pants! and cat update
Okay, so today was pretty cool. First of all, Xina and Emily tipped me off to the fact that Ann Taylor Loft now offers a curvy style of pants. And that's usually a pretty pricey store, but apparently said pants have been on sale lately. So I looked on the website and discovered there's a store in the mall two blocks from my office, so I went after work, and OMG pants that fit!! I bought two pair: nice khakis (it's been FOREVER since I've had nice khakis) and khaki cargo capris that also unbutton to be normal long pants too. (Is there a shorter name for that?) I'm freakin' psyched. My ass hasn't seen the inside of size 8 pants in a really long time, because typically size 8 pants are too tight to fit over my thighs. But these pants at Ann Taylor, they understand about curvy girls. And there's no gappage in the back of the waistband. I am so pleased right now. And then I called Xina from the train and we talked about pants for a good 20 minutes. People around me on the train kept getting up and moving to other seats. :)
Also, one of the ladies from Stray Cat Blues called me to see how Stormy's doing. I told her that he's still mostly hiding under the bed, and she said she wasn't surprised to hear that--apparently his foster mom had said that he'd likely be a hider. But she was glad to hear that he's been out and about at night and while I'm at work, and that we've made some progress in becoming friends. She seemed really optimistic about the possibility of him coming out more and being affectionate, and she said there's nothing else I can really do that I'm not already doing. So overall I felt a lot better about things.
Speaking of which, here's the latest cat progress. He likes turkey. If I lay very still with my arm outstretched under the bed for like ten minutes, he'll eat turkey from my hand. Also, he'll come out from under the bed a tiny bit earlier now--before he would only come out after my lights were out, but now if I get in bed and stay up reading or talking on the phone, he'll come out then, and he'll look at me instead of bolting off down the hall. And two mornings ago, he jumped up on the bed, after the alarm had been going off so he knew I was awake, and in broad daylight. He sat by my feet. I raised my head and said hello, and he looked at me. Then he started walking over to the window, but when I turned my head to watch him he got scared and ran away. Overall, there's definitely been some progress. Not as much as I would like, but I think we're getting somewhere.
Also, one of the ladies from Stray Cat Blues called me to see how Stormy's doing. I told her that he's still mostly hiding under the bed, and she said she wasn't surprised to hear that--apparently his foster mom had said that he'd likely be a hider. But she was glad to hear that he's been out and about at night and while I'm at work, and that we've made some progress in becoming friends. She seemed really optimistic about the possibility of him coming out more and being affectionate, and she said there's nothing else I can really do that I'm not already doing. So overall I felt a lot better about things.
Speaking of which, here's the latest cat progress. He likes turkey. If I lay very still with my arm outstretched under the bed for like ten minutes, he'll eat turkey from my hand. Also, he'll come out from under the bed a tiny bit earlier now--before he would only come out after my lights were out, but now if I get in bed and stay up reading or talking on the phone, he'll come out then, and he'll look at me instead of bolting off down the hall. And two mornings ago, he jumped up on the bed, after the alarm had been going off so he knew I was awake, and in broad daylight. He sat by my feet. I raised my head and said hello, and he looked at me. Then he started walking over to the window, but when I turned my head to watch him he got scared and ran away. Overall, there's definitely been some progress. Not as much as I would like, but I think we're getting somewhere.