Hey, y'all. I hope you had a good day. Uh, I'm having a pretty rough one, but I'm trying to, I'm trying to keep going today. It's already- it's almost 6:30 [pm].
*sniff* I'm worried about Gomez. I tried to call right after 4:00 [pm]. They're not 'posed to close until 5:30 but I couldn't get anybody on the phone. *deep gasp* So I'm thinkin' maybe they had a float in the Christmas parade tonight. Maybe they closed early, I don't know. *deep sighs* I'll call in the morning and find out more.
*sniff* It just- I'm grateful that Gomez is even there. *long pause* Y'all. When you are poor [stop] *long pause* and you decide to try to do anything to help, you put yourself and your whole heart and your whole being on the line, knowing that there may come a day that you can't help, that you can't do anything, but wish and pray. *long pause* And that's where I'm at.
*sniffs* *very long pause*
I wish I could say Gomez has been the only one affected by my poverty. He is not. But the reality is, I turn my animals over to the shelter, multiple would likely be put down. Because they're just overrun. Right before Thanksgiving they were begging for people to come and adopt-- free-- because they had a hundred-- and I think it was a hundred and sixty cats? Over 160 cats, something like that?
I have 11. And you think it wouldn't be hard to care for eleven cats. But it's like having eleven toddlers. And with that comes the colds and the allergies, and when one gets sick, they all get sick. We've already had two viruses go through all of them. At the introduction of one- one of their cat [I'm guessing she is referencing when she "adopted" Penelope, who was a sick outdoor cat and infected all the other cats], and um-- [cat appears] Hi Matilda-- and um, at the, uh, um [to Matilda] Oh, sweetheart. *sniffs* And um, when one of my cats ran off for a week and decided to come back with what I think was Covid. Yep,
cats can get Covid by the way. *shallow breaths* Matilda is saying hello.
But anyway, that's all I wanted to say is *deep breath* poverty is a robber and a thief. And, yeah. Poverty is violence.