That’s great that you pace yourself so you don’t burn out, very wise for sure

Lol! Omg I love how you compared my sw (stepwench, lol) to the wicked stepmother from Snow White with the poison apple, and also you’re right about her “looking” like her a bit too! She actually (naturally) had a really gross/unattractive mole right on the side of her nose/cheek (doesn’t have it anymore cos she got it removed) so ya she definitely had the “wicked witch” look to go along with actually “being wicked” lol. Yup exactly, after I thankfully got away from her horrible pure evilness, she had to not only do all her own cleaning, but watch her bloody kids, no more built in babysitter for her!

She said later to me in a supposed “apology letter” (it was hardly that though, more like a letter where she “pretended” to be apologizing to me, yet at the same time pretty much just blamed me for anything that didn’t happen “perfectly”) that she “missed my help” lmao I always thought that was such a joke. Like wow, not “missed me” or anything, nope, just missed my help lol. Well too bad for her cos I NEVER went back there and never would have, not for all the $ in the world, no way.
Aw I’m glad the “hiding” kitty eventually turned up though, that’s great!

Aw he sounds like he enjoys being “mysterious” a bit (guess all kitties do “to some extent” anyway lol) and that’s so adorable how you said he’s hiding in the closet now but you can still see his lil face

Yup I think you’re quite right that regardless of “whether cats can read or not” that they still understand a lot about things happening around them. And ya I get the same feeling like how you said that they understand “what is being said” a lot of the time. Yup I think it is tone of voice as well that they understand.
Thanks for saying that about being glad my kitty is rid of the fleas, me too for sure lol. You’re very right that they can be quite hard to get rid of. I was thankful more than ever for my rl friend for helping me give our sweet Bella all those flea baths, and she was such a brave little kitty about it, think she understood that with each of those baths more of the fleas were gone/not able to make her be more itchy from the bites and all that. She was still very brave though, just a lil baby kitten and she didn’t seem scared, didn’t meow/whine or anything! Was amazing really.
Sorry to hear about your eczema possibly flaring up again, I hope it will calm down soon though. Guessing you maybe have a cream for it, if so then maybe rubbing that on it will also help it calm down more quickly.