I straightened my hair oh just a few hours before this photo. And I just ask myself why? I knew before I came here I would hate the humidity and that it would do unhappy things for my hair. I just wish there was something I could do to make it better. It’s too short to pull up. Too long to do nothing. On a happy note we met a girl at Starbucks that had a similar hairstyle and asked for her hair stylist’s number. I think I will make an appointment tomorrow and then try to grow it out a bit. Cause this just isn’t cute.
I talked to some of you but I must have had some serious stress going on cause a blood vessel in my eye burst. This is about day 4 of the healing process I believe. Jamie was pretty worried. After I had a migraine for about 4 days I was also a little worried. No worries now though, the headache and the spreading of the blood through the eye are both gone. Yay!
Things are getting easier and harder at the same time if that is possible. We miss everyone so much, and Utah and the mountains, even just not knowing other gay people has been a huge awakening. I miss Equality Utah even though we were never as involved as I would have liked. I have taken a personal vow to be more involved if we move back. I feel like we took a lot of that for granted and now it’s like we are all alone in the world with no no gay rights political group caring about our rights. Strange very strange. I never thought I would care about being around other gay people but wherever we end up will definitely have to have a strong gay community, for us and our kids.
And now onto the anticipated story of uncle mike the cat. I think one of the first things many of our new neighbors informed of us was that the house we moved into came with a cat. His name is uncle mike, his back legs don’t work right (they think he was in a car accident) he lives under the porch and oh he gets fed on your porch so make sure you feed him. What the??? We don’t want a cat, they stink, they cost money that as grad students we don’t have, and our dogs, especially Zada go crazy and want to eat cats. Definitely not something we want to take on. We talked about it and decided we didn’t want to take on. But the neighbors: even the girl who lived at our house for a couple of months and trashed and left it disgusting came over to say she’d feed it but would feel weird creeping on our porch every day to set out food so we should just do it, LOVE LOVE LOVE the cat. He is like the neighborhood mascot. But NO ONE has offered to put his bowls on THEIR porch. Very odd in my mind. They all expect us to take care of him and they give off the vibe that if we don’t something is wrong with us. The cat hates people and runs away when anyone is around; he looks like he is in pain and the porch and front of our house stink like well cat! Mary the 60 or 70 year old party animal but sweet lady across the street said she buy the food and feed him but I just don’t want the cat under my porch, it’s gross. Why oh why does everyone think we should take care of it? Only in Arkansas.
My hair does that, too. I've just stopped trying. I bought some de-humidying hair product which seems to work a little. Apparently I also need a better straightener. It's just a lot of effort for such little reward. Hahaha.
ReplyDeleteDid you eye hurt? It looks painful. I don't know how you've dealt with the migraines over the years. After having one for 15 minutes I curl into a ball and become completely useless.
The Uncle Mike situation is very interesting. I wonder what the neighbors would do if one of the dogs killed him. It sounds like he probably needs to go to the vet. Feral cats are pretty easy to care for, though. And there are a lot of TNR programs set up for feral cats all over the country. You should look into it. But they shouldn't burden you with the responsibility. You could trap him and move him to another location? Is there a park or something nearby? You should just straight up explain to people that one of your dogs has a history of aggression towards cats and you don't feel the cat is safe where he is, and ask in a very direct way if they they would be willing to take him in to ensure his safety and well-being. Then they can't weasel their way out of it.
:)