Monday, February 16th
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alexandraerinPersonal Update
Last week, I didn't do status posts for much of the week because of a combination of a change in routine and the fact that I was unexpectedly busy with outside tasks. Some of these you already know about. One was related to a decision we made last weekend to adopt a cat. The locale humane society shelter does a promotion on Fridays where they waive the adoption fee for cats on Fridays, so we decided to come back then.
When Dorian died, I took the room that had been my office and his play room/main living space and rearranged it to make it less of a painful reminder of what I'd lost. In the process, I made it a much better office. Trying to re-cat-ify the room without completely throwing my office into disarray took a good chunk of time and a huge amount of my energy for the week.
But I succeeded, and we went to the shelter on Friday only to learn the cat we'd picked as our first choice was no longer available. We ended up taking home a pair of six month old black kittens that we have named Toni and Tommy Tomorrow, the Cats of the Future. The backstory of these names comes from discussions we had last year about "our future cat".
I was not expecting to get a cat so soon after losing Dorian. I didn't think I'd be ready for it. And the thing is, I don't think I was. Right up until the point that we were actually responsible for these tiny lives, I felt like it was too fast, too soon. But now that they're here, and home, and ours, it feels like less of a big deal. It's not like I've forgotten Dorian, or there was a chance he'd come back if I never got another cat.
The Daily Report
Because the kitten adoption thing ate up so much time Friday, I'm doing another Tuesday/Thursday week on Tales of MU. This will help me keep my schedule on track, since the previous alteration in the alternation meant that I'd have a three-chapter week during an upcoming week I'll be spending with my mother.
Now that I'm out of a crunch, I'm going to be working on building up my portfolio of MU chapters and also moving Project Lucidity towards a starting point.
I've been feeling kind of stuck on that story, but I think I've figured out that the main sticking point is following too close in the footsteps of the dream that inspired it. Using the exact same starting point as the dream had results in some oddities that are hard to write around.
Plans For Today
I'm going to be lining things up for the week, as is typical on a Monday. I'm also going to be working on a newsletter that probably would have gone out towards the end of last week if the cat thing hadn't happened.
Last week, I didn't do status posts for much of the week because of a combination of a change in routine and the fact that I was unexpectedly busy with outside tasks. Some of these you already know about. One was related to a decision we made last weekend to adopt a cat. The locale humane society shelter does a promotion on Fridays where they waive the adoption fee for cats on Fridays, so we decided to come back then.
When Dorian died, I took the room that had been my office and his play room/main living space and rearranged it to make it less of a painful reminder of what I'd lost. In the process, I made it a much better office. Trying to re-cat-ify the room without completely throwing my office into disarray took a good chunk of time and a huge amount of my energy for the week.
But I succeeded, and we went to the shelter on Friday only to learn the cat we'd picked as our first choice was no longer available. We ended up taking home a pair of six month old black kittens that we have named Toni and Tommy Tomorrow, the Cats of the Future. The backstory of these names comes from discussions we had last year about "our future cat".
I was not expecting to get a cat so soon after losing Dorian. I didn't think I'd be ready for it. And the thing is, I don't think I was. Right up until the point that we were actually responsible for these tiny lives, I felt like it was too fast, too soon. But now that they're here, and home, and ours, it feels like less of a big deal. It's not like I've forgotten Dorian, or there was a chance he'd come back if I never got another cat.
The Daily Report
Because the kitten adoption thing ate up so much time Friday, I'm doing another Tuesday/Thursday week on Tales of MU. This will help me keep my schedule on track, since the previous alteration in the alternation meant that I'd have a three-chapter week during an upcoming week I'll be spending with my mother.
Now that I'm out of a crunch, I'm going to be working on building up my portfolio of MU chapters and also moving Project Lucidity towards a starting point.
I've been feeling kind of stuck on that story, but I think I've figured out that the main sticking point is following too close in the footsteps of the dream that inspired it. Using the exact same starting point as the dream had results in some oddities that are hard to write around.
Plans For Today
I'm going to be lining things up for the week, as is typical on a Monday. I'm also going to be working on a newsletter that probably would have gone out towards the end of last week if the cat thing hadn't happened.