My Cat & New Cookware

Today I want to express two things I'm grateful for.  The first is that my cat is finally using her litter box again.  Yes, for a couple months, she was refusing to use it.  I don't know why.  All I know is that it started with her peeing on my clothes whenever she could.  This was very irritating and a lot of people would have probably gotten rid of a pet for doing this but I love her dearly so I put up with it and just tried to prevent her from doing it by not letting much laundry build up and keeping her out of my room as much as possible.  But she found other places to pee because we recently acquired another roommate, and so she started peeing on HIS stuff, and that was just unacceptable because he shouldn't have to put up with a cat that he doesn't love messing up his stuff.  And then recently she started pooping outside of the litter box, too.  Not on clothes or anything, just on the cement basement floor.  Again, a lot of people probably would've said, "Screw this," but I'm a softy.  So I finally took the advice of something I'd read on the internet saying to put the cat in the bathroom for two days with their litter box, food, and water, so they'll basically be "re-trained" to use it.  That sounded a little drastic to me when I first read it, but it came to the point recently where I didn't know what else to do.  So for two days I locked Darla in the bathroom, and was sad about it, but she was forced to use the litter box, and now she has continued using it even though she's free again.  This makes me very happy.

I'm also thankful to my parents who sent me my Christmas present early this year.  I've told them how I'm cooking a lot more nowadays but do not have any nice cookware, so they got me a beautiful new set of nonstick pots and pans in a lovely chocolate brown.  I love them!  I can't wait to start cooking with them and see if it makes a difference in how things turn out, because the nonstick on my other pans is just terrible, and these should also distribute heat more evenly.  Yay!  Thanks, Mom and Dad.

And oh my goodness, I know that I'm supposed to be saying something positive about my day next but it is currently a windchill outside of 12 motherfucking degrees below zero and with the wind howling at 25 mph and it's supposed to snow for the next three days and I just cannot say anything postive about that.  Damn!  I hate Wyoming weather!  *sighs*  Sometimes, I've just got to rant.