I am very sorry I have not been here in a long time. A lot of things happened and I just did not feel like posting. But let me begin at the beginning ..........
Shortly after I had posted the last update there was a wave of big tests that needed to be prepared and then marked. Now, I have three English groups and it was a lot of work, filling my weekends. Then there was preparation for the next days and so on ......... I was so tired and that we had a heatwave which prevented me from sleeping well did not help either.
Then 4 weeks ago we lost our furbaby. She was 16 years old and had lived with us for the last 15 1/2 years. She didn't look sick, but was just sleeping all the time. When she was eating less we took her to the vet, who told us that she needed emergency surgery. I don't want to go into too much detail, but it was heartbreaking having to leave that furball in a cage at the vet's. Surgery went well and we were able to take her home the next day. We were on cloud 9 when she just walked out of her basket and ate and drank and went to her favourite spot for a nap.
During the following night Tom woke me up because Pixie was acting strange. She was not moving much and seemed to sigh a lot. Around 5am while we were checking on her she took her last breath. Needless to say that it broke both our hearts to let her go, but at least she is no longer in any pain.
I was distracted while being at work, but poor Tom who is already retired and at home has missed and still misses her greatly and so do I.
We did discuss getting another cat and have agreed to do so, but will wait until we return from our vacation as to not have the cat getting used to us and then being taken to the "cat hotel". On the last but one day of school last week one of my girls offered my a kitten and we are now looking forward to picking up our new housemate when it is 3 months old. (Talked to the vet and she told us that this would be a good age to remove the kitten from its mother.
I took to vacation planning to distract me from missing my kittycat and we have now finally decided on what we are going to do. I'll post our plans lateron.
On Saturday my holiday started and I spent the first two days trying to sleep off the stress of the last week. On Monday I was ready to update here, when Tom told me that Photobucket now wants a whopping 399$ if you want to use it for "third party sharing" which includes posting photos on here. I am a Pro member of photobucket and have a paid account which they will support until Dec 31 2018, but I am not paying 399$ for photobucket's services, especially since it was more than just wonky lately.
Tom and I have decided to pay for one more year (my renewal date is late September) but I was looking for another photohosting site. I have now found one and need to get a bit more organized, but I should be able to update/post plans for this summer tomorrow.
I have a few days all typed out so expect a few more updates in the next few days.
And that concludes my real life updates ...........
Talk to you all tomorrow (it's already 10pm here).