In case anyone was waiting around for the resolution to the cat story, I won by eventually getting the cat outside, she won by leaving diarrhea and pee under my couch before she exited the building. So I guess it’s a draw? (Thankfully no carpets were harmed in the cleanup process.)
I know the world’s attention is on the dumpster fire in DC today, but all I’ll say is I’m thoroughly disappointed that our election and transfer of power this year looks like something out of a developing country. I expect that garbage from some of our neighbors over here, not from my home. I feel like a mom that wants to say, “you’ve all misbehaved, you’re all in trouble, and you all need to go home until I can think of a suitable punishment!”
Meanwhile, over here . . . my country of residence is cranking out the vaccine like it’s a newly discovered oil well. (I’m intentionally saying my country of residence because I don’t need a bot trolling the internet and finding this post and reporting it to the government. You think I’m joking . . . nope). In world record setting fashion, they’ve set a goal to vaccinate 50% of the 10 million residents by the end of the 1st quarter and in order to reach that goal they are making it extremely onerous to do anything other than line up and get the jab.
Since what they’re giving out hasn’t been approved by any internationally recognized body and they won’t publish the results of the trials that they conducted this summer AND because they still require people to be tested every two weeks even after having the vaccine, that’s a firm, “no thank you” from us. It may mean that we may have to exit the country as Josh won’t be able to do his job without the vaccine eventually, but we are praying that it won’t come to that. (They’ve already mandated it for public sector workers, but not for us yet.)
We’ll continue to hold everything loosely and be flexible, but I’m getting so tired of uncertainty. I thought that retiring would give us something to hang on to and that we could put stakes in the ground, but in spite of living in the same house for 2 1/2 years, I’ve never felt more unsettled month to month.
And to end on a happy note, two things from my girl. First, her broadcast debut on the school webcast. She will hate that I made this public, but someday she’ll be happy that I saved it. And second, wintertime walks with her girl. Two things that brought me joy today.
Camille looks and sounds so grown up! She’s adorable in as a newscaster. Praying for you, your family and our world. Lord come quickly!