What's What

My achievement of the day was finally getting the Other Chai on the phone and making firm plans to make firms plans for DisneyWorld. In other words, she's coming here for lunch on Monday, and as she put it, bringing her credit card. So we should have reservations of some kind on Monday. I am very excited.

In other news, K has been working on her room upstairs like a crazy person, which is a good thing because this is something she pretty much reserves for once a decade. Though with any luck, it'll take this time and she'll prefer to live less cluttered. Uh huh. Anyway, I know that one of her hopes is that if she can get the room into really ship-shape condition, we will let her get a kitten and keep it upstairs. (Her upstairs "room" is actually bigger than R's two-room apartment, since it's the whole upstairs of our house except for a narrow attic space.)

I'm sure glad she's doing something about her living environment, but sadly, the kitten is unlikely to happen. This is even more sad because Wonderful Niece, who's involved in Kitten Rescue of a sort, has a litter on hand, and R is probably going there on Saturday to get one for herself. My heart breaks for K, who can barely remember life without a cat in the house -- she was 7 when we got BooBoo -- but the Hubs and I are just not ready right now. There are things we have been planning to do for a long time when we were post-cat, and this is the time. Furniture and stuff like that. I swear, when she moves out at some point, I will procure for her the cat of her choice. I've already told both of them that I will get them set up when they get their first cats, you know, get them the litter box, bowls, whatever else they need. I have a carrier to give each one of them. But not another one in our house, not now. Not yet.

So she's working and I'm reading. I also printed out some of those pictures I got yesterday from my niece's wedding, and framed them and put them on the piano. (Nobody plays here. The piano's function here, as it was in my mother's house, is to have pictures on it.) I've also been listening to Harry whenever I'm in the car, but I'm not taking any long trips these days, so it's slow going. But I've always enjoyed Jim Dale reading the books, so this is good, too.

And that's that.

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