Life in the fast lane

It sure has been quite a while since I've hung out here. I have to say I have really missed it, and boy how my life has changed in those two years! Meowmy is getting married to a really great guy who I totally love. I hang around him as much as possible and attempt to eat his many plants. I don't think he likes that too much. He's always moving them and each time I hear Meowmy telling him he needs to put them someplace where I can't reach them. She says something about some plants not being good for me. I think this is my new dad's first cat. He's really the best though and so much fun to play with!

We live in this great new place now, the three of us. It has stairs and some wonderful views. I really couldn't ask for more. Well, except for them to get rid of the new guy dad's brought in. Right now I'm still trying to pretend he's not there most of the time. His name is Sammie and he's about 7 months old. I like to be left alone but meowmy and dad keep trying to introduce me to him. They want us to be friends but it's kind of tough when I'm adult and have very refined taste and he's a kitten who wants to tumble all over the place. They keep trying though! Seems like they're determined to make it work. I guess we'll see how that goes.

I'm so happy to be back though. :) I've missed all of my friends and I hope you all had a fantastic and Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Welcome to 2008 everyone!

Home free!!!!!

I wasn't too happy last week. Meowmy had brought me to her parent's house and then went away for what seemed like an eternity! I didn't know what in the heck was going on, so I let everyone in that house know that I wasn't happy and that I wanted my meowmy back! Thankfully she came back one evening (they keep telling me it was only 5 days later, I say more like months) with her boyfriend and I haven't been away from her side since! Things have been really great since meowmy came back. Soon after she came home to her parents, she and I packed up and I had to go in that stupid crate to head back to our place. You'll never BELIEVE the great news though! We get there, and there's NO COCO! Meowmy tells me he won't be back ALL SUMMER! She said that his meowmy was going on a few vacations and that Coco will be at his grandparents house all summer long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like dancing! This is the greatest news ever!!! Time without him is my FAVORITE time!!!!!! So things are REALLY good right now!!!

YAHOOOOOOOOO!

Who's my Valentine?

So a few days ago my mommy got some pictures of me dressed up in my Valentine's collar and sitting on the cushy heart shaped pillow. I think I looked VERY pretty, though I wasn't quite sure what was going on when she first started doing it. They turned out quite well though. I enjoy looking at the one she chose on the Valentine stroll here.

This will be my 3rd Valentine's Day though and I've never actually had a real Valentine! :( Sure, mommy has always said that she is my Valentine and her boyfriend always gives me some love on Valetnine's Day, but I want more than that. If I could I would make mommy's boyfriend my Valentine, but I know she wouldn't have that. It's just not fair. I'm a pretty girl, why don't I have a boyfriend? Won't anyone be my special Valentine? I really just want another kitty I can share the day with, but I don't know how to go about making that happen.

Maybe some handsome cat will see me on the stroll and send a message my way about being my special Valentine? A kitty can dream...

A Tale of Two Kitties

So, Coco is, as usual, being a ROYAL pain in my behind. I swear he is so juvenille sometimes I can hardly stand it! Everytime I move he feels the need to get ready to pounce on me. Or, he'll just walk up to me and plop himself right up next to me just to get me going. That's the worst. He'll do that and end up looking all innocent, so then when I smack him to make him leave me alone Coco's mommy goes, "Waffle he's not even doing anything to you!" ARG! It's so frustrating! Of course he's doing something to me, he's breathing...and doing it in MY space! That's all he NEEDS to do! Then he finds it necessary to block my exit from under my mommy's bed. He'll lay himself right outside of the bed so that if I try to leave he's right there and ready to strike. I really miss the days when it was just me and mommy and then mommy's boyfriend would come by and visit. Those were the best days. I don't think it's fair that I come out looking like the cranky one of the family. If he would just let me be I wouldn't have to hiss and cry and smack at him. And I can't help it that mommy's roomie smells like Coco! Anytime she comes near me I hiss at her or cry to get her to leave me alone simply because she's the one who brought the beast in and she smells like him. It's very confusing for me. Well anyway, I'm tired of being the "bitchy" one. Mommy is the only one who knows it's not my fault. I guess I'll just have to start taking mommy's advice to heart, maybe it will help. She always tells me:

"Waffle, you don't have to like Coco, but you do have to respect him."

I guess she's right...in a way. So I'll just keep on trying to stay out of his way and hopefully he'll start giving me the same respect. After all, I AM the older one here. It's about time I got some respect from the little chump!

Oh how I LOVE Friday's!

Today mommy got to sleep in. These are my FAVORITE days. I don't like it when her alarm goes off, because that means I'm not the one who gets to wake her! It takes all my fun away! But Friday's, boy, they're GREAT. I love waking her up. It's the highlight of these days! I like to change up how I do it too. It keeps things exciting, and that way she never knows what's coming.
Here's what I did today: As I was deciding on my attack I moved up to the pillow next to mommy. Then, when the moment was right, I walked over, sat right next to her face, and meowed. Just once though. It gives it more of an effect. Then, when I saw mommy open one tired eye at me and tell me to go away I moved on to the next part of the plan. I walked over to her stomach, put my front legs up there and started kneading away. I was making muffins like you wouldn't believe! Just as I suspected, this part got her completely up! She told me that I won once she sat up, as if there was ever any doubt that I would! She's a sucker when it comes to bed. While her boyfriend doesn't hesitate to kick me out if he stays over, mommy would end up on the floor if I decided to sprawl out on the entire bed.
Sleep time is my FAVORITE time for mischief!

