why Cali wasn’t coming back with us. Very sad.

Skip ahead to Tuesday. I worked from home and felt fine. Still depressed over Cali but getting things done. 3:30 in the afternoon hits and I immediately started getting bad stomach pains. Another long story short, I got a bad case of stomach flu and spent my entire evening getting sick. Blah. The first thing everyone asks me? “You’re not pregnant again are you??” The quick answer - NO!

Today has been going not too bad. My stomach is still a bit queasy so I’m debating on whether to hit the gym or not. We’ll have to see. There’s a lot of cleaning that needs to get done around the house as well. Tomorrow is the Christmas party for Roy’s work so I need to figure out what we’re going to wear to that. I don’t have the ambition to do anything with the way I’m feeling right now.
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Had a bit of a sad / funny story with Allison on the way to daycare today.  The kitty carrying crate was still in the car from taking Cali to the vet on Monday.  Allison saw it and said “Cali is really sick isn’t she mommy?”  and I said “Not anymore sweetie, Cali is in in kitty heaven.”  She was like “Kitty heaven? Why?”  So I told her Cali died and that she was happy in kitty heaven, no longer sick or in pain.  Allison blurts out “She’s DEAD?”  I told her “Yes”.  She then asked me “Why?”  So I told her Cali was really old and that she got sick and died.  So I look in the rearview mirror and see a concerned look on Allison’s face and she says “Nanny is really old too!”  So in her little mind she thought because Nanny is really old that means she is going to die next.  It was so sad but at the same time totally shocked me that she put that together.  I re-assured her that Nanny wasn’t as OLD as Cali was and that she would live a long, long time.  Talk about a difficult conversation to have with a 4 year old!  She’s a lot smarter than I sometimes realize.
Anyhow, that’s the scoop with me. I’m hoping the week ends on a happier note.