Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Tommy didn’t wake me until almost 6:30 this morning.  She also changed her tactics. I woke to her rubbing her head against my arm, licking my hand and purring. This was a definite improvement over the yelling in my face. After I acknowledged her with some petting, she curled up near my head. This was going much better than usual.

After about 10 minutes, Tommy jumped down to explore the condo. When the heat pump kicked in, she came back into the bedroom to let me know that it was time for her breakfast. When I didn’t jump out of bed, she jumped up and came near my head to let me know that I needed to get moving.

We moved to the kitchen and I took care of her breakfast. While she ate I started working on the morning posts.  She came into the study and sat on the desk between the screen and the keyboard. As I worked I also petted her. Her purring made me want to keep working at the desk. Once she realized that her plan wasn’t working, she jumped down and went into the living room.

I grabbed some coffee from the kitchen and called my sister. Tommy must have figured out that I’d be busy for a while, so she went and curled up in her bed by the window and enjoyed the sun.

After the call I went back to work, but this time moved to the laptop on the dining table.  At one point I went into the bathroom and stayed there for a little while, Tommy came in to check on me. Once I finished, she went back to her living room bed.

When I’d go to fill my coffee Tommy would look over at me. I made sure that I stopped and spent some quality time with my girl. I did some cleaning and then it was time for lunch.

After lunch I moved to the sofa to read. Tommy started to investigate her Santa hat bed; I’m sure that throwing a little catnip under the cushion had nothing to do with it. I took some photos. Once Tommy was done exploring, she came up on the sofa and curled up on the fleece throw. We spent the next couple of hours hanging out on the sofa. It was great to have her so close.

I ran to Whole Foods to pick up the last couple items I needed for tomorrow. When I returned, there was Tommy glad to see me. We went to the computer to see if the security scan had worked, but since it hadn’t I would an adware remover at cnet.com that was free.  Tommy sat up on the desk and followed my progress.

When we got back to the living room, she was hungry and started licking a leaf that fell from the houseplant. I took it and then realized that she hadn’t been given her afternoon “salad” of grass. I remedied that immediately. When she finished she sat on a chair next to the table to supervise my work on the laptop.

At dinner time, Tommy ate a little of her dinner as always saving some for later. She then went and relaxed on the top of her bungalow for a while. I worked on transcribing Grandpa’s diaries. Tommy came for a visit and we had some bonding time which meant she sat between the keyboard and the screen and wanted my attention which of course she got since I couldn’t see the keyboard anyway.

When she got bored or had her attention fix for a while, she went back to the bungalow and I went back to work. Later after a play session in the living room Tommy went back in the bedroom to have some quiet time on her rug. 

I went in later to check on her, and she started moving up the bungalow as I was moving. It appeared that my glasses were reflecting on the wall. The problem occurred when her head came between the light source and the reflection. She couldn’t figure out where the little light had gone. It was so funny to watch.

She came back out in the living room when she heard me closing the blinds. She must have known that it was one of the two that faced the balcony. Even though I left one of the blinds open for her to use, she still would stick her head behind the closed one to look out. To get her to stop worrying about the blind, we had another play session. The fleece teaser is still her go to plaything.  When she got tired of playing she went over and ate some of her dry food. She’d been eating some of it every day now that she figured out that if she was hungry in between getting canned food that the dry food was always available.

After her snack, she moved on to playing with the yellow ball, her other go to plaything. As she played I began closing down the condo. I could close the computers down and close off the study well before we went to sleep.

She then did her evening run through the condo. She bounds off the chairs and runs from room to room. I’ve never figured out if I’m supposed to be chasing her or just finding her when she hides. Her reactions vary so much I don’t think there’s a pattern.

We had a rousing game of catch the laser light, but she still tried to lay on her back and expected the light to float over her. Once she went back into the bedroom I finished closing everything down. I knew that she probably still had energy to burn, but mine was spent and it was time for me to go to bed. Sooner or later she’d probably want to sleep and end up on the bed too.