Boo Has Returned!!!

After nearly four days in the great outdoors, I am THRILLED to tell you that Boo has returned home. I went outside to do one last check for the night, and to bring along some wet cat food and yucky icky sardines that someone gave to me tonight.

I called her name. Boo-oooooo.
"Mew?"

Holy shit. Boo?
"Mew?"

This call-and-response went on for a few minutes until I figured out where she was. Ahem, exactly where I said she would be - hiding under the next door neighbor's house. I crawled through the bushes and sat on the ground, calmly singing the Boo song. Boo-oooo. She added her own vocals to the song: Mew?

Eventually I saw her. I gasped. And when I had the hands of a surgeon, I grabbed her. I held her and rocked her back and forth. I have never wanted to cry and puke at the same time before. I brought her to the step and she immediately went for the sardines. I put my hand on her, not letting her out of my sight. I called my friend - the one who fucking LEFT THE FUCKING DOOR OPEN - and relayed the good news.

Boo has returned.

Halla-fucking-lujah.


:)

So *that* happened.

Big Winner!

OK, so you haven't heard from me in awhile...as my friend Bean so *lovingly* pointed out. My commitment to daily blogging hasn't seemed to take hold...although I did try and chalk it up to the fact that time is different on *my* island than HIS...

I just haven't had anything much to say. At least nothing worth forming complete sentences for...damn, don't want to end in a preposition. That is, until today. Today, I won the lottery. (Technically, Saturday I won the lottery, I just didn't claim until today.)

I've been playing the lottery off and on for the last year. Mostly off, to be honest. Today, I finally scanned my lottery ticket at the 7-11 by the office. Instead of the digital readout confirming my fate of "Big Loser!", it actually told me that I won! And to see the cashier for my payout. WINNER! Big Winner! I asked her "Do I have to wait for some governmental check...or...do you pay me?"

She said "Do you just want lottery tickets?"

I said, "Um, I'll take one lottery ticket and one dollar in cash."

OK, I didn't say that I was a HUGE winner...just a big one. Two big ones. And as the cashier told me..."Next time, it will be more."

It better be. Baby needs to buy some Super Big Gulps.