But then the kittens got here and it took a lot of time to give them the oohs and ahhs they deserve.
Wow, the mamacat really is a good cat. She's purry and paw-thingy and snuggly.. Doesn't mind if you hold the babies. Will snuggle up on your chest if you put her there. Puts my cats to damn shame. I hope we can find her a good home.
As long as I'm awake (goddammit):
- Ran 4 miles this weekend. Pretty sure my normal neighborhood-tour jogs are around that long, but can't be sure until I drive the route. But this weekend, for sure, I did run 4 miles. At 11 a.m. In the sun. And I didn't croak. In fact, had it not been for that god-awful bright sun, I could've kept going. That won't impress the runners amongst you, but considering the first time I tried to run, I couldn't even go a mile, I'm happy with it.
- Ernesto is weakening and weakening. This is a very good thing because hurricanes really suck.
- Tonight was absolutely gorgeous. Breezy and gorgeous. After I fed the strays, I plopped down on the hood of my car right there behind the Enterprise and stared at the sky for about an hour, looking at the three stars you can see in our light-polluted sky. That was nice.
Off to get the weeknight standard issue six hours of sleep.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
