Snuggling with Cats Cures All Ills

I did some planning and goal-setting last night. Go me. But the typos in my planning book are driving me nuts. Maybe I'll try another book when I'm done with this one.

I'm giving up on trying to read in bed at night because Mimi wants to snuggle. I'll read at the kitchen table.

Woke up at 8 AM after an extremely disturbing dream. I decided to get up to let the dream dissipate. Snuggling with Miss Zara helped.

I'm doing my normal morning routine. I want to stay up until 10 to feed the cats and start a load of laundry. Then I'll go back to sleep for a few hours.

The plan is to do some cleaning and organizing after I wake up. And then go to the movie at 6:30. I might run to Walmart to get a power strip for the microwave.

I need to find a place to store full bottles of soda. I can't use the top shelves in my kitchen because the cats use them to look out the window, and I exist to serve them :)

Couple of Clowns

I keep forgetting to mention that Mimi was really harassing Zara yesterday, and I was telling her that I was going to shut her in the bedroom when I left if she didn't cut it out. Later, I saw her looking towards under the futon, and I assumed Zara was under the futon and told Mimi to leave her alone. Then I saw two gray paws emerge from under the futon and bat at Mimi. I laughed, and said, "Okay, that's funny". :)

Productive Afternoon

I was having problems sleeping when I took a nap. So I got up (dismaying Mimi, who was cozily snuggled up to my butt) and fired up the Bluetooth headphones. I've done massive amounts of laundry, scrubbed litter boxes, and cleaned the kitchen.

I'm listening to an interesting book called 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. It amazes me how much more I get done, cheerfully, when I listen to an audiobook. Whatever works.

I found a spot for my soda. There is a set of shelves that aren't in the kitchen window. Mimi likes to lie on top of there because there is a Mimi-sized basket there. So I moved the basket over to a shelf in the window and put the soda on top of the newly-emptied shelves.

I'm planning to stay home later in case I do need a nap. I almost forgot to turn off running water in the sink, so maybe I DO need a nap.

I'm still plugging along. Taking a short break. No, now I'm starting to collapse, so maybe I will take a nap.

I found a possible storage solution for my backpacks and messenger bags: shelf dividers. The bags flop all over the place. And no, my closets are full, so I can't hang them. Can't get the dividers until next month though.

Mom Report

Napped a little, but still couldn't get very deeply asleep. So I got up and got more stuff done.

I'm having a problem with my phone in that when I called my mom, I could hear her only very faintly and not loud enough to understand. I rebooted my phone. Same thing. I finally turned on speakerphone, and then I could hear her. After I hung up, I tried playing a video, with the same results. So the sound is turned off somewhere. But I can't figure out where. It says that the ringtone is on full blast.

Mom has been very tired and mostly has been sleeping. She talked to her doctor about it, and he said that it's to be expected with the multiple myeloma and the chemo. That doesn't help Mom much. She's also having a rough time handling the winter.

The blueberry crepes that I bought at Aldi's are really good.

I think that I'll do some planning stuff. The 168 hours audiobook challenged me to come up with 100 things that I want to do during my life, along with keeping a time log. So I think that I'll work on it for a while before going to sleep.

One of those things is live in Hawaii. I'm completely appalled by the false alert sent out. I have to admit that I'm taking it more personally because it's Hawaii. A bunch of articles have been talking about how we could get into a nuclear war by accident. What a stupid way to die.