random thoughts – Day 1,937 – (Sunday) – routines

I thought being up at 6:00 for work was early, but this past week of not having to get up for work or dance or any other early in the day activities has had an unintended side effect. It turns out there are other hours before then that I have unfortunately been introduced to nearly every day this past week. There were unwelcomed wake-ups at 5:00, 4:30, and even 3:30. The extra morning awake time mostly meant more time for sitting on the couch like a zombie drinking coffee and reading news and then I was barely able to stay awake mid-afternoon.

Kiki in a corner.

My additional hours spent lurking around the house don’t seem to have inspired any alterations in Kiki’s daytime schedule. She still hangs around upstairs all day where she has enjoyed the emptied out spare room and newly discovered nooks of the bedroom before she makes an appearance at her usual hour of 5:30 pm. The bedroom wastebasket was recently relocated and Kiki has comfortably commandeered the spot. 

Routines will be shattered in a few weeks when we leave the house for the last time, so she can enjoy things as they are for now. Trauma is on the horizon and I’m already worrying about how I’ll get her into the carrier for moving.

My 18-month strategic practice of putting treats into the carrier to get her to be comfortable and maybe even go inside the thing hasn’t worked. Sometimes she would execute a stretch and fetch and retrieve a treat or two, but that wasn’t as frequent as I thought. When I took the crate up in the house showing declutter, there were dozens of treats accumulated in the back of the thing.