Zoe was here for a couple of days, then Rebecca left to go spend a couple of days at Zoe’s, so it’s quiet here. Goldy still hasn’t shown up. I don’t want to give up hope, but he’s never been away this long and I just feel sick when I think about him. I’m trying not to beat myself up for not trying harder to keep him in, I know he really wanted to be out, he’d been outside so long, being cooped up made him insane. Still, I wish he were here, curled up on his spot on the couch, where he would purr while I read a book or something.
I got a new mouse. There was all this drama over the mouse situation. I had this old cordless optical mouse that I’d had for ages and loved. One day I took it all apart and blew a bunch of dust and cat hair out of it, put it back together and within a couple of days it had all but stopped working. So I used another optical cordless mouse that we had and it looked almost the same, same brand, same size, just a different finish. Thing was a piece of crap and drove me insane, so I ordered a new one and it’s great, just like the old one except hot hot red. You’re thrilled, I know.
And I’ve been reading a lot lately! I’m always reading, but sometimes I get in a book-crazy mood and it’s like I’m 12 again, finishing books super fast and diving right into the next. I finished The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and loved it all the way through. I also read Walt Whitman: Words For America, a children’s book written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Brian Selznick. Whitman has been one of my favorite poets for a long time and this was a sweet book about him, concentrating mostly on his work with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Curently I’m reading The Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish, sequel to The Monster Blood Tattoo. I also started another book by Charles Bukowski, Portions From a Wine-stained Notebook (check me out reading a book written for ADULTS!). I’ve read three stories so far and they are great Bukowski pieces, all at once sad, or angry, funny, fierce, beautiful. I think I’ve reached my limit, though, and have too many books going at once.
Today I went grocery shopping and hung out with Ed. I was going to go to Target and the pet store tomorrow, but I think I might put it off a day and just completely vegetate tomorrow, alone all day (it’s Ed’s Monday).
