Ronin and Myu love the bedroom. They love the bedroom to the exclusion of everything else. Since I let them in there last night, that’s where they have been exclusively. They can’t even be bothered to come pester me when I am in the bathroom anymore, and they couldn’t care less if someone is opening an outside door. The rustling of food wrappers can’t even move them to get off the bed and investigate. The only thing I have found that will motivate them to visit me in any other room of the house is a hearty shake of the treat container. After eating a snack or two, they immediately return to bed lounging or tussling on the bedroom floor. Hopefully it’s just the novelty of having a new area to be in and eventually they will remember there is a rest of the house and that the humans tend to spend more time lounging in the living room.
They did sleep on the bed with us last night, and aside from one instance where one of them was trying to make the leap from my lingerie chest to the bed and didn’t quite make it, the humans managed to get a good night’s sleep. Though I had intended to sleep in today for as long as I felt like doing so, and that plan was thwarted at 10:30 am by two fur-balls play-flighting on the bed and terrorizing my feet and hands in the process. No amount of asserting my dominance would get them to leave me alone, so I eventually just got up and got dressed. Perhaps, in a bit, I will go demand some space in the sunny spot for my own catnap.
In other non-kitten news, my IKEA catalog arrived yesterday, and the grand opening of the Round Rock store is November 15th! I’d love to go to the grand opening, but a) it’s going to be a madhouse and b) I don’t want to go alone. Besides, my car is still not legal, so I’m not doing any driving. Lin and I did spend some time looking through the catalog, and even he is looking forward to visiting the store. I’ve been working on convincing him that the kitchen should be done in IKEA. Yes, the stuff is not top quality, but … it’s affordable. He says since we plan to expand the kitchen, we shouldn’t get too crazy doing anything with it. I say the kitchen expansion may or may not happen in my lifetime, so wouldn’t it be nice to spend a thousand dollars or so making sure I don’t spend my whole life here waiting for a nice kitchen while working in a crappy one. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kitchen, but what I love about it is the “vibe” in that room. It has definitely had a long life as the heart of this house. You can almost hear the laughter and love trapped in the layers of wall paint. I’d just like it to be easier to work in … and to look better. All I want is more and better cabinets, a smaller dining table, some paint and a new floor. Nothing fancy. Nothing expensive. It doesn’t have to look perfect, as I don’t want to spend a year sanding the walls and removing the paint from the wallboards. I just want it to be better, and I think IKEA can help me get there within a reasonable budget.
But you know, my real reason for wanting to go to IKEA continues to be … meatballs. Yes, it’s true. I want to go to a furniture store for lunch. :lol:
Further non-kitten news: Lin’s boss up and quit today. No idea why or what will happen now, but he just quit with no notice. Very strange, seeing as the guy just got a promotion to a new position with more power. Our only real concern at the moment is that he is the one who approves Lin’s invoices, and Lin has a lot of them in the processing chain right now. This better not mean another gap in pay, or I swear to you, I will be bitching loudly about it.
That pretty much sums up life at Casa de Orb today. I am as achy and stuffy-headed as I expected to be after working on the bedroom all day yesterday, so I’m not doing much of anything at all. I think I’ll have some lunch and then pester the kittens for a while. I’m starting to get jealous of all the attention they are giving the bed. Don’t they know they are supposed to follow me around being pests all day long? :D