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Then the ice weasels come...
Mar. 5th, 2014 03:06 pmI have really had enough of this winter. Most years at this time I'm already on the scooter. Perhaps shivering. Perhaps only taking a few recreational rides, but I'm on it. Now, it's covered with snow. (We didn't move it into Janna's parents garage as there's a hole in the roof and we're dubious that it offers much protection.) It's frigid, we're supposed to get more snow tomorrow, then we will top freezing on saturday, then back to ice pellets on sunday.
In other negative news, I'm still kind of reeling from a friend's death. Cynde was someone I worked with back in the day at Bruno's. I never really knew her that well then, even though we worked together 8 hours a day, often boring hours with little else to do. I remember her then as a sarcastic witty and self confident person, but she apparently was none of those. She got in touch a few years ago and we really reconnected. I hadn't realized a lot of the mental health issues she had or how kind hearted she was, particularly towards animals.
I feel particularly bad because she hadn't been online for a while, I think because she was dirt poor and her computer was acting up, and I'm wishing I'd reached out. I have no idea what caused her death. It could have been some body abuse catching up to her or she might have taken her own life. It was sudden and unexpected. I went back and found a picture of her on her family's page from last Christmas and she looked twenty years older than she should have. I'm afraid my mental epitaph will end up being Jim Carol's "He looked like 65 when he died... He was a friend of mine."
Ok, the more positive. Our two kitties are settling in quite nicely. Dandy needs to learn to stay off the ************* fish tank, but other than that they're great. Sketchy is getting used to them and is even play fighting with them. It's definitely gotten him out of his funk. The two kitties themselves are amazingly sweet. They are going to be huge though. I suspect from how they look they may have Maine Coon blood.
Nora's doing great. She's reached some kind of stage where she got over a hump and has become far more pleasant to deal with. She is getting more independent. Willing to play on her own for longer. She still has her moments, but things are good. She's even talking about how she wants to go to school. Janna found a gym that has open play time for toddlers up to kindergarten and she's been going almost every day there isn't some other kind of indoor play group. That's been really good for working off a lot of her energy.
She has also finally gotten over some hump about sleeping at night. For the longest time, we almost always had a choice of staying in the bedroom or her waking right back up. That left us with very little adult time together to relax or watch tv or whatever. Now she's getting and staying down and we're having ourselves a huge TV fest. Thank Gods.
Overall, we're really looking forward to the summer. I think this will be a good summer for her. We'll be able to do a lot more things and get out to places, at least casual ones.
Other than that what have I been doing. Not a whole lot. I've been not writing, by which I mean I've been sitting and trying to write, but not getting more than a few thousand words out. I've been reading. Picked up a very good Wool series, Karma of the Silo, from the Kindle Worlds store. I also read a good erom by Jasinda Wilder. Now I'm working my way through a new post-apocalypse anthology.
In other negative news, I'm still kind of reeling from a friend's death. Cynde was someone I worked with back in the day at Bruno's. I never really knew her that well then, even though we worked together 8 hours a day, often boring hours with little else to do. I remember her then as a sarcastic witty and self confident person, but she apparently was none of those. She got in touch a few years ago and we really reconnected. I hadn't realized a lot of the mental health issues she had or how kind hearted she was, particularly towards animals.
I feel particularly bad because she hadn't been online for a while, I think because she was dirt poor and her computer was acting up, and I'm wishing I'd reached out. I have no idea what caused her death. It could have been some body abuse catching up to her or she might have taken her own life. It was sudden and unexpected. I went back and found a picture of her on her family's page from last Christmas and she looked twenty years older than she should have. I'm afraid my mental epitaph will end up being Jim Carol's "He looked like 65 when he died... He was a friend of mine."
Ok, the more positive. Our two kitties are settling in quite nicely. Dandy needs to learn to stay off the ************* fish tank, but other than that they're great. Sketchy is getting used to them and is even play fighting with them. It's definitely gotten him out of his funk. The two kitties themselves are amazingly sweet. They are going to be huge though. I suspect from how they look they may have Maine Coon blood.
Nora's doing great. She's reached some kind of stage where she got over a hump and has become far more pleasant to deal with. She is getting more independent. Willing to play on her own for longer. She still has her moments, but things are good. She's even talking about how she wants to go to school. Janna found a gym that has open play time for toddlers up to kindergarten and she's been going almost every day there isn't some other kind of indoor play group. That's been really good for working off a lot of her energy.
She has also finally gotten over some hump about sleeping at night. For the longest time, we almost always had a choice of staying in the bedroom or her waking right back up. That left us with very little adult time together to relax or watch tv or whatever. Now she's getting and staying down and we're having ourselves a huge TV fest. Thank Gods.
Overall, we're really looking forward to the summer. I think this will be a good summer for her. We'll be able to do a lot more things and get out to places, at least casual ones.
Other than that what have I been doing. Not a whole lot. I've been not writing, by which I mean I've been sitting and trying to write, but not getting more than a few thousand words out. I've been reading. Picked up a very good Wool series, Karma of the Silo, from the Kindle Worlds store. I also read a good erom by Jasinda Wilder. Now I'm working my way through a new post-apocalypse anthology.
