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Date Posted: 02:51:48 09/27/07 Thu
Author: DW (DieWeasels)
Author Host/IP: 67-54-145-118.cust.wildblue.net / 67.54.145.118
Subject: I had been thinking of you lately
In reply to: Kristen 's message, "I thought there wasn't an Eric's message board anymore" on 22:42:29 09/25/07 Tue

Sometimes I get to thinking about some old TV episode and then it shows up in the next few days. Guess it works for some people too because I've been wondering about you for a couple of weeks.

I'm in New Mexico now. I think I had just moved when you had to drop off line. I was living in a travel trailer for 15 months before Ian got off his behind and got down here. If he hadn't lost his job in Colorado I suppose he'd still be sitting up there in the house surrounded by every piece of clothing and linens in the house which he couldn't be bothered to wash.

So thankfully he did lose his job and I was able to buy a repo property (8 acres)to move the animals into then pack up the Colorado house and sell it before I went broke paying for two residences. Ian found a job in New Mexico soon after and has now been there longer than almost any other place he has worked. As for me, I've been at the same one for over 4 years which beats my previous personal best by 2 years. I even get consistent raises ...another first. Most companies I've worked said they couldn't afford raises and some of them even cut the pay.

During the relocation we kind of doubled the number of cats ...everywhere we looked there were homeless kitties and the house we bought had one in residence already, plus another one moved in several months later. When I moved down to New Mexico we had just lost our Nell (ridegback mix) to cancer. We pulled a foster catahoula a few weeks later and named her Moaning Myrtle because she talked a lot. She was my companion in the travel trailer and went back and forth between NM and Colorado for about 13 of those 15 months. She was heartworm positive and we got that taken care of but a few months later she got lymphoma and died before we moved into our current house in the mountains. It's like she was a gift who was intended to be with me only during those difficult months when Ian didn't care enough to pack or even to visit me unless he had something interesting to do in New Mexico.

Right before I noticed Myrtle was sick someone offered me a catahoula puppy, so after Myrtle died we got Chilili. When she was about 8 months old we fostered a male catahoula for a few months. Then we adopted a Great Dane so for a few months we had 5 dogs. After the foster dog was adopted we had 4 - an intact male catahoula (Blaze) and intact female catahoula (Chilili) a spayed Great Dane (Dixie) and our old neutered brindle boy Nickie.

In April 06 Chilili had a hormonal pre-heat fit and almost killed Nickie (he was probably trying to hump her as he had picked up that habit with Nell ...didn't matter to him that he had a few boy bits missing). So Nickie survived at great expense and because he never gave up, but endured it all.

In March of this year my favorite kitty that I had found as a starving kitten while house hunting ...well the wind blew the door open and he got out, probably was killed by coyotes or the neighbor's dogs. Then a month later we got a purebred oriental shorthair from the shelter and it died 3 weeks later from kidney and bladder problems. During this crazy time our old Siamese went into congestive heart failure complicated by diabetes, but the vet was able to save him. That's May and things are tolerable. In August I drove up the drive and Nickie stumbled as he ran to greet me. He died our feet, probably from a heart attack. Then about two weeks later we sent the Siamese to the bridge because the insulin and the heart meds weren't enough to prevent a stroke.

So we've lost 4 animals this year and it's been sad and I'm a little nuts from it. I found a similar looking kitty to replace my lost one and that helps the part of my brain that is expecting to see a mostly white cat with a black tail, but of course, my heart still hopes the original one makes it home someday and refuses to believe the cat skull I found might be him.

My job is okay. My first manager was a real piece of work but he got moved on and the new managers are better. My company was sold in June and then the new president decided the place I work was a problem that could not be fixed. So we are up for sale again. Right now we are all hoping we will be bought by a company who really knows how to manage a facility such as ours ...lord knows the current senior managers don't. They've changed almost everything one way or the other and still can't get the problems fixed. Seems to me the only thing left to change is the senior management.

Overall, things are okay. I paid my truck off last month. That's a relief ...maybe now I can afford to drive it. (Isn't the post-Katrina world fun?) So now we have three dogs (ages 6, 3, and 3) - that's a good number for now. We have a few more cats than we need but several of them are in their double digits. I expect to lose four or five of them in the next couple years. That will be hard too, but at some point we'll need to move back to a city so we won't be able to have as many animals as we have now.

So that's a lot of blathering ...hard to put 3 years into a posting. Glad you, the kids, and the dogs are okay.

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