Same headache, different day
Spring and Fall frustrate me. They're the seasons I enjoy most psychologically, and least physically. I've been flaring moderately this week, and have had the same damned headache since Tuesday. The two-hour conference call with a room full of twenty people _really_ didn't help yesterday. Blah. It's not a massively painful migraine, but the head-nausea and light/sound sensitivity are not a good combo for a fast-paced, chaotic job on a headset staring at a computer screen. Again, not likely to be so chatty today.
However, I do need to note what utter crackheads my critters are. All of the household towels are now in the dining room. When occasional kitchen handtowels started showing up there, I assumed Tarma was to blame. At least, I assumed that until I woke up in the middle of the night to find Baldur dragging an entire bath towel into the living room and then vaguely molesting it before leaving it in the middle of the floor and wandering off, something he now does pretty much every night. Weirdo cat.
Edit: Somewhat relatedly (on the critter-front, at least), if you're not familiar with just how dense and woolly pomeranian undercoats are, I'd like to note that I discovered yesterday that I'd blistered my thumb working on trimming him down. Right now he looks like he's wearing an extremely bad body-toupee. Because he and Tarma roughhouse so much, and his ridiculously thick hair helps protect him in that, I don't trim him down entirely for the summer; I leave the hair on the back of his shoulders and upper spine pretty long to provide padding where she grabs for the scruff of his neck. I tend to do the trimming in bits and pieces here and there, because he's not so thrilled with the idea, to say the least. As a result, he looks progressively more and more leprous over the course of the several weeks it takes for me to get him somewhere close to as trimmed as I'm aiming for (this is for his comfort -- we don't have A/C). This time, I've managed to get his belly, legs, and butt, albeit as unevenly as I ever do. He's got a big mop of long silky hair dangling over those little skinny legs, and it's amazingly silly-looking.
However, I do need to note what utter crackheads my critters are. All of the household towels are now in the dining room. When occasional kitchen handtowels started showing up there, I assumed Tarma was to blame. At least, I assumed that until I woke up in the middle of the night to find Baldur dragging an entire bath towel into the living room and then vaguely molesting it before leaving it in the middle of the floor and wandering off, something he now does pretty much every night. Weirdo cat.
Edit: Somewhat relatedly (on the critter-front, at least), if you're not familiar with just how dense and woolly pomeranian undercoats are, I'd like to note that I discovered yesterday that I'd blistered my thumb working on trimming him down. Right now he looks like he's wearing an extremely bad body-toupee. Because he and Tarma roughhouse so much, and his ridiculously thick hair helps protect him in that, I don't trim him down entirely for the summer; I leave the hair on the back of his shoulders and upper spine pretty long to provide padding where she grabs for the scruff of his neck. I tend to do the trimming in bits and pieces here and there, because he's not so thrilled with the idea, to say the least. As a result, he looks progressively more and more leprous over the course of the several weeks it takes for me to get him somewhere close to as trimmed as I'm aiming for (this is for his comfort -- we don't have A/C). This time, I've managed to get his belly, legs, and butt, albeit as unevenly as I ever do. He's got a big mop of long silky hair dangling over those little skinny legs, and it's amazingly silly-looking.