Jan
5
Today was a hard day with a hard decision to make.
For a while, knowing that we’d be moving a lot in the next few years and all, we knew that three cats would be too many to have. Just too many. It’s hard to think about that, because we’ve raised them all from kittens and had them all since they were 2 months old.
With Wooster? He was staying no matter what. That little boy is a dopey baby. Best cat in the world. That meant it was either Cassie or Bella.
Bella we got back when Wooster was a little kitten in November 2005. I liked her at first sight because she was a little white kitten. I had an affinity for white cats because of my first cat, Freddy, growing up in Spring Hill. Bella, though, was different. She’s been special since day 1, because she’s a classic cat’s cat: give her what she wants, on her terms, when she wants it, and that’s all she needs. That’s not to say that she’s not loving, she loves to cuddle and come up and get her rubs, but she’s very content in finding her own hidey hole and just being quiet and not seen or heard for her naps.
Cassie we got back in November of 2006, so she’s the youngest of the kids. A rambunctious grey tabby, she won us over by being calm and cute. Completely unplanned, she became the newest addition to Clan Blam-Cohen. Bella never liked her, but Wooster got a lot more playful and the two of them were buddies. Cassie would come up to you whenever she felt like it for a little more attention here or there, and was more vocal about when she wanted attention. And the love you gave her, was the love she returned.
I’m not saying that Bella was mean, but she was always sort of the “odd cat out.” Maybe that’s what I love about her: that she fit in the way I always felt I fit in, between the cliques of the other two cats. She would chirp for attention, but only when she wanted it. And the rest of the time, would run away. She’d be content with me holding her, but not too much.
When you can only have two cats and you have three, it’s a hard thing to decide. Logic dictates that last in is the first out because they should adapt better, but with all of the moving we’ll be doing over the next few years, it’d be hard on Bella–who never adjusted well to moving. And then, there was the realization that I got Bella because I was missing Freddy. I just needed that white cat to fill the void to the one that I remembered. And that, is what I saw was clouding a lot of my decision. I loved her for what she was–loving but a standoffishly distant, primadonna princess–but I loved her for what I wanted her to be–another Freddy-cat.
She was the one that went today. Not too far, only to long time friends, but even still, it hurts. While they’ll be her new parents, and Sarah and I might still visit, I’ll miss my kid. That’s how it is when you have pets. You love them like they’re members of the family. And I’ll miss the cute little things that she does. I know she’s alive and well and in a great home, but there’s a hole in ours that Cassie and Wooster just don’t fill for me. Well, they do, but not in the way that Bella did.
Maybe someday Sarah and I will have another cat like her. Maybe not. You never can tell. But I’ll never stop loving white cats… even if I do like to wear black shirts…
Jan
4
When you think that everything is as right as rain…
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WordPress has now eaten a few of my posts, rambling about eggnog, my morning routines, buttered toast, and my syndicated LJ feed, well, I’m a bit frustrated. I’ve learned that everytime I get these problems, I just message Goob over on the HeyItsFree forums because of his work on HeyItsFree.net and his personal site and it seems that seconds later, I find the solution…
That was about an hour ago. Still have yet to find one. Even as I type this, I have no idea if it’ll go through. I kept getting a lovely 404 error every time that I tried to submit a post.
Not fun. Not fun at all. I was having the same problem last night, but it was with words in a post. I simplified that by making a JPG:
Yeah, ghetto, but it worked.
To all who are reading the LJ syndy of this: Thanks for the comments (Yeah, just you so far, Rob, but still). If you want to leave comments, I’d suggest registering here and commenting because it’s a bit more permanent over the comments that are left on LJ, which delete when the syndication blog-roll moves up.
Here’s to hoping I’ve fixed it… And if not, this isn’t going to be fun…
Jan
3
2007 in music… A comprehensive run down of my world and what crossed my ears and musical mind…
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This is the first of what might be a few from my LiveJournal. But, seeing that I consider this my main forum for writing and expressing myself now, I see fit to repost this here. For all of the folks who are reading this on their syndicated feed and it’s posting the full entry, terribly sorry about that. I’ve got it nicely tucked away here on my site, but there’s no “after the jump” that I can do there when the RSS pulls it over. “Ooops” is the best way to put that, I guess…
So, here we go… Right after the jump…
Jan
2
I’m trying to be dilligent here…
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As a whole, I’m trying to keep this site fairly up-to-date with all things that I humanly can when I can. As an internet whole, as my buddy Rob has said, it’s hard to do that when everyone has like 10 different sites that they’re on and blog or whatever on. If you don’t believe me, take a look at my contact page where I have all of my personal links. Or, you can look at any other link on that menu bar now, seeing I finally have it up and running.
So as a whole, I’m trying not to post babble here, even though all three of these entries have been babbling with random things, I’m happy that my website is 98% operational. I say only 98% because I have to work on the “about” section. I hate writing biographies. So dated when you look back at them. Don’t believe me? Read any of the bios that I have online to date:
My bio on my MySpace
My bio on my old band’s MySpace
My bio on my old website
It just feels hokey to read things like that. That’s why often I write a simple “one liner” like the one that I have up on my LiveJournal with a disclaimer.
Be assured that when I finally put one up here in a few days or a weeks time or two, that I’ll make it worth reading. Like I intend to do with most of the entries that I post here.
But I’ll be syndicating a few things from my LiveJournal for the next few days, and I’ll be trying to post every day or other day, at least updating a few times a week here. I write fairly regularly over on HeyItsFree.net, so if you don’t find me writing here, it might have been over there. Or maybe you read me over there and are reading me here. Welcome then.
But seeing I’m leaving my LiveJournal behind as 2008 and the rest of my life begins, I think it’s only right to do it here in style. CSS style, that is… And boy, has it been a pain to learn. I’m getting there, though… Slowly and surely…
Jan
1
For me, New Years isn’t really any sort of “special” day or time. Its not that it is or isn’t, its just that we place such stock in a day that’s 1-1 because it signifies a new beginning.
I think that any and every day that we wake up is a new beginning, if you really think about it. Why should we make a resolution today of all days just because it’s the start of a new twelve month calendar?
I resolve that resolutions should be made any and all days of the year.
And if you think that’s radical, wait till I post my thoughts on Santa Claus in a few days…
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