Still nothing but Mip Mips

Not a good night, after all – the whole cat colony decided to frolic boisterously at half two in the morning! And when I woke up, the most awful stench was coming from somewhere in my bedroom. I couldn’t trace the source, so I can only guess the litter corner. I opened the window so I could at least get some fresh air in – but I better find and clean the source tonight.

I wasn’t sure whether I’d make it through the day and was surprised to find myself quite awake and energetic throughout the day. By quarter past three the site manager realized a misunderstanding – which results in my having to come to work tomorrow! Not a nice thing to develop less than an hour before home time. Since I had planned to get groceries & cat food tomorrow, and I don’t have enough to last the week, we agreed I’d come in late.

The weather forecast is not good for tomorrow – torrential rain! That was cool when I thought I’d spend the day at home, but now I’ll have to go out in the worst of it to go to the vet and the store. Eish!

Back at home, Rose won’t be able to visit her Shadow and the Mip Mips tonight, as she has a prior engagement. Shadow is quite disappointed, even though I pet and stroke her in lieu of a visit from her human. Both adults want to go out, but Shadow doesn’t like that everything is wet, so she stays inside – although every now and then she comes to look whether the outside is dry, yet.

I don’t know where I found the energy, but needs must – I folded the two sets of bed covers I’d had to wash, cleaned out the litter boxes, fed the Mip Mips (who weren’t very interested) and put the next load of peed-soaked washing in the machine.

Since the twins have a vivid interest in electrical plugs, I’ve used the one board to cover it up, so now I’ve had to make another plan in the passage. So I’m blocking the passage with the pantry door.

Spending some time with the cat colony, I’m dismayed to find Quizzy Lizzy climbing up onto the chest of drawers! That, I’m afraid, I must strongly discourage, so Quizzy Lizzy is the first of the Mip Mips to get a smack from me. Several, actually, since she seems indifferent. I’ve also moved the pillows she was using out of reach. Tiger Tim shows a tendency to covet my company – he’s always around my feet when I’m in reach, and when I come home he’s always sitting behind the barrier, as if he’s waiting for me. He also often comes onto my pillow when I’m trying to sleep, and instead of crying when I pick him up, he now licks my chin or nose and purrs. Not always, sometimes he still cries. Just now he landed in the laundry basket! That was rather funny!

Well, better get to bed early again, since I can’t catch up on sleep tomorrow – as I had planned.