Totally Zonked in Everyday Ramblings

This is an arrangement in stone in front the artist/historian’s house I was chatting with last week. Everything on his property is artfully arranged. When I was talking to him he was digging out weeds to make room for moss to infiltrate. He is a big fan of moss and knows a lot about it.

I was looking for a decent recent picture of the cats but I have so few that aren’t blurry. It isn’t as if I don’t try but the light is so low these days… Anyway we are all out in the living room on the open futon occasionally watching live bird t.v.

They are both on the towel covering the heated cat bed.

We all went to the vet yesterday for the first time in a year. They are healthy as healthy can be. The vet and her miraculous cat whisperer assistant gave them lots of attention and love and a completely clean bill of health.

(Carlo has a little gingivitis (gum irritation) and I am supposed to get some chicken flavored feline toothpaste and rub it on his front teeth. We’ll see is I actually do this.)

They have a new 3-year rabies vaccine (expensive!) and it is a requirement locally that all cats are vaccinated and licensed. So I sprung for that as well as the 5-year FVRCP vaccine.

They were normally hungry and active when Kes and I brought them home but once I settled down they did too and they have been totally zonked ever since. Diego had a little wet food a few hours ago but Carlo is still not interested. They are both a little wobbly.

They aren’t the only ones around here that are zonked.

I think I may be trying to get sick. I have been preoccupied with this problem at work that involves someone using the system I am responsible for is a way that it is not designed to be used (not her fault, she was told to do it this way) and anyway it created a record that is stuck in limbo and we need a deeply technical fix with time constraints.

My job is usually pretty independent and all of a sudden I am having issues that require that other people be involved in the fixes. And coordinating everyone and keeping them focused appears to have expended the last of what energy reserves I had. I was making mistakes and not thinking clearly.

So yesterday after I sent out a spreadsheet with a simple and obvious calculation error I decided I would bail and take a vacation day today.

No surprise as this is a natural part of aging but I just don’t seem to be able to multi-task the way I used to. And I need to work harder at focusing. Our volumes are way up and we are getting stuff out the door so to speak but it is becoming more of a challenge.

There are only five more weeks of subbing the one studio class. I can’t wait!

This has been the year of acknowledging that I have limitations. I couldn’t make it to the neighborhood association meeting this week and I was planning on going to a classical music concert tonight that I might pass going to.

There was one day a few days ago where Yoga International sent two practices instead of one for the 30 Day-Gratitude Challenge. And I just couldn’t get the second one in.

But! I did do everyone of all the other practices they sent! I tried everything and feel stretched and grounded and centered. And I learned a lot, modifications and interesting ways to say things and honestly, a number of things not to do.

It seems so odd to be writing about these (what are in the long run) trivial personal matters while yet again we read the short biographies of yet more victims of a mass shooting. It feels as if the whole world is at war.

Game over, the gun manufacturers win.

Okay, enough of that! I think I’ll just gaze out at the handsome male downy woodpecker at the suet I put out this morning and try to think soothing thoughts.

My new headphones help. :)

Last updated December 04, 2015