Why is it, when the weekend comes around, I can’t think what it is I wanted to do and those that I do remember, I can’t dredge up the motivation to actually do it. On gloomy days like today, I don’t want to do anything, which is a problem really because it’s gloomy about 200 days of the year here.
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Nubi, the kitten is now growing to what we term a “catten” – half-grown between kitten and cat. Up to now we haven’t let him outside unsupervised. I was a bit worried about doing so but in the past week I changed my mind. Daughter feels we should wait until he’s a bit bigger. I don’t remember delaying that long for previous kittens/cattens. Well today he got out and I followed him. He was fine, doing the usual then went under a bush, one of his favourite places. When he didn’t come out I discovered he’d gone. I wasn’t too worried about it. Sure enough, a few minutes after daughter and I had a half-hearted look around, he reappeared in the house. In spite of that, daughter repeated that we shouldn’t leave him unsupervised just yet. She then left to visit boyfriend. I left the back door open and let Nubi go out and in to his heart’s content. He reappeared two or three times and is now flaked out beside me. His supervised outings are over, in my opinion.
Part of my change of heart about letting him out is that he has recently got on my wick by being too aggressive with Jasmine. He just won’t leave her alone. It’s made worse by the fact that he was cooped up inside in the last week (daughter was away while I was at work) while Jasmine preferred staying outside and when she came in he wanted to play and she didn’t. He’d had a good sleep while she’d been out and when she reappears he’s ready for action. Poor Jasmine just wants to turn around and go back outside. I don’t blame her.
So, I think it was a good decision to finally let him out and wander. He won’t be so bored and will probably (hopefully) be less aggressive with Jasmine. She, in the meantime, can go in and out without having to ask to be let in (or out).
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Have done basically nothing about my second New Year’s resolution to lose weight. I need to cut down on the alcohol but I do like a beer or two (or a G&T) in the summer months. I haven’t exercised or done any belly dancing. There have been no classes yet but they have been meeting casually just to dance together. I would’ve thought about it if the price had been cheaper. I object to paying the same amount for a casual dance-off as for a class. I figured I could dance at home instead. Of course, I haven’t. I did, however, go along last week because I’d been told we were performing for the Chinese New Year celebration in town tonight and thought I’d better get practising and find out what we’re dancing etc. Well, I got there at the usual time only to discover that the casual get-togethers were an hour earlier. I’d wasted a trip coming into town (I’d had the day off). To make matters worse they’d already arranged that just three of them would do their trio dance. I felt shitty – angry at myself for apparently forgetting the changed time and being rejected for a group performance after being asked if I would.
Today, however, I put on a CD and danced to the first two tracks – about 12 minutes’ worth. I felt good about my improvisation to the music. Quite often at dance class when we’re asked to improvise, I just do the same old boring moves that everyone does. But at home I often feel I’m doing better, with flowing moves and graceful arms. Ask me to repeat them for a choreography or for class, though, and I can’t. I guess it’s about feeling relaxed. Anyway, I took a break and thought I’d go back to doing the next couple of tracks, etc. I put the CD on but felt hungry and sat down to eat a piece of German stollen that daughter brought back with her yesterday (from my brother’s place). The music played and I continued sitting down browsing the net. Old habits die hard.
Just before she left, daughter expressed an interest in learning Arabic as she had been listening to some songs and wanted to understand them. (This was probably the impetus in playing some belly dancing music.) So part of my browsing was looking up free Arabic classes online. I had a brief look, listened to pronunciation and read about how you should learn to read the script first and it all looked a bit much for me. I haven’t revised my Spanish since classes finished in early December. The teacher offered to mark exercises he left for us over the summer. I haven’t done them. Learning a new language at this stage would be a bit much, I think.
If the weather were brighter, I might feel inclined to tidy up the junk room. As it is, the gloom presses down. It’s those damned stratus clouds which form a featureless grey blanket over the sky that depress me the whole year. Summer is so short and we see so little of the sun… Ho hum.
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Movies: I watched another four which I rented from United Video. Over the past week I’ve watched “Over the hedge” (which I’d been told was funny); “Daybreakers” (about vampires); “Dorian Grey”; and “Zombieland”. The first was not funny. I found it rather tedious. Daybreakers was awful and I can’t even remember the main character (what he looked like, what his name was…) – very forgettable movie. Dorian Grey was better but not outstanding. Daughter had said Zombieland was funny. I didn’t find it so. (Is there something wrong with me?) I enjoyed it up until the duo met a couple of females and it all went downhill from there. Why do American movies always have to have some element of romance in them? Even though the older female character was bolshy and could look after herself, the two men ended up rescuing them. All very predictable and rather boring. “Shaun of the Dead” is way funnier.
I should now rack my brains for something constructive to do…
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