Hil I hope you can get your license renewed and your mortgage approved smoothly.

Day 2 of work. I met more of managment. Didnt get something done supervisor asked because I was busy helping customers and just watching how the staff interacted. And learning the stock room. There are some issues that need to be addressed including talking bad about the supervisor on the sales floor with customers present.

I didn't say anything because it's day 2 and I'm not a manager so I am not sure the exact approach but I wanted to tell them to change the subject and then pull each one aside and tell them it was inappropriate and I don't want to heat it again. Complain off the clock or at least in the stock room.

I need to ask the best way to explain what my standards for the department are in terms of visual but also how they act.

I came within 12 inches of getting myself a little orange kitty boy yesterday.

It had been raining, so all was damp and chilly. I heard something that definitely wasn't a bird. I go check it out. I am sure it is a young kitten in distress, but I can't find it. Then I check behind the BBQ grill, and there he is, clinging to the fence and screaming. If my arm was a little longer I could have snatched him up. He starts racing up and down the driveway, crying. How I wished I could make it better for him! Such a little fella, only six weeks or so.

I get some kibble and put it out. I hear crying a little farther away. He had gotten across the neighbor's back yard and was running back and forth. Suddenly he saw the right spot in the back fence, darted through and was quiet. I hung out for awhile, but I think he had found the way back home. He didn't make another peep.

DH and I were incredibly disappointed that we didn't get a kitty who walked up to our house needing our love.

Perhaps our positive reaction to this visitation means it's been long enough since we lost our Mishka, who remains irreplaceable because he was the World's Best Mishka, my familiar and best beloved.

Awww, kitty! I hope kitty is home safe and sound. Yes, it is time to find a kitty needing a home.

Aww, Katie, any kitty would be so lucky to have you.

Speaking of kitties and love, I found this shirt that I think Windsparrow and Harvey would love:

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I've tried several times to look for a kitty, but I just can't pull the trigger and commit. They never look right, somehow. That's why it was awesome to have Ellie walk up to our door and make friends with Sophie through the glass. Fate favored our cat family that day!

I have a lot of unreasonable demands for my next cat. I want a polydactyl with a puffy tail and blue eyes that I can raise as a bottle baby so it will imprint on me like Sophie and Pearlie have.

Probably the puffy tail is going to be the easiest to find.

Thanks for saying a kitty will be lucky to have me. I really do want them to be happy and secure.

Most of my animals have found me. When the time is right it happens. I may have to get a dog soon though because Brendon is just too lonely without his truck companion. When he picks up is keys to go for a ride somewhere he gets a jolt every time that no one is wagging a tale to join him.

Speaking of kitties and love, I found this shirt that I think Windsparrow and Harvey would love:

Idea, brilliant. Execution? NSM. 95% polyester. Too much sweat in that sweatshirt.

I have have only vague ideas of what to do about purposefully going out and getting a cat. I mean, I know that shelters and rescues exist. I know the names of the local ones. I know which pet stores foster rescues. And I know how to use a phone to make appointments to talk to people for foster-based rescues. I'm guessing that's what you do. But my cats have always chosen me. If one does not simply show up, and we end up going to a rescue, I don't know if I will end up accepting any little gesture as a "choice".

I have a lot of unreasonable demands for my next cat. I want a polydactyl with a puffy tail and blue eyes that I can raise as a bottle baby so it will imprint on me like Sophie and Pearlie have.

I know what this means. I had a polydactyl cat (although we just called it "doubled-pawed"), but polydactyl will never not look like some kind of dinosaur to me.

But my cats have always chosen me. If one does not simply show up, and we end up going to a rescue, I don't know if I will end up accepting any little gesture as a "choice".

This is where I'm at. I've looked around on Petfinder and stuff, but other than once finding one amazingly perfect specimen that, upon closer examination, was in Cincinatti (really, Petfinder, on what planet is Cincinatti "near" San Diego), it's never felt right.