weekend peaceful adventures
Feb. 20th, 2018 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99New and old job thoughts are whirling through my head. What to finish, what to give up on. How to start as I mean to go on.
Friday was a regular work day. The plan was to celebrate Christmas with E this weekend. E&M turned up on our doorstep as I was packing up the car for craft night. So M let us drop him off at a hotel while I dragged E with me craft night. Which was lovely. She was awesome about it, in spite of it being a bunch of strangers-to-her. And the craft group was awash with new job vibe. I was not the only one with new job news. Yay, new job! Sorry, S. I wish you new job, too.
Saturday I woke up early again (tail end of jet lag) and painted. E called while I was in the shower... they had a flat. Happily, we have the technology to handle this. T packed up his tools, so we went to rescue them. We spent far more time in a Discount Tire Saturday than I really prefer, but it seemed all right. I got to chat with E on the way to and from tire repair.
It turns out that E&M have not caught up on recent Marvel movies. So we watched Captain America The Winter Soldier with the audio track turned on. It was a British speaker, which "bonnet" and "coach" everywhere. It was kinda cute. And like every other time I've watched a familiar movie with the audio track on, I saw (heard) things I had missed before. I wish we had gotten to show them the even more recent Captain America movie.
Sunday we got to feed E brunch before they escaped.
I'm trying not to think about the Incipient Kitten Invasion.
Friday was a regular work day. The plan was to celebrate Christmas with E this weekend. E&M turned up on our doorstep as I was packing up the car for craft night. So M let us drop him off at a hotel while I dragged E with me craft night. Which was lovely. She was awesome about it, in spite of it being a bunch of strangers-to-her. And the craft group was awash with new job vibe. I was not the only one with new job news. Yay, new job! Sorry, S. I wish you new job, too.
Saturday I woke up early again (tail end of jet lag) and painted. E called while I was in the shower... they had a flat. Happily, we have the technology to handle this. T packed up his tools, so we went to rescue them. We spent far more time in a Discount Tire Saturday than I really prefer, but it seemed all right. I got to chat with E on the way to and from tire repair.
It turns out that E&M have not caught up on recent Marvel movies. So we watched Captain America The Winter Soldier with the audio track turned on. It was a British speaker, which "bonnet" and "coach" everywhere. It was kinda cute. And like every other time I've watched a familiar movie with the audio track on, I saw (heard) things I had missed before. I wish we had gotten to show them the even more recent Captain America movie.
Sunday we got to feed E brunch before they escaped.
I'm trying not to think about the Incipient Kitten Invasion.
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Date: 2018-02-22 06:56 pm (UTC)Kittens
Date: 2018-02-22 07:05 pm (UTC)The thing that scares me about the kitten thing is that I DIDN'T make it through the last cats. They were indoors for less than a year and I told T that the cats were going. Whether he went with the cats (not my preference) was up to him, but I could no longer live with the cats. So the cats became outdoor cats.
T seems to think that I am somehow more softhearted and compromising 20 years later after not living actually in a house with any cats in the meantime. I think someone spiked his Dr Pepper.
Re: Kittens
Date: 2018-02-22 07:15 pm (UTC)Is there a way to keep them segregated out of some of the spaces? We are theorizing that game for the new house: Everyone allowed on the main level, but no dog(s) upstairs (2nd floor) and no cat(s) downstairs (walk-out basement). We'll see what happens when the cats hit the floor, though.
Re: Kittens
Date: 2018-02-22 07:36 pm (UTC)The only thing holding up the kitten appearance right now is that T wants a heated cat bed. I think I managed not to roll my eyes. Maybe not. But he worries that tiny kittens will be too cold in our house. That did make me think that I should arrange a cardboard cat box in my office. I'd be happier if their favorite hangout place in my office is one I choose.
Yes, I know I'm a total control freak. Yes, I know that I cannot control everything. Well, in theory I know that. In practice I will still try.
T and I agree that the kittens being super cute will help a lot. I viewed Raptor with the "super cute" lens for his whole life. It didn't stop me from kicking him out of the house, but it did raise my ability to interact with him.
Re: Kittens
Date: 2018-02-22 07:49 pm (UTC)I have two of these. The washable cover really makes me happy.
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And yes, there are a lot of spaces in our current house that are either cat-free (bedroom, CK's office) or supervision only (my office). I expect the new house will be much the same.