My apologies for the delay - I was trying so hard to post regularly. Sadly my day job was dishing up twelve flavours of stress and unhappiness for a few days; happily it is mostly resolved now.
In my last post I said I'd talk about kindness and I intended to hinge this on Mr Zucchini, the optically challenged homeless cat. Mr Zucchini was in need of kindness soon.
I've have been the recipient of a lot of kindness this week - nice friends who excused me when I wasn't' able to make dinner, sweet colleagues who called with genuine concern in their voice to help with an ugly workload. It makes a difference. Today my boss kindly gave me the day off so set about issuing my own forms of kindness in the form of some comfort food
and a bit of human contact.
Summer has started in earnest so while I ate my body weight in Vegemite toast, I sorted out the clothes that afford the most comfort in Sydney summer humidity. So tomorrow I'll be wear this
.. a polished cotton Jigsaw shirt dress the colour of rockmelons, fresh from the dry cleaner's plastic. Shoes undecided but I'm hoping for something that mismatches my angel-wing toes completely. And this afternoon, I went to check on Mr Zucchini and to my horror his photo had been taken from the window. My fear was short lived - the nice woman at the Cat Protection Society told me Mr Zucchini went to his new home on Saturday. He was very taken with his new owner and jumped from his cage straight to the their neck. It sounds like the start of a beautiful relationship.
Melon-colored dresses are enough to bring a smile to anyone's face, I'd think. I'm glad you were able to pamper yourself, Baxter. Good for you, for knowing what accomplishes that!
ReplyDeleteAnd lucky Zucchini--I hope his jump to the neck was not feral-cat-attack-style. Cats can be hard to bring around, even if they SHOULD be grateful. Mr. Z. better mind his manners.
The dress is gorgeous... but the Vegemite is giving me the icks! But I'm just a wimpy Yank with my PBJ sandwiches....
ReplyDeleteThe lady in the cat shelter described Zucchini's move as a "cat scarf" so I think it was pretty gentle, Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteLawyerdoll, we get weaned onto Vegemite from a very early age, before we're old enough to object! I do love pbj sangers too (crunchy, please!)