{"id":874,"date":"2008-05-09T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/874"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:05:53","slug":"home-hairy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/874","title":{"rendered":"Home Hairy Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday (my birthday!) we decided to come home.\u00a0 We’d been in France for over a week and were both feeling like we were getting a little tired of sight seeing.\u00a0\u00a0 It was time to pack up and head home so that we could be home in time to have a nice long weekend to chill out before returning to work.<\/p>\n

We left at 9:30am and drove straight through to Rotterdam (from the Millau area in France), arriving home almost exactly 12 hours later at 9:30pm.\u00a0 We’d taken our time and made a few stops along the way, all in all it was a pretty uneventful ride.<\/p>\n

The whole way I couldn’t wait to get home.\u00a0 I wanted to sleep in my own bed, prepare my own food, sit on my own sofa and get back to my high speed internet.<\/p>\n

Then reality struck.<\/p>\n

I walked in and the house was hot and stuffy, full of hair and like a landmine of puked up hairballs which had hardened onto our tiles.\u00a0\u00a0 There was no food in the fridge and our internet wasn’t working.\u00a0\u00a0 When I went to bed I had to jam earplugs deep into my ears to block out the sounds of our loudmouth cat screaming on the other side of the bedroom door.<\/p>\n

I sit here now, after opening the windows to let some air in watching dust and hair float past and filling the air around me.\u00a0\u00a0 The black capri pants I pulled on when I stumbled out of bed are covered in hair from sitting on the sofa.<\/p>\n

I’ve had it.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve exhausted all options when it comes to friends, workmates and acquaintances so now I have posted an ad on a website here in the Netherlands to look for a new home for my cats.<\/p>\n

I will miss them and it will hurt, but I honestly can’t deal with life with these cats anymore.<\/p>\n

I want to be able to walk out of my bedroom in my bare feet without fear of the squish <\/em>of a puked up hairball between my toes.\u00a0\u00a0 I want to get in bed and feel totally clean sheets, not the gritty feeling of sheets that a cat has just crawled into immediately after crawling out of his litter box.\u00a0 I want to come home from work and sit down on my sofa for a minute before starting dinner without having to take my work clothes off first and hiding them away from where the hair can get to them.\u00a0\u00a0 I want new sofas that don’t have shredded corners and cat hair permanently woven into the fabric.\u00a0 I want to have company over without the paranoia that the cats will rub against their clothes, climb into their bags or jump into their laps, covering themselves and their belongings with hair.<\/p>\n

I think having all of those things will make me feel better when the guilt sets in about giving up on them and not being able to cope with life with cats.<\/p>\n

Basically, life without them will be less painful and frustrating than life with them.<\/p>\n

More holiday photos to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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