Lymey!
I want to thank everybody for their comments about my new landlords and their No Pet Policy. It meant a lot to me, to hear my righteous indignation be echoed. It is a fucked-up situation, and I'd like to give special thanks to bunnygoth for a decent solution, if I indeed have to be seperated from my beloved lagamorph.
The day after I wrote that, I dried my eyes and realized what I needed to do. Another big lesson I'm still learning is how to pick your fights: what you roll with, what you stand strong against.
While I haven't yet heard again from the new landlords (there is a message from the male to my parents on the answering machine. My parents are gone until the middle of next week, but I don't think I'll inform the new landlord of that fact, since I'm sure the purpose of his call is to urge my parents to put pressure on me to get rid of all my animals.), my mind has been made up. They want me to get rid of a family member. I love said family member. I have a lease, with my parents, which states I may be required to move when my parents sell their house. I have no lease with the new landlords.
Therefore, *breath* I'm going to move. Perhaps as early as July, which is when the new houseowners are scheduled to move in. We have absolutely no savings to do this with, but our credit cards will loan us the first/last/security/moving expenses.
If we can't keep our rabbit, there's no reason to stay. Especially if the length of our stay may only be six months! I'd rather move when it's warm, I'd rather be able to do a moving sale as soon as I'm done sorting my junk, I'd rather get this transition over with.
It's a big step. It's a fast-coming deadline. But my mind and heart are in line on this: I go where Moonshadow goes. If need be, I will place him in a foster home. But I'd rather keep him with us. He's happy and bold when he's around us, even if he's in places that are strange, or if new friends come to visit.
I'd have a hard time handling six months in an animal-less house. The eerie quiet (other than the sounds of Julius shouting at the various inanimate objects and computer games that attack and annoy him daily) would get to me.
In other news, I've got Lyme Disease! Well, the tests aren't done yet, but I've got a classic bull's eye rash. It showed up a day or two after wandering around the lagoon with zantiphia, but the incubation period may indicate that I was tick-bitten at Purchase. It's not a big deal, I'm annoyed to be on antibiotics again (they're already unsettling my digestive system), and I'm kicking myself for not getting the Lyme Disease Immunization when I had the chance. Now they don't manufacture it anymore, since it wasn't selling well enough. Fucking American Medical System, thanks a fucking lot for making the entire Northeast susceptible to a disease that has some nasty late-stage effects and not selling an immunization to it anymore because it's not fucking marketable enough.
In financial news, Julius may soon start a manufacturing temp job. Yay! This means I don't have to drag my unwilling ass to the office temp agencies . . . I'll go around to the stables and keep chasing my elusive Graphic Design leads instead. I have just gotten in touch with a Graphic Design Temp Agency in Boston, perhaps they'll come up with something for me more quickly than my overworked Providence one.
Got to go, I want to help Julius clean the girls' cage.
Oh, does anybody know of a decent mp3-sharing service? Napster is long gone, Kazaa and Audiogalaxy seem to be non-free nowadays, so I need another free one. Preferably with a good search system (Audiogalaxy's was really impressive) and few pop-ups. (Don't grumble at me, Otto, my mom would freak if I put Mozilla on her machine. She's terrified of virii.) Anyone, anyone? I just have a few days left of access to DSL.
The day after I wrote that, I dried my eyes and realized what I needed to do. Another big lesson I'm still learning is how to pick your fights: what you roll with, what you stand strong against.
While I haven't yet heard again from the new landlords (there is a message from the male to my parents on the answering machine. My parents are gone until the middle of next week, but I don't think I'll inform the new landlord of that fact, since I'm sure the purpose of his call is to urge my parents to put pressure on me to get rid of all my animals.), my mind has been made up. They want me to get rid of a family member. I love said family member. I have a lease, with my parents, which states I may be required to move when my parents sell their house. I have no lease with the new landlords.
Therefore, *breath* I'm going to move. Perhaps as early as July, which is when the new houseowners are scheduled to move in. We have absolutely no savings to do this with, but our credit cards will loan us the first/last/security/moving expenses.
If we can't keep our rabbit, there's no reason to stay. Especially if the length of our stay may only be six months! I'd rather move when it's warm, I'd rather be able to do a moving sale as soon as I'm done sorting my junk, I'd rather get this transition over with.
It's a big step. It's a fast-coming deadline. But my mind and heart are in line on this: I go where Moonshadow goes. If need be, I will place him in a foster home. But I'd rather keep him with us. He's happy and bold when he's around us, even if he's in places that are strange, or if new friends come to visit.
I'd have a hard time handling six months in an animal-less house. The eerie quiet (other than the sounds of Julius shouting at the various inanimate objects and computer games that attack and annoy him daily) would get to me.
In other news, I've got Lyme Disease! Well, the tests aren't done yet, but I've got a classic bull's eye rash. It showed up a day or two after wandering around the lagoon with zantiphia, but the incubation period may indicate that I was tick-bitten at Purchase. It's not a big deal, I'm annoyed to be on antibiotics again (they're already unsettling my digestive system), and I'm kicking myself for not getting the Lyme Disease Immunization when I had the chance. Now they don't manufacture it anymore, since it wasn't selling well enough. Fucking American Medical System, thanks a fucking lot for making the entire Northeast susceptible to a disease that has some nasty late-stage effects and not selling an immunization to it anymore because it's not fucking marketable enough.
In financial news, Julius may soon start a manufacturing temp job. Yay! This means I don't have to drag my unwilling ass to the office temp agencies . . . I'll go around to the stables and keep chasing my elusive Graphic Design leads instead. I have just gotten in touch with a Graphic Design Temp Agency in Boston, perhaps they'll come up with something for me more quickly than my overworked Providence one.
Got to go, I want to help Julius clean the girls' cage.
Oh, does anybody know of a decent mp3-sharing service? Napster is long gone, Kazaa and Audiogalaxy seem to be non-free nowadays, so I need another free one. Preferably with a good search system (Audiogalaxy's was really impressive) and few pop-ups. (Don't grumble at me, Otto, my mom would freak if I put Mozilla on her machine. She's terrified of virii.) Anyone, anyone? I just have a few days left of access to DSL.