Mixed feelings on the change of seasons, cause I so love summer, but fall is nice and September is chock full of weekend outdoor festivals. But it also means winter and way too little sunlight is also around the corner, *sob*... But for now, I'm going to do my best to enjoy that it's not yet winter. FALL FESTIVALS, HERE I COME!
Oh, last weekend when I said work had been sane lately? Holy shit, I jinxed myself big time. This past week was 3 days of putting out a dumpster fire. Half inadvertently self-inflicted by the client, half a software problem - but that problem stems from a use case I can only describe as "well, you're the one that has to explain this to your auditors, not me." But at least by the end of the week, the dumpster fire was out and I got a nice public shoutout from as colleague in support for my help, and I actually got some of my other work done, and replicated a different client problem, so the week ended on a good note.
Sean & Jorge continue to be awesome. It's so much fun learning more about them - now that we're past the initial "So, this is home now" phase, they're feeling good enough to PLAY! They like to chase each other around, and Jorge prefers rolling toys, and Sean is a big fan of strings on sticks. (Big thick fleece strings, nothing he can eat.) Does my heart good to see them relaxed enough to just have fun.
My brother is having some "problems" (HA!) with Jorge in that the little furry dude will be sacked out on his bed, and just as my brother is drifting off to sleep, that is when Jorge decides I MUST SLEEP RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU.
Sean is doing great, and I am still figuring out more things about him. When he had his few accidents downstairs, I thought it was separation anxiety. I may have overestimated my importance, LOL. I think wherever he lived before, he may not have been allowed in a lot of places, like upstairs, or bedrooms. Even though he started upstairs here, once he was able to be downstairs in the living room - he seemed to start treating the upstairs as somewhere he wasn't allowed to be.
So, we're working through that - it's hard to explain to a cat "anywhere you can get to, you're allowed to be - if you're not allowed somewhere, there is a physical barrier, and if you somehow get around that, well, that's on the humans, not you, and you'll just be gently relocated."
At night, he'll follow me to the stairs and stop - I'll scoop him up and take him upstairs and he has a snack and will stay for a while, then goes back downstairs - and that's progress. And this morning, he was in my room when I got up, and started purring up a storm when I went to tell him good morning. Cue exploding hearts floating around my head.
Beyond that, the only real "challenge" I have with Sean is that he is an ankle twirler and he can be FAST when he wants to be - so I have to be careful when I'm walking as there can be a cat between my feet in the blink of an eye, especially when I come home from the store.
I love them both to pieces - and they very graciously put up with many random hugs and forehead kisses from me.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and if you have to work tomorrow, I really hope you're getting double time pay and folks are kind to you.
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