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<\/p>\nThis is the post where I complain. So if you’re not into it, take off now. Or, join me. Because misery loves company. Except when it doesn’t.<\/p>\n
A few things have been making me feel like I might fly into a murderous rage.<\/p>\n
Thing number one:<\/p>\n
What’s this, you say? Oh, a pile of cat shit. Again. Last year, after I had Emil (I had to wait until I was no longer pregnant so I didn’t risk contracting toxoplasmosis<\/a>), I dug all the dirt out of our side garden because it smelled like cat urine and feces from the neighborhood cats. Then I spent a ridiculous amount of time adding new dirt and 8 new boxwoods to this area, as well as spraying it with an eco-friendly cat repellant\u00a0twice daily\u00a0<\/em>in order to break them of the habit. It worked for a while. But only when I saturated the area with the repellant. This got expensive, so we stopped buying the repellant. And sure enough, the damn cat (s?) came back. And now, every two days, I have a pile of cat crap to pick up on top of the dog poop from our own dog and all the tushie-wiping I have to do on a daily basis.<\/p>\n But the mind-blowing part?<\/p>\n THIS is the sign that I have to walk past every day, which just so happens to be in the cat-owner’s yard who comes over and uses our garden as a litter box (and the only cat I have actually watched poop in our garden): It says, “Be a good neighbor, pick up after your pet.”<\/em><\/p>\n I couldn’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n Oh, and yes. These neighbors actually know about their cat doing this. They have apologized, but have not taken any steps to rectify the situation. What would you<\/em> do?<\/p>\n Thing number two:<\/p>\n The sleep situation around here. Sheer torture. I will not go into every detail suffice to say that these kids don’t sleep. Not naps. Up at 5:30am. Up several times throughout the night. \u00a0The result is an exhaustion I cannot begin to explain. My eyes are dropping shut at 7:30pm every night, and so I would otherwise just go to bed. But someone is always up. Needing something, crying something. It makes me crazy beyond comprehension. Oh, and I have a constant headache from lack of sleep. Andrew is going out of town for three days this weekend. So I have decided to duct tape all three kids into their beds for a few hours for some real shut-eye. Is that frowned upon?<\/p>\n Okay. Those are my top two. That’s all. Good night. Ahahahahaha! Just kidding!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the post where I complain. So if you’re not into it, take off now. Or, join me. Because misery loves company. Except when it doesn’t. A few things have been making me feel like I might fly into a murderous rage. Thing number one: What’s this, you say? Oh, a pile of cat … Continue reading “My Head Just May Explode…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,62,93],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden","tag-neighborhood","tag-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/12529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"DSC_0100\"](\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8003\/7161041821_222051e115_b.jpg\")
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