Living the High Life

So for the past few days i've been housesitting for my friend and her man. Whenever they go on vacation i'm the official cat/house sitter which i love. They have a hot tub, a pool an elliptical trainer, satellite and a lovely home....plus a really cool cat. He's quite large, but not fat, more muscular. He loves to be loved, is constantly sitting on me, sleeping in my bed and he's obsessed with water. I can't do dishes without him staring into the sink or have a bath without him dipping his paws in the water, he's truly a bizzare but charming character. Dawn was over the other night and he was head butting her and flopping around the couch without any grace at all, he's quite clumsy in fact and sees no problem with jumping all over the place and stretching up on a lamp shade. I'm terribly afraid the lamp will go crashing to the ground one of these days. I mentioned this last time to my friend and she just laughed because she knows he's such a clumsy kitty. I am here until sunday so i shall try to make the most of it, watching tv and lounging in the hot tub.

I've totally jumped out of the box as far as work is concerned. I work for a non profit agency and so we have fundraising events and other such things. At our staff meeting yesterday, they were looking for committee members for a week long event to celebrate our agency. My co-worker joined and then pointed out that she thought i should join too and laughed. I joked around about it and thought i was in the clear, till the end of the meeting when they said "so, we should put your name down?" I tried to weasle out of it by saying my contract would be up by then, but they wouldn't have it....so i yelled "fine" and explained my New Years Resolution to them. I told them this was hurdling the box and they laughed. In any event, i find committees like this to be daunting and too much pressure and i don't think this is anywhere near one of my strong points, but alas i am stepping out of my comfort zone and being a trooper. (I also stayed in all weekend last week, shocker i know)

I am also going with that same co-worker to a volunteer appreciation day at the jail. She works with women who are incarcerated and does release planning with them. I have not yet been to this particular institution and am very excited. We get a tour and get to talk to some of the women so it should be an eye opening experience for me. I've only been to one facility where we had a Christmas party for the women and that was years ago. I spilled pop on one of the ladies .... their one time to be out in the gym and enjoy themselves without being locked behind bars and i dump pop all over one of them LOL...only me!!