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One of our other cats, Zoe, recently found herself pregnant. If you’ve ever been to my house, you know Zoe as the skinny cat… the pretty calico tiger striped cat… the one with James’ boot sticking out of it’s head… Amazon Kitty.

We didn’t even think she was that far along, until we saw her sitting on the chair in the living room next to Tia (the recent mommy) looking rather uncomfortable. I went over to her and, lo and behold, she was already starting to deliver.

So I very carefully ran her back to the box we’d prepared in Mom and Dad’s room… okay, so it was Tia’s box, but it was nice and clean and ready for Zoe. Unfortunately, they were stillborn. All three of them.

The first one was beautiful, too. It was a mostly white and orange calico… and I have a horrible weakness for calicos. It was obviously underdeveloped but still adorable. And so very fluffy! Unfortunately, it was the best of the three. The second one honestly looked like a little hairless mouse, and the third was black and white and… in bad shape.

Zoe’s fine. It absolutely breaks your heart when you see her chasing Jack around the house, trying to get him to look at her as his mother. He was born the weekend after camp… he’s a little old for this already!

This was a complete pet-post… sorry! But at least it’s not cryptic. Sorry about that.

Some of you know what my catchphrase is. It’s found in the Bible actually.

“Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you; do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”

- Song of Songs 8:4

And as much as that’s my “catchphrase” and I keep it in my head as much as possible, I don’t always listen to myself. If you know what I mean… well, you know what I mean. I have this nasty habit of giving my heart away to people that either a) don’t deserve it, or b) are clueless. Well, I’m back to my SOS call (ha ha). I’m refocusing and trying to back off again.

Sorry if this was cryptic but… it has to be!

Nothing like going to check your email and having Yahoo tell you that you’ve got one new message! only to have it be a forward from an acquaintance.

Seriously, what is the point of forwarding things? Bill Gates is not going to pay me anything because I forwarded this email. Tacky graphics and huge, colorful “inspirational” quotes are not going to make my day any better. Telling me that it is “National Such-and-such Day” isn’t going to inspire me to do great things. I’m not going to sign your petition unless it’s real, and chances are, it’s not. I don’t believe in the good luck or bad luck that forwarding (or not forwarding) this email to x amount of people is going to bring me. The world will not end (or AOL will not make you pay for its messaging services) if I don’t make a wish and scroll down, and I believe in God just as much as I did before I deleted your email.

If you don’t have something interesting to say, don’t say it at all. Please, no more forwards! They just get deleted anyway. Save the e-world and place all crap in the circular file.