Oop, gotta go taunt Coco from the living room. He hates it when I get out to wander in the mornings before he does. He'll cry and cry and cry until he wakes HIS mommy up just because he's so jealous! This should be fun!!

My, my it's been a while!

Gosh, I have so much to write about since the last time I wrote in here. Things got so busy right around Christmas, what with me drinking Christmas tree water, investigating what I have learned is "grandma's new kitten," and discovering the joys of cat nip! Then, once we got back to the apartment mommy started her spring semester at college and I never get a chance to be on the computer anymore.
Anyway, I had the BEST Christmas!! Mommy picked me up and held me while she opened a present she said was for me from Santa Paws. Turns out it was my great new soft red plush cat bed! Somehow Santa knew JUST what I wanted! I love it so much. As soon as it was opened and mommy laid it on the ground I was all over it. I'm very territorial about it too. That "kitten" kept trying to come near it and do you think I'd let her? HA! Not a chance!!! Now that I'm back in the apartment with that brat Coco I get to show off what he can't have. He gets very jealous of it. The first night back in the apartment I slept on the bed the whole night. The next day though I heard mommy talking to her boyfriend about how sad she was that I hadn't come to sleep with her at all since that's what I normally do. I felt really bad about that so now I spend most of the night with her and some on the bed. After all, I get to use the bed all day long whenever I want, so I don't mind giving it up at night.
Lately I've been TOTALLY freaked out!! I keep hearing crazy loud noises outside and it scares me to death. I swear I've spent more time under mommy's bed over the last week than anywhere else. I'm not sure what it means, but I have heard mommy and her roommate discussing the "roofers fixing the roof" on the apartment building. I think that's what they think is making all that noise? Beats me. All I know is that they better leave soon, or I'm going to turn into one paranoid kitty!
Ho hum, I've tired myself out. I think it's time for yet another cat nap. *YAWN*

Crazy weekend...

So unfortunately mommy's roommate came back with Coco this weekend. He annoyed me, as usual. Monday morning though was different from most mornings. Mommy and her boyfriend woke up and filled up some stockings, including one that had a picture of a kitty and my name on it! Turns out this was the "apartment Christmas" that I kept hearing mommy talk about. Well anyway, after waiting patiently for what seemed like FOREVER mommy finally gave me my stocking. It was AWESOME! There were hair ties (my favorite) in there and even a stuffed mouse! It was the greatest. I played and played and PLAYED with them all day long. Coco's mommy forgot to fill up his stocking so he wanted to play with my stuff. More like, he wanted to TAKE my stuff. Luckily mommy's roommates boyfriend (whew...confusing) spritzed him with the water gun so he would leave me alone. They've really been cracking down on him since he knocked the tree over this weekend as well. Mommy was NOT happy about that one! I thought it was pretty funny though to watch him get in trouble, after all the stuff he does to me!! So anyway, it was a good time all around. I also keep hearing mommy mention something to her boyfriend about my "present." What on earth is that about??? Didn't I already get my presents in my stocking?! I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens on the REAL Christmas day! I'm already DYING to know!

Anyway, now we're at mommy's parents house for a week. They have a new small furry thing that I don't understand. I've never seen one before. It looks like me, but very very small. Hmmm...go figure. It baffles me though. I like to sit and stare at it for long periods of time because that thing is NUTS!!! Sometimes it likes to think it's tough and will charge at me, but it's so small all I have to do is hiss and it runs in the other direction so fast!! Hehe.

Guess I better go take a nap now, mommy will be gone helping grandpa out at his business all day. I need to be well rested so I'm alert when she gets back!!!

So that's where my name comes from...

First off, thanks to my pal Mercedes for suggesting I start and put this in my diary. What a great friend!

It seems to me that every new person that meets me asks my mommy where my name came from, so after hearing it a BAZILLION (no, seriously) times I think I've finally got it down. Now that I can remember it I don't want to ever forget it, so I suppose my first diary entry is a great place to keep it. Here goes...
From what I've heard mommy tell people who ask, when she was 8 years old her older brother (8 years older brother at that) found a stray cat outside their dad's business. So, he brought it home and my grandma nursed it to health and they ended up keeping it. Well, my mommy wanted to name it so while she and grandma were at a bookstore my mommy bought a cat name book, and in that book was my name! Her brother insisted that he got to name it though since he found it and he picked out the name Oliver for the orphaned kitten. I guess at that point mommy insisted to her brother that Waffle was a MUCH better name and that when she had her first cat on her own she would name it Waffle. Bet he never thought she would though! I happen to really enjoy my name, and mommy still loves it too (14 years later)! I ESPECIALLY love all the attention I get for it! People seem to think it's just the cutest!

I just love that story. Makes me feel pretty special. My mommy also says I am the PERFECT fit for a Waffle, whatever that means.

Apparently there's going to be an "apartment Christmas" coming up soon for mommy and her roommate. I'm keeping my paws crossed for a new kitty bed. Guess I'll have to wait and see!!!!

- Waffle