Rainy Saturday

I did get some sleep, but not enough! I meant to get some Vitamins and Toiletries today, but it’s raining – so I just did a quick run through Spar to collect essentials for the week. Oh, and two tins Salmon cat food. She finished the entire tin by morning! That cat eats better than I do lately! So I treated myself to croissants with cottage cheese, capers and smoked salmon for breakfast.

It’s too cold and wet for the garden today, tomorrow as well, if the forecast is right. But Monday will be lovely and sunny! Go figure!

So I’m spending time in the kitchen this weekend. I’ll be making the pasta dish I’ve been too exhausted to make during the week. Since there’s no meat involved, nothing’s gone off, I hope – but I got more mushrooms, just in case. No need to take chances. And I’ve got plenty of sour cream, for a lovely creamy dish!

Silver is really a nuisance today. I hope she gives birth soon, because my nerves are becoming a bit frayed at the edges. I’ve already snapped at her once. I’ve not had a full night’s sleep all week and I’m feeling the lack! I think an afternoon nap will be lovely! She keeps demanding attention, of course right after she’s come back from a run outside – all wet and muddy! She keeps eating, over and over back to the food bowl eating. Where on earth does she put all of it? She’s had some egg, now I’ve emptied a pack of chicken in gravy cat food (I got another three sachets this morning). Last night something in the bathroom attracted her attention and she sat up on the chair like a Meerkat! Pity I didn’t manage to snap a pic of that!

I think now would be a good time to try and get some shuteye, I just worry that I won’t bother to get up again today! Might just sleep right through till morning, the way I’m feeling! Better close the door, just in case.

I must be deranged from lack of sleep! If I don’t get to sleep through the night, what deranged fantasy led me to believe I would be allowed to sleep during the day? An hour! That’s how long Miss I’m-pregnant-and-I-want-lots-of-attention-NOW-if-you-please permitted me to sleep! Sigh, I guess an hour is better than nothing. It’s too wet for her to stay out for long, unless I get nasty and lock her out, I have no chance of real sleep!

All my life I evaded getting knocked up only to suffer through a blerry cat’s pregnancy! Life has a twisted sense of humour! At least cats are not pregnant for long, seventy days on the outside. She’s been here thirty-five days (five weeks) and was already bulging when she arrived, indicating she was about four-five weeks pregnant. That makes her nine to ten weeks, or about sixty-seventy days. So, very close, like I didn’t know that already. If I wanted to know whether she’s THAT close, I could take her temperature … yeah, I don’t think so, either! Her current behaviour indicates no later than three days – and she’s been keeping that up for two days already! Anxious and restless. Of course, I could just as well be wrong and she could keep this up another week.

Dinner is cooking and I think I may have found some peace and quiet. At last! One of my wardrobe doors doesn’t close properly, I’ve been keeping the feather pillows in the bottom there. I thought Silver had long since explored it – what with her rushing into every wardrobe I open, but apparently she hadn’t. I just took her there, picked her up (yes, I know you shouldn’t pick up pregnant cats. I hold her under her ribcage) and placed her inside. I’d put an old frayed duvet cover on top and some old towels to boot. Then petted her until she did her normal barrel-roll (rub her belly and she starts rolling like a barrel over and over!) then left her there. That was ten minutes ago – she’s still in there! It’s dark, it’s warm, it’s soft and since the door doesn’t close anyway, there’s no chance of accidentally shutting her in. I thought she’d have explored it long ago! Apparently not, though – she must have been so restless since she was still looking for a place to safely give birth? Well maybe she’ll get busy now!

For dinner, there’ll be no pasta. I got the mushrooms, zucchini, butternut and Brussels sprouts (love those!) into the frying pan, added water and there’s no room for anything else. That’s the trouble about cooking for one: can’t really buy vegetables for one – since a lot of them are only available in packets sized for two or more. I’ll have to add the spinach, beans and carrots tomorrow – and hopefully some pasta!