This afternoon, I decided to open the window for a while. It was wicked hot earlier this week, but now it’s just cold.
Slink was here, in the living room:
Which is at the front of the house and includes getting by the dog to get to the window at the back of the house.
But he managed to do it, probably by teleportation since it was instantaneous.
He then proceeded to rub against my face as I was opening the window. Then sneezed in my face. A full, snot-laden, allergy-induced cat sneeze.
Which caused me to step back fast—stepping right into the dog’s water bowl.
Normally it’s just an “oh shit” moment. But I’ve been sick for a week (allergies or a cold, who knows?) and am exhausted because last night I 1) binge-watched every episode of Marcella on Netflix and 2) got very little sleep once I did get to bed since every time I settled down, I started coughing. And trying not to cough so I wouldn’t wake Stanley. Which made the coughing worse, of course.
(Marcella was very good. But a lot of holes, kind of built-in to the series—she suffers from fugue states, it seems—maybe to explain things where you don’t really know what happened but seem to be resolved so the story continues. Hmm. Maybe these get resolved in season two?)
Anyway, after stepping into the dog’s water bowl, I just started laughing (while sopping up the water), which made me start coughing again. Which made me think about the benefits of Depends.
It’s just too cold for May.