Of kittens and doors, plus the happenings of the day
Part of tonight's conversation while hanging out with 
seolh and Kas was about cat vaccinations. (
scruloose and I are essentially settled on getting the kittens the feline leukemia vaccine but not the rabies vaccine, since if they get out of the house their odds of encountering another cat are much higher than their odds of coming into contact with a rabies-infected bat.) Kas mentioned that his cat gets only the standard combined vaccine, because she's an indoor cat in an apartment building, and thus even if she gets out of the apartment the odds of her getting outdoors are basically nonexistent...
...and we realized that if we lived in an apartment, the outer hallway would be a total nightmare for Claudia. Because there's very little that frustrates our girl more than a closed door, and to her, such a hallway would be nothing but a vast array of closed doors, and beyond each one there would be an entirely different assortment of intriguing smells and sounds that she would be unable to investigate. THE HORROR.
These days the kittens do okay with having the door between the main level and the ground levels of our townhouse shut on them; they seem to know that it's temporary, and usually it's brief. (The other night
scruloose shut them down on the ground level while he pulled the stove out from the wall and scrubbed behind it, and one of the kittens offered a single yowl of protest, and that was all. Kas came over while he was still cleaning, so I had to open the door and go downstairs to let him in, and both kittens were hanging out right by that door that was closed on them, and they made no effort to get past me as I went downstairs or as Kas and I came up. They just looked resigned and continued their vigil.)
But if Claudia gets shut out of a room that's usually open to her, like
scruloose's office...? A different story. They still don't complain very vocally, but Claud tends to stay right at the door, pacing and concerned because CLEARLY A MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE, and surely any moment her monkey(s) will realize it and let her in. She never acts angry or rejected. Just...very concerned. It's both endearing and a little bit heartbreaking.
Today I overslept, and when I finally escaped the bed's gravitational pull a little before noon (my alarm went off at 10:30;
scruloose was up by 9 and prepping chili in the slow cooker) and realized that Kas and
seolh would be over for Into the Woods in under six hours, I decided to abandon the notion of doing any freelance work today. It was, after all, my last weekend day before Casual Job resumes (and during the weeks that Casual Job's on, my weekends are usually devoted to freelance work and desperately trying to catch up on sleep and manage my burnout levels).
So before their arrival, my day consisted of having breakfast and tea, vacuuming the house, taking a long (even by my standards) shower, making more tea, and starting to reread Untold (which I got about halfway through before it was time to switch gears to socialization and beloved theatre). The evening, as planned, was devoted to Into the Woods (
seolh had seen it before, but Kas hadn't), with a break for chili and fresh bread (hail the Doughbot!) at intermission.
Having both Kas and
seolh here at once is like having a playdate for the kittens. ^_^ They're two of the kittens' very favorite guest!monkeys (they also love it when
wildpear visits). So the kittens got to play hard tonight, and were clearly delighted. They were toted around in their favorite bag! (The one we use to weigh them.)
seolh did her "look, your tail is a TOY!" trick that Jinksy loves so much--he curls up on his back in her arms and plays wildly with his own tail, going at it with teeth and forepaws, wide-mouthed with sheer excitement in between attacks. It is excruciatingly cute.
And now we have an impressive amount of rain falling, which will be lovely to fall asleep to. (The forecast claims we're expecting 50-70 mm by sometime in the morning.)
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seolh and Kas was about cat vaccinations. (
scruloose and I are essentially settled on getting the kittens the feline leukemia vaccine but not the rabies vaccine, since if they get out of the house their odds of encountering another cat are much higher than their odds of coming into contact with a rabies-infected bat.) Kas mentioned that his cat gets only the standard combined vaccine, because she's an indoor cat in an apartment building, and thus even if she gets out of the apartment the odds of her getting outdoors are basically nonexistent...
...and we realized that if we lived in an apartment, the outer hallway would be a total nightmare for Claudia. Because there's very little that frustrates our girl more than a closed door, and to her, such a hallway would be nothing but a vast array of closed doors, and beyond each one there would be an entirely different assortment of intriguing smells and sounds that she would be unable to investigate. THE HORROR.
These days the kittens do okay with having the door between the main level and the ground levels of our townhouse shut on them; they seem to know that it's temporary, and usually it's brief. (The other night
scruloose shut them down on the ground level while he pulled the stove out from the wall and scrubbed behind it, and one of the kittens offered a single yowl of protest, and that was all. Kas came over while he was still cleaning, so I had to open the door and go downstairs to let him in, and both kittens were hanging out right by that door that was closed on them, and they made no effort to get past me as I went downstairs or as Kas and I came up. They just looked resigned and continued their vigil.)
But if Claudia gets shut out of a room that's usually open to her, like
scruloose's office...? A different story. They still don't complain very vocally, but Claud tends to stay right at the door, pacing and concerned because CLEARLY A MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE, and surely any moment her monkey(s) will realize it and let her in. She never acts angry or rejected. Just...very concerned. It's both endearing and a little bit heartbreaking.
Today I overslept, and when I finally escaped the bed's gravitational pull a little before noon (my alarm went off at 10:30;
scruloose was up by 9 and prepping chili in the slow cooker) and realized that Kas and
seolh would be over for Into the Woods in under six hours, I decided to abandon the notion of doing any freelance work today. It was, after all, my last weekend day before Casual Job resumes (and during the weeks that Casual Job's on, my weekends are usually devoted to freelance work and desperately trying to catch up on sleep and manage my burnout levels).
So before their arrival, my day consisted of having breakfast and tea, vacuuming the house, taking a long (even by my standards) shower, making more tea, and starting to reread Untold (which I got about halfway through before it was time to switch gears to socialization and beloved theatre). The evening, as planned, was devoted to Into the Woods (
seolh had seen it before, but Kas hadn't), with a break for chili and fresh bread (hail the Doughbot!) at intermission.
Having both Kas and
seolh here at once is like having a playdate for the kittens. ^_^ They're two of the kittens' very favorite guest!monkeys (they also love it when
wildpear visits). So the kittens got to play hard tonight, and were clearly delighted. They were toted around in their favorite bag! (The one we use to weigh them.)
seolh did her "look, your tail is a TOY!" trick that Jinksy loves so much--he curls up on his back in her arms and plays wildly with his own tail, going at it with teeth and forepaws, wide-mouthed with sheer excitement in between attacks. It is excruciatingly cute.
And now we have an impressive amount of rain falling, which will be lovely to fall asleep to. (The forecast claims we're expecting 50-70 mm by sometime in the morning.)
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