It's been a long and trying four weeks. The new roommate is getting settled in. The house is still in great dissarry. We are slowly getting it put back together, but the merging of two full kitchens into one without much storage is a task.
We've been dealing with a very sick Baby Cat. He started getting sick right around the time the roommate moved in. He's been to the emergancy vet, and to the regular vet, several times, with a couple overnight stays. He hasn't been himself, and Master has been missing Her Cat. I can understand. In less then three years, i have grown very fond of him as well.
The news today is that there is no tumor in the liver. It seems to just be liver disease. They put in a feeding tube so that we can keep nutrients in him. He will be at the Vet's til Friday. Tomorrow's work schedule is heavy, and Master has a meeting tomorrow night. I have Chef's Table. Neither one of us is available to go down and be shown how to use the feeding tube.
Master got sick on Sunday, and that complicated matters. She took off Monday and yesterday. Today she still isn't 100%, but She is better and made it to work.
Work has been very busy for me. I'm picking up hours and staying over to about 4:30. This is good for our finances, however it means that i don't get much alone time. I don't have that 1 or 2 hour break before i pick Master up from work.
I identified an issue late last week. One that Master and i discussed when we got together. In the work environment there is a self-preservation attitude that can kick in. It is my business Top that comes out. It's been hectic, and pushy, and full of testosterone in the kitchen lately. And in order to survive, i go into this mode. It is very hard to get out of, and it is a mode i come home with. Usually, when i work like this, work becomes my life, and it is all-consuming. I discussed this with Master. This is beyond the struggle of being slave, and serving Her. Beyond anything i've written about here. It is a deep part of my personality that i have managed to keep under tight control. With the mercenary attitudes being thrown around at work, this part of me kicked into that high gear.
At least i recognized that it was happening. The non-responsiveness to Master's orders, the inability to give of myself, the attitude i was coming home with was affecting our relationship. In discussing this issue, Master was able to bring to light the tools i have at hand to help keep this attitude where it belongs, at work. The last few days have been better, and work will chill out as well. The point is, I'm not going anywhere, i like my job. And these guys can push all they want, as long as i don't respond to them in a manner that will make me lose my job, i'll survive this change.
And during this time, i had major computer issues. I decided to perform a full reformat of my hard drive, and now cannot use my HP Recovery disks to get any of the orginal configuration back. Fortunately the new roommate has a copy of XP Pro, and that is now installed on my system. I haven't reinstalled everything yet, but i am up and running.
I have the network running. The router is working with Master's computer, and my wireless pci card is talking to it just fine. There are some things that i really enjoy with XP Pro. It really is an excellent OS.
So that's the short version of the very long few weeks in this slave's life. I hope it evens out a little bit.
I'm asking for lots of good energy sent our way for Baby cat. (if you go to my slideshows he is the black cat). And good energies for everything else to work out in our life.
