"New" Friends

Friends are a great thing to have. As the years go by, though, it is hard to keep up with my own life and maintain those strong friendship bonds. Those that I still speak to, I only see probably about 4 times a month (if I'm lucky). Thinking back to the "me" in HS, I could never imagine life could go on and I could still be happy if I didn't have a gazillion friends I see all the time. Guess that's part of growing up, ay?

Speaking of "new" friends, we are taking care of our friend Kelly's cat while she is out of town for 3 months. Her cat happens to be out cat's sister. The first night, our cat (Chloe) hissed at Molly (her sister) all night long. Talk about territorial. I finally stuck them in the closet/crawl space under our loft with a shoe box converted into a litter box. I did this to 1) get them to learn to like each other and 2) so I could get sleep and conserve my sanity!! The next day, they just avoided each other, which was a lot better than them fighting. Now, a couple weeks later, they seem to be best friends. They play together, follow me around together, and even sleep together at the foot of our bed. This weekend, I saw them sleeping in the sun. They woke up when I took the pic, but you get the general idea in the picture of how they were sleeping. Molly was originally a stand offish kitty, but now she has warmed up to me and jumps on my lap whenever I am sitting down...even if Chloe is already on my lap.

Oh yeah... only 9 more days til our flight leaves to Florida...... to go to the BAHAMAS!!