… because I didn’t post yesterday’s (didn’t even get scanning it till now, in fact) because I was fairly busy.  But here’s my doodle-pet - a cat, of course.

And to further prove my complete lack of artistic skills, here’s today’s body (which I think looks a bit like plasticine Morph):

Also today, I am mostly … doing housework

… and wondering why Ozzy is sat on the garage roof. He can see me through the study window when he sits there, and now I know he’s there and staring at me, it’s a bit disconcerting.

Anyway, back to the housework. If I want to have a bath tonight, I have to clean out all the paper bits left from my last LUSH bath (Champagne Supernova bath ballistic).

… as Basement Cat (courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger).

Not all black cats are evil, of course. Some are very sweet and cute. But then again, you never know what they’re up to when your back is turned…

Also today, I am mostly … signing papers

… which mean that we will be getting married in September. No backing out of it now! We have to find some ushers, buy the rings, decided on music… Wait, did I say we? Ahem. Yeah, right. Make that I.

Well, as long as he shows up on the day and says the right thing, that’s what’s important, isn’t it?

… and more specifically, if I could have been any meaner to my cats last Saturday night?

No animals were harmed in the making of these photos. (It’s amazing what a good sleep and some catnip will let me get away with.)

… and walls and door and ceiling and furniture. After shifting all the small stuff - and the mattress - out of our bedroom yesterday, today is cleaning & shifting big furniture & painting day. Hurrah?

I will be so glad when my house is tidy once more, with things in the proper place. That probably won’t be for another couple of weeks though, since I don’t have the inclination to do more than about an hour at a time. Hmmm. Why do I get the feeling my mum will insist on helping me next weekend when they’re visiting?

Also today, I am mostly … being pleased at how bold the kitten is getting

… because she’s definitely relaxed a lot in just the past few days. She’s no longer too afraid of me & Colin to come out of hiding when we go in the garage, and she makes a dart for the food dishes as soon as we put them down (as long as we don’t make any sudden movements). Hopefully we’ll be able to get our (gloved) hands on her sometime soon.

… because I forgot to reset my alarm after the Bank Holiday weekend. I woke up just after 8, thankfully, and made it to work less than an hour late, so all was not lost. But almost. I could’ve just said ’sod it’ and worked from home, but I have a meeting this weekend.

At least I /can/ work from home again… My new router was delivered on Friday and works fine. Hurrah. I spent a good chunk of the weekend getting caught up on online stuff.

Also today, I am mostly … wondering what to do with our stowaway kitten

… who is still hanging out in the garage. Although she’s too nervous to come out of hiding when Colin or I are in there, she’s bold enough to eat out of the main food bowl (instead of us needing to put a dish down for her separately) and has no fear of the others even though Clover’s whacked her a couple of times.
Yes, she does hide from us… but we can see her through the window, and I also left the garage door open for a few hours on Sunday. She did wander out into the garden for a bit, but didn’t stay out long.
I think we’re stuck with her, at least till she does get used enough to us to come near us (so we can trap her in the carrier and take her to the rehoming centre).

… and the desk monkey who sent me a faulty router, which I received Friday, which led to a couple of hours on the phone to BT Broadband Support (who I have nothing but praise for), which led to not one but two engineers visiting my house yesterday and investigating lots until they showed that there was nothing wrong with the line but that the router was faulty, which led to a new router being ordered for me which shall arrive in 3 to 5 working days.
Which means no home internet for me until the weekend, maybe later. Grrrrrr. It also means that I have to be in the office for the rest of the week as there’s no realistic way that I can work from home without net access - I tried it yesterday and it isn’t an experiment I want to repeat.

Also today, I am mostly … buying primer

… so that we can finish painting the lonely wall in the garden. And hopefully the annoying children who live round by me will stop sitting on it.
We didn’t get much painting done over the weekend though. Oh well. It’ll have to wait till next weekend, like so much else…

And also today, I am mostly … wondering if the squatter is still in residence

… or if she’s decided to seek friends and food and shelter elsewhere. I’m referring to the 6 or 7 week old tortoiseshell kitten that appeared in the garden on Sunday afternoon, tried (and failed) to make friends with my cats, and has since moved into the garage where she spends most of her time hiding from me & Colin. Well, perhaps she’s not hiding when we’re not there: she’s a bit of a Schrödinger’s cat in that the act of observing her changes her state.
The other cats don’t seem that bothered about her other than an occasional hiss - certainly nowhere near the bother we had introducing Clover to them - though she’s probably too small to be much of a threat. They probably blame their humans for the arrival, too… Zuzu did seem slightly freaked out and spent a lot of Sunday in a tree, but that’s possibly because the kitten looks very like her, and Zuzu’s now under the impression that she’s broken the space-time continuum. Or something.
I can imagine this cat still being there in a year’s time though, skulking around and eating the other kitties’ food, and never deigning to come near me or Colin.
There must be a sign up somewhere which says ‘Free food this way!’