Oh Mom, I has missed you very much. I have been here all by myself with only The Kitten From Hell as company. Yes, grandma visited us here and there, but she mostly just checked on food and water, maybe petted us on the head for a few seconds then was gone.

Mom went with a friend to San Antonio, TX to a conference and they made a mini-vacation out of it. Good for Mom, she needed some time away I think. Not so good for us, because, yeah. Prolonged time between The Kitten From Hell and myself with no interference is a bad thing.

Hopefully Mom won’t mind the state of the house when she comes home.

Dear Mom,

I understand that times are tuff right now and that you’re trying to save some money anyway that you can. Believe me, I get it. And I do appreciate that you cut back on stuff you want just to make sure me and The-Kitten-From-Hell have everything we need. But Mom, can I ask just one teeny, tiny favor of you? Please, for the love of all that is furry and good in the world, do not scrimp on our litter!

The cat litter that you got from the Dollar General might have seemed like a good deal because:

1. Saved Gas: You didn’t have to drive all the way to Las Cruces or El Paso to visit Wal-Mart or Petsmart
2. Saved Time: The DG is just a 5minute drive from the house where as it takes 20 minutes to get to Las Cruces and 30-40 minutes to get to El Paso
3. Saved Money: It was a bag a little bigger than you normally buy for half the price

But the truth is, Mom, you didn’t save anything. The litter box has smelled really yucky and gross and disgusting ever since you started using the new litter. Seriously, you’re constantly cleaning the litter box ’cause it starts stinking as soon as one of us uses it, and even then, it still reeks. You’re always spraying smelly air stuff over it now and you put a ton of the white powder stuff in the box to help the smell. But it doesn’t help at all. That litter doesn’t absorb smells at all!!! You has to clean and change the litter even more often to fight the smell and it’s not helping.

And worse yet, we’ve gone through the litter even faster than normal.

In short, Mom, you didn’t save any money by buying the Dollar General’s brand of kitty litter. Next time, please just buy the regular stuff.

Okay, love you, thanks.
Denali

I may find myself growling and hissing about this kitten here on the blog a lot, so I thought it only fair to show you who I am usually mad at. I present to you the kitten who is named in honor of Eris the Greek Goddess (Romans called her Discordia) of strife, chaos, and discord. The black furred fiend next to me is none other than…..Discord:

She really, really annoys me. She always wants to play, she sneak attacks me thinking she has mad ninja skills (she doesn’t, Mom has even said she “fails”) and just generally causes as much havoc as possible. In fact, there is one song from a play that really describes her…

If the area window was found ajar And the basement looked like a field of war If a tile or two came loose on the roof Which presently ceased to be waterproof If the drawers were pulled out from bedroom chests And you couldn’t find one of your winter vests Or after supper one of the girls Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls Then the family would say, “It’s that horrible cat!

Yeah, it’s about two cats but Discord causes that much chaos all on her own.

But, I tolerate her because she’s family. She’s one of only three kittens that my baby brother Ichigo fathered before he got kittynapped, so that makes her my niece Mom says. Her furmommy is the stray that came to stay known as Rukia.

Ichigo, Rukia…yes, my Mom is a fan of the show Bleach, how could you tell?

Mom didn’t get to keep all three kittens, but she managed to keep Discord and I really wish she never named her that, because she really lives up to that name! She used to cause trouble and run around as a baby when her siblings were quite and well behaved. And even now, she causes so much trouble, goes where she shouldn’t, knocks things down, and sneak attacks me and Mom all the time. It’s not uncommon to hear a loud crash in the house and then hear a shout of DISCOOORD!!!! right after.

So this is Discord, who shall be henceforth known on this blog as the Kitten-From-Hell until she settles down and behaves. She’s been here for a few months now though so I wouldn’t place any bets on her behaving any time soon.

We are very sad right now. Well, The-Kitten-From-Hell and I are very sad, Mom is kinda mad still I think. She kinda flips back and forth between moods so it’s kinda hard to tell. Mom’s friends are keeping her from getting too down though, so that’s good at least.

Mom is now unemployed. I don’t understands what all happened except one of her bosses was really mean and treated Mom badly. The people Mom worked with thought she should complain or just quit but then she was fired.

(No, she wasn’t set on fire or shot, that I know of, humans just have some very weird sayings. Fired basically means they told her to go.)

So now Mom is trying to find a new job. I hopes she finds one soon, I don’t wanna starve!