grrgoyl | Cleo the Ferocious; Tery's Home; Paris Hilton STILL needs to get over herself

This goes out to all you cat lovers:

Cleo, 3 months old

Cleo has a "Will Bite" sticker on her cage. If these people need to stick warnings on a kitten, it's amazing anyone has the guts to open Beowulf's cage to feed him. Although in their defense, she did hiss at me a few times. It was about 2 decibels louder than air escaping from a balloon. "Too late! There he is!" "What, behind the rabbit?" "It IS the rabbit!"

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Tery's finally home. Goodbye to my clean house...but also goodbye to eating 6-month-old TV dinners from the back of the freezer. It's no way to live, let me tell you (but a good way to clean out the fridge). I didn't greet her at the airport as happily as I should've, but hey...she chose to arrive smack in the middle of my very narrow napping window between jobs on Saturday night. It took her about a half hour to get off the plane and get her luggage, leaving me sitting in the hot sun in the free waiting lot. To my left, a woman in a huge black SUV kept her windows closed tight and her engine running the entire time. To my right, a jackass didn't want to stink up his own car with cigarette smoke, but saw nothing wrong with strolling back and forth by my open passenger window puffing away. I was a bit grumpy.

But how could I stay mad at her? Not only did she bring me home a cool book about the history of my hometown of Lebanon, CT, but also a sweet Lebanon T-shirt (which I would never in a million years have bought while actually living there) -- it says in collegiate lettering "Lebanon Est. 1700" which is the year the town was incorporated. I also lamented to her my lack of funds when I realized I couldn't live without Season One of The Upright Citizens Brigade a second longer, and hours later she called to confess she had bought it (and Two) for me.

Wait, that last paragraph makes it sound like I only love her for buying me presents. That's only half true -- she also cooks delicious food for me.

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Finally (slow news week) I read in Entertainment Weekly that Paris Hilton is suing Hallmark for using her image and her "signature tagline" "That's so hot" on some of their cards. Just when I thought my contempt for her couldn't run any deeper.

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OMGZ that kitten made me scream out loud... our baby it a bitter( she ia year and a half now) i just thought her to bite soft. Dam it i want a new baby.. but toast says no more cats. i can't blame her with how much money the old ladies have cost us this past year.

She bit me once...I've suffered more at the hands of a can opener. The babies are great, but we also maintain a strict limit: No new kitties until there's a vacancy.

Cleo is tres cute, even cuter if she BITES. Fierce, fierce kitten (Like YOU!) Everytime I think of Lebanon I think of you + your sister. I think of your crappy old pickup truck without power steering and twisty roads. I think of fall foliage. And I think of Jonathan Trumbull - I mean, who doesn't, right?

Glad T's come back to take care of you :)

She's too cute. She has that kitten slightly cross-eyed look, that's how cute she is. And yeah, her attempts at intimidation are just to die for.

Ahhh, my crappy old pickup truck. Twisty roads. Fall foliage. Old Jonathan. I sort of miss it all, but not enough to live there again (Tery drove by my parents' house to see how it was doing. It's for sale again, and inexplicably they've kept the "A to Z" on the mailbox. ?? Weird people. Maybe they think it's a historical mailbox).

Wait, that last paragraph makes it sound like I only love her for buying me presents. That's only half true -- she also cooks delicious food for me.

:D

; )

Aww, I want that kitty. I don't care about the biting.

Amazingly she was just a regular boarder and not a dump or a stray. I'm sure the biting will resolve when she's better socialized. She enjoyed me petting her well enough before she woke up all the way.

A hissing three month old cat? The first three months of its life must not have been too fun.

Naw, she's fine. When she first wakes up she's all into you petting her, purring and rolling around. Then she gets that "I love you, I love you, ARRRR, I bite you, I bite you" cat thing going. It doesn't help that those idiots on the day shift left not a single toy in her cage, so she's bored to tears all day.

*steals kitten*

Mine now.

:P

Fine. Don't come crying to me when you get all your fingers bitten off. >; )

I believe you've discovered the secret to getting more comments - pictures of kittens. Cleo is the cutest little gremlin kitten! I love when kittens contort like that. One of my cats is almost a year old, and he still sprawls out on his back when he sleeps. He is made of Jello. If I could get a picture of that, I would attach it to all of the LJ entries I would then be forced to write. I'd get 30, maybe 40 comments every time.

Does Tery read your journal? If so, I bet she's nothing but flattered by this entry.

I wasn't aware that Lebanon, Connecticut was important enough to warrant its own history book. Tell me, is it the catchy name that people love, or is it the wicked agricultural shows?

I knew Cleo would be popular. Bitch and moan all you want about feeling unappreciated and threaten a friends cut, and people yawn. Break out the kittens and they flock to you.

I also sent it to CuteOverload, who apparently have become jaded with all teh cute.

I would like very much to see your kitty, and I'd even comment.

She reads sometimes when I'm especially proud of an entry. She knows how highly I value her cooking.

It's a whole series of books on all kinds of cities in America. But I'll have you know, Miss Skeptical, that Lebanon is very historic. Revolutionary War armies camped there and used buildings that are still standing to this day. AND our agricultural shows are nothing to sneeze at either.

If you post a picture of a kitten next to a list of some sort, and your comment stats will reach astronomical levels.

Who would've guessed, with a name like that?

I've tried to catch him, but the jerk just curls up like a normal cat when he sees a camera (proof that cats are uberintelligent and are playing us for fools with this house-trained pet act?). That or he tries to play with my strap.

Please. Isn't Lebanon one of those dusty countries? No way the Colonial Army would've camped way over there. Delete delete delete, because I have a feeling your first reaction won't be, "That's funny, I want to shag her!", but "Dear God I hope she doesn't really believe that".

I'm starting to see that. Lists + kitten pics + occasionally pics of me = LJ fame and popularity!

My Kitten Mitten plays with the strap too, but in between she mugs for the camera like the most glamorous movie star. She knows how pretty she is.

Shag you, what? I knew texting would move things too fast. But sure. >; )

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Ha! Made you look. Comment deletion is HOT.

Whyfor comment deletion? I can see no difference between them. Weirdo.

It's subtle, but I assure you it changes the whole meaning of the comment. Or of one little phrase.

Do you honestly expect me to remember weeks later what you're referring to?