All Over Again

The one thing my daughter has taught me while she’s been gone on vacation. Is that I don’t miss the lingering cat smell in our new apartment. Now I know my youngin keeps a clean house, but the fact that it has been shut up for nearly a week. Even changing litter boxes every day hasn’t seemed to work. So today I decided to spray fabric, clean litter boxes, vacuum rugs, and mop floors. Now she may not appreciate my efforts, but my conscience is clear.
 
There are many moments of regret in my life, things I wish I had done different. Often it is that weight that bares down on me and causes me to make even worse decisions. But you do what you got to do to keep things going. Especially when you got others depending on you. The same thing can happen at work where co-workers can turn into your children depending on your approval for everything. As a former analyst it was my job to find weaknesses and correct them. There was a many a jobsite where I was known as the “Boy Scout” because I was always prepared.
 
But of late my skills have been making me a bit tired and I just don’t have the energy to do what I once could do. Today my phone has been ringing off the hook with one minor problem after another. I feel like someone has dropped me back in time some ten years. But I got enough sense to know those days are long gone. While I had to skip a doctor’s appointment this morning, just to do what I had to do. But being the Boy Scout that I am, the appointment has already been rescheduled. It’s funny when you’re supposed to be the old man forced to retire and take it easy. That there are moments when you have to become the “advisor” and the “chief cook and bottle wash” all over again.
 
But damn! I hate the smell of cat shit.