Looks like I'm overdue for a blog post! I guess we have some catching up to do. To start with, I got a new cat on February 22nd. We adopted her from a shelter. Her name is Tara and she's approximately 2 years old. She was already declawed and was immediately friendly when I met her. All the shelter knew about her was that she was an "owner surrendered" cat and that the previous owner said that she was fixed. We brought her home and my office became her bedroom. She has been busy getting acquainted. She now likes to wander down the hall and check out the other rooms. Ziggy (our other cat) has not become her friend yet, but that will come with time. We're still establishing who's the alpha cat, but it looks like she's going to fit into our family nicely.
I went to another raw food meetup last weekend. The food was great and the people were very nice. However, they had a guest speaker who was totally nuts. She was very nice and very fascinating and has led an interesting life. Interestingly, she viewed all living things as equals. This includes trees, mosquitos, etc. She liked to "ask" trees if she could take a piece of fruit and the trees "answered" her. She also felt that the worst thing that she ever did was to squash a handfull of mosquitos off of a friend's head. She likened that to mass killings at Auschwitz. That was tough to take and we left shortly afterwards. I will certainly go back to the raw food group, but definitly not if they have the same guest speaker!
What else? Hmm--I'm taking Erica and her friend Derek fishing on Friday. Derek's dad is going along too. I'm really looking forward to that. I have a colonoscopy scheduled for Saturday and have to do the colonoscopy prep Friday after fishing. The last time that I woke up from a colonoscopy, the doctor told me that I had a big tumor that looked like it was cancerous. I can't wait to wake up from the procedure and have the doctor NOT say that.
Work is going well. However the California and national budget issues are starting to hit home. There was a school board meeting last night and they presented budget cut information. The district will have a 44 million dollar shortfall next year and the Board of Education was trying to put a plan into place. Cuts will be deep and difficult. I was surprised to see my job title on the chopping block. They were talking about cutting costs by getting rid of one of the three of us. They were also talking about getting rid of the extra days that we work (I currently work 20 extra days per year and get paid a daily rate for them). The superintendent then presented his suggestions to the Board. He did not suggest eliminating one of our positions, but he did suggest getting rid of our extra days. It means that it's very likely that I'll still have a job next year but that I will probably be taking a little bit of a cut in pay. I can live with that. We'll have trim our budget down, but we'll be fine. A lot of people aren't so fortunate.
Wow--this was a crazy, random blog post! That probably comes with me writing it at 10 at night. Must be past my bedtime.
Goodnight and big hugs to all,
Tim
1 comment:
Tim, very interesting blog. We are all happy to hear your new kitty is settling in well. She is quite beautiful. Hopefully Ziggy your family invisable cat will enjoy having a new like sibling. Our family members that joined you and Robin at the Raw Food Group are happy to hear that you will be returning to the group , but equally pleased that the next time will not include the mosquito lady. You are in our prayers, espically when you have your colonoscopy ( great way to celebrate Jeff's birthday.) Lots of love. LOve, Aunt Sue and Uncle Frank
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