I read a post from someone I admire this morning about changing attitudes and I'm going to work on mine starting today. I didn't start the day out well but from now to the end of this week I'm going to do my best to take the negativity out of my attitude.
I did have a couple of things happen this week that caught me as funny. First was the cat getting sick. To start out with if you don't know I have to kitties. One is an air kitty and the other is a land kitty. Now if you don't know what I mean I'll explain what I mean by air and land kitties. An air kitty likes to be up, on top of things that they probably shouldn't be on but not any where near the ground. Yes they get on the ground to do things but they perfere to sleep up high. I don't know if it's because heat rises and they like the heat or if it's because they like looking down on things. A land kitty likes being down where all the action is. They don't get up in high places but will get on the furniture and beds but spend most of their time on the ground. So there that explains the difference.
Now on Friday night my air kitty was where she really likes to be, up on top of the chifferobe in my living room and all of a sudden I hear that sound, that bad sound. If you have cats you probably know the sound I'm talking about. It's that hucka, hucka, hucka, sound that usually proceeds the cat throwing up. Well I'm sitting on the couch and I hear that sound and realize there isn't a darn thing I can do to get to her to put her on the floor so if she upchucks it's easier to clean up. And then it happens. Bam she projectile vomits right behind the couch. I know doesn't sound funny does it but looking back it's funny now because I was looking for an excuse to move the couch and here it was. It wasn't the reason I WANTED to move the couch but I had to do it now.
After telling the cat thanks for making things difficult for me I go to the kitchen to get the paper towels to clean up the mess. I have to move the coffee table (which is actually more like a trunk that's supposed to house the things I hide under the couch) and pull the couch out to clean up the mess. I grab the corner of the back of the couch and what happens? I put my hand in something that's now cold and slimy. After saying thanks to the cat again I clean it up and get the couch moved. After I get the couch moved I realized that not only did she get it behind the couch she got it in the heater. Thanks again. And down the wall. Thanks again.
Ok lets get it cleaned up. So that's what I set about doing. Once I scrubbed the wall and top of the heater and as best as I could the inside of the heater I got the stuff off the floor and decided since the couch was out I'd clean under it. You never know what you'll find under the couch and boy did I find a treasure trove.
I found all the things that my air kitty has been stealing. She loves to take pens, hair elastics and anything else she can get her paws on off my computer table and hide them on me. Now I've found one of her hiding spots. There were 6 hair elastics, 3 pens and my flash drive that I'd been looking for for about 3 months. there was also a ton of uneaten scraps of food under there. I didn't want to drag the vacuum out to vac so I did the best I could to clean up what was under there and proceeded to get the couch back in place. Some how though I hit the power strip and ended up shutting off the only light in the room and had to fish around in the dark to get it back on only to find out the plug had come out of the strip and I had to figure out how to plug it back in in the dark. Ever tried to do something in the dark? It's not easy to say the least. I have a small flashlight somewhere but do you think I could find it that night when I needed it? You got it, it was missing. Well missing till I got the light plugged back in and then it magically re-appeared. Right where I had left it.
I ended up with a sore back out of it and then what did my beautiful little baby do? She crawled up on the couch in my lap and laid down half in my lap and half on the corner of the couch. How sweet was that? I ended up giving her treats and some canned food to settle her stomach and also gave her some extra loving just because.
The other thing that was funny that happened was with my other cat. I went out last night and joked with the person who took me that when I got home I was going to have to move him off my spot on the couch. Sure enough when I got in and turned the lights on there he was, on the side of the couch where I usually sit, settled in like he wasn't going to go anywhere. I tried talking to him, explaining that it was my spot and after all he had his place on the bed that he could go, so could you please move? He wasn't buying it and gave me one of those looks that only a cat can give that means "You want me to MOVE? Not going to happen." So I took matters into my own hands and tried to move him, which by the way, is like trying to move a 50 pound cement bag. I got the treats out and the bag of cat nip but he just laid there looking at me. So I went over to him with the brush (because he can only stand to be brushed for about 3 minutes then he moves). I start brushing him and all of a sudden he dissapears. He fell into the couch! The spot where I sit is missing some of the supports under it and I sit in a hole. I'm constantly pulling the cushion out of it. So the cat falls in and the look on his face was priceless. I wish I had the camera handy because it really was a Kodac moment. In a matter of seconds he had figured out that wasn't where he wanted to be and it took him 3 tries to jump out of the hole. (He weights in somewhere in the 30 pound range so it's kind of hard for him to get out of small spaces) He gets out, gives me a dirty look and saunters off to the bedroom to ease his bruised ego.
So I laughed over these two episodes this weekend. I guess that means I haven't lost my sense of humor.
So for the rest of the week I'm going to look for the humor in more things. Hope everyone can do the same.
Have a great week and laugh!
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