Lazy sick day.

[valis2]

One of those days where you just do...nothing.

Wrote another poem for the second challenge at quirkyhpshorts...am having too much fun with this community! Already we have grown to 230 comments for all the entries. Wow!

The microwave always amuses me because one of the buttons is labeled "Clear Off". Technically, it's Clear/Off, but it still amuses me.

Must go grocery shopping in my awful day-off trash clothes...tonight is Spaghetti night, after all, my fave meal of the week.

Had a moment just now where the black bag containing my shoes in the doorway looked like my beloved old cat Little Moo, who passed away five years ago. For just a split second I thought he was walking into the room, and I got that happy thrill of, oh, I get to pet my sweet baby Moo, and then suddenly I remembered that he's gone and been gone for a long time. Makes me a little teary-eyed.

But that's our system, isn't it? An open system of birth and death, as opposed to a closed system of static life. That's what we have to come to terms with, sometimes multiple times. Despite the feeling that we will be here forever, our time is never long enough.

Started out trivial, ended morbid. One of those days...

Comments

[kitschicat.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
:) i don't have much else at the moment than that.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. *hugs in return*

[eloisasnape.livejournal.com]

Hmmm the microwave..like some higher being is giving you a subliminal message. Scary. *nods*

[eloisasnape.livejournal.com]

Just checked mine..it says 'clear' I've only pressed it every day for 6 years and couldn't remember.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Ha! I understand...I do the same thing. A few days ago I lost my keys (temporarily, thank goodness) and I could not for the life of me remember the tag that was on them. And I've had that tag since 1990.

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

Who's to say that your Little Moo *wasn't* walking into the room? Cats are highly psychic creatures. Their ability to pierce the veil between the physical and spiritual planes is far more advanced than what most of us homo sapiens can manage. Being an animistic neo-pagan I have no trouble believing that Moo might have been dropping by just to say hi and, for a moment, you caught a glimpse of him through a flicker in the veil. Love and affection are powerful forces; the energy they contain doesn't vanish upon death of the physical body, they merely transmute.

Don't think of yourself as being morbid today - merely reflective.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

All I can say is that Little Moo looked a lot like my camera case. ;) Made me miss him powerfully there for a moment. Thanks for the thoughtful words!

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

Hey, after you've spent a while touring the universe as psychic energy you don't worry as much about those physical appearance details. Black cat, black camera case... it was the thought of dropping by to say hi that mattered! ;-)

[superbunny3000.livejournal.com]

little moo has got to be one of the cutest names in the world.

youre right, our time is short. for me, it makes the good stuff even better, more special somehow...as for the bad stuff, i just think, good thing i wont have to put up with this shit forever :P

i still think about some pets i've had. the older i get, the more i can appreciate a trusted animal companion. my friend has a cat - gozer, king of beasts - and this cat is 20 years old. his marriage petered out after 15 years.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Little Moo was twenty-two when he passed away. He was such a lovely elderly gentleman towards the end.

You're right...the animals in our lives stay with us and interact with us in a different way than the people in our lives.

Glad you liked his name...he was really a sweet cat, and quite the honeypaws.

[aerynstales.livejournal.com]

Aw...what a great name! Sounds like a wonderful cat. I understand totally...I sometimes see a black cat and think my Jasmine (who died at the age of 19) is coming up to say hello.

And no...time is never long enough.

*Hugs!*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

He was a sweet black cat with a teensy bit of white on his neck. Later he went grey on his shoulder...it was adorable. He was a wonderful pet.

[avus.livejournal.com]

And many thanks to you for starting quirkyhpshorts!

It has been a delightful addition.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! I really love reading everyone's entries, and I love writing for it. It's been a great way to practice writing recently.

I'm so happy you signed up for it!

[avus.livejournal.com]

Me, too.