A Typical Normal Weekend, when Normal includes cats in heat and teenage daughters

The following is a post I started this weekend, and then, well, just sort of stopped.  The weekend ended, schedules got busy, and the cats are still in heat and on the verge of discovering what it will be like to not only work the streets but live on them as well.  Sorry it’s just a partial post… it’s the hormones in the air, sucking out the brain cells.  Clearly. 

We have a cat in heat. Again.  She likes to sit in my front window and make that horrible ‘please fuck me’ noise she likes to make. Of course, after hours of listening to her pathetic mewing, I’m all “Fuck Me” too but in a totally different tone of voice.  I imagine this is what the seedy side of Amsterdam looks and sounds like on any given night of the week.  I think she’s perpetually in heat, with about a 20 minute window when she’s normal. And by normal I mean she’s all laying around tolerating us minions in her life because well, we are the keepers of the food and the cleaners of the litter box.

Meredith had a basketball tournament last week, which meant she was gone every night of the week cheering and crashing at other cheerleader’s houses.  Last night I made her come home.  This morning, I informed her it was not enough that her body was inside my house, she needed to get up and grace us with her cheerful over tired teenage attitude.  Clearly it couldn’t be any worse than the mewing sexually frustrated virgin cat in my front window.  Wow, did I underestimate that.

With Meredith gone most of the week, Megan got to experience what life would have been like if she had been born first.  And by that I mean, had she been first she would have been an only.  This week she cleaned the bedroom and marked her territory.  She made a list of rules for the bedroom she is forced to share with her sister, and put everything away where she thought it all should go.  Basically Meredith now has a small path from the door to her bed, with a little cul-de-sac in front of her dresser.