The new stuff I forgot to mention...

November 9th, I got a car, and a new cat all at the same time. On Tuesday the eighth, my dodge neon of 10 years died on me. The windows were leaking, the turn signal broken, no AC, and a host of other things were going wrong with it when it just decided to cut out on me while driving home. Thankfully I was less than a block away from home and I just walked on home. It started up again, and we were able to put it in the drive way. The next day we went to look at cars and got a hyundai sonata. It had 22,000 miles on it, and it was a 2005. We bought an extended warranty on it since we like to keep cars until they are worthless, and we were able to buy it out right. No payments! I hated spending such a huge chunk of money on something, but we have already saved up a quarter of what we paid for it. By the end of the year we will have our savings back up and we will be buying a house soon.

Oh, the cat. So she showed up with a buddy on our doorstep when we pulled into the driveway on Tuesday night (the night before we got the car) We loved on her a little bit and her buddy wouldn't come near us. It was getting cold the next day so we kept an eye out for her, and of course, we fed her. That Wed, we had noticed that she slept in the neighbour's patio furniture and she kept meowing to come in. IT was going to turn very cold, so we set up a cage for her in the garage. We put in a notice at the shelter in case anyone was looking for her, but we got no response, so a few days later we let her in our house. She immediately acted as if she had always been there, and bossed the other cats around. On Dec. 9th, we finally dug into our pockets and shelled out money for her to see the vet. They estimate her age to be around 6 months and she was in perfect health. They think she will be a large cat and she is very muscular. Her it is on the 25th and we still don't know what to call her. DH calls her blackie, but I kind of like Ezzy, short for esmerelda. She still needs to be spayed. Hopefully we can get her before she starts her caterwauling.