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distractions and ruminations
Apr. 21st, 2022 08:36 pmLunar and I have had such a nice evening. I took him for loooooong walkies when I got home, at his request. He saw people, cars, bikes, dogs, birds, squirrels, such excite!
He always gets greenies when we go back inside, this is to deter him from the habit of lingering outdoors forever lol.
(I started walkies with him on a leash and harness, but he's so obedient that these days we go without. Unlike Darwin and P-Funk, I have never lost track of him outdoors for longer than about 15 minutes.)
We had snuggles after, he had dinner, and then insisted on playtime. He has his ways of asking for this, it's so cute. He pesters me and when I finally turn away from my computer or phone or book or whatever to look at him, he mrrrls and runs into the livingroom where the toys are. He does this repeatedly until I follow, lol.
Right now his favorite toy is the "wiggle wand," I realized this is the best thing for him because it has these sort of textured strings that he can trap between his toe beans, so even though he is declawed (sadly, he came to me this way), he can still kinda grab it. His all time favorite toy has always been those little $1 fuzzy yarn tuft ball things though. He plays catch with these, and will toss them into the air or dribble them like a soccer player and chase them across the floor. Today he grabbed one with his mouth and flung it super high and jumped and ran after it, soooooo cute.
He came and asked for more snuggles after. Such a sweetie meow.
...
After sparkling today, I just didn't want to come home - I guess I'm avoiding mom's memorial planning - so after getting my brother his promised latte (he's still in quarantine with covid), I just drove back to the studio and worked on wings for 2.5 hours, lol. Whatever works, right? I got a lot of wrapping done on the spring set I've been working on. It's a salvaged frame so a lot more tedious than working with fresh wire. I have to sort of go along with whatever it wants to do, with its kinks and quirks. It's a challenge but also fun and it feels good to reuse the steel instead of just recycling it.
I'm having a really good hair day and faery ear day, which makes me want to go dance tonight, but I'm also tired, achey from menstruating, and it seems like everyone has covid right now so I'm a little scared to go out.
Tyler has it! He texted me a photo of his positive test this morning and I burst into tears? Hitting too close to home.
I don't want to catch covid right before my race Sunday. Also I ate two bags of cookies today so I feel like my immune system is weak. (But also dancing might help burn off some of those 800 calories worth of cookies, oops!) Also my tummy hurts from bleeding. I did have a really good dinner though. Nettles seared with red onion and shitake mushrooms, and two eggs (that hopefully won't give me painful bloating later - I ate one yesterday and was okay).
Maybe I could go for just like an hour? Seems like a lot of effort to get dressed up but I dunno. Might be fun.
Maybe I'll see how I feel in half an hour and decide. Do a couple exercises while I ruminate.
Listened to some asmr and meditations while wing-wrapping. It felt really good to focus my mind on being kind and loving and aware and attentive.
Photos of Lunar, because meow:
On the new couch he thinks I got just for him :)
Favorite toy
On the new cat tree that I did get just for him >>^.^<<
He always gets greenies when we go back inside, this is to deter him from the habit of lingering outdoors forever lol.
(I started walkies with him on a leash and harness, but he's so obedient that these days we go without. Unlike Darwin and P-Funk, I have never lost track of him outdoors for longer than about 15 minutes.)
We had snuggles after, he had dinner, and then insisted on playtime. He has his ways of asking for this, it's so cute. He pesters me and when I finally turn away from my computer or phone or book or whatever to look at him, he mrrrls and runs into the livingroom where the toys are. He does this repeatedly until I follow, lol.
Right now his favorite toy is the "wiggle wand," I realized this is the best thing for him because it has these sort of textured strings that he can trap between his toe beans, so even though he is declawed (sadly, he came to me this way), he can still kinda grab it. His all time favorite toy has always been those little $1 fuzzy yarn tuft ball things though. He plays catch with these, and will toss them into the air or dribble them like a soccer player and chase them across the floor. Today he grabbed one with his mouth and flung it super high and jumped and ran after it, soooooo cute.
He came and asked for more snuggles after. Such a sweetie meow.
...
After sparkling today, I just didn't want to come home - I guess I'm avoiding mom's memorial planning - so after getting my brother his promised latte (he's still in quarantine with covid), I just drove back to the studio and worked on wings for 2.5 hours, lol. Whatever works, right? I got a lot of wrapping done on the spring set I've been working on. It's a salvaged frame so a lot more tedious than working with fresh wire. I have to sort of go along with whatever it wants to do, with its kinks and quirks. It's a challenge but also fun and it feels good to reuse the steel instead of just recycling it.
I'm having a really good hair day and faery ear day, which makes me want to go dance tonight, but I'm also tired, achey from menstruating, and it seems like everyone has covid right now so I'm a little scared to go out.
Tyler has it! He texted me a photo of his positive test this morning and I burst into tears? Hitting too close to home.
I don't want to catch covid right before my race Sunday. Also I ate two bags of cookies today so I feel like my immune system is weak. (But also dancing might help burn off some of those 800 calories worth of cookies, oops!) Also my tummy hurts from bleeding. I did have a really good dinner though. Nettles seared with red onion and shitake mushrooms, and two eggs (that hopefully won't give me painful bloating later - I ate one yesterday and was okay).
Maybe I could go for just like an hour? Seems like a lot of effort to get dressed up but I dunno. Might be fun.
Maybe I'll see how I feel in half an hour and decide. Do a couple exercises while I ruminate.
Listened to some asmr and meditations while wing-wrapping. It felt really good to focus my mind on being kind and loving and aware and attentive.
Photos of Lunar, because meow:
On the new couch he thinks I got just for him :)
Favorite toy
On the new cat tree that I did get just for him >>^.^<<
