That's where I'm at; see the Complaint thread as recently as today for details. I'd love little more than to abandon my job and coast on my ostensibly golden pipes, but I'm too much a realist to believe it's anywhere close to viable. I'd be happy with an outright rejection [probable] or a supplemental source of income [improbable] that would allow me to stretch outside my comfort zone. We'll see, I guess.
I make ridiculously little money. But every day, I go to work with impatience, all giddy about what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, and above all with whom I am doing it. This is the major part of life, quantitatively. Sometimes I feel coworkers spend more time, share more things, than they do with their life partners. There is no way I would finance the "rest" of life through spending all that amount of time doing boring stuff with boring people. My privilege in life is going to work (to both of them, actually) each day with the mindset of going to a party.
Those are very romantic (and very fundamentally true) sentiments. Reality, on the other hand, living in capitalist America, mandates that happiness is the goal after drive and prolonged periods of misery on your way to your goals. As it stands, I'm okay with simply maintaining a personal standard of living, and unfortunately, that requires I do my unfulfilling job probably until I die.
Oh sweet summer child......
She's being overprotective. So long as there's no places that he can get stuck inside and nothing harmful for him to swallow or get tangled up in/strangled by, he'll be fine. Though as kittens are going to claw at and chew on things, it might be best to keep him out anyway if there's things you don't want damaged.
If you don’t have one check out getting a cat condo or at least something like this, claw clippers and a catnip toy. Also might be worth looking at a sifting litter box designed for cedar pellets as an alternative to tracking the grainy shit around the house. It took our adult cat a while to accept the change and it was a gradual process but now it’s much better.
She's actually being quite prudent; there's plenty of stuff this kitty could get tangled up in and/or strangled by in our closets, and as much stuff we'd rather not have him chewing on or clawing at during this kitten phase. So far, no damage has been done, thought he did jump on the media center last night while we were watching a movie, and proceeded to knock a picture down when a loud part startled him.
Already on it; listed it in the "what have you purchased recently thread." I bought a cat tower that should be here today, and the sooner the better. And he has several catnip toys as well as a scratch box we sprinkle catnip into.
