My phone diet

The phone I ordered last week is a fair bit smaller than the one I've been using for the past year. And now, knowing it's coming, my current phone has gone from 'nice and big' to 'holyfuckinggod, this thing is way too big' and I can't wait for the smaller one. I'm so fickle. But it really does seem like my hands can no longer handle the bug phone.

Zoey is having a cat day. She normally sleeps in but this while I was getting dressed she was already doing her running-from-room-to-room-for-no-apparent-reason. She was up on top of the walls because my brother sent me a text this morning 'your web cam has fallen and it can't get up'. And now, she's standing between me and this keyboard instead of eating her breakfast. No clue what's up her little furry butt.

Today her new litter box chest arrives. It's out for delivery now. It's smaller than what she and I are used to. I'm going to have to get creative about where/how I store the unused litter and the bag o' scooped. I'll figure it out.

Oh! I just saw that We Come From Away is headed to Broadway. I hope it is a wonderful marvelous amazing long running hit. It's such a great play.

I need to remake my croc liners. The latest ones work great except for when I get ready to go home after my swim. My waterlogged feet have trouble sliding in. I know what I need to fix and I have the fixings in house. So that's today's project.

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A whole new bathroom... for the cat

I wrestled this sucker into the elevator and then into my unit. It looks like it might be just awkward but it's more... it's also heavy with sharp corners.



Then how to get it out... I finally figured that out. If you look closely you can see Zoey 'helping'.



But the result is way nicer than I even imagined. It's really solid and a lovely piece of well made furniture. That blue light is supposed to react with the special interior paint to prevent odors. We'll see. I'm not sure having that light visible is worth it. Easy to remove if not.



The very good news is that it is big enough (and tall enough) to accommodate a covered litter box. No matter how high the walls, she can still and will pee over the edge. It will be nice to be able to prevent that.

The only part of all of this that I really could not do was get that empty shipping box lifted high enough to get it into the dumpster. Fortunately before I really had time to even try, the maintenance guy came by and offered to do it for me. Whew.

Then it was a million trips from one end of the house to the other. I washed out the old scooper and litter box (the new cabinet came with one that I'll use until my hooded one arrives). All of that + the collapsible litter box house is now breathing fresh air out on the terrace. Once it's had a couple of days to air out, I'll either find a place to store it or take it all to the Goodwill.

If I'd been smart, I would have hired a task rabbit or somebody like that to come do this all for me. I used some muscles that had not been used in years. Tomorrow morning I will be very sorry I did not but now, I'm cool.

But, yeah. It's done and pretty, really pretty.

And the house cleaner will be here tomorrow with her turbo vacuum. If her daughter is with her, I'll see if the three of use can flip my mattress. As long as I've already aggravated these muscles anyway, I might as well get my money's worth.

I got Croc liners made and a bunch of dolls cut out but none will get sewn today. I'm pooped.