Sunroom, from left to right.

Sunroom, from left to right.

We are exhausted, but we got everything moved out, the floor put down, and everything moved back in yesterday. We even built Tort Baby's house, but ran out of steam before getting it finished and him moved in. Final picture of that in another post.

I don't know if vinyl sheet flooring is really going out of style everywhere or if it's a New Mexico thing, but it was hard to find here and that's specifically what we wanted for this project. For one, when we bought this house there was no sunroom; there was just a concrete patio with a roof for shade. The first modification we made here was the sunroom because that side of the house is South-facing and we knew that my plants and the cats would love it. We also didn't want litter boxes in the main part of the house.

I got totally off track here. 😂 So the concrete patio wasn't perfectly even/flat, and we knew if we wanted to put rigid flooring down we'd have to smooth it out, which we didn't want to do. We read that newer vinyl tile/plank flooring did better with spills and messes than it used to, but I felt wary about that after having it in my first house, and the rigidity was a problem, anyway. This isn't a bougie room. It's one that we fully expect to get messy and I wanted something easy to clean and that we won't freak out over if something does happen to it. So we used gap fillers and different flooring methods to smooth out the lumps and bumps and fill the gaps, then slapped this stuff down.

The one thing I didn't get to do was paint my plant shelves. The timing isn't right. It's super windy here right now so that would make it hard to spray paint anything. Not to mention that I had to rush getting everything back on the shelves because Bear decided he was going to "help" me clean the dead leaves and whatnot off my plants. The problem is that he didn't know what to pull off and just started pulling all kinds of leaves off. 😂 The boy even full-on mouthed a prickly pear pad and that didn't stop him. He gets an A for effort, though. 😂❤️

I am so, so happy with how it came out. When the floor was just concrete I'd have to use a Shop Vac to clean it and that was so hard on my back and sinuses that I avoided cleaning it as often as I should have. Now I can sweep and mop it so easily. I do need to get a few litter mats to help with litter tracking, but for now this is so much better. 😁

Tort Baby's mansion to the left. Beyond that is the dog food and water plus food bins and their door to the outside. Against the window we have this raggedy cat tower that the cats LOVE. You can see Calypso's little back feet hanging out. 😂

Next to that is a litter box box with the cat fountain and feeder on top.

View from our kitchen table:  Wood holder and heater that keeps the plants from freezing. On top of the heater is a bunch of prickly pear pads that I need to pot up. Nothing tall that could obstruct our view into the yard.

The one thing I wanted to do but didn't get to was paint these shelves green. They remind me of bamboo and I think they would look great in green. They were Shaun's mom's shelves and I love them.

To the right is some of my planting stuff. I might see if I can find a rolling storage thing that would suit my needs. I just kind of stashed that stuff there for now. You can also see the Litter Robot stairs. I'm really happy to have those over there instead of in the middle of the room like they were.

I'm usually a watcher.

I'm usually a watcher. I observe people. I rarely interact unless I like a person. I'm great at staying in my lane and living and letting live. It's your life. Do what you want.

But... I woke up and chose violence today. I don't understand the audacity of some people. Especially "men."

First comment is something I wrote to a person who posts a lot and I really don't think he knows how much he actually says in those posts. He's always lamenting the fact that he can't find a partner who is loyal. He thinks he's smart and a "damn good man" and like... Why? Why do you think so highly of yourself? Because you're "loyal" (which is the bare minimum you should be able to offer in a relationship)? Because you can admit your mistakes? That's good. But have you learned anything? Doesn't look like it from where I sit. You've been in the same struggling-ass position for years and things are not improving that I can tell.

If you were ACTUALLY a damn good man, someone would want to be with you. That's just facts. You're not as good as you think you are.

The second screenshot is of a guy who friended me sometime back. He immediately wanted to video chat and I didn't because I don't know him like that and don't care. Attitude right off was like I owed him my time and attention because he tried to pay his (unwanted) attention to me. Then he started asking for money, and telling me to hide the "loan" from Shaun. Like, what the actual fuck? I'm pretty sure he's just out here scamming whoever he can. If you get a friend request from him, the fact that I am a mutual is not an endorsement. He has one more time to ask me for anything and he's blocked.

