Mabel at the Vet and other things
Some know that upon my return from Cleveland Mabel had an emergency visit to the Vet. She had an abscess on her tail. The doctor drained it and she’s doing OK. She goes back on Tuesday, they’ll check her tail and make sure all is well.
But the vet was all like, “we’ll have to clip her tail and then we can drain the abscess…” and ya know, clip to me means, cut off her tail. I was so worried that I was a bad Kitty Mom that I let something go wrong to where her tail needed to be amputated!! The nurse saw my shock and explained that clip=SHAVE. So Mabel has her tail, all is well.
They gave me this cone collar to put on her so she wouldn’t chew or lick at her tail. When I got home and opened the carrier, I put it on her – upside down. She leaped out of the cage and tried to run down the hall to her food dish. The cone on wrong and the drugs in her system had her diving into the floor and the wall. I laughed so hard my sides ached. Once I composed myself I followed after her to get the collar off. We decided the collar was cruel and she hasn’t worn it since.
And then on Thursday it was just a total crap day. All was well until I left my apartment.
The unemployment office for the state of Illinois sucks ass. The crap they send to you is so LACKING in information. I want to know who I need to write to in order to complain about this shit. They send you a letter saying your benefits are “exhausted” but they don’t say a word about how an extension works or how to apply or what your next step might be. Is it so hard to put in a letter some basic information on how this works? And the bi-weekly letter about your next call to claim weeks…. how hard is it to put the phone number ON THAT LETTER?!?
I called the unemployment office because the website isn’t much more informative. And naturally the dude who answers the phone is just as shitty as the website. But essentially I find out there is nothing you can do. You wait for the government to decide you deserve more money, they send you a letter and that’s that. You don’t fill out anything, you don’t do anything… it just happens. Much the same way getting laid off just happens. Why can’t they give us more information? Why can’t they tell us this in the letter? It doesn’t make sense to me. And I’m sure I am not the only one who is angry and annoyed by this lack of information.
Well, today I got the letter telling me I get more money, which is good. But here’s hoping and praying and sacrificing goats or whatever to make sure I get a JOB so I don’t have to worry about this crap anymore.
