

Ratties having a yummy dinner after cage cleaning day!
We had some free range time tonight!ย
Dorito and Maddie offer some morning cuddles.
A โhappy to see youโ good morning face:
A โda heck u wantโ morning face:
Dorito wishes you a good morning too:
Time for some morning cuddles…
Now Iโm off with Christopher to garage sales and brunch!! MoonPie is coming along ๐งธ๐
Hope you have a wonderful day! ๐
Good morning everyone ๐ Iโm having a little trouble being positive these past couple of days. Iโm really sorry. I actually had a complete meltdown last night, it hadnโt happened in some time, and I still feel tired from it. Sometimes it just really hits home how isolated my husband and I are now, sitting by ourselves weekend after weekend.
I know some might want to give advice, please donโt, as itโs a complicated situation, I am just venting a tad and donโt want to get into details. You all see that I try my best to always appear happy on this blog, I talk about my mental health as little as possible. Sometimes cracks like these show. But Iโll be okay. ๐
Madeline says, good morning! ๐
I woke up around 6am today when Christopher went downstairs for painkillers for his headache. He felt bad for waking me up but I was very glad (not about his headache lol) because I have wanted to be up earlier for some time, so I can go out and cheer up a little.
To be honest Iโve been feeling a little lonesome and depressed. ๐ I want to invite friends over but the house is really dirtyโฆ Iโve made a decision to have a cleaning service because with commissions, 4 cats, and 3 rats, and how massive this house is (2400 square feet 2 story with a million stupid trinkets) itโs absolutely discouraging. ๐ฉ It can take me 2-3 days to clean it and I have to stop from sheer exhaustion. I donโt even get it fully up to scratch. So Iโd rather draw for 2 days and pay someone else to come do it. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Yesterday I finished paying Christopher off for Megaplex expenses so now Iโm saving the money for the cleaning. Then I can invite friends over without being embarrassed. Ah, that good olโ Latin woman guilt about the houseโฆ! ๐ Itโs also what kept me from hiring someone all this time. Iโm supposed to be good at this right?? Thatโs some sort of self-racism right thereโฆ but these stereotypes are hard to shake off. I canโt cook, either. Lol.
Because today I got up so early, the rats were still active and excited. It was nice to see them so perky. I watched the sunrise from my windowโฆ now itโs time to start my day.
Soon after I got ready to head out to Dollar Tree ๐ณ and do some grocery shopping. This is hands down my favorite pair of overalls currently!
You couldn’t see my socks but they are decently cute too:
Also, I love this bracelet so freaking much!! myrcurystoybox gave it to me at Megaplex last August. Itโs one of my favorites!
While out and about, I noticed Spirit Halloween is getting ready to open! ๐ ๐ ๐๐ธ๐ท๐ฆ I can hardly wait.
My local Publix had an ecstatic Cookie Monster piรฑata surrounded by cookies for their BOGO deal of the week! ๐ช It was pretty funny.
Iโve been trying my best to stay cheerful and work really hard.๐๐๐งธ
I thought I got the cats a seasonal toy, but itโs a condor, not a turkey. ๐ฆ Itโs pretty funny looking, though:
Post shopping snack. โ๏ธ ๐ช My mood has been all over the placeโฆ Already said it, but, I canโt wait to have the house cleaned so I can decorate and then invite some friends over. I think that will do me good.
Tomoyo kept me company. To call Tomoyo a handful would be the understatement of the year. But I still love her very much.
In other news, Jane, as her original owner had named, arrived today. I tweaked that name slightly โfor me, sheโll be Janie. She seemed to have a slightly smell, maybe cigarettes I donโt know, thankfully it was SUPER faint but Iโm very sensitive to those, so I febreezed her and left her in the hot Florida sun a few hours. Good as new!
I had the shirt and bow and made the necklace, her owner sent me the little pinafore. I think Janie looks very happy in her new home!
She looks very much like a koala to me ๐จ So thatโs what I think her as being.
Dorito and I have morning cuddles every day now:
Itโs so strange that I spend more time with the rats now somehow that I moved the cage out of my work area. I wish I had done it before. Itโs been a fantastic decision for so many reasons.
Anyway, today one of my new Charlie Bears is arriving and Iโm so, so excited! Itโs my Siamese kitten whom Iโve named Milk Tea. I canโt wait to dress her with all her new pretty things…
My plan for today is to do my chores and then work really hard on art all day! Iโve made a lot of progress with the YCH backgrounds recently. Iโm almost ready to draw the characters in all of them. Canโt wait!
This is gonna be one of those “whole day/updated as I go” posts… which are always a bit strange, so bear with me as I update it. ๐
For starters, Dorito wants to wish you a happy morning! ๐๐ Took this pic during his morning cuddles earlier:
The storm is growing in size but has diminished in strength. Still no sign of it here. Maybe tonight? It seems we have been spared, I am infinitely grateful for this, but it is terrible what it has done to the Bahamas. Here we even have a normal mail day and schools reopen tomorrow. I might even be able to coax Christopher to take me out a while.
Iโve been taking painkillers every few hours, my cramps are bad… but Iโm gonna try my best, today too, to have a good day.
It’s noon. Iโm really happy! Christopher took me to Target and JoAnns and Mod Pizza and after lunch he said I can get a pumpkin spice latte! Iโve cheered up a lot! ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ท๐
After lunch we went to JoAnn. They were having a sale of 70% off their blizzard fleece. This is a big deal for me, I needed new fleece for the rats REALLY badly, the girls just shred it to pieces.
I use the fleece over and over since itโs their bedding (I wash it). So I got literally $100 worth of good quality fleece for $29!! I still need to cut it to fit the cage, but yeah. Good stuff. Always check the coupons, folks!! This was a single day deal with the app coupon. Iโm very pleased.
I also got some fall things to decorate the studio and library!! Iโm gonna decorate this week!
Stuff is from Joann and Target. I just love this time of year SO FREAKING MUCH!! Even though nothing much changes here, at least I can go crazy with my decorating, and that makes me happy.
Home again. Tres Leches is enjoying the first pumpkin spice latte of the season with me! ๐๐
Here’s something that came in today!
I canโt recommend muninahandmadeโs Tamagotchi covers highly enough!!! ๐๐๐ WOW!! Just so lovely and well made and thereโs even a slit on top so you can still use a charm if you want to. It looks great!
Dinner for tonight ๐ I ate a lot earlier so I wasn’t very hungry.
And that’s it! It really was a fun day.