Suzanne Calling

He meows and scratches at the screen door to the lanai, as if to make his intentions clear that he wants to go out. I don't get up. He runs to that door any time I do get up, thinking I'm going to let him out. Then, when I happen to be over by the door, and he made it clear that he wants to go out, I open it and he just stares at the open door. I close it and walk away, with a cat still inside the house. I wonder how long it will take him to realize that meowing doesn't work and that I'm less inclined to open that door if he doesn't go out...

You no longer have privacy in the bathroom. (the cat also will insist on you petting him) Your wardrobe of mostly green shirts and black pants rapidly gains fawn colored fur. The sound of rustling in the kitchen no longer means one of the children has disobeyed bedtime. You become startled by a sound right behind your head when you're sitting on the couch, but it's just the cat jumping up to visit you. You lament the fact that you don't have a lint brush and keep forgetting to pick one up when you go to WalMart. You have to teach the animal that no, we do not allow the pets to climb into our food. As much as you like your Vera bags, the cat likes them more and tries to make them his bed. You insist that this stay will be temporary, but the cat has other plans.

We've got a deadline here, so I won't tell the story of yesterday until tonight. It may even be tomorrow. In the meantime, I don't want to shirk my Blog 365 duties, so you get... KITTY PICTURES! No, not my kitty. My nose is still stuffed up from petting Scamp, but it's worth it because he's just so gosh darn CUTE. Here's yesterday's photo session. Scamp is the inlaws cat. Yes, they named him after a Disney dog. Their other cat is named after a Disney bug. I didn't have any input on the fact tact that there are dozens of Disney CATS they could have named him after. Look at me, I'm as playful as a kitten on a string. Oh wait, I am a kitten. That's a string. Duh. Man, that flash is BRIGHT! Why didn't you tell me that when I signed my model's release?! So, which website are these going to show up in? LOLCats? I can haz Cheezburger? What? Just in So, You Don't Get Any Phone Calls From Me? That's it, I'm not posing an...