Hardest thing I've ever had to do

Since now I have totally moved out of my apartment (a temporary situation) into a place that doesn't allow cats, I was forced into giving up my 12 year old cat, Spaz, whom I've had since he was a kitten. We do develop an emotional attachment to our pets which is difficult to undo.

This morning I took him to the Lowell Humane Society, where they told me they'd do their best to find him another home. Much will depend on how he adjusts to this new environment of basically living in a cage. They may end up putting him to sleep but I'll never know if they will or not.

Ideally, I'll be back in a place real soon that allows cats so that I might be able to get my cat back by re-adopting him. I doubt it, though, but never do you know.

An unanticipated difficulty that I ran into while trying to find him a home is that most no-kill shelters will not take cats older than eight years old, due to their readjustment problems.

My ex, after badgering from V and M, reluctantly took back the younger cat, Shadow.

the S word and the F word

Snow Flurries

Woke up this morning to a balmy 20 degrees with a brisk wind and some slight precipitation. It's actually 19 degrees as I write this.

Which means the white stuff has made its first appearance in Nashua, to unofficially kick off the winter of 2006-07.

For the first snowflakes to come here in the second week of December is rather late. According to the guy at the U-Haul place, we had a snowstorm last Thanksgiving and I believe, a flurry in late October, though I can't recall when the first flakes came. I briefly looked back at last year's posts and couldn't find any mention of the first snow, though I'm sure I made a note of it somewhere on the blog.

My plan this morning was to return the truck and walk back to my apartment, about a mile, I think. Of course it felt like both the wind and snow were coming right at me, no matter which way I was walking.

How much snow will northern Massachusetts/ southern New Hampshire see this winter? Obviously that remains to be seen. However, I'll take the positive spin and say that this relatively late snowfall means a light winter.

Because as you all know, I just looooooooooooooove snow!!!!!!









(Ahem, NOT!)

Thanks, man

Even though he'll probably never see this post, I would like to give a big thanks to my brother A and his friend D for helping me move the heavy stuff today. What a pain in the patella moving is. My knees hurt. My back hurts. I need sleep.

Packing, moving and unpacking. Loading the truck, unloading the truck, renting storage space, renting the moving truck. The whole shooting match stinks. I'd love it if I never had to move again. Though I will again and soon (I hope)...

And to make my joy complete (not really), New Hampshire weather forecast calls for the first snowfall of the season tonight and tomorrow morning. Not to worry though, it's not supposed to amount to much.


Or so they say...

On packing, moving and motivation

I've not really been around much this week because I've been busy packing into boxes all of my books & stuff, disassembling furniture and trying (in vain it seems) to get organized. I'm moving the majority of my stuff out of my apartment on Thursday and will be totally out of here by Saturday.

I hate with a passion the business of packing and moving. Unpacking is not my favorite thing, either.

Therefore have I not the motivation to do it. But do it I must.

I'm only moving locally. So that's a plus, I suppose.

Not.