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Congratulations on the new kitten. Sorry to hear about the other news. The best thing you can do with that cardboard carrier is to throw it out - cats can break out of them, and they can run faster than you can. The book below is recommended.

He really have special interest on feet. Father became nomad but mother and son stick together with us.

Coltrane

Happy Birthday Antonio!

Colie turns 30 on the 4th. She has never been what she calls "spoiled" before. I don't call it being spoiled, I just like buying things for people I care about . Well, new apartment, a rather significant shopping spree at Anthropologie and Nordstrom (some of that was yesterday), shit tons of Harry Potter items (she's obsessed with Harry Potter), and this: This is Toulouse-Lautrec. He is 10 weeks old, and came from our vet as an adoption. Apparently it takes about 20 minutes and $35 to adopt a cat. I did not know that. My mother’s Wire Fox Terrier rescue, almost 10 years ago now, took months of negotiations and hundreds of dollars. Anyway. It’s not much of a picture, I know (and that is not my painted toenail, thank you very much). He is very skittish. Mostly White Cat and Mostly Black Cat have been having some issues, though Mostly Black Cat ate treats right next to Loosey’s temporary enclosure, and just kinda did some desultory hisses in between bites of Party Mix, so they are coming around (I heard some very, very strange cat sounds, today, which my uncle and the attorney we were talking to could hear in the background, and were concerned about). He is very, very shy, and very, very beautiful. This was a gift for my wife, nominally, who turns 30 on Saturday (sometimes I feel like I married a child, when I think about that), but I’m the one who had this little cat (who did freak out, at first, and gave me a good scratching, but calmed down) on my lap, safely scruffed and purring like a lawn mower. I don’t know what I had done to deserve that. I had never held a kitten before, though I have petted a bonafide kitten on occasion; it was a magical thing for me. I think I needed a little bit of life added to mine, with everything going on (I have been on bereavement leave, this week; a cousin, one who looks more like my dad than I ever did, and who left the world in the same manner, and I have my own stuff, of course. I had a little bit of a nervous breakdown, I think). I realize that this all sounds weird for bereavement leave. I am not going to the funeral (I am helping my uncle out, from a distance, as best I can). I've been set back significantly, personally, in my own journey, and I need to heal a little before Fall rush and my surgery. I am essentially in the ambulatory (and expensive) version of forced bedrest, if that makes sense. I have worked myself to the bone, and I have not caught a break, other than being hit by a car showing the thyroid issue.

But can you do cunning stunts?

Happy Birthday!

I think I'm going to call in the morning and get the large, instead. ? I haven't worn anything but this new GMT Master since i got it. It feels like part of my body. I haven't even taken it off to shower. I don't even like this watch, but I love it. It's a much, much nicer watch than a 1675. It might be a "one watch" watch. Too bad I have a lot of watches.

I am a perv.

Cheesecake ...

John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once (The Lost Album)

Likes, disapprovingly.