Friends… this is one of those mornings when I got nothing. I could rattle on about the New World PTR some more but I am honestly not feeling it. I could just skip a day and not make a post. Instead, I think I am going to lean heavily on how cute my furry children are, and post about the cats. The ominous shadow in front of a very blue picture of John Oliver is Gracie. She has decided that she really likes standing in front of my monitor and watching the television. Yes, I know this is bad for her eyes just like it is bad for anyone’s eyes… and as much as I place her elsewhere when she decides this is a thing she wants to do… there is no stopping her. There is a shelf that I use as a monitor riser, and she loves standing on top of it and monitoring what happens to be going on with my screen. This is how my morning started out.
She is a bit of a mess and has finally discovered something that every cat discovers. In the living room, we have this rock ledge at the top of our fireplace, which is easily accessible from the balcony. At some point, every cat we have ever had discovers this ledge, and the same is true with Gracie. Thankfully she has only stepped out onto it and then backed up onto the balcony. Mollie our weirdest cat… has actually managed to jump from the ledge onto the sofa in the room below. Since Gracie appears to be a cat without fear… we both figure it is only a matter of time before this happens. She is growing so fast, but still very much in full kitten mode all of the time. I do wonder what an adult Gracie is going to be like since she seems to be in everything currently. I will be thankful when she is a little bit slower and a little bit bigger… so we don’t have to live in mortal fear at all times of her sneaking out the front door. I don’t think she necessarily wants to go outside but she LOVES rushing through open doors.
She makes up for the madness though with how sweet she is the majority of the time. Lately, she has spent a lot of time sleeping on a blanket I have placed on my desk. When we first got her, she was very much attached to my wife and that was the only human she really cared about. Since then, like happens with all cats it seems… the person who feeds them ultimately becomes the center of their attention. So lately Gracie has spent a lot more time following me around during the day than she did previously. It frustrates my wife to no end that she cannot seem to get her to just lay down and chill, whereas that is mostly the default mode in my office. Sure she roams around a bit, but more often than not she just ends up snoozing beside me.
While I do not have a photo of this specific event, I am hoping maybe to see a repeat of it today. I was a bit slow in throwing away the empty soda flat, and Josie has adopted it. Yesterday Gracie had decided she needed to also curl up in the not-quite-empty soda flat beside her. It was adorable, but I happened to run downstairs without my phone. Josie has been adapting to having a little sister, but it seems to have been a bit of a hard transition. The two of them play constantly, and will get really close to snuggling… but never quite do so. Josie is I think struggling with no longer being the little kid, and even though I am attempting to supplement with a lot of extra attention… still seems stressed. I am hoping that over time this will settle out because adding a third cat has absolutely uprooted the stable peace in the household.
There are times Josie becomes super snuggly, like the other day trying to squeeze between me and my laptop and figure out how to snuggle. Her usual location is on my legs, but Gracie has decided that she also loves that spot. When Kensie was alive, she would lay down on my legs even if Josie was on them… and Josie has not quite figured out that she is much larger than the new kitten and can basically do whatever she wants. There is more than enough room for both of them, but Josie tends to avoid taking the same spot that Gracie has already commandeered. Maybe she remembers being frustrated when Kenzie used to take a spot from her. It has been frustrating to see my baby girl stressed though, and I am hoping that given enough time it all calms out.
I always feel bad that I never have as many photos of Mollie, but she is a much harder cat to capture. She will lay beside me for hours, but when I turn on the lights in my office and grab my phone… she often bolts. She is constantly moments away from running out of the room and has been that way since she was small. I love her but she is a complete mess of a cat and is completely uncertain of what to think about the kitten. There are moments that I think she is trying to play and other moments that she seems like she is on the offensive. I think she really needs to be in a single-cat home environment honestly, but you take a cat for life when you adopt one and she seems to be happy enough. Everything is a process for her, and while she now sometimes crawls up in bed with us… it is eternally short-lived. Getting attention from her is so special because it is so hard fought.
Anyways this friends is what happens when I don’t have much to say about gaming, and instead, I lean back on talking about my kids.
I got an assignment working from home, and am currently surrounded by snoring pooches. They’re much better office companions than most of my co-workers.