I put my beloved Siamese cat to sleep today. She was almost 18 years old but after about a week and a half of bloody urine everywhere but in her box, twice daily oral antibiotics and finally her loss of bladder control this morning, I took her to the vet one final time. She started having seizures in the office and the vet and I decided to put her down immediately. I’m so glad he didn’t try to pressure me into a $250 hospital stay and then a multi-million dollar treatment plan. I had to go through that when I had my 18 yr old Maya put down last summer. It’s both sad and comforting to euthanize a pet. Sad that the value of a pet’s life is so much less than the value of a human’s but comforting to know that she didn’t have to suffer any more. I kissed her goodbye tonight and told her it was almost over and she purred…one last time.

I’ve never been a “blogger” but I love the word so much and the elitism it implies that I thought I’d give it a try.

I’m not a political person but every now and then have the odd opinion or two, not formed from any educated research but from whatever bits and pieces I have picked up. So anyone reading and disagreeing with my opinion is admonished to hold back from ripping it to shreds. I don’t care how intelligent and well-informed you might be, it’s unwelcome and won’t change my opinion.

Well, that’s a rather curmudgeonly start to my first blog ever. I will probably at some point edit this to give it a softer edge but for now it is what it is.

I like the ridiculous so I suspect that much of what I will be saying will be random musings on those types of things. I also love stories of the triumph of the underdog, the ugly duckling who is transformed by whatever into her true lovely self, blah, blah.

So, welcome to my world!