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Diary—June 2003

July 1, 2003 By: Sparkle Cat3 Comments

My First Birthday

Posing

Things are starting to get surreal around here. Lately, Binga has been dashing around and leaping in the bathtub (only when there’s no water in it, of course). She does this every night, jumping in and rolling around like a maniac. She thinks this is fun and insisted that I try it. Honestly, I don’t see the appeal.

Thinks she is not supposed to be in there Little does she know, no one cares

Thinks the whole thing is pointless.

Then Boodie spent about three days with this big bandage on her back foot—apparently she broke one of her toenails. It’s too bad we don’t have any video of her walking—she’d take a step, shake her back foot, take another step and do it again. Her walk made her look like this guy, Charlie Chaplin, who my human has watched on TV on a show called Silent Sundays. It’s on Turner Classic Movies and she’s always talking about it. This Charlie Chaplin guy was on once or twice.

Pretty... vacant She didn't even try to remove it

The classic airplane earsBoodie broke her nail the same day we had plumbers over—there was some disaster in the second floor bathroom that needed to be fixed. I hated the plumbers—there was this one guy who said I looked like a squirrel. The nerve! He’d never seen a cat like me and wanted really badly to touch me. After a comment like that, he wasn’t getting near me. Jerk.

The best thing about this month was that I turned a year old—that means no more kitten food! I get the high-end Nutro Gourmet Chunks like the other cats.

Time for a party!My human had a little birthday celebration for me. She’s seriously into birthdays—hers isn’t ’til almost the end of July and she’s had it marked on the calendar since, like, May. See, with this birthday thing you’re supposed to get really incredible gifts and be treated special all day. I don’t get the part about being treated special—I’m special every day, after all. But the gifts I can understand—I thought maybe I’d finally get that huge cat tree I keep dreaming of.

Well, my birthday didn’t turn out like I thought it would. First my human made me wear this really stupid ribbon that said, “I am 1.” I felt like an idiot.

Get this thing off of me!

Then she pulled out my gift. Obviously it was too small to be a cat tree. I figured it was some new kind of toy, so I started to play with it before realizing that the gift was actually inside. I figured since it was my birthday it had to be something really, really good.

Seriously hating this birthday ribbon It made a lame toy anyway

It was a new collar.

Ewww... how... nice. Not. Never give a cat or a kid something to wear as a gift

What a burn! It wasn’t even a toy! Granted, I’m glad to get that cheap, old collar off (in fact, I’d chewed the end to bits). And the new collar is soft suede with metal hearts, but geez, what an anticlimax.

The old collar was fugly Fugly, I tell you!

The old gift box switcheroo trickThis is the part that I found especially ludicrous—it came in a Tiffany box. Yeah, it’s a nice collar, but I know it didn’t come from Tiffany’s. This really makes my human look like something of a poseur.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that birthdays are highly overrated. I may skip mine next year if this is what they’re all like. The really dumb thing is Binga hung out the whole time, and you could tell she wanted a birthday really bad (we don’t even know for sure what day hers is—that’s what happens when you’re a shelter rescue). So my human gave her the bow to make her happy.

I get the feeling the bow didn't actually make her happy.

»July 2003

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Comments

  1. Katie Bella says

    March 19, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Oh Sparkle. I so miss you. Little love.

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