Cat pee update

Oh no, don´t get your hopes up - I´m not going to deliver a complete cat pee update, because then I´d be writing until this time next year... Let me just put it this way: almost every day has been a cat piss day ... (is anybody still wondering why I had to be on sick leave for several months?) As if my life didn´t such enough anyway!

But that was last year. Actually, my life doesn´t suck that much anymore. I think. (Either that, or I have gotten better in the fine art of "healthy denial"...)

Since my long sick leave for burnout - or depression, or whatever you choose to call my state of complete exhaustion - I´ve been working less, making less money, and generally feeling better about myself. It probably also has something to do with having created some structure in my life - like: sushi on Tuesdays, jazz on Thursdays, movie on Saturdays - and a lot of improvised time with good friends in between...(no, we don´t always dress like in the picture...). I spend more time in the neighboring town now than I did last year, which means I spend more money on gasoline and less money on beer. It all evens out, somehow. But I have a feeling that this arrangement, which might not be recommended from an environmentalist point of view, is doing wonders for my liver and my mind, so... I´m only feeling a little bit guilty. (Or am I really supposed to sacrifice my mental health for the planet? )

And I have finally learned to be alone without feeling completely restless... many evenings I sit by the fire, watching movies (ok, I admit - it´s gotten a bit out of control... The day before yesterday I wathced 3 DVD-films... But they were good, though) with 2-3 cats all over my body. An ideal way to spend a long, cold, dark winter night, if you ask me.