Thoughts on My Cat, Decaffeinated Tea, and Work

I have about an hour before my day explodes, so instead of being responsible and getting ready for the day, I'm blogging.

I have the most intensely attention-loving cat I've ever met. Seriously, I have never met a cat who loved to be paid attention to the way Cleo does. Nobody would ever know it, because besides a very select few outsiders, Scott and I are the only ones she will come out of hiding for. Some people don't even know we have a cat. She's a half-Siamese mix, too, so she's loud! There are nights when she'll yowl all night long because she's lonely. But when we had another cat to keep her company (RIP Antony), she didn't like him. So we're hesitant to get her a playmate, especially with the baby on the way, because she doesn't adapt to change very well. During the hubbub of the wedding, when we had a ton of people over and the house was crazy, she starting losing hair (faster than she normally does), losing weight, and getting sick almost every day. I don't think she wants a playmate anyway. She just wants the loves from her humans. I feel bad because I've been busy and working in our office/bedroom for the past two days, and she's not allowed in here, and so she's been out and kind of lonely. So she's started getting into stuff at night. The laundry, the trash, the guest room closet, etc. I think I just need to pay more attention to her.

Because of the pregnancy, I've cut back on my caffeine consumption (I haven't cut it out completely; I'd go crazy if I couldn't have a Coke every once in a while). That being said, tea is one of the few things that's soothing my tummy at the moment. So I'm drinking decaf. It's not that bad, I've been having it very hot and with some sugar, but I can't wait for it to get warm enough to make sun tea. I bought a jug and everything. I loved sun tea when I was a kid. It's delicious. So I'm looking forward to some nice big jugs of sun tea this summer. Hehe...jugs...

I've picked up video editing for some work that we're doing and it's a lot of fun! I'm really enjoying it. I have some exciting projects coming up in the next few weeks, and they promise to be very fun. This has the promise to be a thing that I can keep up with for quite a while, though I don't quite know how that's going to work once the baby's here. But I can make it work. Just work while the baby's sleeping :)