Jean Claude Relaxing
I am blessed in so many ways, with friends and family, and staff I enjoy. It’s easy to overlook those things with life challenges and people whose inner demons make it hard for them to relate or care. I think the trick is to focus on those who do care about themselves, so they care about others. Friends help you love you better. Roxie and Jean Claude of course have limitless love for me and CCL – because they know they are royalty.
There’s a lot of Christmas this year. My neightbors have outdone themselves with decor including moving Reindeer, lights, talking Santas and the like Roxie and Jean Claude for the time being remain at grandma’s house. Currently Roxie is sitting on my bed enjoying the sounds of Christmas music blasting from the television. She is also fascinated by the Christmas tree. Jean Claude, well yes, but he really liked playing with his cat Christmas toys as well as the foiled wrapped candies and admiring the neighborhood Christmas lights.
Listen here to Dave Francis’s “Auld Lang Syne”
I have no excuse for not blogging. I really don’t, other than a lot has been going on with me in my life. Holidays always seem to be a time of transition and reflection. Many people are sad about the holidays but if we remember a few things such as no matter what, we are alive. We are here and tomorrow does not have to be yesterday. In fact, today does not have to be yesterday. Too many people get trapped in the commercialism of the holidays and forget what truly makes this time of year special. Today, let’s take some time to reach out to those family and friends and take a moment to truly connect with them. Tell them you miss them, tell them you are thinking about them, tell them you love them.
So on to this blog title. Free JC & Roxie! Both have now been at Azeena’s house even though I have been home and off the road. She keeps pushing back their transfer date. I’ve now officially given up custody but still retain hope that they will come back to my house. However, they love Azeena and Azeena loves them. At some point we’ll work out a custody agreement although my version of custody means either they stay at one house and the other person visits. 🙂
Jean Claude is Also a Holiday Martian
Got a lot of help in decorating my house for the holiday season. Roxie, the Japanese bobtail ,supervised. Jean Claude, the male black Bombay, of course did the heavy lifting.
Jean Claude on "his" chair
Jean Claude, the black male Bombay, returned home last night after a 24-hour adventure. Still puzzled to how he got out the house, perhaps as I was hanging a Christmas wreath on the back door. However he got out and what he did during his day-long dissapearance remains a mystery. CCL and I spent hours yesterday looking for him in the back alley behind my house. As JC is a house cat he doesn’t tend to travel far. I also expressed angst to any and all who would listen despite assurances from CCL the little bad a@* would return. I remained unconvinced as I had put food out for the little bugger and it had not been eaten. Bombays, as cat lovers know, love food. I decided to go to bed but just before midnight I jumped out of bed almost knocking Roxie, the Japanese bobtail, out of her slumber and went downstairs and noticed the spotlight on my garage flickering off and on. I knew. I opened the back porch door and let Jean Claude inside and he went straight for his food bowl and then to his favorite chair for a nap. Typical male.
Cats & All That ™ 