a long national nightmare is ended for bunnies

Wax's cousin and cousin-in-law and cousin once removed and aunt and uncle departed this morning, after cooking dinner last night. We drank one bottle of Wax's and my favorite wine (a Chilean gewürtzraminer) and then consumed two pots of mango and peach black tea. Wax's brother and goddaughter left by train yesterday from Turku, but we're gonna see them again soon. We immediately unrolled the rag rugs and bathmats (to cover the oak parquet, which is unpleasantly slippery on floofy bunny feet) and distributed bunny fort, cushion, and boxes of hay back into the dining room so that both bunnies could be freed. There were binkies. Tristana immediately came downstairs, where she then immediately curled up next to Snookums on the cat cushions in the kitchen window and went to sleep.




Most of the time lately I have been lettering, or drawing letters freehand, rather than practicing calligraphy, where letters are formed with a predetermined number of strokes which go in predetermined directions. But I do like calligraphy! And I have decided to try to practice blackletter more, as it's the italic style I've spent the least time on... even though in general it seems to be the most popular italic style for modern calligraphers, probably because it's the most impressive and formal. Here's some highlighter calligraphy: any wedge-shaped marker can be used for italic calligraphy, but it just doesn't work as well as a metal pen nib. (Quicker and easier than filling pens, however.)

Are you familiar with that thing where if you're drawing letters that take a lot of work, instead of just writing, you forget to pay attention to what you're doing and leave out a letter or draw them out of order or whatever? This happens all the time, usually resulting in misspelled words, but it was surprisingly difficult to write "regerts" instead of "regrets" here - I had to start with the center "e" and go alternately to right and left.

Snookums, speaking for everybody, doesn't like itchy synthetic lace underwired bras

waxjism has big boobs that are troublesome to purchase bras for. I think they're like 34GG or HH, something like that. She hates wearing bras, obviously, and working from home in the pandemic has allowed her unprecedented breast freedom.

But she usually puts one on when people are in the house, and hence she was wearing one this afternoon right after her family left, when Snookums leapt up onto her lap to get in some quality kneading time. He hasn't really been relaxed enough to dedicate himself to kneading anybody's flesh while we had houseguests, so it was time to celebrate the mass departure with his favorite hobby. And his favorite hobby is specifically kneading Wax's boobs, because they are the largest and hence softest available squishy human bodyparts.

So he leapt up on her lap according to his ritual manner, and sniffed her face and made the little happy cat expression and then he froze up like, Wait? What?

He poked her chest a little inquisitively, feeling the bra. Then he backed up a little and poked her thigh. Then he tried again, apparently from a slightly different angle, and paused again.

Then he said "Mmmmmrr!" in disappointment, I presume, and gave up and went away.

That's definitely a first. Breasts inside bras must just be really unsatisfactory. Poor little guy. 😂

(I told Wax she should post about this for posterity, since it did happen to her; but I could tell she wasn't going to.)

(She still has to wear a bra to run, leave the house, carry furniture around, or even do yardwork, because big boobs get in the way constantly. And it has to be an itchy underwire one, because no bra without underwires will stay on. Even the sportsbras in her size have underwires. I got her one of those SheFit bras, hoping it would be slightly less uncomfortable for those activities than an underwire, but like most sports bras, it compresses the breasts together - because that's the effective way to move the center of gravity and control the bounce - but unfortunately you can't do that without squishing the flesh together, which makes it get sweaty and she hates the sweat from the compression more than she likes the reduced bounce. I kinda wish I were an engineer and could invent a more comfortable lounging-around bra that would work for her without underwires and without uniboob, because I keep thinking there has to be a solution waiting out there!! Maybe it would have to be made out of linen, based on the various reconstructions of the medieval Austrian Lengberg Castle brassiere. Or woven but cotton, and somehow based on a cotton yukata?)