Omg Lauren took me to a CAT CAFE. I have never been to one, nor did I even know it was there! It’s been there for at least a couple of years, and I have been unaware of its existence. I’ve been missing out. Then again, it’s somewhere in Downtown Lenoir and I rarely go there since Dead People’s Stuff moved somewhere else. This was a side of town I’ve never been to. I should go and explore more.

Anyhow. I got myself a honeydew boba tea, really tasty, exactly like my favourite can boba I buy at the Hmong shop. We drank our boba for a little while until the cat room opened. It opens on the hour every hour, and you get to spend a whole hour with the cats. Sadly the cats just were not particularly interested in me. It could have been my deodorant? I generally get cats all over me when I volunteer to “socialise” them at Friends For Animals, not this time I guess. Lol. They are all adoptable and I seriously thought about snatching up this one little guy (or girl lol idk) named “dryer lint” 😆 He looked like a DUST BUNNY. A literal pile of gray lint. I’m not sure of the breed, but the fur was different from any cat I’ve seen. It was medium length but had a lot of long hairs too. I said it looked like a werewolf if werewolves were made of dust balls. That makes no sense 😂 I guess I should have taken a picture. There was also a black kitten I was eyeing because I have always wanted a black cat. They were both so TINY, Dryer Lint had feet too big for his little body. That’s when kittens and puppies reach peak cuteness, the oversized feet phase. I don’t know why that is so adorable, but it is. Dang…I wonder if either of them will be there next month. I don’t know, I really wanted a golden retriever though. We are allowed two emotional support animals. The weight limit is 20lb but Oscar himself almost crossed that at one time. Other people have dogs that are very obviously heavier than 20lb. I hate trying to make decisions like that!

Do I want to introduce Oscar to another cat? Last time I tried to introduce a kitten (a stray that followed me home…Kommandar Fuzzar was her name…) to my sweet, sweet Mister Hideki, he howled and ran down the basement stairs….shitting the whole way down. 😅 We wound up giving her to a woman whose husband recently passed. I hope she had a great life, even though she was almost certainly given a MUCH lamer name….so that experience gives me pause. I have no clue how Oscar would react to another cat. I know he’d be fine with a dog, he loved dad’s dog Lucy, and I felt bad about separating them when I moved out. It’s been six years and I fear I’ve kept him lonely all this time. I know he’d would benefit from having a buddy to hang out with.

Jeez, I guess I’m hashing this out in a post…started with one opinion and went straight into another. My thought process is so disorganised 😬

I think I’m going to try to get a golden retriever approved when I’m able to find one. I don’t know if they are even allowed to say no to a registered emotional support animal. I think there’s some law about that, even though they have a silly weight limit. Like I said, there are other dogs here that are significantly bigger. 🤷‍♀️ I wonder if the property manager would help me weasel my way out of the weight thing. I am totally okay with being a sneaky snake. Hehe.

On a different note, my fingernails have once again grown too long to easily use this godforsaken iPhone keyboard. I don’t understand how you people with two inch acrylic talons are able to do literally anything. I also want to know how y’all wipe. I can’t imagine it. I even looked it up on Reddit and didn’t get any concrete answers. I just wanna KNOW. It’s one of those things that’s bothered me since I saw that lady with the world’s longest fingernails on TV. That was the first thing that popped in my mind. Because of course 🥴

Now that I have TMI’d any unfortunate souls that read that last bit….I must go. ✌️