On occasion ... life sucks

Colour me blue for unhappy today. I heard last night that the by-law at the Condo will stand until September unless Helen and I pay $600 to have two special by-law meetings which could still go against us. So I released Helen from our verbal agreement and told her just to go ahead and sell her place. It is a lovely apartment so will sell FAST. So will my house but I am not putting that on the market until I find a place to live.

Today I received an email from this fellow from the Okanagan Strata Management company who attended yesterday's meeting. He wrote in answer to my letter to the committee and he copied and pasted the portion of the by-laws that pertains to pets. It stated that you could have a reasonable number of small caged animals. Well, I emailed him back that I then saw no problem to me moving in with my cats. A 'reasonable number' suggests more than one. 'Small' does not specify size and surely cats are not large. 'Caged' - well my cats will be in their carriers when they arrive and those could be called cages. I further argued that whether my 'animals' are caged or not while in the unit, is no one's business. The units are owned by those living in them and therefore what goes on inside the unit should not be anyone's business unless it somehow impacts on them. I know that I am pulling at straws here but....

On the bright side of today: I held two auctions - a Silent Auction and a Blind Auction. The Blind Auction is still the favourite. We raised $268 for the Seniors' Centre coffers. Yay. Of course, I had to suddenly almost pass out while I was holding stuff up for my friend Ross to auction off. There was a scurry of activity to 1. grab me and 2. get me into a chair and then the auction resumed with someone else filling in for me.

I came home and crawled into bed. Enough for one day. But I am up again now because Thomas want FOOD and Cole demands that the litter box be scooped. Life goes on .... even if we don't.