Long Pause

we have taken a very long pause from working at all on this poor neglected blog. this has happened mainly because kevin and i are pretty lazy, however, we do have one semi-reasonable excuse- sidney.

kevin and i, when we were young, decided we needed a cat. i found someone who had a cat that had just had a huge litter of kittens. by the time we met this young lady, there were only two left- brothers. i was planning to just get one cat; i was in graduate school and kevin was at the same time trying hard to wrap up two bachelor degrees in half the normal time, both of us were working two jobs. i thought one cat would be enough to feed and care for. i wanted to get the friendly one. kevin instantly fell in love with the mean, beautiful, grey one. naturally, we took both home, and never regretted our choice.

we have moved these poor cats with us countless times, and i mean that literally, i have no idea how many times we moved them. ohio, illinois, michigan, minnesota, new mexico, pennsylvania, germany and switzerland have been their homes, and often many apartments in each of those places. the cats have been one of the only things either of us could count on to be the same in each place we went, and i think both of us came to depend upon their consistency and love.

Sid had always been an enormous grey monster, but that began to change shorty after we moved to switzerland. bones could be felt by thansgiving, but since he was so large, we thought maybe losing some weight would be good for him. after christmas we were just plain worried; he was really thin, he demanded that someone hold or carry him at all times. we took him to see doctors, and it was made clear, something serious was wrong. to kevin and i it didn't matter too much what the diagnoses was, we were just going to make him as comfortable as we could for a long as we could, whereby our schedules became sid's schedule for months. by mid-april nothing was cutting his pain anymore, and after a terrible weekend in which kevin slept in a sleeping bag wrapped in plastic on the floor with sid, we put him to sleep the next day- april 19th. it was one of the hardest things i have ever had to choose to do.

zim, kevin and i still miss him of course, but feel now we should return to some of our old habits, this blog being one of them. so in memory of sidney, i will start posting some of the more light and entertaining things we have been up to, but for today, i wanted to remember this lovely grey cat.