#Blaugust 2023 #10 – Taken over by Cat Cafe Manager, don’t send help.

Screenshot from Cat Cafe Manager, a close up of multiple cartoon kitties sleeping in fancy beds.

I’m going to do another short post today. I was up Entirely Too Late playing Cat Cafe Manager and rewatching Good Omens Season 2 for the umpteen millionth time, so I need to actually try and manage my time today before my work week starts tomorrow.

Now, before the imaginary member of my audience objects that’s just an every weekend thing for them, it’s NOT for me. I only legit stay up until dawn gaming maybe two or three times a year.

Screenshot from Cat Cafe Manager. There is a cartoon raccoon onscreen with the caption "Definitely A Cat."

Call it the consequences of adult diagnosed ADHD and having spent too many nights like that when I was younger. Call it free floating anxiety. Or just call it being An Adult in 2023. Whatever you want to call it, there’s always something I ought to be doing that does NOT involve staying up late to see if I can cajole a virtual raccoon into joining me at my imaginary cat cafe.

99% of the time I am almost painfully aware of that, and wouldn’t be able to enjoy staying up so late on something non-essential even if I wanted to.

So, the handful of times I am caught up on Life enough, and in enough of a dopamine groove to even consider it, I try to let myself go for it. If my brain wants to just chill for a good long stretch of time, it probably needs it.

Screenshot from Cat Cafe Manager. An old sailor named Bonner is talking about a time he had "himbo energy," according to his husband.

Every once in a while, I suspect it’s good to recharge my battery and remind myself that the world will not actually crash to the ground if I don’t finish the dishes before bed,, I don’t do my Duolingo for the day, I don’t do my VOD editing right away, and I don’t fight my night time brain into a reasonable and socially acceptable bedtime.

Also, even after staying up all night gaming, I still cleaned the toilet before I went to bed – so you see how bad I am at mini vacations even when I try.

I’m tired today because hello, I turn 40 this year and I just got 4 hours of sleep. But my brain is energized and in its happy place, and sometimes that’s what matters.

Screenshot from Cat Cafe Manager. My cafe is ridiculous. It really shows that I put a lot of time into the game, lol. The cat room doesn't even fit into the shot.

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