Shelter Cats and Redemption

My colleagues at work know me to be....a major cat lover. A crazy cat lady? Whatever they call it, they all know....I love cats.  On my desk in my office are photos of: Tyler, Tiger, and Jackson.  On my wall is a calendar I made last year with photos of my cats. The background on my desktop of my MacBook Pro is a very recent pic of Tucker sleeping. Get the picture?  I'm a cat person. Anyway, one of my colleagues recently recommended I check out a little film called Kedi. "Watch the trailer," he said.  "It's right up your alley." Kedi?  That's Turkish for.....you guessed it. Cats. The trailer was....needless to say.....adorable. YouTube Red acquired the rights to stream this movie, which was in theaters in late 2016 early 2017. Apparently it's also the third highest grossing foreign language documentary ever. I mean, it's about cats, no wonder! With all this in mind, Tucker, Sophie, Ashley and I curled up together to check ou...

Tyler would have been 18 this coming Friday, June 9th. Eighteen. Here comes the silly jokes.  Ready? Tyler would have been old enough to vote! Tyler would have been old enough to go to college! OK, I'm done.  Still, imagine Tyler in a voting booth? "Sir, do you have your ID?" "Meow?  Chirp?" I'm sure he would have voted for Hillary.  He was always quite liberal. At any rate, as I've said before: do I know his ACTUAL birth date? No, I do not. Since I adopted him, as readers of this blog know, on December 9th, of 2000, and I was told he was a 1.5 year old cat, I back-dated him to June 9th, 1999. Back-dated. What is he, a tax return?  I really shouldn't blog while drinking coffee with too much sugar.  WHEE! Happy eighteenth, old man. Hard to believe you're gone almost 3 years.  It's still not quite the same without you, but I know you're proud of the job Sophie is doing in your old slot as alpha cat.  You'...