I’m searching for some permanence in my life so I’ve brought all of my books with me. I bought a bookcase, but so far they don’t all fit even after deciding to sell about 25.
“My time with Manny was very special,” said Charlie Manuel, who was Ramirez’s hitting coach with the Cleveland Indians from 1994 to 1999 and his manager in Cleveland in 2000 and with Class AAA Charlotte (Fort Mill, S.C.) for part of 1993. “He was a kid then. He’s grown up a lot. … Well, he’s gotten older.”
I was pretty dead set on getting another cat after losing Bailey, but my parents had other ideas and imported Spencer into my life. I liked him pretty instantly, even though his manic playfulness was somewhat of a hassle to Bailey in his last days. (Spencer, you’re lucky Bailey was ill, because you would have gotten your little ass brutally kicked had he been healthy enough to remember how he felt about other cats crowding his attention space.)
My mother said that she knew that I’d accept Spencer into my life after I named him, but I was just doing my best to prevent him from being named Bandit or Blackie or whatever moniker he would have been struck with.
I’m extremely monogamous (even when it comes to strippers!), but after mourning Bailey and facing the thought of another empty bed in my new apartment I opened my heart to the little rascal, and he’s definitely a rascal. He has what seems to be an infinite amount of energy and can often be found racing and bounding his way from furniture piece to furniture piece as if he’d just been shocked with 10 million volts of electricity. He has a little too much courage if you ask me. He’s tiny and fond of attacking, wrestling, and competing for prime resting space with cats three times his size. So far he’s mostly competed with the elderly, so I’ll do my best to keep him away from younger competition.
When I’ve been gone for a while he runs up to me and collapses at my feet.
He’s quite the lover. He kisses with plenty of tongue. Maybe I should have named him Lebeau.
Every time I move, which sadly is often, my mother sets me up with supplies. This is her idea of how much paper products a new apartment should have. I also now own enough bottled water to rehydrate the world if it stops raining for the next 500 years.
Was just up at Majestic Star Casino in Indiana playing poker. As I walked in, I saw a sign that said that underage gamblers would be prosecuted and sent to jail. I’m not saying that I recommend youth gambling, but I’d have to say jail sounds like it would be a far worse influence on the lads?
