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my purrsonal assistant

12 Tuesday Oct 2021

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my pa

It’s no secret that Morcilla is totally in charge over here at Casa Azahar. And probably never more so than in her role as my Purrsonal Assistant. She loves to jump up when I am seated at my desk, do a little walk around my shoulders and back (and across the rack) before settling down on my right shoulder, and then she starts purring like crazy and occasionally nuzzles my ear with her little nose and then I am dead. But what this also means is that I cannot get up from my desk while all this lovely stuff is going on, so I may as well keep on working. And she weighs next to nothing, so it’s like having a little love angel on my shoulder (though I sometimes have to rearrange where she is sticking her claws in, easier in winter).

But I mean… just look at her. So sure of herself, so content looking out the open balcony doors from her cuddly perch. My sweet girl.

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so hate when this happens!

05 Tuesday Oct 2021

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deodorant

I’m sure this happens to you too. As soon as you come to rely on something never changing… BLAM… it changes. After years of trial and error I finally found this light spray deodorant (L) with no nasties and with a soft fresh scent that didn’t fight with my perfume and body lotion (body lotion! that’s another one) and so I have remained loyal. For years! Then I saw they had changed the packaging (R) so there was no longer a plastic cap on top, instead you just swivelled the top until the nozzle appeared. Fine, less plastic, whatever. Except that wasn’t all they changed. THEY CHANGED THE WAY IT SMELLED. And it smelled… awful.

Well, awful to me. There was a sharp acrid note to it, like cheap perfume gone off, and I don’t know how to say how disappointed I was. I mean, again?? It’s happened to me with perfumes, body lotions, laundry soap, hair products… you get all nice and cosy with something and then it’s gone. And for me smells are a really big deal. Actually a huge deal. So today I was in a shop and saw they still had some of the old green-cap stock of my deodorant and bought the last four they had. I know it’s just a stopgap, but at least for now I don’t have to spritz acrid shit on my pits. How’s your day going?

upping my coffee game

04 Monday Oct 2021

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So I have only been thinking about doing this since a little coffee shop opened across the street from me some time before the first lockdown. I can hear the coffee grinder going during the day and enjoy the chatter of the coffee drinkers standing outside. Back in Toronto I had my own coffee grinder at home, as well as a small espresso/cappuccino machine. Since then I don’t know what happened, but between moving here and there I just got out of thinking too much about my morning coffee, other than I needed at least one strong cup of café con leche to start the day. But this week I finally took the plunge and bought a bag of their house blend for my french press.

This of course also meant a coffee container upgrade. I mean just look at that one on the left. I don’t know how long I’ve had it, probably more than 15 years. It was the right size to hold the contents of the 250 gram coffee packages from the supermarket so I just kept using it. But the new one actually has a rubber seal on the lid, so not only is it prettier, it will keep my coffee fresher. Meanwhile, I am still getting the hang of making coffee with the new stuff, haven’t quite got the right quantity down yet. But I have to say that the coffee does taste much nicer.

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