Chris is 29 today. He thinks he is old now. Based on his outlook, I am now waiting for the grandpa pants to make a breakout appearance.
Yesterday late night/this morning do not have any hours that I would like to repeat. I didn’t sleep very well last night, as I have too many projects on the go so I worry about all of them. The entire night felt like little episodes and snippets of dreams, worries and bizarre happenings. At one point in the night, Rollie was lying on my chest and then he started biting my chin. He was launched off the bed in short order after that. I wish sometimes I had normal cats that just curl up and sleep. Tia lies lengthwise on the bed and kicks me with her back legs all night, steadily edging me into Chris’s side of the bed. Rollie will bite or lick any exposed skin. It’s not a recipe for restful slumber.
I discovered a case of truth in advertising last night. One of my colleagues kindly tracked down this cushion for me from IKEA. I have been on the hunt for a red one ever since I saw it in the new 2004 catalogue. Apparently, the red has been discontinued, even though it is a new product because I looked in Ottawa and Vaughan and Toronto and there were no red cushions. The guy I asked in Ottawa looked it up in the system and told me they had been discontinued. A. found one for me in Burlington of all places so I am happy now!
Anyhow, in the catalogue, it shows one of these cushions in a windowseat, and there is a Himalayan cat curled up on it. The cushion itself has a core of foam, wrapped in batting and it is deliciously squashy yet firm. When I got the cushion home last night, I put it on the chest-table-bench thing I made last summer. I turned around to go into the kitchen and not 5 seconds later when I was back, Tia was curled up into the smallest ball possible for a cat, where the head is almost between the back legs and the eyes are covered by the front legs. The whole effect was like “I have been sleeping sooooooo deeply here for hours on this nice cushion”. It made me laugh so hard because this thing really is a cat magnet. Normally new acquisitions get the sit-test, but nothing has ever gotten the dive-in-and-pretend-you-have-been-sleeping-for-hours-and-hours treatment! She didn’t even move when I poked her. I forsee many days of The War of the Cushion for Tia and Rollie.
I had to take the bus into work this morning because there is supposed to be freezing rain all day and Chris wanted to take the car as he has meetings all across town today. The truck, while lovely, doesn’t do as well on ice as the car, so I guess that is the sacrifice I made today. I tell you, learning how to drive spoils one for taking public transport. I used to not really mind at all, but now it is excruciating.
Conversations heard on the bus today:
- “I ripped my pants on this corner right here! Right here! See? Look when I stand up!”
- “Well, I don’t think you need to sand the whole helmet, just take 2000 grit and sand the part you want to airbrush.”
- “Have you been a good girl? Have you gone to see Santa yet?”
- “Man, I got so polluted last night, it was great!”
Today I have to prepare an exam, meet with 4 or 5 students, attend the last lecture, get the lecture notes up, mark eleventy million assignments and finish a website for a friend. One step at a time, I guess!
I have signed up for Holidailies again this year, let’s see if I can do better this time. Expect near-daily entries from now until Jan. 6th. I am feeling a bit rusty, so expect a bit of everything until I get things sorted out.