Mean Girls Week: Thursday

A few coworkers decided to do a Mean Girls week from October 23-26 because we all loved the movie and I was down.

Welcome to Mean Girls Week. Here are the Rules:

• Don’t wear a tank top two days in a row
• You can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week
• On Wednesdays, we wear pink
• You can only wear jeans or track pants on Friday
• Be effortlessly plastic

You must take a photo of your outfit every day and share your thoughts.

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I was so obsessed with Wednesday (like, why are you so OBSESSED with me?!) – I didn’t think of outfits for Thursday and Friday.

Mean Girls takes place in Evanston, Illinois and it looks like it's always warm and always happy. And it’s getting cold and dark here.

Did you know, while the girls refer to themselves as “The Plastics” they did not invent the name – Janis Ian (the anti-plastic) did. They took what was an insult from someone outside their clique and owned it. They made it their story so much it was in the Rules.

Yesterday, I got the quasi-confirmation that one of my foster-babies might have a fatal infection called Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). She just isn't bouncing back right now. While her sudden symptoms might also be how she is gaining weight after being starved for all but a few weeks of her life, FIP couldn't be ruled out.

If it is FIP, there is nothing we can do – I just have to watch her and see if she crashes.

Since 2011, by choice, I have worked with last-chancers and those who were dying. I have fostered over 20 felines and I know exactly who I was when the 6 of them died. July 10, 2017 was the last time a baby died wrapped up in my arms. And I have fostered 7 more since then. I can't imagine a place I would rather want to be.

And I know people who do so much more than me with heroic efforts that render me speechless.

Sometimes people outside this world of rescue focus on the death. Death is not the worst thing that can happen - a life without love is.

You become the part of the story that you focus on. If you only focus on the worst parts, you become the worst parts. If you focus on the best parts, you become the best parts. To get to either, you have to accept both parts.

If this little kitten doesn’t make it, it will make her story sad and I will cry. But, that’s not her whole story and not the part I focus on. She is tiny and brave and sweet and has the squeakest meow and loves to be held...

The Plastics focused on the part of the story they wanted. Regina George literally takes the awful (mostly true) stuff people throw at her and owns it. There's a whole montage on it.

I am working from home today and this morning was totally easier to get together than Monday, even if I was working from home. I took the opportunity to hunt for non-black, winter-warm items and I made sure I added some pink accents for the Plastics.

This was a good reminder to me to focus on what I can do and own it.

I was also the fanciest cat-lady at the kitten vaccine bar!