Detroit transplants living in Dallas

Month: September 2005

Yay Kitty Suprises!

I was woken up this morning by contruction workers putting in a new drive way next door at 8am. Which wouldn’t have been so bad if a) i wasn’t hungover and b) the driveway is maybe 15ft from my bed. OK fine. So I walk downstairs all bleary eyed coffee in hand to bumble around on the internet all morning (wtf would I do without it?!) when i feel something squishy and wet between my toes. Bailey left a nice morning kitty suprise on the floor for me, yay!
And wouldn’t you know it, someone beat me to the (rather sick & twisted) idea for a website.
katpuke.com
God I love the internet!

New Orleans

After becoming totally desensitized to the whole New Orleans/Katrina thing, I was totally caught off gaurd by a blogger writing about his brief return home & his hopes to find his cat Lola alive.

I look around and see that there’s not much damage. Some more small trees and shrubs are down in my neighbor’s yard. A handful of my potted plants have died. I walk back to the kitchen to get my duffel bag and start packing.

Then I see her: a long, low lump stretched across a side table. I take a step toward her and call out “Lola?”, but she doesn’t respond.

The pieces quickly fall into place: during the storm, the door to the study slammed shut, trapping her in the back of the house for nearly three weeks, a few crucial feet away from bowls of food and a tap that’s still dripping. Lola’s eyes are slits, green and lifeless. I call her name again, stroke her back, but nothing.

Without thinking, I say, “I’m sorry.” I keep repeating it: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

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