The End of the Worst Year in Recent Memory
When I think about New Year's, all I can think about is thank God 2025 is done. It's been an awful year. Why? April 1st will live in my brain as the worst day of my professional career. Half of my deaf folks at work (across the country) lost their jobs for absolutely no good reason. I lost some of my favorite hearing people as well. It let me know that my job and everything I depend on is vulnerable. My heart broke into a million pieces when we had to say goodbye to Sophie. She was my first real pet and I loved her in a way I didn't was possible. Thinking about her still makes me cry. After a few months, I really missed having a cat in the house. So we adopted a brother/sister duo who were funny and soft. Mango is a huge boy (and a typical orange cat). He's very sweet. Dizzy was the reason we adopted them, if I'm being honest. She was the softest cat and was admittedly slightly different. Her head tilt and crossed eyes won my heart immediately. She h...