I had gone all year (hehe) without talking to anyone except clients on the phone and waving neighbourly at a measured distance to the serial killer who lives in the flat next to mine as we passed in the car park, and just now there was a ring on the door. At 19.30! My door is behind two other locked doors/gates, so we don't get Mormons or other salespeople, and my menagerie and I are ill prepared for such events. I didn't even know my doorbell worked, it has after all been a hot minute since it was touched! My dogs barked frantically as if Timmy was down the well just in case I hadn't heard the door! The cat *actually* vanished into thin air! I went into a panic and imagined details of the impending inquiry into my murder, while envying the cat. It was, in fact, the upstairs neighbour I have only heard shouting through the construction materials previously who was inquiring if I had access to the rooftop outside the windows as her 3-y-o daughter had thrown lots of stuff out onto it. So I let this... stranger in to my embarrassingly dirty swamp witch lair filled with furry creatures and I proceeded to exit out through the window - of what had once been my children's room before they abandoned me and is now the cat's room where much to her chagrin I also dry laundry - in my socks because I lack brains in such situations, onto the ice-covered snow, onto the rooftop, to gather up plastic and fabrics that a small unseen but often heard child disliked enough to dispose of.
I had gone all year (hehe) without talking to anyone except clients on the phone and waving neighbourly at a measured distance to the serial killer who lives in the flat next to mine as we passed in the car park, and just now there was a ring on the door. At 19.30! My door is behind two other locked doors/gates, so we don't get Mormons or other salespeople, and my menagerie and I are ill prepared for such events. I didn't even know my doorbell worked, it has after all been a hot minute since it was touched! My dogs barked frantically as if Timmy was down the well just in case I hadn't heard the door! The cat *actually* vanished into thin air! I went into a panic and imagined details of the impending inquiry into my murder, while envying the cat. It was, in fact, the upstairs neighbour I have only heard shouting through the construction materials previously who was inquiring if I had access to the rooftop outside the windows as her 3-y-o daughter had thrown lots of stuff out onto it. So I let this... stranger in to my embarrassingly dirty swamp witch lair filled with furry creatures and I proceeded to exit out through the window - of what had once been my children's room before they abandoned me and is now the cat's room where much to her chagrin I also dry laundry - in my socks because I lack brains in such situations, onto the ice-covered snow, onto the rooftop, to gather up plastic and fabrics that a small unseen but often heard child disliked enough to dispose of.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
Got my booster booked. I heard it was supposed to be a first shot for a Latin American but my Prime Minister slipped El Presidente a cool American $10 bill.
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Peering from the top of Mount Stupid
For absolutely ever my mother has ranted about how streaming services are evil and not understanding how people can watch multiple hours of anything in a day, so when she expressed an interest in The Crown, I jumped on the opportunity to set up Netflix on her TV and now she is, of course, addicted. And as she is grifting off my one-screen account, I can't watch Afterlife.
Rarely has I-told-you-so-ness been as sweet and sour at the same time.
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