I'm Back

It's been over a year since I created this blog and since I posted anything. I created it the week after BW died. Georgie had died the previous November and I was catless. I really did it for myself, and am still doing it for myself. I think I have friends who would like to read their story. If not, I still feel a need to do it. I want to finish telling about BW and Georgie because they were so special and I still miss them very much. I wondered before what I was going to do after I finished telling about BW and Georgie, because , after all, I am not a writer and I am not a storyteller. And I'm not sure cxactly how much I have to tell. Well, it just came to me what I am to do. This will be my cat blog and I will write about other cats in my life, starting with the FIVE new kittens in my life. Yes, I said FIVE! Two I got a month ago and this week, I got 3 calico kittens, about 6 weeks old. Well, their story will be another post, but I think that they are the reason I am able to start writing here again.

I will write later in greater detail about the last 2 years, but briefly, after Georgy died, my health was greatly affected. I was really quite torn apart. If someone had told me before that the death of a pet could affect ones health like what happened to me, I don't think I would have believed them totally. And I don't know if anyone really understands what I went through. Well, 10 days after Georgie died, Elizabeth died. She was 90 years old and had been in bed for a year. I want to write about her also, because she was a very special person and she was also a cat person. Well, as if that wasn't enough, in August of 2007, a year ago, my mother died. So that is why it has taken me so long to get back to this blog.
Also, last winter was more difficult than usual because I had bronchitis very bad for 2 months and it lingered on after that. Many of the days at the school where I teach violin a few days a week I really shouldn't have been there. Both in the months after Georgie died and this past year with the bronchitis. If I had been able to take time off in both cases to recover, it would have been a very different story. But I can not afford to take time off work, no matter how sick I might be. Actually in Feb. I did miss almost 2 weeks of teaching, and didn't play on the street for 2 months. which combined with the trip back to Florida for my mother's funeral, has taken care of all of the small cash reserve I have.

Well, things are looking up. I have really done things to take back control of my health and I feel very good about the future.