How is everyone’s day so far?
My answer:
Here it’s almost half past two but I haven’t really done much yet. I woke ut at 10-ish (and no, it turns out my blaming Apple Watch for somehow suppressing my alarms while it was charging was totally unfounded), then I read a book for a while (still getting through the same one I mentioned on weekend, I’m only halfway through). Mum has been baking rolls every day lately so I ate one for breakfast with butter, alongside a bowl of cottage cheese with mini tomatoes, chives, olives and lots of salt and kalonji, and then had a mug of strong cocoa. I wanted to have a piece of apple pie after that which Mum made last weekend and we haven’t even eaten half of it and I really don’t like it when food that Mum makes goes to waste or something (I guess it’s my accretions back from the boarding school when I thought that anything made by Mummy is superior to everything else 😀 ) but I was really full after that already. Mum came from her cycling «workout», although today she didn’t take her Apple Watch ‘cause it badly wanted to be updated. I still haven’t updated mine ‘cause I have to find out if there are any accessibility bugs in there. We talked with Mum for like an hour, about our Apple Watches, church, the sooner or later upcoming schism, books, American cuisine and don’t remember whatever else. Then Mum went to her mes-therapy appointment and I played BitLife for some fifteen minutes, and then Misha came so I cuddled a bit with him. Something isn’t quite right with Misha today, because he doesn’t want to eat any of his snacks, and when we cuddled he felt oddly stiff. I then tucked him in to sleep, but he got up a couple minutes later and was very agitated and wanted out. Will have to keep an eye on him.
How about you? 🙂
My Inner MishMash 
Yes, please pass the rolls, cocoa, and pie!! Yummytastic! 😮
My day’s going okay! It’s noon, but I’ve got a lot to do today. I’m deep-cleaning my carpet tiles, since LuLu has been using my floor as her own personal latrine. (She was in heat, and dogs pee often in heat, apparently.) I lugged most of the tiles outside yesterday and left them there to dry after cleaning them in the tub. However, I just went out there, and they’re all sopping wet. And it’s going to rain in a few days. AAUGH!! Oh well. Here’s hoping for the best!
I’ve got to do lots of manual labor today. I haven’t cleaned 14 of the huge carpet tiles yet, and they’re all under the heavy furniture. I’ll have to extricate them. AAUGH!! Hopefully if I believe I can do it, then I can do it.
I went to the bookstore a few days ago and found loads of great new books to read! I want to try to get back into reading! Go me!
I hope Misha feels better soon! Poor kitty!!
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Tile-lugging!
And they are quite vulnerable to water.
Hope the grout goes well – that is the hardest part of the tiling universe for me, Meg [especially the CLEANING thereof].
I will ask about the furniture “How heavy is heavy?”
If you believe – you can.
And you might like to think about the tiles and entropy.
Hope you do get back into reading.
Have not been into a bookstore – at least for new material – for some months now. I feel less book-hunger than I did.
yes – dogs do pee often when they are in heat.
Is LuLu in any other pain or fatigue or whatever happens to pregnant canines?
[and is this her first litter?]
Then I remember and I understand – being in heat does not mean you will conceive or be impregnated.
[all the animals I knew were spayed or neutered – at least the ones who lived in the house. And I have not been in contact with house animals in so long – or the animals I have come to know are middle-aged or elderly].
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Hi, Adelaide! 🙂 How’re you?
I think LuLu’s heat is over at last! YAY for that! She wasn’t too put out by it, I don’t think! She seemed okay! No PMS or anything, but she drank a lot!
Oh, there’s no grout with carpet tiles! They just shove up against one another!! 🙂 I finally got them all clean and dry! They aired out outside for two days and are now 99% dry! YAY! And the furniture, I move it around all the time, because I love the novelty, and my room’s shaped like a plus sign, so there are multiple layouts. It’s just tiring and overwhelming, but when I get this done AND the carpet tiles are clean, it will be so freakin’ worth it! Whew! I hurried to bring in the carpet tiles today after sleeping late and waking, when my dad told me a thunderstorm was coming! 😮 Yikes! But it hasn’t come yet, so everything’s fine!
How’re you doing? 🙂 Let me know! So, you’re in a bit of a reading slump? For me, gracious, I haven’t enjoyed reading for years. I think I might be turning a corner at long last! I’m on page 45 of the first book, and I’m really into it! It feels like a miracle! YAY!
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Wow, you really have lots to do! Hope it goes well and I’m sure you can do it. 🙂
Had no idea that dogs pee more in heat, interesting.
