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October 11, 2004
Making room, deux.
They are not getting along. So far.
My 2.5-year-old has staked out the living room as her domain, leaving my SO's 8-year-old to skulk and hiss while puffing up her tail to outsized proportions.
By midnight, The Woman and I were in separate rooms, each of us crouching uncomfortably and whispering gentle words as we fed milk and diazepam to Krystal and Alexis.
We were watching TiVo on the sofa later when her cat jumped on my lap so she could mix it up with the other one, perched on an armrest. The stereo effect of cats hissing in both ears blocked out the TV and made me flinch.
"It occurs to me that you're the only creature in the house who's not on Valium," she said sweetly.
Posted by Your Protagonist at October 11, 2004 02:20 AM