Hello Friends! Welcome back to my quarantine blog. Today is Monday, April 27 2020. I've got just a bunch of life updates today. Let's pretend we are friends catching up over lunch!
It's a rainy Monday here! No thunder or lightening outside, however, my frustration was booming. What could I possibly have to be frustrated about?! Yes, I agree, I have everything anyone could ever want, but that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated. Today I had to make a bunch of phone calls and emails, regarding mostly things affected by Covid-19 difficulties. I had to call Delta, again, because when I canceled our flights for next week, the email confirmations for the cancellation with voucher looked like normal boarding reservation emails. No verbiage about how to use this information when we are ready to re-book. Anyone else in that same situation? Next, I had to call our sprinkler system people to see if they are even making rounds to turn everyone's systems back on. They are, but don't know when as they are just now back in the office today for the first time in several weeks today. Then I had to call the microchip company to have Bean's contact information changed to to us.
Hold up- I just realized I didn't tell you my Bean update! So, I had emailed the humane society to tell them how everything with Bean was going great, her name there was Gertie, however she had some behaviors I was concerned about and wanted to verify that we were her first owners. I received an email back form the shelter and the staff member apologized that we didn't get all the information when we adopted her but, yes, she was originally adopted out last October of 2019 (she was brought in as a couple weeks old kitten in June of 2019) and the family who adopted her brought her back to the shelter in February of this year! *super sad crying face emoji* Folks, they brought this perfect angel baby back to the humane society. After having her for approximately 5 months. How heartbreaking! It must have been so hard for them. Their reason being that "Gertie" didn't get along with their other cat and young baby/toddler son. I understand things sometimes don't work out. I do. and at least they brought her back to the humane society so that she could be re-homed. but this wasn't easy on Bean at all. The transition stressed her out so much that she started having tummy issues. Random diarrhea and vomiting. I feel like this is the feline version of IBS. Anyhow, they did a bunch of tests to see why she was having these symptoms but everything came up normal. So they tried a prescription food; z/d diet for skin allergies. It worked like a charm. That's what we are continuing to feed her here and we haven't had a single issue. Also, when the previous family brought her back, she arrived with ear mites! Poor baby. I'm just even more grateful now that we have her, and that she is the only cat and we have a child free home. It just makes us love her even more. She's so sweet and trusting and makes strides towards getting more comfortable everyday. She will always have a home with us and no longer has to worry.
Back to my frustrating day, which isn't that frustrating anymore because it's such a happy ending! I logged onto the Covid-19 unemployment website today and finally got through! I finished my application and now I have my fingers crossed.
I thought I'd also share some insight about frustration and anger that I learned from a psychology today article. I can't find exact article I read, but I learned about something called the "90 second rule". This coping skill considers the amount of time your body needs to react to emotionally stressful events. Think Flight or Fright reactions. These are examples of how chemical reactions are triggered but different stimuli.
In a concept simply defined as the “90-second rule,” neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor says that when we’re hit with a stressful situation—regardless of what it is— we should allow ourselves to observe the surrounding emotions for a full 90 seconds“When a person has a reaction to something in their environment,” she says, “there’s a 90-second chemical process that happens in the body; after that, any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop.”“Something happens in the external world, and chemicals are flushed through your body which puts it on full alert. For those chemicals to totally flush out of the body, it takes less than 90 seconds. This means that for 90 seconds you can watch the process happening, you can feel it happening, and then you can watch it go away.”“After that, if you continue to feel fear, anger, and so on, you need to look at the thoughts that you’re thinking that are re-stimulating the circuitry that is resulting in you having this physiological reaction, over and over again.” -OneBodyinc
I think that's enough for today my friends! I hope that the the information I shared will help you in any stressful situations you may have. Please share this blog with anyone and everyone and keep this family growing! See you back here tomorrow. :-)
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