I guess I really do live a sheltered life… of sorts. Don’t get me wrong… I have done a lot, seen many things, and been countless places. Yet there are certain things that, before now, I had never experienced. And now that I have experienced this one specific, before un-experienced thing, I now know I didn’t like it much. Yet somehow these types of experiences, although definitely negative, might just help sharpen ones understanding and appreciation of life in general. I said farewell today to an old friend. We finally came to the conclusion as a family that the time had come that our cat Amber needed to be put…