Procrastination

I like to put things off if I can.  Last night I really didn’t want to work so I will be doing last nights work today, eventually.  Instead I wanted to get upstairs to my furry lady and see what she was up to. 

She loves the treats I bought.  They were called Crabby Crab.  Kind of makes me think back to the saying, you are what you eat.  Anyway she gobbled the small amount I put out up from the plate but managed to leave a little bit.  I set those on the floor.  This morning I heard her crunching away. 

She still woke me up a couple times during the night and I gave into my wild desires to cram food in my face.  I ate a whole sleeve of Oreo’s from a family pack, 3 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, finished off a bag of gummy bears and washed it all down with 2 Diet Mountain Dews.  I went back to bed and had quite the stomach ache, as you would imagine.  I didn’t have high self esteem after I did it but it was a sugar craving that I just couldn’t brush aside, it felt like my blood sugar was dropping and I didn’t feel the best before this started either.  Probably because I skipped having desert. 

I woke up this morning to find her sleeping.  I managed to tip toe to the bathroom and then back to bed once.  I tried it a few hours later a second time but that failed and I managed to wake her up.  I fed her and then had some breakfast myself.  It wasn’t terribly long before I got moving. 

Made it to the grocery store by 9:30a.  I dropped well over $100.  I don’t think I got much in the grand scheme of things but I did get most of the items I wanted.  On that list was a Carrot Cake.  I normally buy a slice of that and one of German Chocolate.  They go for around $4 a slice but it’s cheaper to buy 1/2 of a cake.  A whole cake is what I was actually looking at but they wanted $16 and that just seemed a bit absurd.  Besides that it’s not like I really need any of it so 1/2 shall do.  Picked up some Gator food as well that was $12 by it’s self.  It was flavors that she likes but they didn’t have at the pet food store. 

I also tested my theory on the Probiotic.  I put 1/2 of the pouch on the first can I gave her and then when I got back from the store she wanted more, so I put the remainder of the pouch on the 2nd can of food.  She ate both of them like she was the Tasmanian Devil trying to inhale as fast as she could.  It’s really odd that she likes this stuff but I am thankful for it.  When she was younger she didn’t care for it much.  Her sister was the only one in the family that really went nuts for it. 

Remember that mouse we saw at the first of last month?  Well I think I found it.  It’s somewhere in the walls of the house.  I say that because when it heats up outside my house smells a bit like gasoline.  I checked online and a decaying rodent can smell like this.  It seems like it’s a smell that I can’t escape.  It is also very much bothering my allergies and I have to take extra medicine to combat all of the symptoms, which makes me drink even more water than I normally do.  When I was driving yesterday in the car it smelled the same way.  I rolled down the windows but as soon as I rolled them back up the smell returned.  I do think my brain is playing tricks on me.  I’m not knocking down walls to try to find the damn thing.  It should be about 2 weeks and then the odor should start to dissipate and I do suppose that is dependent upon warm temperatures because when we have a cold night the next day everything is back to normal.  Very strange but I think back to last year and the year before that when I had a unknown odor it was the mice living in my house.  Not that I’ve found and closed their door the problem is done just have to get rid of this smell and then hopefully I am done with strange/foul odors.  Fingers crossed.  Experiences like this add to my strong desire to sell this place and move. 

I thought I solved my Mophie battery pack issues with the exchange.  However, last night I had discharged a good portion of my device battery and most but not all of the Mophie’s.  I placed it on the magnetic charger that I always use and it started chiming going between charge and not charging.  It was stuck in a loop.  I tried my old charger but the same thing happened.  I knew that I could plug it in and that would solve the problem but I wanted to charge wirelessly as I have.  I cleaned the charger, cleaned the new case.  Tried to charge the phone wirelessly by it’s self, which worked.  Charged the Mophie by it’s self wirelessly and that worked as well.  I checked cables, rebooted the phone, the chargers and was at my wits end.  I looked for help on line using my phone found a couple tips, tried them to no avail.  Gave up and just plugged the damn thing in and called it a night.  This morning when I woke up I was pissed to see my phone was at 99% charged when it’s normally at 100% and I actually slept in before I picked up the phone so there is no reason why it shouldn’t be at 100%.  I tried the car charger and got the same results with charge/not charging. 

I did some more research using my PC and found that this is a known problem and lots of people have complained about it.  The fix is to deplete the Mophie and then you can charge wirelessly.  None of my other Juice Packs worked like this so I am a bit miffed.  I just wiped my phone and tested to confirm that it wasn’t my phone or some setting or app at play.  No worries because it was all backed up, just have to wait for my data to come back down, which is a slow process.  So not happy!  I will try the known fix but it’s really difficult to deplete the Mophie because it gives you 23 extra hours of battery life and I don’t use my phone an insane amount but enough to deplete the battery where I can get a top off from my Mophie.  Besides that all batteries are only made to charge and discharge so many times.  I guess I see why they no longer make battery cases.  It’s now all about buying a mag safe case, then you can add an external mag safe battery pack, which appears to charge separate from the phone. 

Well that’s it for this fine Sunday.  I am going to get my work done and then get back upstairs to vacuum and be lazy for the rest of the afternoon to enjoy at least part of my Sunday away from the computer.  Still looks like I am going to be good to go back to the office on Tuesday but I am watching Gator and taking my lead from her.  I think the worst of this appetite thing has passed and things appear to be settling down some.  I don’t think that I will ever get a good nights sleep but as long as I get at least 7 hours I should be good, small price to pay to keep my furry lady in my life.

Sun is shining, it is set to be a nice Spring day and we lucked out on severe weather.  There is still rain in the forecast but doesn’t appear that there is any severe weather threat at this time.  I hope my girl gets to bask in the sun today and the week ahead is far better than the week I have just been through, even though I will be on-call again (drat).

Hope your doing well and that life is smiling on you.  Stay tuned and I will keep you informed of the developments of my life.  Be well and take care!