speaking of the cat

i feel like making up for lost time so i will tell you the 900 dollar saga of our cat, cassady. almost two weeks ago i was getting ready to take the boys to the doctors when i heard the sound of a cat hawking up a hairball on my tan carpet. at least that is what i thought was happening. in reality, the cat had tried to get the hairball up and it went part of the way back down into her airway. so she was dying on the floor with all kinds of fluid leaking out of her mouth. i called the vet we had used before and they were not in and kindly advised me to try another vet if it was an emergency. now why else would i be calling a vet? we never got unneccessary medical care growing up why should the cats?

so any way, i call another vet, try to find the cat carrier, get the boys and cat into the van and try to find the vet. when we got there it was clear to them it was an emergency and the vet looked into the cat's mouth and said that there is something in there. and whisks her away. now i love that cat. and the boss really loves that cat but if someone had told me that she would probably have brain damage from this ordeal i might not have said save her. i might have but i am not sure. so that day was seven hundred dollars.

they sent her home that afternoon so i expected that she would be fine. well, she was not fine. she could barely walk and refused to eat or drink and hid in the bottom of our closet. two day later she is back for iv fluids, one hundred dollars. the next day back for force feeding, one hundred dollars. and then i had to go to cvs and get appetite stimulant pills. i felt like an idiot because the one thing i don't look like i need is appetite stimulating pills. lol

so now she will only eat tuna fish and she is drinking water finally. she is coming out of the closet more and seems more with it. so i am glad they didn't tell me that she would have brain damage . and really who doesn't?

People are not always such freaks

although it is not always bad to be a freak or even a super freak, most of the time it is. face it. it just is. and the great thing is you will never run out of freaks to poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but sometimes you have to acknowledge that all people are not freaks. or so says the boss.

since we got the baby most people have been supportive and some people have gone the extra mile. the boss brought home a gift bag with seven, yes seven really cute outfits for the baby. and some of them have baseball caps. alright that is a little freaky since his head is as big as an orange. but in general that was a really nice thing for the woman in her office to do.

a friend is coming over tomorrow with a big bag of diapers that her daughter is too big to use anymore. in case you are not the owner of a baby the only thing stupider than paying money for something to pee in and then throw away is paying alot of money. and diapers cost a ton of money. if nick and alex ever get out of pullups we can go on a really nice vacation with the ton of money we will have.

another friend is loaning us everything you possibly want/need for a baby. from the crib to the jolly jumper thing to hang in the doorway. clearly you don't need one of those but it is really fun to say. jolly jumper, sounds like a suicidal pirate.

and now for the freak portion of our day. my mother is convinced that this will all be too much for us. "how can you take care of three kids" well, ma. you did and i am not drunk all the time. no i didn't but oh, how i wanted to. and sometimes she just laughs nervously and asks about the cats. gotta love her or you would run her over with a bus. only kidding ma. lol

Can't believe it has been over three months since I have written.

It is certainly not for the lack of freaks in the world and esp. in my small part of the world.

To go into more detail about the dss freaks---they are ridiculous. We weren't good enough to get Nick and Alex's little brother Christopher--maybe the gay thing maybe not. maybe the genetic condition of the boys maybe not. the boss says no on both counts and says i judge people. of course i judge people. always have always will. if you are a freak i will judge you a freak, if you are good people i will judge you good people. what is wrong with that? nothing
Last friday we found out that N and A's mom had the 6th baby 5 weeks premature and did we want christopher? what the fuck? we wanted him for the past 15 months and then decided since they waited so long and he was in a good home and had bonded with the lady for over a year and she wanted to adopt him, that we would not push anymore and let her have him. if she decided she didn't want him then we would take him. but now suddenly we are being offered christopher. and why you might ask. are we less gay, hell no. but now they have a perfect little baby and it will be easier to find a home for him. so now we are good enough for the toddler. and in the next breath, they say well, ...... had the baby and we wanted to know if you want him. what the double fuck? now not only are we good enough and smart enough but dss likes us.

technically this is a foster care placement because they haven't terminated parental rights yet. so the technical goal is reunification. what the triple fuck? just because they couldn't take care of the first FIVE, why not give them a chance to mess with the SIXTH. FREAKS

hopefully they will change the goal and change it fast. this is what the plan is, but i will believe it when i see it.

stay tuned tomorrow for the "freaks from work" post.

Alex and Victoria eating popsicles.

They aren't freaks but thought the freaks might enjoy looking at how cute Alex and his sister are. Don't they look the same. 

Here I am with our new baby. the freaks at dss called me on tues. and said the baby is ready to go home tomorrow and do you still want him. of course we want him. look how beautiful he is.
Note my new red "i am having a nervous breakdown about work" hair color.