the three little kittens they lost their mittens...

[bryiarrose]

so i went and bought a bleach kit and red hair dye. "fire red" so if i decide to actually do it, i can be an even more authentic fire demon for halloween. and then have redred hair. if you care, speak now or never.

i was only going to go in to see if they had a notices board for when i finally get sorcha posters done. one of the things they do is bring in cats/kittens from the humane society to stay for awhile and get people to adopt them. and when i went in tonight there were three kittens (so little, so cute, so energetic and then so sleepy) and another cat who was in the window when i came in. came in the door and the one in the window immediately came over to me, let me pet it, but stayed tucked up in the window display so i could only see her face. i went in further and convinced it to jump down and follow me, and oh. this cat could be sorcha's sister. mother. something. slightly smaller, different face markings and not as stripey through the tail or legs, but otherwise so much the same. from the back she looks so much like sorcha it's uncanny. and they move the same way, hold themselves the same way, and even somewhat act the same way. except sorcha talks so much and this one only meowed to tell the kittens to go away. she's about seven years old so she can't be sorcha's sister and i doubt they're related any other way (sorcha having come from golden valley and this one i'm assuming from faribault). but i understood this cat because i understand sorcha. it made me wish i was grownup and had a big house so i could have them both. see if maybe since they had such similar temperments they'd get along. she even got jealous in the same way sorcha does--or expressed it the same. when all three kittens crawled into my lap she got jealous and wouldn't let me pet her. then got a jealous look on her face and even though i displaced the kittens and tried to coax her, eventually turned her back and ignored me for the most part-- didn't want to look directly at me. it was so strange. i've never seen two cats so much alike. needless to say i wasn't there just a minute. i was probably there for almost an hour.

i miss my sorcha so much. i spent a lot of the time while i was there and on the way home trying yet again to think of how i could have her here. the best new something i thought of was putting up that mosquito netting stuff around the bed so at least she couldn't get that all catted up and allergic. i'm lonely. and i'm home so much more this year. and i miss her. and i feel bad about imposing on notmonochrome and nicepersonality as much as i am. i'm running out of ideas and options and i can't take her back to the humane society... she wouldn't make it if she had to go through that again. i'll give her up permanently if that's what it takes, but oh i miss her and want her here with me. if only i had one more room.

also, oddly, my dad called and left a message last week just to ask about her. not because he'd found any solution, but he was thinking about it and wondered if i had and how she was doing. for those of you who don't realize it, this is very strange. my dad who freaked out when he found out i'd had a cat for over a year despite my allergies... my dad who generally isn't much of a cat person. very odd for him to call just to ask about my cat.
if i dye my hair he'll freak again. first he finds out i have a cat, then a tattoo, and if i dye my hair? he's going to think i've gone mad or delinquent or that something is horribly wrong with me. oh well. my hair, my body, my life.


now it's off to actually finally try to finish my damn moby-dick paper. the weight of my prospectus draft has been lifted for now, seeing as not one of us had it done for today and now the deadline has been changed to whenever we can get it done or at latest 11/4. calmer. slightly. and i'm trying to wean myself off the tv, which should help as well. but now to work.

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[notmonochrome.livejournal.com]

Steve and I would much rather keep Sorcha than have her go back to the humane society, even if she is sequestered in the den by herself when we're not home. She's not doing bad kitty things at all because she has her own food and litter box that the other cats can't get to. She's been getting along with Sadie much better now. As soon as those two are buddy buddy, I'll try and whip Lil into shape. Silly bitchy kitties.