I'm sorry, my cat ate my homework

[auntiemeesh]

Luckily, I'm not in school anymore and don't have any homework lying around, because if I did, Zoe would certainly eat it. The girl's gone paper crazy! She uses those sharp little teeth of hers to rip up everything in sight. When I get dvds from Netflix, I have to hide the envelopes if I want them to be in one piece when I'm ready to send them back. Good thing she's so adorable, or I'd have to send her back.

Mal had me worried yesterday evening. He puked up a hairball but didn't feel any better afterwards, wouldn't eat, etc. Finally puked up a little more, and had a small piece of salad dressing packaging in it (the individual serving packet that you get with pre-packaged salads). Poor guy, he loves to lick and chew the package after I've used the dressing but he's never swallowed any of the plastic before. I'll have to be more careful with the packaging from now on.

I can't believe it's June already. Summer is here, ready or not. I always find myself wishing for just a little more of that lovely spring weather, and looking ahead to fall. It seems unfair to hate summer so much, when it was the highlight of the year for my entire childhood. No school! Let's go outside and play, play, play! Spend all afternoon at the local swimming pool, riding bikes, climbing hills. I don't remember ever minding the humidity or the heat as a kid. Now I go outside and wilt. All the strength and energy drains out of my body and all I want to do is turn around and go back inside. Or at the very least sit down somewhere and be a very passive observer of the world around me. Unfortunately, when one spends one's day supervising highly active and disaster prone one-year-olds (good grief, we've got such babies this summer) passive is not a word in one's vocabulary. Yeah, provider of happy memories or not, I hate summer. September can roll around any time it likes.

Comments

[slightlytookish]

Now I go outside and wilt. All the strength and energy drains out of my body and all I want to do is turn around and go back inside.

That's exactly how I feel! I'm already tired of this weather. I can't wait until the fall!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Only four more months. At the rate time is flying by these days, that should seem like the blink of an eye.

[shirebound]

It's suddenly become VERY warm here. Our summer lasts until late October, alas!

Glad Mal is better. *pets*

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Thanks. He is much better and back to his usual food-glomming ways. :)

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Please, please, not September yet! I just worked up the courage to change the calendar to June this morning, after 3 days of allowing myself to pretend that one whole month of the four months that I once had in which to get 3 papers published and two grant proposals submitted is already gone. (I've got one revised paper submitted, am working on 2 more and am plunging into the grant-writing process - do I feel overwhelmed? YES!)

So, I hope you have a relatively cool and non-humid summer so that you don't have to wish too hard for the fall to come early!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I will try to restrain my desire for fall, just this once, in order to give you time to get all your work done. :)

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with Ani No Mouse but for different reasons. Fall means that cold nasty weather will be here before I know it and I hate that. How are we related when our tastes are so different ie, Hockey and summer. LOL

[antbee362.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize I wasn't logged in when I posted this comment.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

It's a mystery, how people who share blood could be so different in some of their preferences. It probably has at least partly to do with driving vs. walking. Having to walk everywhere when it's hot is much more miserable than walking everywhere when it's cold.