Precious vet inspection

He is a beautiful cat, the vet nurse said so. He was a little afraid to get out of the carrier so the vet picked him up. At least he was good and didn't bite or scratch anybody. He was good through the ears, eyes, and heartbeat quick inspections. He hissed and growled when the vet took his matted fur bunches off his butt, and soon I was told of a undercoat rake comb to get those tangles better than a flea comb with less hurtful pulling. Neither cat loves brushing or combing, however essential. I went on Petco.com for one. Guess he will be getting more brushing whether he likes it or not, summer requires it. Next was the shots and Precious was not happy being stabbed, but again nobody was injured. The vet nurse did a good job holding him down. He weighed 14.7 lbs. so the vet assured me this was as high as he should get. Now I have to measure his food and hope he doesn't eat too much of Frodo's share. Frodo is a little smaller and less stocky. His shots come in August. Oh, and Precious has wonderful teeth. I use this stuff one puts in water and teeth cleaning snacks to keep them in good health. The torture is over until next summer. Post later. Bye!

Cat scratch fever

I was carrying Precious inside cause he didn't want to come in and as I walk in there is a vaccuum cleaner running from the other staircase. Precious freaks scratching my face and arm. Next I know blood is dripping down my lip and I try to catch it with my hand. Frodo and Precious won't come upstairs. I grab a paper towel and hold it crying for the damn cats to get up here. Can't exactly pick them up now. Precious comes up and I run out of room on the towel. I wash the blood off my hands and get another paper towel. I wiggle the fishing pole calling Frodo to come up. After a minute of staring at me, he comes up. I look in a mirror and see a big scratch above lip where the blood was coming out, a small cut just inside my bottom lip, and then 2 scratches on my cheek that were less gushing. When it finally stops, I rub out the stains on the hallway carpet, bathroom floor, counter and wall by the paper towels, and the sink. Then I rubbed off the blood stains off the fishing pole, my legs, and my shoes. Is your day adventurous as mine? Post later.Bye!

Call me Dodger

I got an email my boyfriend replying from my reply on his getting a promise ring for me. He thinks we should get a set and exchange them on my birthday as I suggested. Promise rings for men? What a weirdo. His next email said a coworker explained to him that promise rings are one way deals. I feel like Dodger finding Oliver in Oliver Twist (How green can you get? Dodger says in a film version). At least he knows I was not making up the promise ring idea. Post later. Bye!

Amazing week

I had my hands full this week. My watched my niece a few days at my apartment. I took her outside and she freaked when the neighbor kids came by to pet the cats. She does not handle strangers well, but how do you explain to a kid that the reason she is crying is because the kid is just too friendly. I took her swimming and she hated the kids splashing her when they jumped in. I took her to the zoo and rode the camel ride, rode the train, and fed the goats, fish, and ducks. I bought her a penguin and some rocks. I bought her sunglasses since my sister forgot to pack them but they disappeared after feeding the animals. I guess she laid them down to feed them in the shade and someone took off with them. She was not ready to go home when her father came to pick her up.

Next I asked my current love interest if it was alright to introduce him to my parents and any familiar faces I might meet at my hometown's 4th of July celebration "my boyfriend". More or less from lack of a better word, I mean what else would I call him? Suddenly he is excited we are getting serious, wants to get a cheap promise ring for me as a sign of our commitment to each other, sends me 2 dozen red roses with a card confessing his undying love to me, and reveals his sexual fantasies for our wedding night. Whoa, boy. He seems ready to dive head first without checking the pool depth. He has no clue what jewlery costs and he wants to commit to buying a promise ring. For starters, I just started calling him my boyfriend so, no, we are not serious, just dating still and secondly, I don't do cheap jewelry cause it itches. I need expensive 14K gold or better, which is why I don't have much jewelry. I did love the roses and like him a lot, but I don't see us married in the future as he does. I may be his very first couple experience and crazy about me, but he is not my first love and I'm still unsure about him. He thinks we lots in common, but I see someone agreeing with me out of fear of losing me which is a quality I do not value. I have trouble finding something about him to fall in love with. I just keep him around from lack of anything better to do. Post later. Bye!

