I’m down a few pounds to 151.0, and not a single pound lost was fat. It’s all water now that my period is almost over. Since I’ll never be in the 140s again, the best I can hope for is to be where I’m at right now after the next period. 

I feel kind of blah today. I’ve been sleeping shitty as I usually do before appointments, my ear is aching, and this cat just won’t leave me the fuck alone. I almost felt pangs of regret over getting her last night. I once had a cat whom I named Shadow because he followed me everywhere, but not even he was even remotely close to being this clingy. I wanted a cat to keep me company, not one that got in the way and made a constant pest of itself. Unless she’s sleeping or confined in another room, I can’t do anything without her getting in the way. 

All I can do is hope that those who say they calm down once they get to be about a year old are correct. This is ridiculous! But we already spent hundreds of dollars on her, and even though the cat rescue people would take her back, we would be out all that money. 

Andy suggested she could have abandonment issues. Could be. No way to say for sure because no one knows what her first months were like. Maybe she escaped when she went in heat or maybe she was tossed out. We’ll never know. I just wish she would stop smothering me. I’ve given her a home, food, attention, and much more. It would be nice if she could show her appreciation in less bothersome ways. Even when she’s not underfoot she is constantly meowing. I totally feel for those with 2-legged newborns/toddlers and I can totally understand and see how they would feel overwhelmed and become depressed because I know that what I’m dealing with as far as Simone goes is nothing compared to what they go through. And they don’t settle down after just a year or two. 

Just like the rats do, she is kind of copying my schedule by staying up later the later I sleep in. She usually goes down at 8:30, but since I didn’t come out of the bedroom until then, she was up until 10:30. I was under the impression that cats slept quite a bit, but this one only sleeps a few hours a day. In 3-4 hours, she’ll be back up. Really hope she’s not up all night driving me crazy when I’m on nights, along with the blasting car stereos going down the freeway. Now that they can open their windows in the warmer weather, they are annoying as hell in the evenings when sounds carry better. How many more years of this ferociously loud shit are we going to have to put up with before somebody finally regulates the damn things? No one should have to hear your music that many yards, or even miles, away. I can’t believe the things our society ignores any more than I can believe the petty shit it obsesses over. 

Anyway, if she gets that annoying I can just throw her in the laundry room. I don’t do that, though, unless she gets really bad like last night. When I shut myself in the bedroom she was practically trying to break the door down to get in, and I had to confine her to the laundry room and second bedroom area. So laundry room timeouts are reserved for when I’m either ready to kill her or want to do something where I absolutely can’t have her underfoot. 

I just don’t get it, though. It isn't like I’ve been neglecting to give her attention and to play with her. This cat is far from neglected, and remember, I'm home most of the time. I throw balls for her to chase, I rub her belly, I pat her back, I give her treats, etc., so I don’t know what else I can do. I swear it's like she's Molly - give her an inch and she demands a mile, LOL. 

I still wonder if something happened to her. Molly, I mean. I know it takes some people a long time to catch on, but I find it hard to believe that those responsible for her are managing to keep her offline this long. She would always find ways around that. Even when she and her mother finally realized that I wasn’t kidding, their shit wasn’t funny anymore (not that it ever was), and yes, I really would go to their state to take action against them, she stopped contacting me but would still peek in on me every now and then. If she still is, then she’s dodging my tracker. 

I saw a movie that reminded me of her the other day about a woman stalking another woman, which in turn reminded me of a funny picture of a young and gorgeous guy with a caption above him saying: Hollywood’s version of a billionaire. A real-life billionaire was pictured next to him, and of course the guy was old, fat, bald and ugly. LOL. Well, the stalker in the movie was very attractive and I couldn’t help but think to myself how much that was so unlike real life. Real-life stalkers look like Molly and Kim. There just aren’t that many gorgeous stalkers out there, male or female, or else I would think that fewer people would complain about them as long as they weren’t being hurt. 

Back to Simone - she was funny the other day when she was chasing the feather wand because right as she tackled it she did a perfect somersault. Too bad I didn’t get a video of it. 

What is it with toilets being flushed, though? As soon as we flush the toilets she runs behind them where the pipe is for incoming water and swats at it as if it was moving or something. 

We definitely have to get another air cleaner for the laundry room. This house is too big for just two air cleaners anyway. 

Duolingo added Esperanto and so I have been busy goofing off to play around with that instead of focusing on my Dutch lessons, as I should be. I studied that course on LiveMocha before that site went to hell. It is a very simple and beautiful language, though one of the least spoken in the world. 

Forget being up in 3 to 4 hours. Try just 1. I took Simone’s being asleep on her perch as a golden opportunity to change the rats’ cage, and sure enough, she had to get up and see what I was doing. She didn’t get in the way, but knowing she will when I go to work out, I put her in the laundry room. I’m going to edit this, publish it, and then get my workout out of the way.