lunchtime ramblings

[elvendoll]

still feeling off kilter today... i actually wrote a partial entry yesterday and then killed it. it was just not a good day for me. stopped by reverie for a bit, but it didn't do anything for me...
and of course the cat's newfound habit of trying to wake me up at 6am is not doing anything for me at all. i really have no clue what she is trying to accomplish because i now make sure all the doors are open enough for her to leave the rooms on her own, and the times i've gotten upt o follow her & see what she wants, she didn't need any doors opened, didn't need any food/water or anything. just wanted company i guess *shakes head*
but, since i am rambling about the cat, i might also point out that she did something super cute yesterday : )
when i went out to repark my parents' minivan (which i had for the day to move the top part of our dinner-table-to-be) she jumped into the thing with me, and while i was parking it, she sat in the tray minivans have between seats, in full co-pilot mode : )
lets see what else (in terms of positive things) happened?
friday i cleaned up the room a lot. like enough for the bed to be moved across the room, which, scarily enough, is a formidable amount of cleaning. now i get to sort out the things that got pushed off into the bay-window niche and get the dresser in. which is nowhere near as intimidating as the original task at hand.
after cleaning some, i headed over to MR for the new night. i was impressed with what cusraque did, but aside from the (only) 5 people there i knew, the crowd rubbed me the wrong way. anytime i wandered somewhere on my own, it was as if i had "sure, try your stupidest come-on line on me" written on my forehead. no fun. but, i did enjoy spending time with the 5 people i did know, so i guess that evens it out : ) and after skaven walked me to my car (which i am really grateful for) and i was driving towards home, i wanna be sedated by the ramones was played on 100.7 (the classic rock station) - i thought that was cool : )
saturday i got up early, did laundry, cleaned out the car (or did my best to considering it was raining out) - which was another impressive task. amusingly enough, i found:

• 1 candle
  
• 3 school books
  
• 4 other books
  
• 2 bras
  
• 1 other outfit
  
• 2 little bottles of white zin
  
• a block of clay
  
• 12 hangers
  

and thats just the useful stuff - there was also a 30lb trashbag + of trash. *sigh*
and then my parents told me my car is still messy! *shakes head*
and i did all this by noon, at which point i showered and went off to pick up tobi for our trip to the cape.
that was nice.
we did a lot of driving around the cape in search of a decent place to eat, and then went down to ptown for some wandering around/shopping. i got a nifty blue indian dress, too : )
then we got back to my parents' rented house, talked & crashed out.
much to my disapointment, i woke up at 10am and could not go back to sleep. and ended up feeling tired all day.
my parents arrived while tobi & i were out having breakfast, and i had a lot of fun chasing abi around a bit while my mom was unpacking. then tobi & i took debbie to play miniature golf with us - which was really cool of tobi to endure willingly (though she did majorly kick our butts!) cuz i don't often have the time and/or energy & patience to spend time with her...
after we came back we sat around talking to my mom for a little bit, and took off back towards town.
when (after traffic & stopping off in tobi's parents' house) i finally got home, bill was already there packing his stuff up.
and the good news is is that we now have one more closet. the bad news tradeoff is that the computer room is now leaning towards looking messy again. but i'll fix that... at some point...
so yeah, thats the more pleasant parts of my weekend in a nutshell.
and i think i wrote a lot more then i thought i would.
now its time to run to the bank & grab something quick to eat.
yeah.

Comments

cats

[xevb3k.livejournal.com]

My cat does that to me a lot. She used to wake me up about 5 minutes before my alarm went off every morning. :)

Re: cats

[elvendoll.livejournal.com]

gads.
well, i am determined to break litle girl of this newfound habit.
she actually let me sleep tillt he alarm rang this morning, but i know better then to think she's stopped for good... one more time though, and i buy a water squirter : )

Re: cats

[xevb3k.livejournal.com]

Maybe she is conditioned into waking you up. If you feed her in the morning, that might be a good reason for her to wake you up. It's really hard to get rid of conditioned responses in cats. :)

Re: cats

[elvendoll.livejournal.com]

thats the thing - there was no reason for her to wake me up.
the two times i did get up, thinking she must have a reason, i saw that all doors necessary for her to do anything she'd need to were open, and she had food & water in her bowls. she's not one of those cats that gets one meal placed in her bowl, so she has no designated feeding times - her bowl is refilled whenever she empties it.
and she never used to wake either me or bill up...

but she's pretty much stopped doing it already, too...

Re: cats

[xevb3k.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's her way of trying to ask you where Bill is or just dealing with change. After my mom's ex-boyfriend moved out, my cat would sit by the door and meow. She also did that after my mom died.