Specialty Cats and Dental Hygeine in Everyday Ramblings

When I went to visit Kes last weekend she shared with me their most recent distraction (when they aren’t doing the mini-crosswords). It is an app, a game for girls and cat lovers called Neko Atzume. It is a closet cat hoarders delight!

I am so busy and I have things I need to and want to accomplish and so I don’t play games. As a bus rider I assure you I am totally a minority. This is what people do on the bus these days here; they play games.

In the game there are these adorable specialty cats that come rarely. They got Billy the Kitten, a cowboy kitten the other day (I am jealous!) and I had a visit this morning from the baseball loving Joe DiMeowgio in his little kitty baseball uniform.

In the real world Diego does not like this though. He helped me floss my teeth this morning and has been following me around, um, everywhere.

I had a boyfriend, some of you may remember when I talked about him before, the Canadian Chemist, such a nice nice guy. He owned this small house with a whole extra lot and a huge marvelous garden and he loved cats. I used to take Noko over there with me. I was seriously into my princess phase then and didn’t really understand what he was offering… but anyway one thing that would drive me nuts when I was over there is that every surface in his house was covered with stuff.

He wasn’t a hoarder. He was busy and traveled internationally a lot on business and just didn’t have time to organize his things.

I was laughing at myself this morning because my place is really starting to look like his. I kid you not I have a twenty pound bag of millet for the birds sitting on a desk chair in my bedroom/office because I don’t know where to put it!

And there is a big stack of tissue boxes and protein drinks next to that. I have five books (all of which I am reading) spread across my workstation and I have yoga books and props and DVDs everywhere as well as five active electronic devices (and that is not counting my Bluetooth headphones that are right here but not on.

I seriously need to get organized.

I heard this podcast, it was part of a TED talk about our bodies, the actual physical makeup of our remains after we die and that for most of us in the First World we have parts that are toxic to the environment because of the chemicals we have absorbed and our dental work.

Edna Million posted on her Facebook page yesterday that they had a boil water alert in her town and I mentioned how brushing one’s teeth with boiled water was a hassle I was familiar with because we have had three of those alerts in that many years, one that lasted almost three days.

Someone left her a note about brushing with coconut oil instead.

One of the things I have cluttering up my kitchen counter (besides the cats) is a big jar of organic coconut oil.

I’ll have to ask my Periodontist, who is from India, what he thinks of “pulling” with coconut oil. You don’t need water, which is good to know. I have been thinking about things like brushing one’s teeth in a refugee camp. Apparently in the camps in Kenya there is so little water (when it isn’t the wet season) that the allocation is quite limited.

That is our Veterans Administration outpatient clinic and acute care hospital up there in the fog. I took this picture Saturday from the train. It looks like that out there right now in the middle of the day. Although the VA hovers above where I live, this is a different angle. I took the shot because it is atmospheric.

Literally and metaphorically.

A good day to stay home and take pictures of tiny little virtual cats.

Last updated March 04, 2016