Saturday, April 3, 2010

"I love cats because I enjoy my home, and little by little they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau

Cats can be such a pain. There are days when Gracie won't stop yowling at my roommate's door and Garfunkel won't stop trying to get his 22 lb bulk onto my lap, even though I'm obviously not in the mood. Days when Garfunkel's defecated outside the litterbox, Gracie's peed on the couch, and one of them's barfed all over the living room carpet... all before I've managed to leave for work in the morning.

But there are days when they've both made me laugh out loud before I've been awake even an hour and a half. Garfunkel, who I swear was some sort of pervy stalker in another life, has an obsession with rolling around in my dirty laundry. When I woke up today to the sight of him emersed in a pile of laundry, tail twitching, with two pairs of dirty underwear clutched in his paws, rubbing them on his head, I almost split a gut. Then, Gracie, the more standoffish of the two, was in her endearing uber-affectionate mood, which quickly turned into her wide-eyed OMG MUST PLAY AND SLASH YOUR ARMS OPEN mood. This, albeit dangerous, is one of the cuter and funnier things on the planet. On the whole, I guess they're worth having around.

Gracie is also the more curious and mischevious of the two. I was super amused the other day to find her perched precariously on the upper reaches of my bookshelf:



But even more amused when I went flipping back through my camera to discover that this was the last picture I'd taken, months earlier:



I need to find something new to take pictures of.

In other news, it's raining and I ate chocolate cake for breakfast. Not a bad Saturday so far.

3 comments:

  1. Oh, I love cats. Even though we're having trouble with cats peeing where they're not supposed to, I still love them. I feel like I'm a latent cat-lady, and I should never be allowed to live alone because I'll have dozens before anyone can intervene.

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  2. Yeah, it's a really good thing my complex has a 2 cat limit, because 3 cats + a single girl doth a cat lady make in my book, and when Gracie grew up I sooo wanted another kitten [sigh].

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  3. I'm trying to convince Erik that even though we're both allergic, if/when we move in together we REALLY want to get a hairless cat. Or four.

    Because seriously, life without cats is not worth living!!!!!

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