Month: June 2022

I know you’re still obsessed with Wordle M Kaz but NORTY is not how you spell naughty!  And just for the record, I was not being naughty (regardless of how YOU spell it) this morning when you evicted me from the bedroom.  It was 6am, I had had a full night’s sleep and I just wanted to play – and you know it’s no fun playing with the stringey thing by yourself.  Oh oh … the good news is that I have found my favourite stringey thing again (although the white ribbon from M Sooz’s birthday present from Aunty M is coming a pretty close second!) – I don’t know why M Sooz had hidden it beside the meditation pillow under some of her clothes.

It’s still no warmer here and the Mummies have put an extra blanket on the bed and they have started using the electric blanket, which is good.  It gets a little bit hot for me sometimes but all I have to do is lay on top of M Kaz and that’s a little bit cooler – or was I doing that to warm up before they put the blankets on?  Either way, it works.

We’re still going outside almost every day, taking advantage of it not being rainy or wet – and spending some time in the sun which is lovely.

The only thing that I have noticed is that Lennie hasn’t been around.  Aunty M said it was because lizards (and yes, Lennie is a lizard) hibernate during the winter. But I’m not sure that all things like that do because M Kaz was saying only the other day that a memory came up on her FaceBook page – showing that only two years ago there was a cecil making its way through the lattice where the jasmine is … thankfully the jasmine is so thick out there now, they wouldn’t see one if it was there.  I wonder if that’s where Lennie’s hiding.

I think the Mummies are finally starting to realise that now that it is colder, I am getting hungrier quicker.  Haven’t they noticed my empty cookie bowl?  It’s no wonder that I’m having to give M Kaz kisses and cuddles so she realises that I need attention … food … food … give me food!  But not that silly brand of wet food that you’ve been giving me.  How many times do I have to not eat it before you get the message?  You know what I like Mummies – Applaws Seafood varieties, maybe the Aldi Luxury brand if I’m in the mood … but do not waste my time with anything else.  You should know by now that it’s just going to stay in the bowl until you clean it out M Kaz!

There are still Birthday decorations all over the place and when I tried to take down the banner today, M Sooz suggested she would like to keep it there for the rest of the year. I’m not sure that’s going to happen because they can’t watch me all the time and they can’t lock it in the study with the balloons. The balloons are still on the ceiling. I was thinking about them this morning – and what I might write about them in the future.
Day 10,613: The balloons are almost deflated now and it’s a shame that the Mummies aren’t here to see it – but it’s lovely they made a provision in their wills so the balloons and I would be provided for. I miss them.

M Kaz is spending lots of time watching the Jurassic Park movies getting ready for the latest film in the series Jurassic World Dominion. To be honest, though, I am amazed that she wasn’t first in line to see it when it was released at the movies today. I think she’s booked to go in the next couple of days though – she won’t be able to tolerate not seeing it for much more than that.

It has been cold here the last few days – and nights! I have been sleeping in my cuddly bed, on the Mummies’ bed, in the Mummies’ bed and on M Kaz. I don’t know why the Mummies are amazed that I can put myself under the covers – if they can do it, it’s obviously not that hard!

Happy Birthday to you … Happy Birthday to you … Happy Birthday dear Mummy Sooz, Happy Birthday to you! Hip hip hooray!

I cannot believe that M Sooz is having her birthday still.  Surely she needs to leave some for someone else.  I also cannot believe how old she is … which I won’t be saying here because that wouldn’t be nice!  Although anyone who knows me knows that I am not always (nice)!

M Kaz has put the balloons out (yes, they are still up to the ceiling – Day 6) and the runner which says (Happy X0th Birthday – with the X being a number between something and something – it’s still a secret) and the actual number cut out of white polystyrene and veneered with glitter – that stuff is going to be around the house for a while – in pink and silver.  At least M Kaz hasn’t put the metal confetti out because they’d never get rid of that!  M Kaz wasn’t allowed to scatter it over the table at the French restaurant – they said someone did a few years ago and they’re still finding it!  Truly it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.  We’re not sure where M Kaz is going to scatter it – although, knowing her, she will find somewhere.

True to her word, now that it has stopped raining, M Kaz and I went out into the yard this afternoon when they arrived back from morning tea.  Yes, that’s right, they left at 10 o’clock to go to morning tea and weren’t back until nearly 2pm.  They brought back what was left of M Sooz’s birthday cake – and if I could spell French I would be able to tell people what it was – it’s made of shoe (? spelling) pastry and looks a bit like a traffic cone with bumps. 

Don’t you Mothers ever go to bed? It’s after 2am and they’re both still up having a good ol’ natter; and I don’t know about them (well, I do actually) but I need my beauty sleep! I know M Kaz hasn’t been sleeping very well since the CoVid and I am used to her getting up every couple of hours, but I’m not used to the Mummies talking and then M Kaz getting up and staying up for 4 hours!  Yes … 4 hours!  She was awake from 1:11 to just after 5am.  It was okay, she wasn’t wasting time, she was doing stuff – in fact, that’s why she got out of bed … as she said to M Sooz at 2:30a, she’d been laying there awake for the last hour so she might as well get up and do something.  Her “do something” was mucking around with her technology “stuff” – but at least she was happy.  It was funny though, because when she finally did go back to bed, she had to be really really careful not to wake M Sooz up – although it seemed that M Sooz might actually wake herself up at any moment – with her sniffing (cat allergies?) and snoring.  Yes, I know that’s supposed to be a secret, but it really isn’t much of one M Sooz!

It’s very exciting around here at the moment because M Kaz has been busy doing the SBB – Secret Birthday Business.  They had an early Birthday dinner for M Sooz last night – at a French restaurant – and the Mummies enjoyed that … but the most exciting thing was that they came back with balloons which sit on the ceiling!  How cool is that?  I’m working on a plan to get to them too.  Or maybe I could just wait for them to come down.  In the interweb research that I’ve been doing, it looks like they can only stay up for … wait, what’s this … way too long.  They can last well for 7 to 10 days and remain afloat for weeks.  Hmmm  … this will be interesting!  I’m going to start tracking this and see just how long they do stay up!  Bets anyone?