Morning.

The body-clock says it's morning, though it's still dark out, and rainy. My alarm goes off at six every day but I've been waking up before it again by a few minutes.

Angus wakes up when I do. It's something I appreciate so very much. Morning can be a lonely time, especially in a condo when there are no predawn birds and not much way to bustle around with breakfast without waking him.

The rat rescue is looking for someone to take a bitey, pregnant female who was kept in a bird cage with a male-- this is her third pregnancy, as usual the cage was never cleaned, but they got this one complete with cigarette butts in the cage. They need someone without rats to take her for the three-week quarantine period. I think I will take her after if no one else steps forward. I don't have a rescue ratty currently, and maybe she'd get along with Fang after he's neutered. I wonder if it's too late to spay her?

I've been out in the rain a lot lately-- biking yesterday and then walking basically all morning. Apple fest today is supposed to be very light rain, but we'll see where it goes. Being outside in it is such a joy, especially when you can come in whenever you feel the slightest bit cold.

Still dark. Time to go back to bed and cuddle.

ToDo Fail

Today I went out to find footwear, since I've worn holes in basically all of mine and now it's all leaking. I needed:

a pair of runner-type shoes
a pair of waterproof and kinda pretty boots for when I'm not working or running
a pair of (ideally teflon or composite plated) workboots

I failed at all these: the places I went were either wrong or sold out or too frustrating or too sweatshop-feeling or too far off on my pricepoint.

I did get a copy of champions online and some juice, which should help keep this sore throat from turning into a real sick (it's just a ghost right now).

Tonight I am going to pull two kilos or so of nice friendly pork with a mango jalapeno cranberry mustard sauce, which should keep the boy and I in lunches for a couple of days. I will also roast and mash a cauliflower and splurge on a bottle of little creek dressing while I'm at it. I wish (I wish I wish) there was a place to get local greens close by, instead of the earthbound organic ones. I would like to live closer to Eternal Abundance on the Drive, and that magic little organic-co-op triangle, but I don't. I should look into nowbc or something...

I am glad I was outside in that splash of sunshine. It's dark and rainy again, and I think I'll curl up with my new game now and make some characters.

-purr-