Month: November 2020

When you have four cats, successfully keeping track of all of them can be… challenging. So this is just a quick chronicle of my such efforts after I woke up on Friday. Yes, I’m just making up an excuse to post more cat photos. Are you really going to complain?

Starting space: bedroom. Hey, look! Arwen’s here!

That’s 1! I wonder where the other cats are…

Second stop, the kitchen, to find food, because it’s not like Cat 1 is moving anywhere anytime soon. Might as well pop my head into the living room; see if anyone’s there.

2, 3, 4! I guess counting is easier during nap time, huh?

As a bonus, here’s a picture from the next day of all four together:

Pretty much what it says on the label. The sky is beautiful, I’ve spent an excessive amount of time staring at it lately, I took some pictures, here are the highlights.

This is sort of a random mini-rant, but it was amusing (befuddling) enough to be worth sharing, so… on with the post!

I tried blue cream soda last week. And it was pretty good! But I have a few questions. Primarily, how can a soda have “natural and artificial flavors” when the flavor is “blue?”

I mean, at least now I understand what Percy Jackson meant about blue food now — this tastes like regular cream soda, just bluer. “What does ‘bluer’ taste like?” you wonder. I’m sorry to say I really have no idea how to explain that, or even how it’s tasteable, but apparently blue is both a color and a flavor, and I think that’s hilarious.

The mysteries of soda flavoring…

This year has been a lot. Pandemic, protests, election… and it’s not over. There’s still battles to be fought. There probably always will be, to be honest.

Just remember: you can’t fight if you don’t take care of yourself, first. So give yourself permission to breathe, to take a moment and rest so you can keep carrying the banner. Whether that fight is politics, finances, family or your job… breathe.

(Note: I definitely didn’t take this picture, but I have no clue who did. Credit to… Pinterest, I guess.)

Anyone who saw the title of this post and went “she’s posting more cat pictures, isn’t she?” go ahead and give yourselves a round of applause. It’s the beginning of NaNo and I have an essay I need to finish before starting on that, so, yeah. Cats. Relaxing a whole lot more than I am.

Sometimes getting up in the mornings is hard when there’s a cat leaning on me, but they’ll accept replacement pillows.

And sometimes, getting up is really hard.