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Dec. 15th, 2017 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeSo we went and got a bunch of stuff at the pet store, an extra litter pan for the kitchen door and some extra food bowls since we've set up a permanent second station in the office, and a harness for Bat Cat. Blue, because the alternative was black on black and blue is a good Bat Cat color. (Although now that I think about it maybe I should have gotten black and put a batman sign on it.) I also got a tub of treats and started with two-three treats letting him sniff the harness, and two-three treats draping the harness over his back. Didn't even move. Just stood there being petted and paid attention to and with a harness over his back. Today he was a lot more awake so he batted some at the harness, but more it looked like because it was dangling and swaying and he was playful than because he was upset by it; his ears were perked and his whiskers forward. After the first few times I let him sniff and gave him a treat he settled down, and I draped it on his back a couple of times and gave him more treats. Still no fear or hostile behavior. A promising start! I'm going to give it at least another week of draping the harness over him before I try to put it on him, but hey, that's a very promising start.
It better be a promising start because I woke up today sneezing my head off and it hasn't gotten any better since. I finally gave in and took an antihistamine, which helped me not rub my eyes raw but didn't help the sniffling much. I pre-emptively called out of capoeira because I'm pretty sure what's keeping me going through the day is that this is the first relatively quiet work day all week and also a shitload of eclairs and dark chocolate. Yay sugar high. I did have healthy leftovers from yesterday's Mexican food so that's something. But I can feel the sugar high waning and the sleepiness starting.
I did pre-emptively cancel on capoeira this weekend though. I intend to spend the bulk of the weekend either in bed or on the couch, resting, doing as little as possible and resting.
I also did manage to get the Witches' Child story submitted! Finished and edited and I even remembered to do a search and replace for the draft character name to the final character name heh heh whoops that could have been bad. I managed a decent cover letter and sent it out, it's as good as it's going to get and we'll see what happens. And I still haven't heard back from the damn train anthology. I need to get together a couple other stories for open calls at some point, but that can wait till after I've recovered from the damn cold.
So much to do this weekend. I should start making lists. Or something like, but I don't know that I have the focus right now. Maybe I start making the start of a list and then go to bed and try again in the morning.
It better be a promising start because I woke up today sneezing my head off and it hasn't gotten any better since. I finally gave in and took an antihistamine, which helped me not rub my eyes raw but didn't help the sniffling much. I pre-emptively called out of capoeira because I'm pretty sure what's keeping me going through the day is that this is the first relatively quiet work day all week and also a shitload of eclairs and dark chocolate. Yay sugar high. I did have healthy leftovers from yesterday's Mexican food so that's something. But I can feel the sugar high waning and the sleepiness starting.
I did pre-emptively cancel on capoeira this weekend though. I intend to spend the bulk of the weekend either in bed or on the couch, resting, doing as little as possible and resting.
I also did manage to get the Witches' Child story submitted! Finished and edited and I even remembered to do a search and replace for the draft character name to the final character name heh heh whoops that could have been bad. I managed a decent cover letter and sent it out, it's as good as it's going to get and we'll see what happens. And I still haven't heard back from the damn train anthology. I need to get together a couple other stories for open calls at some point, but that can wait till after I've recovered from the damn cold.
So much to do this weekend. I should start making lists. Or something like, but I don't know that I have the focus right now. Maybe I start making the start of a list and then go to bed and try again in the morning.