this will be our year

hold me closer, tiny dancer

i wanna know what love is, i want you to show me

little red corvette

hush hush

keep it down now

voices carry

eeeeevil woman

i think that’s it

you’re all i need to get by

those are all good songs to sing to a cat

maybe hall and oates? but generally nothing particular, just whatever’s playing when i feel the urge

i’ve learned that he doesn’t like being strummed like a guitar tho

that’s funny bc the other song i put in my songs for cat spotify list (which has no little red corvette, rip, but i listened to 3x this morning in traffic) is rich girl

bring back that purring feeling

china girl

barrytown

he is not a cat but

my harry amour

hee

maybe someday i’ll share your little distant cloud

<3 i love that grumpy photo of him, i he looks like a bandit.

time cast a spell on you

but you won’t forget me

i know i would have loved you

but you would not let me

yes i do sing the words wrong when i have not had coffee

i got a new jacket and lyle likes to sit on it

which is fine but it’s weird having one’s cat smell like leather

pour me another cup of coffee

for it is the best in the land

i’ll put a nickel in the jukebox

and play the truck drivin’ man

pop a top again

i’ve just got time for one more round

set ’em up my friend

then i’ll be gone and you can let some other fool sit down

haha perfect

even though we ain’t got money, i’m so in love with you honey

<3

Ring my bell

my cat is 11 and she was just diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. she was puking incessantly. i’ve been giving her her pills and she has not vomited in over 48 hours—since before we went to the vet. she is also very brave at taking her medicine and doesn’t hold a grudge toward me for wrangling her and making her take it. congratulations to her.

congratulations and best wishes to both of you <3

congratulations indeed

also, from the underworld poll on ilm:

we fostered two cats starting in february so they’ve been with us a few months and we “upgraded” that i guess to fully adopting them. they are sweet but they are still pretty feral so we can’t touch them yet. we collectively refer to them as “the boys” and occasionally call them each just “boy”. well i want them to get more comfortable with me so i talk to them a lot even though i can’t pet them yet, and for the past week i’ve started doing this ting where i start singing NUXX to them but changing the lyrics to be about what they’re doing? “cat boy small boy chewing on cardboard boy in the kitchen boy he is a fuzzy boy” shit like that. they don’t seem amused but i like it and it is actually making me like that song more again OK THE END

lol. since my last post we’ve had some medication misadventures and she’s puked twice, but i think part of her problem is hairballs and i need to get to the store to get some anti-hairball substance for her too.

i had to give lyle pills twice a day for his last two years and it was so awful and he was so good about it.

polly, even if i could catch her, would rip my hand off.

yes i’m still gonna talk about lyle for decades

as you should!

i am supposed to give her half a pill twice a day. but these pills have stern warnings NOT to cut them as they are dangerous to humans. i just wash my hands after handling them but uhhhhh. i’ve sometimes given her a whole one because she spends several hours sleeping in a drawer from morning to afternoon every day and getting her out of there is impossible. it’s under the bed so she can just slide out the back of it and hide and i won’t catch her. very clever.

sang bob welch’s ‘sentimental lady’ to polly tonight, who was unimpressed despite ‘you are here and warm/but i could look away and you’d be gone’ perfectly describing our relationship

omg

that song

<3