Sunday, July 23, 2006

I think we officially have a kitty now, although I'm trying to prepare myself in case he goes back to his feral roots and disappears one day.  He's so tiny, maybe about 4 weeks old.  He even might be a she.  I have no idea.  I'm so cat-ignorant.  I started calling him Bones cuz he was so skinny & malnourished, but Galahad isn't fond of that name.  Mostly I just call him Kitty anyway.  We stopped at Petco after workout class this morning and bought some Science Diet kitty food since I heard that's the best.  I tried not to get too crazy buying him toys & dishes since I'm still not sure he's gonna work out and stay with us.  By the way, when I said he was cute, I meant in an ugly way.  He has a hyena head, long cheetah legs, is the color of dirt, and is just sooo fkn cute.  He did finally stop yowling after about 8 hours.  =)  Now, he's stealth kitty, so we've been calling him Ninja Kitty.

My brother came over to help us fix our roof tiles (damage from the hurricane 9 months ago), and he's quite the dog person.  Laugh, this kitty just adored him.  She/he climbed all over him, nibbling & pouncing & purring until she fell asleep on him.

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Galahad went outside to go to work and discovered a half-starved feral kitty outside crying.  He came back in, got some sardines, and fed him, with instructions to me to feed him again in 3 hours in the same spot in case he came back.

I promptly threw those instructions out the window when I saw how cute & hungry he was.  I kept feeding him a bite at a time, moving the tray closer & closer to our front door.  Two hours later, and he was still yowling away and licking up every drop of sardines right on our front porch.  I let him inside the house for a bit, but he seemed traumatized, so I let him back out.  Plus, I wasn't sure how Galahad would react when he came home. 

A big thunderstorm rolled in, and I tried to get him to hide out on the porch with me, but he bolted.  Three hours later, I was missing him like crazy.  I couldn't find him anywhere.  I kept checking back in the original spot every half hour.  Finally, there he was!  I called Galahad and asked him to pick up some food at his mom's house on the way home since he was stopping there anyway.  Kitty still wasn't letting me anywhere near him.  I tried feeding him some rice milk, and that's when he just lunged himself on me and tried to snuggle for hours.

Of course I brought him inside, and he sat on my lap (purring & yowling) while I worked on the computer.  When Galahad came home, he saw him on my lap and kind of rolled his eyes at me.  But then I noticed that he had stopped at the store and bought him special food.  So, who's the bigger sucker now?  =)

Thursday, July 13, 2006

We've either had too much rain here or someone is fucking with me.  I just fished a dead crawfish out of my pool filter.  Or maybe he's a langostino?  It's some type of crustacean. 

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Ugh, I had to go to Miami yesterday.  I always forget how much it's like a foreign country until I get there and can't understand anyone.  My TV at the hotel was programmed in Spanish.  With the stress of Miami traffic, a trying day at a customer site, and a tropical wave brewing, it had all the makings of a migraine.

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

I had such a fabulous weekend!  Where do I even start?  Oh yeah, Happy Independence Day!!!  I wonder if our founding fathers would be proud or shocked or both at what we've become.

My close friend came to visit, whom I hadn't seen in far too long.  Man, I love her and miss her so much.  We laughed and reminisced and laughed and cried.   Her kid is absolutely adorable!  We went to Lion Country Safari, workout class at the beach, Galahad taught her son to build sandcastles afterwards, and just did a whole lot of nothing.  I took the day off yesterday so we could do more of the same.  She's having a rough time adjusting to single parenthood, and her father was just in a very serious accident, so she's stressed to the max.  It was nice to have our biggest stressor be what to eat next.  Hehe, although when we were at my brother's house, that can be very stressful.  :p  Another brother came over & taught her son how to make paper airplanes.  Laugh, we littered his house with so many.

It did reaffirm to me though that as much as I love her kid and enjoyed him, I'm glad we don't have any.  Galahad and I just don't have the energy to keep up.  It's quite exhausting.  But omg he's so fkn cute!  He's a lil' genius at 5 and knows all about rockets & planes.  And, he has such a sunny disposition.