I miss Mew-Mew! We all do! The house feels empty without his nuisance mewling and his indomitable, exuberant spirit! I just wish I could at least visit him today! We've never been separated for this long, except when we moved from PE to Pretoria - and then he had his mom and sister with him. Plus Rose visited every day! But now? Poor baby must feel abandoned! And the earliest I can see him is tomorrow evening - I can't go to work late, nor leave in the morning, when I want to leave early as well!
I will leave work at half four tomorrow. Hopefully I can take him home! Either way, I want to avoid rush hour traffic on the Warmbad pad (Lavender Road / R101).
I woke up rather late this morning, not feeling very well. Having the ceiling fan on my back all night is putting a bad strain on my already badly damaged lungs. Leaving it off, though, takes away my ability to sleep altogether!
I also have a bad headache - there are a few clouds in the sky, I fear it's the air pressure again. Nothing I can do about that ... nothing works. I've already taken two Disprin, they are very strong. Headache is stronger ... I've just taken a third one ...
Clouds are moving in, it's getting overcast. Good! Hopefully the pressure will change, and my headache will dissipate ...
My girls are also missing Mewthos, of course. They're all subdued. Janey spent a lot of time on my lap during load shedding, Ziva is hiding in some wardrobe somewhere ... she's just come out, because I called her.
I've spent about half an hour with the baby, Lady Sybill. I showed her how the ball-on-track toy works, yesterday, and I could hear her playing with it for hours! Click, click, click, as the balls hit each other on the circular track! I took the laser-kibble-puzzle to her, as well. Since it makes very little noise, I can't tell whether she's playing with it ...
This morning, I spent another half hour with her. She prefers to be on the floor, rather than on my lap - understandable, cats prefer full control. On my lap, she doesn't have as much control over her movements - I'm wobbly! Ha Ha! In the end, though, she nuzzled under my arm, kneading, looking for mommy's milk! Which, of course, I don't have. Wednesday night can't come soon enough, when I can release her! She'll be happy to be reunited with her family - well, once they re-accept her, of course. And I'll be happy when Mini settles down again, and stops hissing and growling!
There's a lot I COULD have done during load shedding ... only, I did nothing. Headache. Low energy. Not feeling up to anything ...
Load shedding was reduced to Stage 5 at 05:00 this morning - announced at half past five last night, and then, this morning, we dropped to Stage 4. Implemented at 09:00, announced 09:10 ...
At Stage 5, this morning's load shedding was scheduled to last only 2 hours, not four - which gives me six hours to get the baking, etc. done. At Stage 4, tonight's load shedding will also be only 2 hours, from 16:00 - 18:30, rather than 16:00 - 20:30.
It's all political, though. Eskom has an 'interim CEO', and the public must see his effectiveness ... which means they're using up some reserves, which are likely to shoot us up to ... yeah, not just Stage 6. I fear Stage 8. Only, right now ... I'm more concerned with my own little world. Which has a huge hole in it ... Mewthos!
I've now dawdled an hour .. it's quarter past eleven ... better start the bread dough.
Quarter past three ... I'm done! Knackered. Just done. I'm almost finished, too. Bread rolls are done, I cut tomatoes, baked them, too - just need to blend them. I re-packed the meat, vacuum packed and put it in the freezer. I've even taken the rubbish out. I've cut a couple of potatoes, they're in the pressure cooker, now ... forty minutes to load shedding. Again.
I don't think I'll bother to try to get back online afterwards ...
I really miss Mew-Mew! The house is unnaturally quiet without him! I hope I can bring him home tomorrow!
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