cats

i've made friends with a black cat near me that just hangs out on the driveway waiting for people to come scritch it, at this point it comes running when i greet it and when i scratch the right spot on the side of the neck it melts into a puddle.

i cannot put into words how happy it makes me just to think about it, there is a small creature whose only experience of me is that i appear from nowhere every now and then and sit there giving it a spa treatment for like 10 minutes, it's so utterly idyllic and i can't believe it actually happens in real life.

And sometimes the cats you meet even let you pet them. :3

Had a really shitty morning two weeks ago, after a really shitty night.

Met a cat on my way to work that let me pet them. The rest of the day was still shitty, but thinking back to meeting that cat kept me going.

Sometimes there's a cat in the inner yard of my apartment building. It even rolls on it's back to let me rub her belly. This made my entire shitty week two weeks ago.

I met random kitty cat on holiday recently

Having your own definitely helps!

After doing a lot of spring cleaning and clearing some space where a bunch of random stuff was piled up, I moved an unused kitty bed to that area. One of the kitties is in it for the first time this morning. That's almost as good as meeting a new kitty, cause it's a familiar kitty in a new space. Bonus: the new shelves I assembled over the weekend for vinyl records have one space open for the kitties (on the second row) and the other kitty was in there for the first time this morning, too.

Just getting to expand their spaces is nice.

I haven't met a random cat in a while... :(

Would probably get more sleep without our two hyper purr machines. But they definitely make life better.