Sorry, kids, the creative banks are low these days. I can’t believe it’s December 16th already. I feel like I’ve wasted a year. I can’t wait to move out of Florida. My lease ends May 31st (not April, as I thought — God forbid I remember the dates on the lease I signed or even look at the paperwork). If I find a job up north I can leave sooner but I’ll have to pay for it — I’d rather not. I’d rather just live out my year here and get my deposit back. If I can get a temp position until then that would be great.I think I only have a couple more weeks of unemployment compensation, so I’d better find something soon.
On to other worries: my older cat has been off her feed for a couple of weeks now. She used to hang around me and bug me when dinner time was near; now she just sleeps on her pillow (which used to be my pillow, until one day I turned around and she had parked herself on top of it — I am now down to three pillows) all day. The other evening I trimmed her nails — that got her moving about, as she hates me to clip her nails. But I think she’s on her last legs. She’ll eat a bit if I pick her up and plonk her on the kitchen floor in front of her dish, but she’s not eating as much as she used to. Right now she’s next to the open sliding glass door — she likes to sit there and block my other cat’s entrance from the patio. She and Xena (my other cat) still don’t get along. Right now Xena is on the patio chair, washing her butt.
More news of my exciting life: the tomato plant has produced more flowers. The first tomato is almost full grown but still green. I’ve got more tomatoes coming in, though, but they are still very small. As for the other edibles, I had planted thyme, purple basil, rosemary, and chives. Xena killed the chives by eating them all, so I planted a couple of garlic cloves. When the garlic chives grew out, Xena killed those by eating them. And yesterday it was obvious the basil was not thriving at all — I don’t know why, Xena had no interest in the basil — so I pulled it out and tossed it. The rosemary and thyme is still going pretty strong, though. I want my tomatoes to ripen, dammit! Then I can make sauce.
That’s all for now.
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