It’s a great feeling to have a lot of great new books to read, so you hope you will get back into reading.
I really don’t know what the deal with Misha is, he still seems kind of odd but I haven’t been able to put my finger on it more exactly. Perhaps I’m just overanalysing.
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Yeah, I looked it up, because I too didn’t know that dogs pee more often. And apparently, they pee in small amounts. I was concerned that maybe LuLu had a urinary tract infection, but Dr. Google said that the peeing in small amounts while in heat means that LuLu is actually marking her territory to alert nearby male dogs that she’s, ahem… available. HA HA HA HA HA! And sure enough, after that, every time she peed a small amount, there was a male dog across the street. You can’t make this stuff up! 😀 Fortunately, I think she’s out of heat now. It doesn’t last too long. YAY!
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And keep us posted about Misha! Who knows what mischief that kitty’s up to? 😀
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Lol you and my Sofi are legit so alike, she keeps moving her furniture all the time as well because she likes to change things regularly in almost every aspect of life. There’s like a major redesign every two months. 😀
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Hahahaha she must be attractive. 😀
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ANd Misha seems more like himself today. More cheerful and outgoing, and eats normally again, so that’s great. 🙂
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Glad Apple Watch is innocent of all charges, Emilia.
Your Mum’s rolls and condiments sound delicious.
[and boarding-school you was probably right – even including all the other boarding-school Mummies and Daddies and grandparents and other relatives/supporters who cooked meals for their children/students/charges].
Misha’s stiffness is a worry indeed.
And it gives me an opening.
My printer was not behaving so well. It claims very often that “it has no paper” when I know perfectly well that there IS paper and that the paper gauge may not be so very straight.
My first printout disappeared under the filing cabinet in a perpendicular place which would not have been easy to pick up.
Just for that I printed two copies of the documents – one is a collaborative poem and the other is the fallout of a massive hack [which has affected some ten million people – two million of whom have had their details stolen].
Specifically from a department of motor vehicles. It had taken a week and so to process.
I got up early though not as early as I usually would.
The rain came by and it is here to stay for the next three days.
I ate an omelette with herbs and silverbeet which has almost gone to seed.
And then I ate a hamburger and some French fries and drank some Coke.
And watched four episodes of the DERRY GIRLS serial.
Before that I had had a shower.
Now there will be corned beef.
And we did have some vanilla and cinnamon icing along with the apple cake.
[The person who made the apple cake is also good at making sweet pies].
Hope your Mum’s therapy appointment went well.
I have discovered a great jazz artist called Earl Klugh.
Mesotherapy – is that the one where needles are put into the skin and serum is inside these needles to make the skin tight? [ie not flabby?]
Then I read the Substacks from last night and this morning – the ones I actually remember.
I ended up talking to a refrigerator about the fetal personhood case in the USA.
[I had watched THE GOOD FIGHT’s “The end of Ginny Thomas” where the fetal personhood comes up a lot – especially that you can be a conservator for a foetus and embryo – and the gentleman involved was not the best ethicist.
You can also make push-nup contracts in the style of prenuptials and often with the substance].
Then I tried to follow the Royal Commission which is about violence and abuse in public places.
And I received a call from a man called “David” who tried to say that they were from my “home Internet Service Provider”.
Fortunately I know that that sort of thing is usually scam territory and I did not give him further shrift.
I found my Internet goes quite fast – 50 megabits in the download world and 17 megabits in the upload world.
And Safari made a move to quit quite early in the day.
I could tell because the Read side of the Activity Monitor was going up; up; up and making a peak while the Write side was
Something has ended up in the bin of the desktop.
Oh, that’s right. I finally got to read about the Donation Dollar and the ZIPs usually go into the bin when the files are expanded.
The Donation Dollar will soon be legal tender and it reminds people to donate.
I had a letter from my environmental justice organisation and it was a newsletter about the achievements and the hopes during the election.
My favourite part was about a forest. And about the community work which is being done by a 6-year-old and his scooter for electoral advocacy of environment issues [like the coal mines closing in his part of the state].
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Our printer has been misbehaving a lot lately too, claiming that it’s not connected to the internet when it most certainly is. Drives my Mum nuts.
I like the rain, but having it continuously for three days would feel slightly depressing. Although it makes for a nice sleeping ambience.
Yes, that’s exactly what mesotherapy is. Seems to have gone well for Mum although there’s always some swelling afterwards.
Oh, that’s odd about your Safari, hope it was just a one-off occurrence or if something’s wrong hopefully it’s easily fixable.
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