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Dear Sammykins,

Mommy missed you too, no really I did! I love your headbutting and snogs and how you show your appreciation and how much you missed me while I was gone, but really, after 3 hours...I need you to quit. It's 3am and we both need to sleep before I kill you. You can love on me again in a few hours, really. I promise, I'm not going anywhere until I have to go to work--which is why I may have to kill you now.

Dear Frankenkitty,

Mommy missed you too honey. We've been through this now for 10 years. Occasionally I'm gone. I always make sure you have people to care for you and love on you in my absence. Seriously, do you think they just happen to show up and then just happen to provide you food and scritches, fresh water and a clean litter box? Oh wait--you probably do.

Still, I really don't enjoy your standard greeting when I come home. You insist on following me from room to room so that you can sit in an obvious spot with your back to me and ignore me in a very obvious way. Ooooh yes, bad mommy; put me in my place. That whole scene might be more effective if you didn't forget you're mad at me at 3am when I get up to go to the bathroom and you come dashing in to flop down on my feet and meow for a belly rub like you always do. Though I admit, when you realize your mistake the look on your furry face is priceless. By the time I'm back in bed, you're back to sitting in the middle of the room with your back to me.

Consider me suitably contrite. When I get home tonight you shall have the holy grail: soft cat food.

Love, Mommy

An end of a day

I made it through work without falling asleep at my desk--I wasn't sure that was possible.

Dork doggie was excited to see me tonight and we got a quick walkie in JUST before the cold rain/sleet mixture came on yet again.

Frankenkitty is apparently over her little snit with me. Okay so she was much more eager to have Doctor Lust pick her up than me, but she's no longer sitting with her back to me. Today she got 'friended' by a group on catster called "Terrific Tabbies" and so she made her very first post to the group to complain about her wicked ol mommy who went off and left her and her plan for world domination, one sofa pillow at a time.

My apartment is WARM!!! Compared to my old cottage, which, when I walked in there today afterwork to get that last little bit of stuff was ice cold.

I'm so tired I can barely think straight, but since it's Friday night I'm not sure the boys living upstairs will be sympathetic to my plight and allow me the quiet to sleep. Then again, given my level of tired, I may just pass out and not even notice they're there. Where did I pack those ear plugs anyway?

Before I can even contemplate a snooze I have some things I must do like clean the litter box and check food and water levels.

If I'm not back tonight, you'll know I'm dead to the world, to be resurrected sometime tomorrow morning, snow or no snow!