Lock-down Day 236

What an absolutely awful night! I do not know how most people sleep without a shower in the evening. Most people, I know, bath or shower in the mornings - but I just can't sleep covered in the days sweat and dust! Power came back on around nine - just as I was finally falling asleep, waking me up again! Crap! And I forgot to turn off the kitchen light ...

Back to sleep ... wake up around midnight: power is off again! Sheez! It is hot as anything, I NEED my fan on, please! Nope ... an absolutely awful night for me. At least mippies came for cuddles - not ideal in this heat, but I'll take it. Mini, Mewthos and Janey came to join me on the bed, Mewthos snuggled against my leg, Mini against my back and Janey somewhere by my feet.

I woke up several times throughout the night. Really awful. This morning, still no power = no coffee! I just get up, treat mippies, get dressed and hope for coffee at work. Gate is dead, so I have to set it to manual - which means that it's basically open all day! I need to make a plan to replace that battery one of these days ...

At work, I'm struggling to stay awake, so I go off to Spar and stock up on caffeine! Not just Coca Cola, this calls for a more desperate approach: I get Red Bull! Something I don't buy or drink under normal circumstance ... but really, today? I just want to scream!

Cor crikey that Red Bull kicks! I'm wide awake, as if I actually slept last night! I wonder when that's going to kick back? I just hope the power is on when I get home! Just in case it isn't, I did buy something for dinner, though.

Well, I've ordered my produce, hopefully it will be delivered on Thursday.

Oh mippies! What have you done? You HAVE been busy today, haven't you! Sigh!

Okay, I came home and was very glad to see the lights were on = I've got power! I was wary of the possibility of an intruder - without electricity, and the gate's battery practically flat, I have to leave the gate on 'manual' when there is no power. Anyone can just push open the gate and come in - and since my place has walls, rather than a fence (the ONLY property here with walls!) once inside, intruders can take all the time they like to look around, do whatever they like. People say cats are no use as watchdogs - just because they don't bark. But they are excellent silent alarms! So when I didn't see any mip nose peeking through the window next to the door, I decided to take a careful walk around, with my phone ready to call the security guard. Nothing untoward, and when I looked through the patio door I saw mippies strolling around - and Mewthos standing on tip-toe with his nose pressed against the window next to the door! That is just too cute a sight!

Seeing mippies confidently strolling around the lounge is all the proof I need to know that nobody is inside!

Went inside, opened the patio door, so mippies could go out - they didn't want to ... then went to charge my phone (the torch light uses a lot of battery). And that's when I saw it! The flood they had caused in my bedroom! How? Well, you know how water fountains don't fountain without power? Apparently, even though this one has a bowl which stays full, so they don't sit without water when the power is out ... well, mippies didn't think that was good enough! So, they got busy and ended up dipping the corner of the towel, I keep under the fountain, INTO the fountain! As a result, all 5 liters of water were soaked into the towel - and since it can't hold that much water, it flooded the area around the fountain! You'd think that was bad enough, right? Not for MY mippies! They then decided that water need soaking up. So what do they do? Splash my book off the bed into the puddle! Which soaked up much of the water, but not all, of course. What was left ran towards the cardboard box I've been using for years to keep my spare extension cords and such in ... soaked as well! I had quite a job mopping, wiping, wrapping the book in a towel, then re-filling their water fountain! All that with mippies mipping for their treat! They didn't want to go out, they just want their treats, then cuddles!

But first, I cleaned their litter boxes, which I also hadn't got around to last night - Ziva was already complaining that she wanted to go, but nothing was clean! She's relieved now! Ha Ha, couldn't resist that pun!

Then I gave mippies their treats, closed the patio door again and then took a shower! What a wonderful feeling! I feel so much better now!

Fortunately I'm feeling tired, so I don't think I'll have any trouble sleeping - even though I drank so much caffeine today, I should be goggle-eyed! Going to watch an episode (third or fourth attempt at the same episode), cuddle mippies then go to sleep!