CAKE!

Friend Mae sent me one of the postings from the cartoon-essay-humour site Hyperbole and a Half. The author is talking about herself as a little girl, completely obsessed with getting at the cake her mother has just baked. She swipes one bite of it, and goes mental for cake. Cake! CAKE! CAAAAKE!!!!

It's exactly what it's like to live with Minion. She decides she wants something, and then it's CAKE CAKE CAKE until she gets it. You see his scary look in her. Whether it's slurping on my finger, having what I'm eating, getting fed her meal, or wanting to chase Haley. She'll be sitting nearby and suddenly LOOKS at Haley. And that's it. I can't distract her, I can't hold her back, she has to stalk the Halzebub.

So in future if I post any pictures of Minion, with just one word posted above it (HALEY!  KIBBLE!  FEATHER TOY!) you'll know what I'm referring to.

Last night it was my bowl of corn.

CORN!

 

CORN!!

 

Half an hour ago it was Haley.

HALEY!

 

HAALEEEY!

 

[Haley moved to the desk by the window, and then I saw this little kitty shadow--bottom center--stalking Haley.]

HALEY!!!

Look at that!

Three days since the Connie Willis came out, and it is not in my hands. I wrote to them yesterday and they've sent away to another supplier for it. Huff!

In the meantime I finished the Austen-inspired mystery, and I'm reading a Jane Langton (the author who's out of print and I bought all her books online second hand), as well as Shakes' Julius Caesar. I should get back to Les Trois Mousquetaires while I WAIT for CONNIE.

I bought two more books for my kobo today--one of the only teen authors who I like enough to buy all her books.

I should go to bed because I'm getting up so eeearly tomorrow to have lunch with a couple old work-buddies. But it was a stressful work day, so I'm still netfrolicking. At one point I told my boss: "Oh by the way, CoworkerX and I are quitting today. This is your 5 hour notice."

"Do AAAAANYTHING I try!"

I had this theme song in my head all day at work. Which was very strange, because I haven't heard it in golly knows how many years--it certainly doesn't play on TV now. And also, because we were having a stressful-busy day, and I kept wanting to start singing it out loud. I felt like it would have relieved my stress. But possibly raised everyone else's.