Today was so far an average day. Extremely lazy and unambitious, but average overall. By average, I mean mood-wise. I had some low points, but I think that's because yesterday was such a bad day I was recalling much of the anguish I went through. I also had some higher points. Like when I decided not to eat any Little Debbie snacks, and I stuck by that. I had been eating too many lately (in addition to eating my normal number of meals. I was starting to notice a little layer of "looser skin").
I haven't really done anything today, unless you could lounging on the couch watching TV doing something. I guess I should take that back. I actually DID do something. I cleaned Tierna's couch cushion, her blanket, and her cage. I hadn't cleaned her couch area in quite some time. It was stinky. I was so glad that my nose was still slightly plugged or I'm sure I never would have made it all the way through cleaning it. Yuck!
Upon getting her couch area clean, I had to let it sit and dry out. I didn't want to keep Tierna in her dirty cage while that was drying, but I couldn't put her on the couch while it was still wet. So, I did to Tierna what I normally did to Pikku each week. I cleaned the cage while she was still in it. Tierna wasn't as cool about it as Pikku was. Tierna can jump out of her cage, afterall. And that's just what she did. Numerous times. I had to keep taking her off the edge and plopping her back inside. Finally she just stood there for a bit. Sniffing. Trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. I told her, "It doesn't clean itself, ya know. Just because you've never seen it being cleaned before doesn't mean it just happens in one second."
As if that made any sense to her, she just sat there for a bit longer, sniffing and making her little rat noises. She got fed up with waiting and hopped out again. I just let her run around on the bookcase for a while while I finished wiping down the cage. I decided that since I had enough of Pikku's bedding left over, I would use that this week in Tierna's cage. As soon as I had it spread out in her cage, Tierna went on a freak-out spree. She ran around the cage, sniffing, pulling the bedding up, running some more, and then her eyes... They turned red! It was so creepy! She was looking for Pikku. That was the face that she was making. The "I must kill" face. So creepy. My innocent, cute, adorable little girl turned into a red-eyed monster!
I thought about taking all the bedding back out and just putting her bedding in instead, but then she ran into her Pepsi box and shuffled things around in there a bit. She came back out all calm and relaxed like nothing had happened. Like she hadn't just turned into some hell-bent-on-killing machine.
Odd.
Wow. When I first started this entry, I just imagined writing a little about how my day was. I didn't intend to get this much written. I guess I DID do something afterall today. :) It just took me awhile to realize it.
Carisa