The ONE bummer about my job.

Euthanasia.

On my first day, it was a 13 year old cat. Wednesday, a 14 year old black lab, and on Friday, a family of 4 came to say goodbye to Beauty, their 15 year old black lab/ beagle mix. Seeing other people cry is like a trigger, and my tear ducts runneth over and before I know it, I have tears streaming down to my chin. Why oh WHY must I be so compassionate? HA!
I get it. I really do. Beauty could hardly stand up, and her owner came out to the lobby afterwards and told his kids that "She was so tired, she fell asleep before they out the sleepy stuff in her." I silently left the desk and made a beeline for the nearest box of tissues. Having never lost a pet except a hermit crab, this is all very new to me. And since I am the Mommy to 3 cats and a dog, I make the HUGE mistake of thinking of my furry family when an older pet comes in the office. So not fun.

I thought I had thicker skin. I thought I could brush it all off, but my father in law was very right. I can cry at the drop of a hat, and have a shoulder shaking sobfest when a perfect stranger cries in front of me. I suppose I just hate knowing that other people are sad and hurt. Yeah, that sounds better than me being a wus.

So with all this sadness flying around my life right now, I wanted you all to know I met the teeeeeniest tiiiiiiiiiniest pupster on Tuesday. She weighed 10 ounces. Yes, look at your soda can...she weighed less than that! Her owner just put her on the corner of the clipboard while she filled out some new client paper work. See? The cute factor is much higher than the sad factor!

Now I am dehydrated. Tissues soak up a lot of water!

The best news I've heard all week...

Remember that animal hospital job? They need a receptionist...well, needed. They called today and I got the job!! I'll start Monday and I don't know how I'm going to get through the weekend. I've never been so happy about a job!
Here are the big perks...hehe, they are perks to ME.
1. M-F, no weekends.
2. The earliest I'll go in is 8am, and the latest I'll have to stay is 8:30pm.
3. Benefits are included.
4. The owner provides chilled bottled water for the entire staff, good thing too, since I will be talking for 9 hours a day.
5. I can come home on my lunch and let Raven out for a bathroom break.
6. It's less than 4 miles from home, so our gas hog of an SUV won't be polluting all of Southwest Columbus.
7. I get to wear scrubs and sneakers to work. 'Nuff said.
8. When a company representative comes in for Frontline or some other company, all staff members get enough of their product for ALL their pets to last a year. For this household, that's about eleventy billion dollars a year that we'll be saving. Whew!
9. After my interview, I wanted this job more cause I liked the people so much!

And now for the cons:
1. Uhhh, I can't think of any.

I am one happy lady!