Another Friday morning and the sounds of the garbage guy in the alley. For living in an urban area, it is very quiet in my apartment. The apartment above me has cement in it's floor and the wall between my apartment and the one next to me is separated by cinder blocks. This 6-plex brick apartment building was actually constructed quite well as far as sound insulation. However the real gap under my door is going to be fixed by me ... will visit some hardware place and check out some options of ridding myself of the daylight under my door. My bunnies will be upset because in the winter they love to lie by the door where the draft comes in and it is cool. With the price of gas, I am maybe becoming more energy conscious!

It is very pleasant to be no longer be stressed out about my father and his bad mouth. The wounded child within required my conscious acknowledgement again. My father is now interrelating with my adult self versus my child self and it's interesting to perceive how he now is more careful about what he says due to the changes in my response to his words. It is so easy, even at age 55 to slip back into the child-parent interrelationship versus an interrelationship from the stance of adult-adult. I have to chuckle that since I've ceased relating to him in my wounded little girl mode, he has now told my daughter he "thinks I'm depressed ... there is something wrong with me".

I really do not feel very profound this morning. My most profound thought has to do with ridding my front door of the huge gap between it and the threshold ... a kind of cold air duct actually. I am intending to visit the hardware center and see what creative way there is to stop cold air from coming in under one's door. I am aware of my bunnies really liking to lay by the door and suck in the cold air ... they definitely prefer the cold to warmth. Their personal little winter air-conditioner is going to come to an end pretty soon. They have what I call their "wind tunnel" to lay in ... the bottom of a bookcase wherein I have placed an air purifying machine that sucks in their shedded fur into the filter I have to frequently clean and blowing out fresh air that hits the shelf above ... thus creating a very windy bottom shelf with the fan blowing constantly. My bunnies laying in front of the air filter machine has really helped in decreasing the amount of shedded fur that I once was vacuuming up ... I now merely clean the filter on the machine. The bunnies love their wind tunnel and it definitely cuts down the hair I have to clean up! But they will be shortly loosing the cold-air-gap they once enjoyed under the front door! I tried folding a rug to stop the cold air from coming in, but the little bunnies only quickly push the rug away from the door ... it was like this game I was playing with them and Snuggles would even pull the rug half way across the room (she likes to pull things around).

I do believe that I cannot stay in denial that winter is on it's way given it is now November. Getting my car ready for winter demands that I get around to having the switch on my windshield wipers fixed ... pulling the wiper fuse in and out is a crappy way of turning one's wipers on and off. This method works, but is definitely not a really handy method of turning one's windshield wipers on and off!

My profound thoughts are definitely in some void this morning. Winterization and my grocery list seem to be the primary thought forms dancing about in my arena of consciousness this morning. I even spent two hour on the telephone last night listening to my auntie (my dad's sister) talk on and on and on and I didn't give her a chance to push any of my buttons. Drinking my morning coffee seems to only motivate me to get some tasks finished today.