u/Educational_Bug516

My orange tabby girl will be a year old in July. We have had her since beginning of December 2025. She was an outside cat but transitioned great into being an inside cat, she’s spoiled rotten has everything she could ever need and more. I haven’t seen her interact with other cats, but while living here she loves to look out the window and see the strays roaming and she will trill at them through the window. We’ve even had strays try to come into the house because she is here lol. She’s very playful and we play with her a lot, the problem we are having is here recently she is sleeping almost all day long and then right when we are going to bed she brings her toys to bed and cries until we play with her. I usually will spends 30 mins to an hour playing and then I have to go to bed.

I have been wanting to get a kitten for her so she has someone she can play with. I just don’t know what gender would be best suited for a female cat. I wish I could take her with me to the shelter to pick one out but she hates the car. Any and all advice is welcome.

Is it normal in the US to only get 6 weeks unpaid maternity leave? How am I supposed to recover in that timeframe and also how am I supposed to then leave a 6 weeks old?? My husband gets 3 full months PAID. He’s not even carrying the baby! I’m so frustrated and I’m a FTM and I’m just so overwhelmed.

I truly left because my boss was a big bully and pushed our entire accounting team out of there by either firing making them retire early or us quitting. We worked for a non-profit so the money was horrible for what we had to do and they never hired anyone to replace the ones she would be awful to. She would literally pick on one person until they left and then move to the next until there was me and one other person left. She did it to me so I quit due to that and also being pregnant and not being able to take the stress from her anymore. She would make me specifically stay long hours I would come in at 7:30am and not leave till almost 8pm at night most nights and then expect me to come into the office on the weekends. I was hourly not salary! In the nonprofit world that’s a big no no because we were state funded and we were told multiple times no overtime unless they stated that it was okay. I went to HR and our CEO and nothing was ever done about it because she was the CFO. They did an internal investigation but seriously nothing changed.

But anyways I’ve had some interviews here and there and I’m trying to figure out what the right response to me leaving my old position would be. I don’t want to tell them the truth because it makes it look like drama, I’ve tried to say I didn’t make enough due to being a non profit but that didn’t help. I’m just unsure. I’ve been applying to accounting positions so I can’t really say much about the actual position itself.