self confessed cat lover

forget about christmas, all i want for my birthday is a kitten. the more tiny he or she is, the more happy i will be. one day, (big sigh) one day. i will not go through this life without a cat by my side. maybe even two. in the meantime pictures like this will have to suffice. how adorable. why can't there be more cat lovers in the world? they are so special and unique. when i was little we had a black cat named blacky (i'm assuming i got to pick the name) and a grey cat named darling. i don't have many memories of them but i do have some cute photos. then we had a beautiful black and white persian ragdoll named fluffy (again, an original name that just somehow came to me) and she was like my best friend. she loved to curl up next to you and she would flop in your arms affectionately. she was a member of our family for a very long time. i was devastated when i returned from my school ski trip only to have the news broken to me that she had been hit by a car and sadly passed away while i was away. she was buried at our peregian house and her collar can be found in the garden. not long after we lost fluffy we gained coco. a very different but equally as loved kitten. mum bought her as a surprise for me and i got to take her to netball and then to kahli's house on the first night. she ran around like crazy and we shrieked with delight. she used to wake me up all the time when she was a kitten as she'd play with my hair like it was a ball of wool. she's a different breed to fluff and so naturally she has a different personality and temperament. she can be a little psycho but she provides great entertainment for us and she still loves a good pat when she's sprawled out in her favourite spot. she also takes great pleasure in sitting on top of what ever you are doing at the time. you sigh an annoyed 'pusssss' but know you secretly love it. both fluffy and coco have had kittens which was so exciting and fun to have all these little kittens crawling over you (my idea of heaven). i think we were tempted to keep one, or all of them, every time but they went to the loving homes of our family and friends instead. i could talk about cats forever. more than i could babies, and that's a lot. i'm slowly working on matt too. we now play a game when we drive down the last few roads to get to his house at night. we try and spot as many different kitties as possible and matt even slows right down to look. it's really cute, especially when he asks me if i saw any on my way there if he's not with me. i consider this progress. slowly but surely he will grow to love them as much as i do. he often says i'm like a cat as i like to laze around, curl up close and demand to be petted! he even told me tonight that if he could, he would get me a box of kittens to play with for the day on my birthday. what a sweet boyfriend to think of that. either that, or my mind control techniques are finally working.