So I am very sorry to all of my readers for being absent for so long! I have finally figured out a way to do my writing...my important writing about my life using this more sophisticated blogging site that is attached to my website. I also have a MySpace page that you should check as well. There I will have my latest updates about music I am listening to and more visual opinions about what is going on in the world. I also have a MySpace blog, but I am not sure which I will use more this one or that one. Perhaps I shall cross-post! I will let you know.
For now, I am giving you the most complete update I can about my life up to today.
You may have noticed by looking at the info on the blog page that I now reside in Arizona rather than Cleveland, Ohio, which is where I started this blog. The major difference that I see between the locales is that I get to go outside regularly in Arizona. Also in Arizona there is a delightful amount of hot concrete upon which I can lay. Here in Arizona, I have also rediscovered my taste for greens. I enjoy a daily "salade" of grass or dandelion which helps to clear the digestive tract.
With this new move (the move being a tale in itself) I see my Friend a lot less and she seems to spend more time with the alien buffoon than she did previously. Let me see if I can recap the last year in a few paragraphs and give you an idea of how it went.
Most of 2007: My Friend (whom I love) spent most of the year with some large male version of herself and was gone from the apartment in Cleveland more than I would have liked. Fortunately, she would take the alien buffoon with her so at least we had some peace. "We" being myself and The Other Cat. However, one of the activities that I am passionate about is sitting on my Friend's lap, or any part of her body. This is how I show her love and in Cleveland it had a dual function of providing warmth as well. But her frequent absences during 2007 did not allow for much of this to happen. So I spent a considerable amount of time cuddling with The Other Cat. This has its good points, but she is bigger and younger and tends to bite and claw when moody. This is not ideal for someone of my advanced and respectable age.
Summer 2007: My Friend took us to live at the male version's house! With the alien buffoon! I had no idea what the hell was going on. Then to top things off...she left us there! The Other Cat and myself were incredulous. The alien buffoon didn't give a damn. Also, the male version lived with a cat. This cat was so unfriendly and rejected all of my advances! I suppose she is not used to suave tomcats like myself. Fortunately, after a few weeks, my Friend returned and spirited us back to our own home. A very odd incident that I had hoped wouldn't repeat itself.
End 2007: In Cleveland, the winters are cold, wet, and snowy. Fortunately, I only experienced the cold part and could hide under blankets when it became too much. But as the year drew to a close, my Friend began to pull everything out of the drawers, closets, and cupboards. She made a huge mess! She put many things in boxes and before you know it The Other Cat and myself were stashed in crates and carted over to the male version's house again! What did we do to have our home disrupted so violently and then shuttled off to this dude's house? I was flaberghasted!
Beginning 2008: Little did I know that this was the beginning of a long terrible trip. A week or so of living with that dude's cat in an unknown house was too much. The dude left for some reason and then my Friend did something I thought would never happen again. She started packing her truck. She does this in summers, but she hadn't done it this year. So I thought it was over. But no. She packed us into the back of her truck cab in a giant cage. And the journey began. Our first stop. Home. The 'Lou baby! I was back in the city where I was born, survived the floods and 3 graduate students. I was home. I had hoped to stay, but that was too much to ask. The next day was a 14 hour journey to the palatial home of the Friend's parents in Colorado. There we rested for a day or two and then we took the Friend's mother and went to Arizona. A 15 hour drive. We arrived at the new house. The greatest effrontory of this whole trip was that the alien buffoon was allowed to ride up front with my Friend, while I was stuck in the back. In a cage. Like a zoo denizen. The love I have for my Friend is too great thus, I cannot hold these things against her. But still....
The new house: So far this is the best place I have ever lived. There is room enough for me and The Other Cat. I have resumed the daily nose beatings of the alien buffoon so that he knows that only I run the house and he is merely allowed to live here. The Other Cat has an entire room to herself with a large bed. Often we sleep there together, but it is her domain. I prefer to sleep on my Friend's bed during the day when she is gone and then stand on the kitchen counter when she is around the house. There is a backyard for stalking prey and which also provides the greens I need for my digestif. Frankly it is a good life. I just wish my Friend was around more. I wonder where she goes during the day.
More later! Story out.
