General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and... For Dec. 17, 2005, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Here it is, after dinner, and I just spent another 30 mins looking up Julie's cheese story on the MWG thread....some MILs are beyond tolerating. Several years ago, we made a short trip to deliver a gift to DH's mother, who is incredibly rude. I'm sure he was switched at birth. I had gotten her a nice gift, she of course had nothing for us. She commented that I "looked good" and then followed that with, "But if I had your money, I could look just as good". I bit my tongue, but the following year, I happened to buy an Estee Lauder product, and the bonus with it was this humongous assortment of cosmetics, a tray about 12" by 20", with every imaginable kind of cream, lipstick, blush,mascara, eyeliner, etc. Wrapped it up and gave it to her, and said, "Get started". Told DH that was the last time I was giving her anything. We haven't seen her since.

We had stopped for breakfast after we dropped off our tax check, and I happened to pick up the morning paper that someone had left behind. And there was the ad. Calling to me. Loudly.

And, yes, I did get a call back from Pauline, the disorganized ditzy kitty mom. She has two litters, one 7 weeks old, and one 5 weeks, a total of nine little dynamos. There was only one boy in the 7 week bunch, but two in the younger. We picked them all up, turned them upsidedown and sideways and got in a fair amount of smooching. We picked one little fella from the five weekers, and marked him. He's not for sure a he...sexing kittens is a challenge, all hints about the upside down exclamation point aside...it's darn hard! So, our choice may turn out to be a girl, but we don't care.

As far as DH being concerned, he drove there in record time, and is definitely not a No More Cats kinda guy, he's more like "What's one more?".

And, I ***just happen** to have a picture that she gave me, and there is no guarantee that this is ours, but the color is accurate, and he can come home in about three weeks. I'm just starting to let myself be happy. The girls are going to be so surprised!! Especially our little princess who thinks she is Queen of the World, since all the boys are gone.

Somehow, in the event he pulls an escape trick like the others have occasionally done, I have a hard time picturing myself scouring the neighborhood calling "Tinker Angelpants" without having someone call the Mental Health Police........... Feel free to submit more names, and remember SiameSe like names with SSSSSSs in them.

Did I say hello to everybody? LOL I'm a little ditzy myself!

This message was edited Dec 17, 2005 7:33 PM