Day 95 of 97, Saturday 26th January

I went to bed, but couldn’t sleep. My mind continued to fret over details: what, when, how? The headache also increased, and by midnight I decided to take my migraine cocktail.

I woke up at seven, which tells me that the effect of the cocktail was used to fight the pain – leaving nothing to affect my sleep. I woke up headache-free … of course it’s starting to build again, but very, very mildly.

It rained quite heavily throughout the night, mippies are not happy about the big wet outside. It’s not raining anymore, but everything is soaking wet, with puddles everywhere. They went outside, but keep coming to me to complain about conditions outside!

I’m not really getting started today. It’s lovely and cool, so ideal weather for hard work! And yet … I just don’t have the get-up and go! I think it got up and went away during the night.

I’ve decided to borrow Rose’s large cat carrier and put the mippies into the two carriers into the bathroom on Monday morning. And also leave the grass mat and litter box in place until they’ve been collected.

I have had my breakfast, with Mewthos – ha ha! He’s sleeping on the bulging suitcase in the bedroom, but when I started making breakfast, he came to mip at me! So I shared. Now I’m preparing my little external hard drive so I can pack the big one away. Oh, and I’ve paid February Rent.

My laundry is hanging to dry. The vacuum cleaner is packed – well, mostly, I don’t have the strength to separate the pipes. I thought I’d scan that article on the Floods in Port Elizabeth in 1968 while I wait for the externals to finish copying – but then I remembered that I have a ‘document’ setting on my camera, so I photographed them, instead. The magazine is also larger than my scanner, so the photo’s will work better – though, obviously, not as good quality. But I’ve tested it: I can read off the photos!

And that’s everything off the ‘Tuesday’ to-do list done! The last list is only items I might forget, like paying the rent.

Oh, and remember I thought I saw Lady Jane jumping off the top of the fridge? Yeah, I have proof! She put paw-prints all over the wall on top of the fridge! Sigh! Don’t ask me how I’m going to be able to clean those off, even after the fridge is removed!

Printer is packed. So is the steamer, so are the induction pots and pan. And the external hard drive. And another box of kitchen stuff. I’m running out of tape to seal the boxes! And there’s all that cleaning still to be done!

Mippies are … worried, I think. They are never far from me, and even Ziva is sleeping on her suitcase, rather than in one of her favourite places outside. Five o’clock and the Mew-Siren goes off! So, I shut the door and give them the special treat I had prepared: I had taken two of the chicken stock bags out of the freezer last night. At first Ziva turns her nose up at it, so I open a sachet of chicken and gravy for her – she climbs into that, as do Mew & Lady; after they lapped up all the stock I had cooked! Then Ziva also starts enjoying the soup / stock! As well as the bits of chicken meat included in it!

I’m so tired of packing, I’m ready to start unpacking! Three more days! Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday – and Wednesday I’ll be in my new home, unpacking! No more deadline! No more “What mustn’t I forget?”! No more lists! No more stress! At this point in time, I’m incapable of thinking beyond that.

I particularly don’t want to think about just how much I’ll miss Rose! I just don’t want to think about that … And mippies will miss Rose! So much! She is so much part of their lives – they enjoy her garden more than mine, they visit her every day, Ziva greets her as happily as she greets me! And Ziva! She’s been in Rose’s car before she ever came near me! Rose has been feeding her before I did!