Floofwear(floofinition) – 1. Clothing designed for animals. Note: Not to be confused with floofware.
In use: “As animals are forced to cope with extreme weather, more floofwear for animals, including dogs, cats, horses, and goats, are finding their way onto the market where consumers eagerly buy them for their loved ones.”
2. Article of clothing designated for an animal’s use.
In use: “Mark used a fleece pullover as floofwear, putting it on a bench in the bedroom for his cat to sleep on when he was away.”
Flooflatility(floofinition) – Characteristic or quality in an animal of unpredictable changes.
In use: “Flooflatility in kittens and puppies is one of their endearing treats as they go from exploring to reacting in panic to chasing and attacking to eating or sleeping in within the space of minutes.”
Sunshine prevails today. Tuesday’s sky can be described as mostly sunny or mostly cloudy. Both seem correct. While sunshine washes over everything in the valley, large clouds brood like waiting bears, shadowing large swaths of land.
Yes, it’s May 3, 2022. Our high is gonna be 64 F, they say, about ten degrees higher than it is at the mo’. The sunrise cometh at 6:01AM. The other end of the daylight session ends at 8:13 PM. Tomorrow, the weather ‘they’ say, we’ll see 79 F.
After a series of dark, messy, and splashy dreams, the neurons summoned a Nine Inch Nails song. Released in 2006, “Every Day Is Exactly the Same”, some of the lyrics go, “Every day is exactly the same.” Which sometimes is how my life feels, outside of writing. Feeding cats and taking care of them, house and yard work, the eternally aggravating question of “What’s for dinner,” dressing and eating, reading news, doing errands, reading books. Yet, in many ways, that’s how it was when working and in the military, too. The world is built on bureaucracies and routines. Sometimes, though, that tedium gets me. It’s funny, but I know this song because one of the QA guys who worked for me when I managed a tech support group introduced it to me. He no longer worked for me by that time, but sent me an email after the song came out, telling me about it, and mentioning, “It reminded me of what you used to say.” I still laugh about that.
Stay positive — yeah, who am I to talk? Test negative, etc. Here we go, music and coffee. Cheers
Langfloofliers(floofinition) Term derived from a Stephen King story which means an animal who eats up or uses up time and resources.
In use: “Feeding, playing, and cleaning up after their animals, many people discover that their pets are Langfloofliers, because time seems to pass without notice when the people are with the animals.”
Flooflamitous(floofinition) – A large mess involving animals that causes great distress.
In use: “When the Williams family returned home, a flooflamitious scene was fround, as the pets had wreaked havoc with toilet paper rolls, houseplants, garbage cans, and their food bowls. For a moment, they couldn’t find the culprits, then found the two cats and dog innocently sleeping on the guestroom bed together.”
Duofloof(floofintion) – A pair of animals together so frequently, they must considered as one.
In use: “Rescues who came into the household together as orphans, the dog, Hera, and the cat, Zeus, were a duofloof, on the move as one to eat, drink, play, sleep, and find cuddles with their people.”
Michael Seidel, writer 