Bye-Bye, Snicker Doodle

Snicker Doodle went to a new Momma today. A lady Shawn works with recently lost her 19 year old cat and agreed to take Snickers. She is exactly who I asked St. Francis to send but it still broke my heart to have to say good bye. I gave her my number and told her to call me if she decides she can't keep him - begged her not to just abandon him. And now Shawn is trying to convince a barkeep to take Checkers. He honestly doesn't care about how his actions hurt me to the core.

I have one more week of Correspondence work and then I head to processing training. I am trying so hard to keep a positive outlook on this - look at it like a new adventure. But I am so dreading the change. 

Going to the Weissenbachs' for Thanksgiving. I would rather stay home and veg in bed but.... Shawn gets what he wants. Wonder if they will have turkey this year.

I'm in a rotten mood.

Home Again - For Now

I can't believe it but Maui is over - what a great time was had....once we made it there! About two hours into the flight from Phoenix to Maui (putting us an hour over the ocean), the pilot came on to say we had to turn back and return to the mainland because the windshield had just cracked. Then he said we were going to drop to 10,000 feet 'just in case the window blew out', drop the flaps and landing gear to burn fuel and head to Phoenix rather than a California airport because we were too heavy to land. The LONGEST two hours of my life! I seriously thought I was going to die that day.

Then three days into the vacation, Shawn and I were sitting at the oasis part of the inn (a lovely location, by the way!) when we heard what sounded like a car crash on the highway right below us. Shawn went to investigate only to find it wasn't a car crash at all - it was a 10-passenger plane making an emergency landing! Amazingly, no one was hurt. When it came time to head home, I was nervous about getting on the plane - I'm glad I have several months before my next trip!