Bad Girl Chats

My friend Connie housesits for some of her lucky friends (I am not in that select group). Right now she’s housesitting for Wade. This involves taking care of 4 cats. In addition Wade seems to have a black Lab, a wolfhound, a lizard, a turtle and a dove. (I ran out of punctuation.) Oddly enough Connie is only worried about the cats.

On Dec 12, 2011, Connie wrote:
Wade lives near Southport and Fullerton with a black Lab named Ryno, a wolfhound Emma Wolf, a lizard Chacko, 4 cats–Matou, Tsuki, Sarah Berry, Pacha Mama, a turtle, a dove and assorted fishes and frogs.

It’s a cute little house, over a hundred years old, and renovated by Papageorge in a southwestern style. The garden rivals Giverny in my mind (I have never been there) with a lily pond, huge boulders and fantastic overgrowth. Sometimes a hawk will swoop down while we are having supper outside and make off with a small rodent. I fancy myself Connie of Green Gables on those evenings.

I am terrified a cat will disappear on me while Wade is in India.

I keep losing things. Does it happen to you?

Today, I can’t locate my phone, my passport, my keys, and my coffee cup. All are MIA, and while I am frantically trying to find them yet another object goes missing.

Last night, my feet were cold, so I went to sleep wearing socks.

This morning, I only had one sock.

I looked under the covers and then tore the whole bed apart and even looked UNDER the bed and between the mattresses. Nothing. I checked the bathroom. No luck.

Did I sleepwalk last night and leave one sock in Never Never Land?

I don’t even have any cats who might steal a sock to tidy up their whiskers.

I am exhausted looking for everything. I can’t go anywhere. And I am mad, mad, mad.

Connie