The 5th & 6th; My face hurt from laughing so much.
The 5th of October. I spent as much of today as possible with the tiny fluffball because Shaki texted this morning to say she'd be picking her up at half seven, while I was out. Probably a good thing as I wouldn't have wanted to let her go.
I wrote up a blog post, then went to let Olivia run around a bit. We had to set up a barricade of sorts so she couldn't get anywhere she might get stuck. She runs and jumps like a tiny bunny and it is probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. I would like to keep her forever but have her remain the same size, and neither of those things can happen.
This afternoon, Mommy and I wound a skein of wool into a ball which took nearly an hour - much longer than I expected. I think for the other four, I will have to use some kind of apparatus so she doesn't have to kneel on the floor for that long again.
She then went to Grandma's, so I went and played with Olivia for another hour. I occasionally had to stop her from climbing down behind the bed, but for the most part we had a lovely time playing with newspaper. My back started to get pretty bad, so I popped her back in the cage with some food. When Mommy got back, we decided to make some muffins, but then Jonathan wanted to come and see the kitty, so Mommy baked and I sat with him and Olivia. She has had a whale of a time.
At five, I needed to get ready to go out to The Glee, so he went home and I went upstairs to make myself slightly more presentable. We then had Jamie at the door returning some keys, and he got to see Olivia too.
I arrived at The Glee to see James Acaster shortly before the doors were due to open, so I got myself a glass of wine and found a place to wait. Looking around, I realised the girl next to me had been in my class at school, and I had not seen her since we left nine years ago! We had a quick catch-up, and Sandhya is a doctor now, although it is unlikely I'll bump into her because she works at Sandwell Hospital, not the QE. She wasn't aware of everything that's happened, but thankfully, being a medic, she understood everything I was saying.
It was allocated seating, and for once I was actually in a decent place! A few rows back from the front, just to stage left. I had a nice chat with the chap on my left about James and other comedy gigs we'd both been to, then my fish finger sandwich was delivered so I ate that and he went to get a drink. It was really tasty! Excellent home-made lime tartare sauce. Capers, all sorts of business.
The show was excellent, as I thought it would be. He had to cope with some curveballs, like coming onstage with burgers that the front row had ordered, a lady called Sarah who stood up because her back hurt, unfortunately right in the spotlight, and me and the lady next but one to me getting utterly hysterical at James' praying mantis impression. Not sure why it tickled us so much, but it was glorious. My face hurt from laughing so much. We had a chat about it in the interval and ended up having a very jolly time along our row. Much more fun than the intervals usually are!
Daddy picked me up at the end, and when I got home, I considered watching Bake Off, but decided to leave it until the morning. Bed.
The 6th of October.
Tired today. Too much laughing. First thing I did this morning was watch last night's Bake Off. Very pleased that Tom went. He was superfluous. I don't know who will be an acceptable loss now though because I like all the rest!
I wrote about yesterday, which was a lengthier exercise than I originally anticipated. Jen rang to discuss our next cat delivery, which was determined to be this afternoon. Five kittens and their mum.
After lunch, we waited for Jen to arrive with the clowder. She said between two and three, then I was going to go to the gym afterwards. Well, that was the plan. She arrived just before three, then by the time she'd left (we love a chinwag), there really wasn't time. Nevermind!
We let them settle in, and I did a bit of crocheting before Becky came round. I introduced her to Amy (mum) and Archie, Alfie, Ava, Angelica and Amira. Obviously they are all still very unsure so we left them and had tea and muffin/hobnob chat in the living room. I haven't seen her for weeks so she had a great deal to bring us up to speed with, what with her having moved to a new school. Much less stressful, or at least in different ways. We allowed ourselves a tiny bit of Christmas excitement.
Got to get these kitties to be my friend.
