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all the sulks

22 Monday Jul 2024

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hairball season

So twice in one week my darling Morcilla horked up massive hairballs (and their accompanying ick) all over the bed while I was out requiring emergency sheet washing. This has led to two new practices at Casa Azahar: daily malt & wet combing and closing my bedroom door when I’m not at home. AND WELL. The hardship, the indignity… you can literally see the sulk here. Her back to me (but not ears) and clearly punishing me by choosing to lie on cold hard paper (not the various soft options all around the living room). That’ll show me. Malt session below…

hairball season (2)

new towels!

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

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nre towels

I’m on a roll here. After checking how often I should replace pillows (FYI turned out to be every 1-2 years and I was way behind) I decided to check towels and – eep. Same. Well okay, not as bad as the pillow situation as it turns out I last bought new towels in 2021 and google says it should be between 2-5 years so I’m still in the running. You see, there is a reason I keep this fascinating blog going! How else could I check back on this stuff?

Anyhow, found these lovely towels at 50% off at El Corte Inglés and they are now freshly washed, sun dried, plump and soft and hanging in my bathroom as we speak. Goodbye old loofah towels! How’s your summer going, but the way?

breathing

15 Monday Jul 2024

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breathing

I usually scroll past these “mindfulness quotes” when they pop up on my social media but for some reason I stopped to read this one and… ufff. Over the weekend I’d been starting to panic that the first week of my staycation was almost over and what had I done with all that TIME? What did I have to show for it? I was already feeling like I was letting myself down. So even though I know it’s corny, this helped remind me to take time to breathe. It’s okay.

new pillows

11 Thursday Jul 2024

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new pillows

The other day I looked up how often pillows should be replaced and the answer was EVERY 1-2 YEARS. Oops. So off I went to El Corte Inglés and found these on sale. Seems to be getting harder to find washable pillows and I really don’t like those squishy memory foam ones. Anyhow, how often do you replace your pillows? I remember mentioning washing mine on Twitter once (because I’m interesting that way 😉) and omg I couldn’t believe the number of people who never wash their pillows. Looking forward to enjoying these guys on Sunday (aka clean sun-dried sheet day).