2 posts tagged “kittens”

so for the past 23 years i've always had cats, always always. i moved into this building and the broker told me NO PETS. i gave my one cat, thurston (the love of my life) to my exboyfriend (thurston's daddy) and the other, paper, to a girl who later gave her to the spca without warning me (which to this day makes me shake and cry and feel like a knot of sadness) and moved in because i was desperate with no place to go. well a few months later i walk into my building to find a tub of cat litter in the hallway. weird. a couple months post that, walking down the stairs i pass a couple who is "just catsitting". i start to wonder, what the hell is that "no pets" thing the broker said, about? well. a day or so after that, the girls downstairs from me bring a small dog into their apartment after letting him potty outside. a dog? this is ridiculous. but still i abide by the rules because i think, maybe these people are all just breaking the rules, right? well a couple weeks ago i look on craigslist for apartments (as i do every day), and find an apartment in my building. and what does it say??


everyone else sees that 'cats ok, dogs ok' part, right? that was the final straw. i called up an animal rescue and rescued these two babies and don't care what anyone says, if everyone else is allowed pets, so am i. that apartment also looks alot nicer than mine (my molding is painted white, my walls are dirty, and my carpets are old), so he can't say its because my apartment has special circumstances.

so now i have two lovely babies again, super remniscent of my old cats which is almost creepy and i didn't even realize. their final names are theo and juniper (in order of photos above).

meet my new babies, lou and nico.

lou needed a bath, he stunk the whole car up. i bathed him with my vanilla sugar body wash in my kitchen sink while nico hid in my closet. totally worth waking up at 8am the morning after new years eve.

lou follows jake and i around the house, never leaving us alone. nico, i think, has munchkin syndrome, her front legs are super short which makes her somewhat resemble a car with big wheels on the back and little ones on the front. her head is insanely round and her eyes are huge. she is the instigator and has been chasing lou around the apartment for the past four hours.

new years eve was completely ridiculous. i drank a glass, a bottle, of pinot noir, a glass of champange and two or three glasses of sean's blush. downstairs at brandon's, drank a glass of his as well and threw up in a plastic bag for the majority of the night (though luckily AFTER i arrived home, and in the company of only jake).


we stepped outside for the balldrop and opened three bottles of champagne in the pouring rain. i threw his scarf over my head ala film noir kayta and kissed and rang the new year in surrounded by at least 50,000 other couples kissing and nudging and wishing strangers the best.