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Dec. 14th, 2020 08:48 amFriday night was a disaster. I assumed that Quirk wasn't going to come out of the back of the closet yet for love or money, and didn't make sure the door was shut hard. So naturally Quirk came out at 1:15 in the morning, and I woke up to Lily announcing the imminent start of World War 3. Got out of bed and discovered Quirk on the bookshelf in front of the living room window and Lily on the floor in front of the TV stand. Lily decided that putting me between herself and Quirk was marginally acceptable, so I spent the next three hours lying on the living room floor while Lily repositioned herself in various places around me and growled at Quirk when she tried to come down from the bookshelf. Around 4:00 Lily relaxed just a bit and Quirk came off the bookshelf and went into the kitchen, where she discovered the cookbook shelf under the kitchen window, and nearly got herself stuck in the shelf under the coffee maker. Lily sat in the doorway between my bed and my nightstand and growled. After that Quirk fled back to the office, but then she spent the next hour sitting in the middle of the floor and squeaking. I kept getting up to go see what she wanted, but whatever it was, she didn't want it from me. At 5:00 I decided to leave everyone to their own devices, and read for an hour, and finally fell asleep at 6:00. Lily started inquiring about breakfast at 7:30.
This would have been better if I'd had my lenses in and had been able to see anything, or if I could have picked up either cat (since the Radioactive Cat Saga, Lily doesn't like being picked up, and I can't get that close to Quirk yet, and besides, picking up an already upset cat who doesn't like being picked up anyway is not a good idea) and relocated her. But it was what it was, and it was awful.
Saturday was pretty much a disaster too, because I was working on three hours of sleep and couldn't get mobilized to do errands in the morning before it started raining for the rest of the day. I cried at Lily because she had kept me awake, and cried at Quirk because I really wanted things to work out, and went to bed at about 9:00 and slept straight through to 7:30.
Yesterday was better. Quirk came out and sat in front of the closet while I was reading email in the morning, and I went out and did the errands I needed to do, and it was very nice weather for December. There was an ex-Obies Zoom at 7:30 last night and I did that, during which Quirk came out and ate and used the litterbox and sat in the window behind me, and reduced her required personal space to a two-foot radius.
Today I have a gate up, the door cracked, and the door curtain between the gate and the door. Lily is interested, and Quirk is not. Quirk supposedly likes cats better than people, but since they got off on the wrong foot, we'll see.
This would have been better if I'd had my lenses in and had been able to see anything, or if I could have picked up either cat (since the Radioactive Cat Saga, Lily doesn't like being picked up, and I can't get that close to Quirk yet, and besides, picking up an already upset cat who doesn't like being picked up anyway is not a good idea) and relocated her. But it was what it was, and it was awful.
Saturday was pretty much a disaster too, because I was working on three hours of sleep and couldn't get mobilized to do errands in the morning before it started raining for the rest of the day. I cried at Lily because she had kept me awake, and cried at Quirk because I really wanted things to work out, and went to bed at about 9:00 and slept straight through to 7:30.
Yesterday was better. Quirk came out and sat in front of the closet while I was reading email in the morning, and I went out and did the errands I needed to do, and it was very nice weather for December. There was an ex-Obies Zoom at 7:30 last night and I did that, during which Quirk came out and ate and used the litterbox and sat in the window behind me, and reduced her required personal space to a two-foot radius.
Today I have a gate up, the door cracked, and the door curtain between the gate and the door. Lily is interested, and Quirk is not. Quirk supposedly likes cats better than people, but since they got off on the wrong foot, we'll see.