Dance recital and a missing cat

I went to my niece's dance recital and was 20 minutes late because my cat Frodo refused to come back inside after our walk. After calling him for 40 minutes, I heard a meow but found no cat. I left him outside because I don't have all day to hunt him down. The dance recital was 4 hrs. and 15 min. long.

Naturally, I was worried about Frodo thinking of bored teenagers torturing him or like the cat a few days ago who came home with a piece of metal sticking out of his head believed to be from a raccoon trap and was put to sleep because the owners couldn't afford the removal of the metal piece. He was fine. I whistled for him from the car. Not at the front door. Went around the back door and heard Precious meowing from the window. Frodo meowed when he saw me. He was thirsty. The apartment was stuffy so I was glad I left my ceiling fans on. They are chillin on the balcony now. All is well. Post later. Bye!

Fat cat?

For the second this month, a kid has said that they don't want to play with the fat cat (Precious), they want to play with the skinny cat (Frodo). Too bad skinny cat Frodo is terrified of people and hides from these kids. Fat cat Precious loves attention, but despises being picked up. He even paws at the kids when he no longer wants their attention and scratches when they don't back off, Frodo just scratches if they try to touch him. Post later. Bye!

Interesting experience

Today when out for our walk, Frodo was sniffing the new plants that have a felt/tar paper over the dirt with broken up bricks on top and kept looking at this one spot. Nothing there, then I saw the bricks move up, then down. I think an animal was trying to emerge out of the felt/tar paper stuff but it overlapped enough that it never got through. Frodo sniffed at the moving bricks and then got bored when it didn't come out. Oh well, probably a chipmunk, mole, or whatever was burrowing under the plants. Post later. Bye!

Minature golfing and dinner

Romeo came 4 minutes to 1. We were having our walk outside. My cat Frodo disappeared and after 40 minutes (a record) of hunting and calling, I decided to teach him a lesson about not coming when I call him and just leave. While looking for him, other cat Precious meowed from the window so that confused Romeo when listening to Frodo meows. He made a neighbor's dog bark. On the way out, there was Frodo. Naturally he ran away from the stranger and Romeo hid under the steps while I grabbed him outside. I gave the treats, petted Frodo, and ran out the door. I forgot the map so had to go back.

I drove us to the place and Romeo was grateful I was driving cause he would have gotten lost. He asked how long it took me to get use to the city streets. Actually I was already familiar with the main streets and where things were because living in a tiny town, we visited often to shop, see movies, etc. My homeotwn has nothing. The smaller streets of residential areas where a friend lives required a map made for me.

He kept score of swings until he asked if that 2 or 3. I said I was not keeping score because I'm here to have fun. He said it is more fun to keep score when competing against your friends. That must a guy thing, everything is a contest. One hole I got frustrated and dropped the ball in the hole with my hand, and another time rolling it to the hole with my putter. I almost got a hole in one but it bounced out of the hole when it hit the pole. Once it went into the water and I fished it out with the net next to the pond. Romeo hit it in the water twice. For someone who rarely does this I was quite good. I did my best figuring out an angle like pool while waiting for the people ahead to finish. Of course hitting the spot I was aiming for was another challenge.

When completed all 18 holes, we stopped for refreshment. They were playing a radio and Foxy Lady started playing. I started singing the "foxy" part and Romeo asked What? I asked if he seen Wayne's World. No. I said this song is in the movie. I said we can watch the movie at my place. He asked about swimming and I said he can swim while I'll sunbathe. He agreed it was a little cool for swimming. 90 is good for swimming. He actually asked me where other good places to swim were since my pool is closed and the nearby lake is flooded. I asked back, Why would I go to a public pool when there is a pool right outside my door? Oh, yeah, he recalled there is a pool across the street. My pool is about to open. Water, patio furniture, umbrellas in tables, and new flower pots. But what day that will be is anyone's guess. I offered ice cream at my place and he said no. He picked Last of the Mohicans to watch. He said he never seen it, just clips. Frodo was leery but eventually came up to sniff him. He ran away when Romeo petted him. Precious enjoyed the attention.

