Not much to report here. Work is hopping with things, and I'm playing some game when I get home but still feeling the 'this is not getting real stuff done'... mostly getting done being sat on by my little tortoiseshell cat for two hours. Getting ready to order a dozen of my Mikki Mack books! The gallery sent a check for another few book sales to me, but I want to get some Mikki Mack books to 'become real' (not just Kindle copies) and drop them off at some time. Thanksgiving is coming, but they have told us we are working through it, although getting holiday pay for it as well. Trying to keep my back stretched out and getting enough sleep - but with the tortoiseshell cat sleeping on my shoulder that one is hard, too - it's getting colder out and that is what she does when she sleeps inside. I don't turn over enough with her camped there, and then I have more spine issues from that.
There is still a bit of sad about Daphne - there's only three dogs at dinner and Charlotte doesn't know what to do with herself at some points, so we 'discuss' it and I hold her cheeks in my hands and pet her head until she feels a bit better. The other day Charlotte told me that we had chicken food, and goat food, but no extra dog food - will I be getting some? It was very clear- so I let her have a look in the big food bin and see it was more than half full. Mark said : 'What did we ever do before she told us these things?' to which Sweetie let out a huge grumble and 'I can't believe you SAID that!' (she is ten years old, Charlotte is three and a half or so) as if to say : 'Hello, right here, YOU HAVE ME, you THINK? No, you never listen to me anyway but HURRUMPH.' and we had to laugh and apologize.
Sweetie is the ultimate nervous border collie on making-sure-we-do-the-things, but honestly Mark understands her better and I am the one that doesn't often listen to her as she has her opinions but isn't 'insistent' to action, only insistent to 'disapproving looks and heavy sighs'... Charlotte DOES speak my 'dialect' more - and her communication consists of more insistent nose points and bumps, is always at my heels (sometimes so much that I step on her) and catches me with things that I wasn't paying attention to - while Sweetie has her designated 'posts' she lays or sits at and she tries to tell us things 'when she sees us go by' - and occasionally has to present herself to my attention and 'sit down and have a pointed discussion' about it instead of being there all the time and then my catching off-hand mentions and comments about every little thing like I do from Charlotte (imagine Sweetie is a Persian cat sitting on her counter while Charlotte is a small bouncy chatty terrier or something constantly at your heels, except it's silent eyes and nose points and once in a while paw at something, pointed hopping up and down or booping with nose and laughing). If I'm not paying attention at all, Charlotte will get up and put herself entirely into my lap (all 60 lbs of her), capturing my hands with her paws and make sure she is heard. Sweetie will bump a little at my feet with her butt, and then roll her eyes and go slump under the table and glare.. it doesn't have the same effect.
I have been studying Japanese, and playing Tetris, besides finding out how certain dynamics and tools work in the Sims game, much more than actually playing the game.
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