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I am hearing an ice cream truck. I thought it was a phantom ice cream truck, that I was just hearing it because I hear it so often throughout the day, but there is literally an ice cream truck driving through my neighborhood at 11:04pm! What the heck! That is one dedicated ice cream truck. It is Saturday night, after all, and the ice cream trucks around here (here being Los Angeles) do sell a lot more than just ice cream. So I guess they're hitting up the folks who have the midnight munchies. Okay okay okay.

My alternative lifestyle. Alternative music. Nirvana. Seattle. Grunge. Flannel. I was a kid growing up in the 90s in the Pacific Northwest. I had an oversized sweatshirt and felt so so cool. The cat is looking at the basil plant I brought to the house today. We got a couch. Is this my alternative lifestyle, this now having a house? I don't know. What is that sound I'm hearing? Maybe my mom is watching something. I thought she went to sleep already but I'm definitely hearing something. I I I I I. These cats. Roaming around, looking for trouble. They are going to scratch up this couch to high heaven if we don't get them something else to scratch instead. Maybe even if we do. But I should try and think of something because even though it is a used couch, it is still a fairly new couch, and I don't really want it to get shredded. What do you do to keep your cats from scratching your furniture? It is a massive couch. The house is not huge. The couch looks huge. But it's also comfortable and that's what we wanted.