I'm getting Lisa a cat for Christmas. We're picking it out together when I come back from Florida.
This is the product of much careful deliberation. Neither of us are dog people, and our landlord wouldn't allow it, and our busy lifestyles wouldn't be good for a dog, so that was out of the question.
[On a side note, I feel the same way about most dog owners as I do about liberals: I understand why they feel the way they do. Dogs are fiercely loyal and do a lot of cute things. Seinfeld used to joke that they're like babies that stay young forever. Makes sense to me. Liberals are generally compassionate people who just want to take money away from "greedy rich people" and give it to poor people who need some help. I can understand that too. But I feel like dog owners usually don't understand why anyone either wouldn't want a dog or would want a cat. Liberals often cannot understand how anyone could possibly be conservative. It's quite a lonely life as a conservative cat owner :-) Back to getting a cat...]
There are a few pledges I would like to make before I become a cat owner:
- I will not call myself as Daddy (nor will Lisa be Mommy) in reference to the cat.
- I will not force pictures of the cat upon other people, unless asked. I will know my cat is not at all interesting to most people in my life.
- I will not talk try to convince people that don't like cats that "this one is different".
- I will not let my apartment become more of a home for my cat than it is for me.
- I will not let the cat sleep in my bed, sprawl out, and end up uncomfortable throughout the night.
This is not to say that I won't throw myself into the "Alex has a cat" era. Here's what I think I will do:
- Talk to the cat like there's a realistic chance it might respond. [not in baby talk, though]
- Write a blog from the perspective of the cat. I'll link to the blog on the right of this page once it's up and running
- Convince myself that the cat is just as big a Boston sports fan as I am
- Introduce the cat to people when they come over, unless they've been over before, in which case I'll say, "Hey, you remember ____."
I may post an occasional video of me playing with the cat and a laser pointer, but only if they're really, really funny.
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