His step-sister's cat had 4 kittens and she said he could have one. They are 3 weeks old and just opened their eyes. He picked the buff colored one, a good color for a cat. He has no name for it, just wait to examine his personality before naming him. Half way through the movie when the love scene at the fort came, Romeo asked me if this was the Revolutionary War. No, French and Indian War. That is before the Revolutionary War? Yes. Obviously he missed the openinng credits where it said 1757, 3rd year of the war between French and British over control of the American Colonies. I looked up when the war ended in my dictionary. I explained this war has 6 years more years to go, French were winning at the beginning (hence the fall of the British fort to the French) and later the British started winning, thus kicking the the French out of Canada. He talked throughout the whole movie.

After the movie, we went over to Pizza Hut. He followed me this time. There was a birthday party going on with a worker dressed as a clown. Very noisy. Romeo declared at the dinner table that he just realized he had not eaten all day and about to pass out. I offered ice cream. He said the pop from the minature golf filled him up so he wasn't hungry then. I think I picked up a weirdo. Romeo asked if remember parties like this. No. My only birthday party as a kid was my 7th and it was a pool party in my backyard. I didn't go into the fact I never wanted another party if I was not allowed to invite all my friends who were crushed from not being invited, only girls in my class could come (no boys and not the girls older than me). Many times I could not hear him talking in this noisy atmosphere. All day he talked about the shocking tornado that ripped through Muscatine. The tornado ended 2 houses away from his mother's house, though the trees and rose bushes were knocked over and uprooted in her yard. His mother's birthday present was a chain saw. At least the cat has a jungle gym in the back yard with all the knocked over trees.

Romeo paid for golf and dinner. I left the tip. He actually opend the door for me when we left. We said our good-bye outside and parted ways. He thinks he will be off the 4th of July and possibly be able to attend my hometown's celebration. I drew a map for him guiding him around the streets that are usually blocked for the parade. I told him to bring a lawn chair, unless he loves grass. Well, post later. Bye!

That Darn Cat

I took my cats out as usual. It stopped raining finally and sun peeked out. When I went looking for Frodo towards the end of our outing (he was watching a chipmunk in a tree then disappeared), Precious got distracted and chased a squirrel into the bushes next to the playground. I heard Frodo meow so I knew he was within yelling distance. Soon, I had to call for Precious. He comes tearing out of the bushes and runs behind me. A stray cat comes out of the bushes too. He chases Precious to the back door and lets out a loud cat fight scream. Stray cat starts following me as a call my cats and meows while I call them. He stops when I stop. I can't find Precious in the bushes anywhere near the door. Some lady brings her dogs out and I start talking to this stray cat claiming he is the reason my cats won't come home.

I walk upstairs and grab the can cat food to encourage them to come. I hear distant meows and the stray cat talking. Go inside and cook a cheese sandwich after propping the door open so my cats can have an escape route upstairs. Stray sniffs around the door, but never goes inside. Stray cat waits by the door. After sandwich is done, I go outside again. I learned if I stop calling them several minutes they come to the door, or at least closer. I threaten to leave them outside to play with the stray cat if they don't come in. Eventually, Frodo appears and his targeting system gets locked onto the stray cat. He growls and hisses to make the cat back up. But I want to go inside. I chase him down while he chases off the stray cat. I hear Precious meow near the door. After several minutes of brushing up against wet bushes trying to grab Frodo, I carry him home. Stray cat follows us with Frodo looking over my shoulder. I cry for Precious and find him on the stairs. I toss Frodo in the door and kick the rocks propping the door. I sneak in the door and finally we go home. What a day. Post later. Bye!