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Thank you everyone for the immense outpouring of support on yesterday's journal. I didn't do jack yesterday, besides lie around in bed. I concluded that I may be just as traumatized by this as my daughter is. I have comforted myself with food, trying to get back to a good place today. Life is hard to begin with, it's even harder with anxiety/depression issues. I get overwhelmed and I just shut down. It gets to the point that I literally can't keep my eyes open and I feel like I can't catch my breath. It's exhausting. I'm trying to overcome that by finding things that I can do to help the situation and relieve some of the 'overwhelming'. Right now it's such a frustrating waiting game.
God bless my husband, he is actively out for blood from Cassidy's dad and that dog. He called the dog warden yesterday and as it turns out the dog has not been quarantined as of yet. He told us that the dog owner has to pay for the quarantine, and if she fails to do so in a reasonable amount of time a warrant will be put out for her arrest for failure to comply. How is that even right?? If that dog was rabid (highly unlikely) how long would it take for them to discover that and treat my daughter?? My husband tried to go to speak to the law director after work but he was already out of the office. We want charges pressed for negligence. They knew that the dog didn't like my daughter, Cassidy told me the dog has growled at her before yet they allowed this to happen. I would like to sue for sole custody and eliminate dipshits rights to visitation but I can't afford attorney fees right now. I feel pretty powerless. Regardless she won't be seeing him again anytime soon, because I say so and he doesn't fight back anyway. He is both negligent and incompetent. Oh, and apparently the fate of the dog ultimately lies in the hands of the health department. At least that's what I've been told. We will be talking to them as well. My daughter wants us to 'not make a big deal out of it'. She doesn't want any drama between her father and I, so I am leaving her out of this as much as possible. She is ten, I get it, but damnit someone is going to be held accountable for this. Someday she will understand.
As for today, I need to spend it studying. I have a test tonight that, thanks to the weekends events, I have not studied for at all. I'll give it my best shot, but if it's not my best score I forgive myself. A little time out of the house in class tonight will probably do me some good.
My boss is lining me up with some new work hours. The last few weeks I haven't been working but the financial strain has taken it's toll. My husband is less than enthused about the work load on me, but we need the money. Not much else I can do. I don't think I'll ever get a day off between work and school, no rest for the wicked.
Got my cats spayed yesterday, the two female kittens that I kept. I also paid to get my friend's cat neutered. It was a low cost clinic and I got a discount on three cats so technically the male was only an extra ten dollars. He pissed in my SUV on the way home last night, and now it smells worse than awful. No good deed goes unpunished. I'm all full of little quotes this morning. I guess I better get something done today. :)
Have a wonderful day, buddies!
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