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Tuesday, August 29, 2006


Tuesday and My Claws are Out


I’m not good enough to adopt a kitten, but I’m smart enough to know John Mark Karr didn’t kill Jonbenet Ramsey. So maybe I should become a pet-hating detective!

I am still bothered by the fact that a good family was deemed a bad pet family because we won’t lie or sign an avadavat that we will never allow our cat outside. Nor will we get rid of our dogs nor our adult cat nor small children, ours or yours, in order to adopt a cat.

(I’ll get over this I’m sure, but I’m ready to start a “Do Not Spay or Neuter Your Animals League”, so that people like me can adopt a pet someday when there are enough homeless animals around. I don’t really mean this of course.)

The best part is, money talks. If I chose to go to a breeder and plopped down a big fat wad of cash, I’d bet you I’d get the pick of the litter, no questions asked.

Trying to move on from this disappointment and pissed-offment, I am greatly thrilled that “Crying Game” has left my brain and I currently don’t have another bothersome song stuck in my head.

I read a letter to the editor in my paper which said: The next time a politician goes to Iraq, he or she should take along a rifle and participate in this war they support. Iraq war supporters should want to go to Iraq and fight. I would if I believed in the war.

You know I don’t go to church, I detest “religion” (but not spirituality) but I did end up in an evangelical church for a wedding on Sunday. I braced myself for the event – it was a family member getting married and I had to go.

It only lasted about ½ hour which was doable and the church was very new, bright and open feeling. There was no tortured man on the cross, just a plain old cross and lots of flowers.

With meditation, deep breathing and the courage of a lioness, I didn’t faint or exit abruptly, but stayed through the service.

I was the first one at the bar though at the reception.

A petty thing but what would you do?

A certain family member is having a picnic on Saturday. She comes to many events hosted by the “family” but never brings anything other than a bottle of wine, if that. She always brings extraneous people with her like her adult children’s friends, her latest boyfriend and his sister, etc. She never pitches in to help set up the food or clean up the food and has never made a salad or dessert for these occasions. Let's put it like this: she attends our picnics dressed in silk with high heels.

Now she’s soliciting “dishes” for her picnic, I wrote back I’d bring some wine.

Was I fresh?

13 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fresh? Maybe.

Brilliant? ABSOLUTELY.

10:03 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

HI Summer...I think I'm going to do it...just bring the wine. Now if I only owned something made out of silk that I could go out in public wearing!!!

10:16 AM  
Blogger paintergirl said...

You are on a roll! I love it. Just because people are family, they think they can be rude and crass. MB this makes me happy. I'm still mad about the kitty though. It's one of those type of things that make melvin and I dislike Conn. That and Melvin really, REALYY hated the idea of no liquer sold on Sunday. "Bloody Puritans" he'd say.

10:25 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

I dislike Conn. numerous times for numerous reasons...and will hate my state if they elect Lieberman.

I dislike the neocon mentality that seems to have seeped into the pores of all the rich suburbanites who leave their children with nannies while they go out and volunteer at pet shelters.
Meow

10:43 AM  
Blogger paintergirl said...

Amen sister! Disgusting really-I used to be asked on the playgound in Norwalk if my son was mine. So many nannies so few good charities to donate time to.

1:25 PM  
Blogger Ilanna said...

a) great on the wine. :) hehehe
b) don't worry about silk - be comfortable in what you want to wear. She wouldn't get the point anyway.
c) pick up a few ppl at the local 7-11 and bring them with. (maybe some from a homeless shelter? :))
d) the cat. (sigh) I"M an animal lover. and it REALLY is a shame, that so many ppl have gotten so militant about good homes that so many don't get them because of restrictions. I can understand, not wanting dogs to be outside dogs. (cats are a different story) I can understand a cat not being an outdoor cat if they are declawed. That's safety. but people get a bit obsessed. I remember when we were looking to adopt another dog (when we ended up with mister) There was a group we looked at, but they wouldn't adopt to you if you weren't going to be home more than 4 hours a day etc. I appreciate wanting to give dogs room and time out, but i've never had an unhappy dog, who was miserable at being alone for more than 8 hours. That's why i have 2. I would try the spca, or some of the vets and pet stores where they have cats for adoption - I know I always see some down here. In fact there were 2 (brothers) available at the emergency vet when i was there last week.

Good luck and HUGS
ps. just drove though CT yesterday - too bad I didn't get a chance to contact you to meet us at a rest stop or something :)

3:43 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Most of the time, PG, when you are out in lower Fairfield County and you see a woman with kids -- it's a nanny...really - it amazes me...or else there are many many many interracial marriages in that area ;-)

Ilanna! We were also asked how long we were home!!!

...I'm home all the time.

And as I told the woman, I don't want an outdoor cat, (she means you never let it in and feed it outside etc.) I want a cat who can, if he chooses, go out and lay in the flowerbeds like my other one does.

I want my cat to enjoy his life and being trapped inside for no good reason (like no claws) is silly if you live where I live...

I would think a quick call to your vet would give them all the information they'd need. GRRRRR

Sorry I missed you but I did feel extra happy yesterday so maybe I caught some of your vibes!

3:51 PM  
Blogger minijaxter said...

ok sorry i didnt visit yesterday - busy and all that;)

a-bring the wine - wear a fancy dress -doesnt have to be silk...
dont offer to help with anything but make sure you go back for thirds even you throw away the 3rd plate.

b as for the cat i would be pissed off too.
here is what i think you should do. i think you should go back every weekend to that same rescue until she gets so brow beaten she will let you rescue a cat from her strict militant self

- hugs -

11:52 AM  
Blogger minijaxter said...

ps oh and i didnt get married in a church for all of those exact reasons - my mom was very upest by this at first but it helps that my husband is jewish and i said we just wanted a civil ceremony:)

11:53 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

First a correction to Ilanna...what I meant is that if you have a declawed cat it should NEVER go outside...but a normal cat in a safe area can go outside and my older cat does all the time...but only for short periods.

Jackie..I haven't had time to visit much lately, in fact I'm running out the door now...hope you foot's better.

Non church marriages last just as long or longer than church ones!!!!

12:19 PM  
Blogger paintergirl said...

I did not get married in a church either and melvin and I have been together 13 years this october. It was in a lovely public garden in central florida.

3:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We got our kitty from the Westport SPCA -- all we had to do was pay the fee and promise to get him neutered. No dumbass forms to fill out. Like there aren't more kitties than there are good homes for them.

It's interesting to read this tonight as we are taking my mom to find a kitty tomorrow -- she's finally over losing her last cat (to old age -- and she was an outdoor cat who specialized in assassinating rabbits and sleeping in the flower garden) and is ready to love another creature.

1:10 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Lee, when did you get your cat? Apparently the rigid rules and kitten nazis are relatively new on the horizon. I went to a party Sunday and everyone there who had gotten a kitten had not been put through what our family was put through...though none of the cats had been adopted recently. I am anxious to hear how your mother did ...I hope she didn't say her other cat went outside!

9:00 AM  

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