He was unable to take the cat with him. She is siamese and completely forlorn. They are notoriously people cats. Anyway, I like her, will take care of her but it irritates me. It's like seriously...you walked out on your cat too? I really do love the cat but she's not mine as I said.

I am not so sure I need a break exactly. I need things to work a little better for me. Some of the things I have been focusing on is organization. Seriously, if I keep everything organized and I do not feel the stress of being unprepared in addition to days when someone is having a bad day then it helps. We have been doing so much here in this house. Big changes in a small amount of time. I realize I had sort of given up on anything ever changing and hadn't invested much energy into anything anymore. That includes the house, the kids behavior, making this feel like a home. Really before it was just chaotic. Stupid. I was so angry it was like I'll show you, you deal with it. End result, no one really did deal with a lot of things. So basically every day I am trying to keep with my schedule and do a little more each day to finally get my house back in order and feeling nice and peaceful. Maybe it is just my makeup but I feel better mentally when my environment is orderly.

And I know I have lived here for 10 years but how in the world did I accumulate this much crap????

OMG! Some things I can see that I was buying to try to make myself feel better. That was an eye opener.