A rare look into the other side of my life with Dan – sans leopard and the cat ears!

Many eons ago in an uncivilized world, I had another life. A life that involved cats, but only in the sense they were beloved household family members and I had a different job. A job that entailed executive administrative and marketing work, but it was long before AOL dialup was introduced to the mainstream public, emails, iPhones, Internet, Google, blogs, and Facebook. Thankfully I did live in a world with running water, electricity, cars, air conditioning, televisions, telephones with long black cords, and computers with the ability to create endless excel spreadsheets to save on what was called a “floppy disk,” or I don’t know how I would have survived under such archaic conditions…

I worked for a body armor manufacturer back then and it was also then that I met Dan for the first time in 1999. I happened to be married at the time and our relationship was strictly one of co-workers and I did not give it much thought other than that. Completely unrelated to Dan, I went through a divorce in 2003 and it was shortly after that time that we realized we had a great friendship developing and started dating. Eventually we became engaged, he moved in, 8 cats later, we have been an inseparable team ever since. Read more

Is grass really greener on the other side? The truth of the matter is simple – maybe it isn’t. But then again, if you never decide to look, maybe it is. The choice or crossroads dilemma becomes how much you really want to find out and that is perhaps why I envy cats so much. Almost always, they want to know, consequences be damned. Read more

Rain, rain go away… Us kitties are missing the sunshine, so please come again some other day…

A lot of the country is experiencing record heat waves, but for us in South Florida, it is the everyday occurrence of rain. And not just rain, but the rain of perpetually dark days that begin early in the morning, cloaking the rush hour drive to work in a veil of gloom and doom that continues on into the rush hour drive home at night and starts all over again the next day. The plants and lakes appreciate the downfall, but after awhile it can wear on your nerves. Even us easy going kitties can feel the effects, after all, we do our best napping in a warm and wonderful sun puddle. But, being the troopers we are, we will persevere and dream of brighter days to come… Read more

Peanut wants you all to know how much we appreciate your friendship!

I truly love blogging because it has enabled the kitties and I to make so many wonderful friends. We care about you all, but we can’t possibly know what each and every one of you are going through in your own lives, each and every day, but it stands to reason that sometimes you might not be having a good day. Maybe you don’t feel well. Or maybe you got some bad news. Or maybe you just feel blue for whatever big or small reason and your world is a bit off center. Read more

We’ve all had it happen – those happenstance moments in life where it seems you are destined to meet someone for a significant reason, but you don’t know why at the moment. For me, that chance moment actually happened to Dan, and the person he met was actually meant for me. Read more