just got home from my cat shift. i am going to clean the kitchen floor and go to bed. i'm tired. so i should go do that now. but, since i'm tired, i am procrastinating. by wasting time online. i'm smart, right?
i like my kitty shift. tonight one cat went home, so that was good.
one kitty is super, super scared. she sits on the floor of her cage and scoots her head under her bed, so she's hiding. if you pet her, she likes it, but she's just so scared until you do. so tonight, i took this tent thing i bought for them at wal-mart.. more like a pop-up cube thing.. and put a comfy smooshy pad at the bottom of it and put THAT in her cage. i left one of the open sides facing the cage door so people could see her. she hopped in that and seems to like it; she probably feels a lot more secure covered up on all sides, even if she has a couple of open windows.
so yeah, i like going in and doing this. i let some cats out to play and throw toys everywhere for them to bat around. the other cats, i try to make life in a cage for them as good as it can be. an extra rug to lay on for the old persian kitty. a fresh towel to hide under for the scaredy cat. a fresh mousey for baxter, who loves toys. a belly rub for good old dawny (pictured). hugs & chin scratches for everyone.
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!"
