Deciding to get comfortable and write a little, I leave my
laptop for what should be just a minute or so.
It’s a cold, wintry day, the house a bit chilly to save on heating
costs. So I go in search of my newest
favorite garment for just such an occasion.
Only there’s a problem – my eldest cat has staked this same piece of
clothing as a nice, cozy spot to curl upon.
Dumb me, I should have known better than to lay the jacket on the bed.
Oh, well.
I sit with her a few minutes, not knowing how I might
possibly persuade her to move along, and end up watching my fish in the newly
cleaned aquarium nearby. It’s because of
the fish tank maintenance that I shed the jacket in the first place. Somehow animal husbandry never seems to end
for this simple suburbanite.
Where was I? Oh, yes,
I planned to write. Time to get up off
the bed and quit watching clown loach antics.
Still without something to warm me, I decide to return to my
office. The nearby vent should suffice
for now, except there is a problem here, too, as the second eldest of my three
cats has settled comfortably on my chair.
It doesn’t seem fair to dump a sleepy kitty off her perch, no matter how
gently. Using a dining table chair at my
desk, I drag another from the table into my office.
Problem solved.
Meanwhile, long minutes have passed and I’ve still not
written a thing. In addition, I don’t
know where the youngest cat lurks. Then
again, she distracted me earlier by knocking a decorative piece to the
floor. Maybe she’s done with her part in
this play.
I’m going to write, I decide grimly, so here it is. It’s not exactly great prose. And now I need to turn up the music to drown
out feline snoring while I post to my blog.
How is your day going?
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