rambles and updates

 I finally wake up again without swollen glands in my throat and having to drain my head and float myself in licorice tea to combat that and still be able to record. I get to celebrate with the long forgone morning coffee.

 

In other news, the puppy keeps refusing her puppy chow in favor of Sirius' kibble. He's confused by this. He's also confused still why the puppy will play with him when she only sees his head, but won't play tag and plays less when she sees his big moose body. He may finally be starting to understand that he's no longer puppy size, as he has taken to putting his whole head between the puppy and I to block her from my face and ears when she gets too rambunctious.

 

Sirius seems a bit clingy and a little insecure, so Merlin has been taking him into his room for some one one one time more often and to bed earlier whether he actually goes to sleep or not. I spent a good bit of my morning before coffee pinned back against the couch with a big dog cheek mashed on my lips (carefully, or he tried to be) until he had enough kisses. Roughly five minutes worth of kisses, which gave my coffee time to cool anyway. It was even more comical to me as when letting lips rest, still trapped since I didn't want to push him into the tray the laptop was on, he would alternate licking forward at the air with trying to make kissy sounds himself.

 

I'm not sure what the puppy, sitting on the floor on one of the kids' old crocheted nap mats that now serves as an area rug, thought about this strange scene. I could see her watching curiously around what part of my vision wasn't blocked by dog head or too blurry outside of the glasses range.

Cirrus and Thunder seem to be taking well to the puppy. Thunder is much more adamant about when my bedtime is and getting his nighttime snuggles.

The puppy started out as a foster puppy rescue, being held for the intended owner until she could get a place. It turned out though that once she got a place there were no pets allowed. The puppy was supposed to grow up with the kid she is pregnant with, but now that looks like her plans are shot. Thus, Athena and Vinny seem to have a new puppy. Said puppy likes "uncle Merlin" very much, and yesterday ran to greet him when he came home. That's probably part of why Sirius seems a little more insecure than he did with Dude.

In the audiobook I'm working on I have three chapters left to record before I finish part two, and then will only have part three left to record. I have some redraws to do and more to continue for another children's book through Pen It Publications. I've not forgotten Selkies' Skins, nor have I forgotten the poetry. My time is mostly eaten up with processing and quality check on the audiobook files. The new equipment has speeded things up greatly, but there is still a lot of time that goes into even just one hour of finished audio, far more than the one hour. I will have to take this into account when I work on my own audio projects, when I get to those in my work queue.