Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Getting to Know Me! (And My Animals)
Hey y'all!
Here is my recent life story. Just so you know who (whom?) you are reading about a little better. My name is Dawn, and I work for my parents. (Hey, that may sound sad to you, but at least I don't still LIVE with them!) But I am changing my career to Professional Slacker starting later this summer. I finally get to achieve my dream! Professional Slackers rock!
I am also married to my best friend, which is awesome. I mostly grew up as an only child, so I never had the opportunity to administer Indian Burns and Noogies. I am now able to do this at will, and he has no recourse. It is awesome, because he has no one to tattle to! But seriously, we have been married for about a year and a half, and we are having a blast! We love to play games, be it video games, board games, card games, or the name game. (Ha Ha!)
I am an animal lover. Jerry (my husband) merely liked animals when he met me, and reluctantly agreed to get a cat. We are now the proud owners of 3 cats, 1 dog, and 1 snake. My dad tried to warn him that marrying me would be almost the same as marrying a zoo, but Jerry didn't listen.
If you are not an animal lover like me, you may want to skip this next section.
Garfield is our oldest cat. He is orange and white with orange eyes. We picked him up in a friend's neighborhood. I am still not sure if he was a stray or not, but if he wasn't, I still do not regret our decision to take him. He was dirty, and skinny (we could see his ribs), and he wasn't fixed. Well, we took care of all of that. His nickname is Poppa, because he kind of watches over our other animals and he has taught them everything he knows.
Next is Madison. She is an abyssinian. If you like affectionate cats, you definitely want to check this breed out. She is my little princess girl. She is a reddy-brown color, with a little white patch on her neck, and she has green eyes. She is pretty small for a cat, but this is not unusual for her breed. We call her Maddy for short, or Maddy-Bo-Baddy for long. She likes to lay on my chest and receive belly rubs. When she gets extremely happy, she will drool. She does not put up with the shenanigans that the rest get into. She is too dignified for that, which is another reason that she is Princess Maddy.
Next comes K.C. He is our snake. He is a ball python, and he is very pretty. One of his markings looks like a dolphin, and that is how I knew that he was meant to be mine! I love dolphins. Anyway, how we got K.C. is quite a funny story. Jerry and I were driving to this large mall that we hadn't been to before, because he was going to buy me a new purse. (I LOVE new purses.) When we got there we went in through an entrance that had a reptile shop. One of the girls that worked in the shop was outside with a huge albino python wrapped around her shoulders. I got really excited and went right up to her, and Jerry grudgingly followed me. (He didn't know that I liked snakes, and I didn't know he was slightly scared of them at this point.) So I was coo-ing over this snake, and Jerry was laughing nervously. Well, what happens next girls and boys, should be taken as a lesson. He (not quite in these words) dared me to forget about getting a purse and getting a snake instead. He never thought that I would take this seriously, and he was certain that we would be walking out with a new purse. How wrong he was. So, the snakes full name is K.C. B. Snake. Kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
Now we come to Simon, our siamese cat. (I know, Simon the Siamese, how original right? He is very beautiful, but very clumsy. He has turned into a really big cat, and he tries to do the same things that he could do when he was kitten sized. He is also a big love, but he wants love when it is inconvenient. Like right before we fall asleep, anytime in the middle of the night, when we are stumbling around in the morning, or when we are in the bathroom. If we do not meet at least one of these conditions, he does not want anything to do with us. It is funny when we try to force love on him. He shimmies his body so our hands cannot actually touch him.
Last, but not least is Zoe, our dog. She is a miniature pinscher. She is our drama queen, and she is a very good actress. There have been a couple of times that we thought she needed to go to the vet because she was sick, but she was just faking us out to get more attention. She gets very jealous when we pay attention to the other animals, to the point that we have to take them into different rooms and close the door so she won't get mad. She is a daddy's girl, because mommy actually disciplines her when she is bad. With daddy, she just gives the big brown eyes and a little tail wiggle, and everything is fine!
And that my friends, is it. I never thought that I could have too many animals, but now I know that is not true. I love every one of them, but it is going to be a long long time before we get any more!
Okay, so I guess this isn't a lot about me really, but my animals are definitely a major part of my life!
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