cimorene

1. I sent an email to the cat behaviorist!

I wrote my proposed text on a piece of paper and handed it to Wax with a red pen. Then I typed and sent her revised version (she fixed my Finnish and wrote a better concise description of what our problem is about).

I managed to do that because Sipuli suddenly decided to be an escape artist after weeks of not much interest in sneaking through the door when we come and go, and she chased Tristana up the stairs and hissed at her. So on the minus side: she followed and she did hiss back at Tristana's hysterical hissing. But on the plus side, she didn't attack. She was doing that thing where they lift up one paw as a threat, but not coming too close. And even better: Tristana was a lot less scared. She didn't pee on anything, she didn't stay hiding under the bed, and she came back downstairs just about twenty minutes later and slept on my lap the rest of the evening like normal.

2. I asked my local friend and my work friend from Turku - in other words, my only two real life friends - if they would like to meet up soon. Sissela and I had tentatively decided on this weekend but had to put it off because she had to go to her parents' and Wax and I had to do errands. And I'm going to hopefully meet Ella for coffee in a little over a week. It's never easy for me to make plans to go out and see people, but I'm looking forward to it.

3. I guess that was all actually. Well, except I did do a little meal planning and cooking by myself, but that started several weeks ago. Wax is still too depressed to do it with me, and I can't manage a plan for every day by myself, but we haven't run out of sandwiches on the days between yet.