Shannon's Journal, Volume 3

[Shannon]

I finally got home late last night in a rented truck that was a very different driving experience to what I have been used to for the last 18 years since I last drove a truck, so between that and the insanity of the drivers around me and an 11 hour drive on top of that I got home and crashed my brain into bed hard. My cat, however, seems to have been deprived of Master lovies even though we spent over $300 on a pet sitter to make sure that didn't happen, and woke me up all night long asking for attention. Needless to say, I am still very tired.

Now I have to face the unpleasant task of burying my dog Ami, and since she died on one of my most prized mementos of my mother (a blanket my mother used to love) I am going to bury her wrapped in that blanket. That's sort of a double loss for me, since I kept that blanket as a reminder of my mother. I guess Ami felt the same way.

So between the sleep deprivation and the emotional trauma now hitting me (I was forced to put the emotional impact of and dealing with it on the back burner before to keep everything together with getting the situation dealt with concerning the car) and having to do a lot of things like laundry, putting things away and cleaning now that I am back, I think I will take a day or two to get all this stuff handled and rest before I start working again.

Be back soon. Stay well.