La Boheme Oscar

Me and Oscar are practicing a new trick in case I ever get fired and need some quick cash. I will play guitar very pathetically and he will sit in my guitar case, equally if not more pathetically, awaiting the money which will poor in. Pretty sure we would be big hit. Instant classic. Maybe I could skip heading to the street and just add one of those pay pal things to the blog like this:


Eh? Eh? Tough crowd.

Trouble in Paradise

I love Oscar. I really do. But sometimes he drives me freaking bananas.

This morning, Oscar was going about his daily morning routine of following me around, getting under my feet, meowing obnoxiously, etc. He does this in the mornings because my morning routine has me feeding him after my shower and after I've gotten makeuped and dressed. So he has to be awake and not eating for about 35 minutes in the morning. Which, apparently, is UNBEARABLE. This morning I decided I would commit to closing the bedroom door on him while I put on makeup/got dressed/blow dried my hair. He scratched the outside of the door like crazy. I decided to let him in. He meowed and scratched the inside of the door like crazy. I let him out. Repeat. You get the idea. I freaked my shit out at this point. I yelled at him.

"What do you want, Oscar?!?! IN OR OUT?!"

Billy sat up in bed and looked at me. He was very confused. Why would I be asking a cat this question? Then, without a word, Billy rolled over and went back to sleep, but the meaning of his look stuck with me. Why was I asking the cat this question? He was trying to get me to feed him. But he was inconveniencing me!

This must be what it's like to have children. Annoying. But you still love them, somehow.

Every relationship has ups and downs. But you know what? You know you're really in love when you have a cat blog.

P.S. Billy found a sweet site for clipart and is going crazy adding it all over the place. Link at the bottom of the page.

A Few Cute Things

Well hello there friends from work/husbands of friends from work/friends of friends from work who like cats a lot/people in the internet!

A few cute things that Oscar has done recently:

So, yesterday I spent about an hour and a half putting the first coat of paint on the cat house. It's just how I hoped it would be. Just how I wanted to paint my bedroom in high school: each wall a different color. In high school my mom wouldn't let me do that so I had my room painted lavender. Bo-ring! Am I right? But not anymore! I am a grown-up now. I can paint my cat house however I want to! Anyway, it's just the first coat. More glitter will follow. And while the cat house was on the coffee table and I was painting one side yellow and watching The Office on TV Oscar jumped up on the table and went inside the cat house and stuck his cute little cat paws and cute little cat arms out the window and tried to grab my paintbrush. SO CUTE!

The other thing he did was just now, he was sitting on my lap and he was so starved for some String playing that he started batting at my necklace. He just loves playing String! I had to hold his little cat paws so that he wouldn't scratch me. Some would say that's annoying but I think it is cute. He just loves to play String, and can you blame him? String is fun.