Your new kitty's adorable, MrsBee!
I've been realizing lately how much work I have to do, how many things I've let slide because of drinking. Going to church on Sunday brought back a wave of "stuff" I never dealt with from the last time I did that regularly, and I'm beginning to understand how much of that "stuff" there is. In life, at my job, projects around the house, thoughts not thunk, feelings not felt. All "stuff" I "stuff"-ed away, hoping there would be time to process it when I felt stronger.
I guess now's the time. Have to admit I don't think I ever -really- thought I would have to, like I figured I'd burn out and burn up before all this caught up with me, but here I am. Alive and sober and staring into the maw of a basement crammed full of "stuff", literally and metaphorically.
Oy. No other course of action but to put on gloves and dig in.