Hello, world. Today marks 49 trips around the sun.
We enjoyed the day off together. I received notification that an amazon order was delivered, so Shawshank went up to the post office to grab the mail around lunchtime. I’d recently ordered some knockoff Feliway plugins after a particularly bad morning with Pod. I used to order them while I was in Florida, in an effort to quell Chaucer‘s midnight yowling sessions when I first arrived, but they didn’t seem to do anything. Shawshank plugged one in, and we waited.
Pippin was the first to smell it. About 10 minutes after the “installation”, she lifted her nose and started sniffing the air. Podrick noticed it shortly after that. He promptly stuck his face directly in the vapor and huffed straight from the source.
He mellowed right the fuck out. He slept most of the time he would have normally been tormenting Pippin. About 2 hours after we first plugged it in, Podrick tried to start something with Pippin. He ran near the plugin, stopped for a whiff, then stayed in the window for the rest of the afternoon. At dinner time, he ate a couple of bites, then slept on the back of the couch until it was nearly bedtime. Pod’s entire demeanor was so different that Shawshank was slightly concerned.
Today is another work day, and we’re going right through the weekend. I need to decide what to wear and who I’ll be tonight.
