Autumn Chore Weekend

This weekend is the weekend things are supposed to get done.  Caulking (snerk – yes, I have the mind of a 12 year-old boy) of windows and such.  Maybe even a hedge trimming (snerk).  Round 1 of leaf raking was Thursday.  My inner thighs and quads are still complaining about that.  I guess I don’t do a lot of squatting in my day-to-day activities.  Maybe I should have stretched first?  Oh GOD.  That’s what it’s come to… stretching before yard work.  Hello body – welcome to your 40s.

Errands that don’t get done during the week while I’m carless are left until the weekend.  I’ve got my hands full, so here is a post about my crazy cats and the resulting stompery from late October…

Thou Peevish Sheep!

Meeeeh…

Yesterday morning…

David had been looking forward to sleeping in.  15 more minutes of it. 
He wasn’t carpooling because of an after-school literacy meeting.  He
set the alarm in anticipatory joy –  there may have been some contented
chortling and ‘nom, nom, nom’ noises as he snuggled into the bed.  Then, the cats fucked it all up.

Rissa got up before we did, but didn’t feed the cats.  This had the cats looking for people in the house who would
feed them.  Launching themselves onto the bed, they began their own
version of an intricate Bollywood dance number.  David, doesn’t enjoy
cat dance at the best of times, less so when he thinks he should be
sleeping in.  There may have been some hurtling of the cats off the bed,
perhaps propelled by under-the-blankets feet, followed by some growling
and stomping on David’s part to get them out of the room.  Then a door
might have been slammed.  Grumbling ensued and not the under-the-breath
kind.  After two minutes of this, he left the bed and STOMPED down the hall.

What you need to understand is that we are emotional vampires in our
house – we suck up the energy of others around us.  We then magnify that
energy and spit it out onto unsuspecting civilians.

David was in a mood, ergo I was too.  And I already wasn’t thrilled to
be woken up by violent kicking followed by doors slamming.  What with
Hurricane Sandy being en route, the barometric pressure was wreaking
havoc with my head.  I was hoping to stagger to the bathroom, dope
myself up and sleep the morning away.  And now?  Now I was up.  And
worse, my stomach thought it was time to be up so I needed to eat.  So I
STOMPED down the stairs.

And there was poor Rissa, minding her own business with two stompy
parents grumbling and growling and having yet to even said good morning
to each other on account of the fact that David was convinced that the
cats should be thrown into a bag and then into a box and that box should
be thrown into Lake Ontario; (it would never happen PETA – so re-fucking-lax, and un-twist your panties!)  and I was mad because instead of him asking me to do something about it he just got all stompy and slammy.

By the time I told Rissa that she couldn’t wear her brand new ballet
flats to school in the rain, she was ready to burst into tears.  I
managed to turn her around by reminding her that her rain boots have
polka-dots on them and that’s ALWAYS a good thing to have on your feet.
Then she got into the spirit herself.   She found a pair of knee high
rainbow socks to wear underneath the polka-dotted rain boots,  and put
on her stylish navy rain jacket – with belt.  Soon after, via email,
David and I apologized for our peevish sheep attitudes and, at the end
of the day, we all helped make dinner together.  Long-standing angry
grudges averted.