Then there's one more person who also needs to chill. I don't owe them my time. I have helped them plenty. I'm happy to play nice, but I feel like they're trying to manipulate me at this point and I'm not stupid. I see it. There's nothing else I can do for you right now. So if you read this and the shoe fits, lace that bitch up and wear it.

I'm off to put down my floor. I'm not playing around on the the phone or internet today.

I don't usually share things these days, but...

I don't usually share things these days, but I absolutely agree with this woman.

I purposely bought a house with 4 bedrooms so that at the very least we could always provide Shadow and Kira with a safe space of their own in our home.

I am a hard worker, but even when working 2-3 jobs at a time I never got ahead. It wasn't until after I graduated college in 2020 with a tech-heavy degree that I was able to make enough money to start saving.

We also received a not-insignificant amount of help from my husband's family estate after his parents passed. Despite how hard we've worked our whole lives we absolutely cannot take full credit for finally (possibly?) being what was once considered "middle class" now. If it was that difficult for us, then that doesn't bode well for the younger generations.

I 100% believe it's the wealth hoarders vs. the rest of us.

Eat the rich.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscomb/gen-x-mom-rant-tiktok

The unbothered face of the pup who bit his Papa today. 😬

The unbothered face of the pup who bit his Papa today. 😬

APPARENTLY... the ice dispenser isn't the only thing that gets this boy hype. Shaun discovered (the hard way) that a wheelbarrow will, too.

Shaun was working in the yard outside of the fence. When he came back into the fence to put the wheelbarrow away, Bear chased it and when Shaun put it away he got bitten on both legs. Bear has bruised me before, but he actually broke skin a bit this time. Neither of us expected that, but apparently we need to be more aware of things that make rumbling noise.

This doesn't bode well for me skating in the yard if he's outside. I am concerned that I'm going to be chased and bitten. I might have to separate him from me when I exercise. We'll see. We'll do what we can to figure it out.

Ooh, the floor for our sunroom can be picked up today!

Ooh, the floor for our sunroom can be picked up today! I know what we're doing this weekend!

I can't wait to move Tort Baby to a bigger space and OUT OF MY DANG EAR! 😂😂😂

Also, the glass door with the doggie door built in is supposed to be arriving Tuesday. I'm excited! 😁

Despite being up with the sun this morning...

Despite being up with the sun this morning, I'm having a pretty good day. 😊

My cat didn't have explosive diarrhea, so I SLEPT and it was great.

Work has been nice. Not as crazy today as I was afraid it would be; I just have to stay focused.

We had Pizza Hut delivered and the car the delivery person drove was BEAUTIFUL. It looked like it was wrapped in a holographic material of some sort and I'm all about the shiny. It made my eyes happy. And lunch was good, too!

I'd ordered a chair from Amazon because the chair I brought downstairs when I moved my office down DOES NOT work with this desk (but it does work well upstairs, so we'll just take it back up). It has arms that wouldn't let my short self get close enough to my workspace unless I lowered it completely, but then I was too low. If I was high enough to see comfortably, then my legs dangled. Short people problems - IYKYK. So my new chair arrived today (a day early!) and I feel SO MUCH BETTER. It has a separate adjustable footrest and no arms on the chair, and it's wide enough that I can sit with my legs criss-cross if I want. I am really happy with it. 😁

Also, we just found out that our custom glass door is shipping, so that's almost 2 weeks earlier than expected. I'm excited!

Little peek into my pretty workspace. Believe it or not, I didn't plan the way these items match. They were all bought months apart before I moved my office downstairs. I've had the RocketBook for almost 2 years. The binder was in a drawer upstairs, probably for a year at least. And the huge mouse pad I bought the other day before I even thought to bring the binder down. I'm happy with it, though. I don't think it could have blended more nicely if I tried. 😂

Anyway, I hope you all are having a good day, too. ❤️

Scar is finally pooping turds again...

Scar is finally pooping turds again. He's on expensive food made of rabbit, but whatever works. I'm just hoping for a good night's sleep where I don't wake up to him shitting loudly while accidently missing the litter box.  I feel like I have a baby as much as I wake up to clean him / clean up after him, and that's no good because I have 6:30 am meetings the rest of the week. 🫠

Now if we could get Balthi feeling better that would be great. He's on special food, too, and showing improvement, but he's not 100% yet.