Random-Ties

I am participating (or at least attempting to participate) in NaBloPoMo's February blog posting challenge. The theme is 'Ties', thus the funny looking title of my post today. I don't have a particular thing I plan to write about, except perhaps what radmonly pops into my head, which I can guarantee is usually very random. You see, I think it is unhealthy to obsess over any one thing, which is why it's a good idea to let your thoughts go free and be as random as they like.

I am tied to many things in my life, but mostly I am tied to my desk. Right now, I am strugging to get the creative juices flowing because I sit amidst a jumble of clutter that would cause even a moderate neat-freak to break into tears.

What's on my desk?

Well, there's several large stacks of paper representing various stages of work that I am tied to: things completed awaiting filing, things almost completed awaiting more information so they can be categorized as complete, and things to do. I hate being tied to these things and they cause me a great deal of stress and anxiety every minute I am tied to my desk.

Which brings me to something I was tied to until recently: Coffee. I love coffee and eight days ago I decided I would give up coffee in order to lessen the anxiety and stress I experience while tied to my desk. I went cold-turkey and experienced the headaches, the 'no coffee coma', the crankiness. But all those nasty withdrawal symptoms only lasted about four days.

So far going caffeine-free has helped quite a bit. My insane, profanity-filled attacks on my computer have diminished from ten a day to a mere two or three. In fact, now that I mention it, I don't think I've had a single problem today, even though the little gremlins that live inside our network are hard at work trying to push me completely over the edge.

We have office cats. I know, no segues there, but I warned you in the beginning, this is random.

Anyhow, back to the cats.

When you arrive first thing in the morning, they greet you at the door, then immediately turn their back on you and walk toward the room where their food and water dishes are kept. If you don't follow, they will return and look for you, mewing loudly their disatisfaction with your apparent lack of concern for their well-being.

Once they have your undivided attention, they lead you back to the food dish. You stare at the food dish in utter disbelief. It has food in it! You see, with cats, it's not the food they care about so much. Rather, they place very great value on the fact that they can lead their very well-trained humans to their food dish whenever they wish.

We are very tied to our cats.

Okay, that's all I am going to write today. Tomorrow I may tell you everything that is on my desk. It's rather fascinating and will give you some insight into just how mentally unwell I am. HAHA!!

Happy February!

BTW, if you are looking for a nice caffeine-free coffee alternative, I like Teeccino. here is a link to their site: Teeccino