This isn’t really a blog post as much as it’s a reminder to my future self that may be thinking of getting a new cat: Today, for at least the 10th time in your life, you stripped all of the linens off your bed and had to figure out how to clean them all because [...]
Archive for the ‘That Darn Cat’ Category
18 May
I’m gonna write my way out of here
When you only blog once a month, it’s so hard to start out a post without somehow recognizing that fact. Many sentences with the theme of “I just don’t have the time… I’m not as into sharing with the world as I used to be… Just thought you might want some updates…” have just gone [...]
4 Jan
I think my cat is looking at me with pity.
Not a good sign: assigning complex human emotions to long-haired domesticated felines. But seriously, she keeps looking at me with her big green eyes, and I think she’s encouraging me to get a life. Or at least stop wearing my woolly hat indoors long after I’ve come in from the cold. But if I remove [...]
8 Sep
zee stripe! It is gone!
At all times, Lucy wears a collar and a tag with her name and my phone number. It’s because she likes to sneak out of the back door the moment I open it. Once, I didn’t notice that she had slipped out, and she was out in the cold on the porch for over two [...]
30 Apr
Micki The Cat 1991-2009
Sad news. Micki, who I was starting to think was going to live forever, had to be put to sleep today. In the past two weeks, she lost weight, her appetite, and was completely dehydrated. I knew something was wrong when she stopped trying to kill Lucy. She wasn’t the world’s nicest cat, and she [...]
24 Mar
My life today: as told by my stuff
I like being a financial services agent. At least, I think I will once I finish this rigorous training process my company’s putting me through. Because of the increased workload, I pared down my activities to working, swimming, eating, cleaning, and seeing my friends on weekends and on Lost night. I also spend time preparing for [...]
14 Nov
F^%# you kitty you’re gonna spend the night… Outside!
The cats are still driving me crazy. They fight, they yell for food hours before the alarm, they don’t like the food I give them and they cry, or they love the food, scarf it down, it and cry for more. They poop in a box in the bathroom, (and sometimes pee in the kitchen [...]
