Personal Update 1/15/26

Hey Occulties,

I realize I sort of flew off the radar for a few months. If I’m being fair, the combination of “discount laptop,” combined with using the formatting nightmare which is wordpress and added to my regular behind the scenes crazy life (I only ever wanted a normal life, but God had other plans,) made the perfect stew for me to just…not want to deal with that which I’m not paid to deal with which most definitely is this blog. In fact, I pay to have a blog, a fact made all the more infuriating when I can’t format the SOB.

Additionally, people came to me absolutely distraught about the blog being gone from it’s home url of 21 years (glaring at you, TypePad,) and my constant having to repeat what had happened sort of furthered my own distress at it being such a fucking mess. Thanks to a lovely combination of adult ADHD (which means my neglecting the task created a massive shame spiral every time it was brought up to me, and therefore caused even more task avoidance,) and being constantly busy to the point that I’ve not had any time off in maybe a decade (including having to work full time through some hugely traumatic events a few years ago) which means I am always a bit burnt out (someone has to keep the lights on, though, and that someone is me,) meant it just kept getting pushed back.

When you have 40-60 other people’s personal problems to deal with (yay, active cases,) in addition to your own, it’s really easy to just say “fuck it,” when your whole life’s work is being held hostage by a hosting platform that cannot be easily or understandably formatted…because it’s only hostage and not going anywhere, and someone needs to stalk their ex on some new platform and make an excuse for doing it, and I’m going to have to deal with that now anyhow (stalking your ex is very bad for reconciliation work, kids), as I am PAID to deal with that… Or at least this was my internal chatter for some time.

Yeah, I know. If that sounds very impractical, welcome to my brain, lol. I put everything before my own needs (my business, my friends, my family, my pets,) to the point it’s detrimental, and then avoid tasks that if I just locked myself into to doing them would greatly benefit my life, but if it’s not PAYING ME, my obligation to pay it, my obligation to feed and water it, or married to me, I’m probably going to get around to it eventually which could be months from now. I seriously have put off calling the DMV for over a year now, because the wait is too long and they can just keep saying I live at the wrong address for all I care (but which has caused minor annoyances, lol,) to give you some idea. I legitimately need to wait on hold for a bit and correct an address but I probably will ignore that task until I need to renew, haha.

Let me be fair, here, I’m not going to tell you all the things going on in my personal life, but while it’s less tumultuous than it has been, like I said above, it hasn’t been stress-free. We even tried to get a house and that’s a lot of headache and nonsense no matter how qualified. I honestly can’t imagine being a realtor because pressuring people to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a very small window sounds absolutely batshit insane to me, but it clearly is not for those I dealt with… If you had told me someone would ask me to prove that I have a quarter of a million dollars in less than a day (I did not have this when asked for this, – I think I had a quarter of a thousand dollars in checking at that time, haha,) ever in my whole life, I would have thought you quite mad, but here we are. I do get it…really, but at the time it was a most bizarre and uncanny moment in my life. Like, girl, I’m wearing Shein and have half-inch roots right now, – do I look like my bank account is six digits?

I did want to assure everyone that I am not dead, nor is my spouse, and we aren’t living in a cardboard box, or anything like that. I am not in a fetal ball curled in my closet, nor chronically or terminally ill. The blog can and will continue on. It will be fixed so you can navigate. I am always available through my website (OriginalNinjaCat.com) just click the contact button.

We are now in year 22 of Cat’s Rants, and I want this to be an epic year of on topic posts…so let’s stop talking about me for the time being, and keep talking about spellcasting and the occult.

I hope my personal update has helped as a few people apparently seriously believed me dead. 😛

~Cat