Cabinets and Bun Bun – Thoughts from November 11 and 18, 2023

November 11, 2023

Today is 11/11. Need I say more? It would be funny if that was all I said, but I actually have thoughts to write about. I don’t know what they are right now, but I’m sure I will come up with something. My thoughts are happening all day long. I just need to remember past thoughts when I’m writing those thoughts. My memory is the worst when I try specifically to remember things. I’m going to talk about things I’ve done recently and let the thoughts flow from those.

Patti and I attached these cabinets she’s been wanting to attach to the wall. I suggested we paint the wall before we put them up, but she vetoed the idea because she didn’t want to paint the wall. She wanted to finish the rest of the cabinets and secure them as well but we ran out of time. I try to explain what we can do in one day and she never believes me. I insisted on measuring things and understanding exactly what I was doing. This is one of the annoying parts about me she’s had to get used to.

Bun Bun was back the other day. He’s the bunny that has been hanging out in our yard and eating our grass. I saw him sitting in a large pot with a dead plant in it. I told Patti I thought it was strange that he was in with a dead plant, and she reminded me that rabbits eat hay. He let me get close to him and I could pet him on the back for quite a while. He would have let me pet him longer, but my arm got tired because I was filming him at the same time. I thought of trying to pick him up. He might have let me, but I thought better of it. We need to continue to see him as just another neighborhood animal. He will not be our pet even though I could pet him. He is someone’s pet, but not ours.

November 18, 2023

I was driving today and yelling at other drivers. That’s always a sign my day is not going well. It started on my days off. I ate a bunch of things I don’t normally eat and gained about 3.5 pounds. I woke up late yesterday and Patti was freaking out because she wanted me to finish the cabinets that we’ve been working on so she could finish them the week of Thanksgiving. She was taking the entire week off so she could do it. Now she is saying she would just work on the days she was going to take off. I did my morning things, like eating breakfast and freaking myself out. We were grocery shopping after she got off work and it was close to when she got off. I called her and asked if she wanted me to work on the cabinets until she got home. I told her if I didn’t finish them before she came home, I would finish them after grocery shopping. She agreed to that plan. I worked on the cabinets, but I hadn’t finished them before she got home. I finished them after we got home and I put away all the groceries. Even though we worked it out and she wasn’t angry with me anymore, it still shook me. Confrontation does that to me.

I had a good interaction with Bun Bun on my days off. He’s still around and is still adorable. When I’m outside, he usually hangs around where I’m at. If I call him over, he comes over to me and sniffs my hand with his bouncy nose. He has everything that’s adorable about rabbits. His ears seem super long, but that could be because I’m used to cats ears. Patti still calls him Bun Boy because she had a rabbit as a kid named Bun Bun. She would have to call him Bun Bun Two or Bun Bun the Second. I think Bun Boy is insulting to the rabbit, especially if he is a she. He’s still not our rabbit, though. I speak cat, but I don’t speak rabbit. I can’t ask him what he prefers to be called or find out where he actually lives.