About Me...And About Her

         For my first official entry here, I thought I'd give a little bit of background about myself. Hopefully this will enlighten anyone out there who may read this about why this is such an epic undertaking for me.

        First of all, I'm 23 years old, and that means that I grew up in the 1990's. As a result, I was programmed to never share very much personal information in a public online setting. So as far as identification goes, that's about as much as you're going to get. (Besides, of course, my first name being a part of my profile title...)

      What I am willing to share is that I am a recent college graduate, having received my degree one year ago this month. At this point, I'm still living at home after graduating. I currently work two part-time jobs, one retail and one food service. The retail job is new, the food service one I've had since the day of my high school graduation. All things considered, I only work a typical average of 40 hours a week; those 40 hours are just more spread out than most peoples'. 

     As far as my experience as a pet owner goes I have very little, especially when it comes to "free-roaming" animals. As a child, my family owned our fair share of guinea pigs, goldfish, and rats (yes, rats) but we never owned any pets that weren't safely confined to cages or aquariums when we weren't around to watch them. 

     Like most kids, my younger brother and I always wanted a dog. Well, my brother always wanted a dog. I wavered between the dog and cat requests during my adolescence. I pushed for it harder around the 8th grade mark or so. But there were always a myriad of reasons why a dog or cat wasn't for us. In hindsight, most of these reasons were 100% valid. 

     Lately, though, I began to detect a change in the air in my house. My mom had been going back and forth on the cat subject for awhile when one night at work I overheard a co-worker of mine discussing how she was trying to find homes for her recent litter of kittens. I told her I would ask. To make a long story short, after about a month of discussions and research, plus a visit to meet the kittens and their parents (both human and animal) we are bringing home a 16-week-old female Siamese kitten in approximately 2 weeks. 

The whole litter when they were much smaller...mine is the one without the brown face.

       I've only been to meet the litter once, but fortunately I have the benefit of working with their owner. Every time we cross paths or work the same shift, I've been getting "kitten updates" on her progress. Her brother and sisters have already gone to be with their new families, but due to some upheaval at our house right now (old furniture leaving, new furniture coming in, and my brother moving home following his college graduation) we decided to wait a little while longer. Her exact homecoming date hasn't been decided yet; just the week. I have to see my work schedule before I pick what day to bring her home.

Take on the day I went to meet her

      This kitten was born into a house as one of 4 in her litter, with both parents under the same roof as well. In addition, the family has one additional cat and a dog, plus six humans. I'm concerned that she'll get to my house and be freaked out by the lack of noise.

The most recent picture I have