pets – Morrighan's Muse

I try not to think of the past the way I used to. No point in rehashing all the mistakes and the regrets you can’t do anything about so many years later.

But if there’s one day in the past that I can’t stop thinking about, it’s April 16, 2023, the day I had to let my 17-year-old Truffles go, the day I held her for the last time as she slept forever. Pet Sematary, I totally get you now…

I think about the things I could have done to prolong her life, like paying for that $1000 scan that would have told the doctor to increase her heart meds even though she no longer looked as happy as she used to, not since we had to move out of the house that was her home for 17 years and being almost blind and deaf, the new place just wasn’t home anymore.

I think about how feisty she was, and how ladylike, too, with her slender paws, expressive eyes, and sweet demeanor. I think about how she’d sit right next to me every day as I wrote my stories before reminding me a few hours in that it was time to get up and go for a walk.

Then I remember how she slept for most of the day during those last days, how her back legs were stiff, and how she’d look at me like she were tired and she was holding on only for me to get through whatever it was we were all going through as a family then.

Then as if knowing we’d be alright, she let go.

We have a new dog now but she’s hubby’s dog more, and that’s just the way I prefer it. Because sometimes there just isn’t any more room in your heart for another soul dog, no matter what all the social media posts say.

Sometimes there’s just room for one… and that’s fine with me.

Daily writing prompt

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

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It’s time once again to share my world with you, my ~~captives~~ readers. But before I do so, I’d like to say thank you for visiting my little bloggy corner of the ‘net, where I can talk your ears off I wanted to, while you, with the option to leave whenever you feel like it, take the time to click ‘like’ or write down a comment. Thank you.

So without further ado, here’s my world – so far this week.

Do you believe in extraterrestrials or life on other planets?

I’m a huge fan of The X-Files, Star Trek and the original Star Wars trilogy, so that should tell you enough. I believe, should be my simple answer. And I’m sure that what they might think about us would be quite interesting. They might even have the same issues we all have – like, does this make my butt look big?

What type of pet or pets do you not want to have?

I once thought I’d want a snake – a boa constrictor or a python. I thought it would go well with my real name, you know, Velvet the snake woman or something like that. But then life intervened to let me know the folly of my ways by having a real-life snake wrangler for a classmate in college. He shook his head and told me that as much as having a snake sounded like a nifty idea, he told me to “wait till you have to feed it live pet rats or mice, and hear the poor things scream (the rodents, not the snake) – or you can kill the rodents before you feed it to the snakes. Then, come back and tell me you still want a snake, and I’ll have no problem getting you one.”

I’d read enough of Silence of the Lambs to know what that is like to hear the screaming of, well, in that story, lambs. But to hear it at every mealtime for the benefit of a pet, no thank you.

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

Purple, baby. Although red suits me so much better.

What type of transportation would you be? Why?

I have to be honest here. While others might think themselves to be Porsche’s or Ferrari’s or Testarossa’s, I’d probably be a 1972 Volkswagen Beetle – oh, and automatic shift at that. That means that while it has the gear stick with the various 1st to 3rd gears, it has no clutch pedal.

Weird, I know, but get this. Unique and often hard to come by (in working condition) – check. 0 to 60 in ten minutes – check. Could break down at any minute – check.

Yep. Sounds pretty much like me.

Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Last Saturday night, I had a major allergy attack that surprised me – puffy eyes and tingling puffy lips. Angioedema is the proper word for it. Unfortunately, I had no antihistamine in the house – not a single pill of Benadryl or Zyrtec. I did have my albuterol inhaler and so when I was having difficulty breathing in addition to the itchy feeling under the skin (no hives in sight), I used the inhaler and then told hubby to go to the drugstore at 1 am to get me Benadryl. It could have been worse, but thank goodness, despite my ignorance about MSG allergy, it wasn’t.

For the week coming up, I’m looking forward to being more organized because taxes are fast approaching. Because I sure as heck am not at the moment.

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