Recently I've been admiring how loyal our cat, Missy, is. She does the normal pet thing of following us around the house all the time; she sits in the bathroom with us as we get ready in the morning, goes to sleep in whichever room we're in, follows us around casually from room to room as we do housework, and meows at us from inside the house as we return from work. And none of that is counting her extra-affections at feeding times or when she wants to go out.

Anyway... just one example from earlier today, she was out, but I wanted to go out to drive to a nearby town, so I wanted her in. I went to the back door, shouted "Miseeeeeey" once, not very loud, and she immediately came running from one of her resting places in a nearby hedge... jumped into our garden, and trotted quickly straight into the house.

Admittedly, we have taught her pavlov-style, so, I did of course give her some cat biscuits. But she really did deserve them, because she's loyal and almost obedient!

Tags: animals, cats, family, missy, pets
Current Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany
Listening To: "Temper of Poseidon" by Project Pitchfork

Mrs Crabtree makes me happy! I can put up with much more (in the outside world) when she is around, she makes me feel stable, relaxed, loved. Her crazy ways are always so cool :-)

She makes me emotionally satisfied in ways that she doesn't even know about!

And she always encourages me to do my coursework, to stop proctrastinating... she has effectively taught me to swim and has been patient with me.

We share things well... I do the tidying, she does the cleaning... I do the clothes washing, she does the cooking; I manage the computer network and she oversees the administration of our (3) cars.

I look forward to our "in" evenings more than I look forward to bank holidays and early days off!

Awwwwww.

Tags: family, marriage, relationships, vexen
Current Location: Monchengladbach, Germany
Current Mood: loved

The in-laws are visiting, things are going pretty smooth! We all had a good night out & invited some friends over afterwards... some of us was up until 3am in the morning debating pop. psychology and talking about cars. Sam was a drunk handful! I blitzed the house this morning, and peace is restored :-)

Have finished a book by Bertrand Russell, "Religion and Science" (1935), and added some quotes to some pages. A few bits of text are going towards a new page on the historical battle between scientists such as Copernicus, and the Church (with the Inquisition as its bulldog) that clung on the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe.

Tags: cars, family, psychology, relatives
Current Location: Germany
Listening To: "Embodied" by Spahn Ranch