Thanksgiving week and how to handle the shy kitten/cat

I was hoping to get this posted on Monday, but the holiday through me off as well as this change in weather. I actually think that this change in weather has been messing with a lot of people. That just seemed to be the case with a lot of people I talked to this week. Part of what threw me off as far as posting this later than I had anticipated is I didn’t expect things to just kick off the way they did with this product that I am selling on the side I guess you could say it is somewhat of a mutual life product in a way. It’s one of those pyramid scheme’s. Maybe mutual life is not the word for it because in my research on just what mutual life products are I found that it, “had more to do with life insurance and financial planning.” Or at least that is the way I understood it. I think a better way to describe this business opportunity that I am partaking in is it’s one of those things like for example if your mother ever sold Mary K. It kind of works like that. The thing about that is I told myself that I wasent going to do anymroe business opportunities like that but there’s ussually a cost of about $600, to get started. However with this one I just thought thought this one might be doable because the product that we are selling or marketing or advertizing or whatever you want to call it is something that everyone needs and if they don’t need it now they probably will at some point in their life. Oh well im just telling myself to look at it this way if I was still working a job where I actually had to physically be there this passed holiday week I would probably be looking for a way to leave early because I had a lot of things to do before this holiday the next day and this was the first year that I took it upon myself to be in charge of the food preperation as long as we had the meal at my brother Dwayne’s apartment.

Well I woke up early for the last three days to clean but noticed I didn’t get any cleaning done. At least I got some gym time in but as far as the diet went I did terrible. I guess at the gym this was machine week for everyone. I got most of the cardio and most of the machines done that I wanted to do. I needed to do more tire jumps I have done tire jumps before but this time I kept feeling like I was going to fall forward. When I had a personal trainer tire jumps were one of my favorite workouts. So anyway I guess next week is going to be a hard week of tire jumps and mountain climbers. As far as getting up early to clean that is what I woke early for today and today it looked like I was making what you might call progress. However I knew I needed to hurry up with everything so I called my brother only to find out that mom and dad hadn’t made it to San Antonio yet and so I thought I have a little more time so I can shower and get dressed basically make myself a little bit more presentable than I currently was or than I have been here lately. Here lately I have just been trying to get caught back up and day to day stuff so it has been get up put a hat on my head and get these errands done have been able to find time for the gym at noon. And it looks like I am going to be doing this thing where I can work from home so that is good too. So all in all it does look like things are looking up. It is how I have to look at it. So anyway once I got dressed and made myself look perty and got the stuff that I was bringing for the thanksgiving feast stuffed into the laundry basket and got in the car and made my way to my brothers apartment. I was relieved to find there weren’t a lot of people out and about and it was nice to see people taking this holiday so seriously. I was nearly to the turnoff at Babcock and 1604 when my brother called or I thought it was my brother but it was actually my mother asking where I was and I told her I was on my way to Dwayne’s apartment. She said why haven’t you called me I told her I just tried to call her and she said well I have been trying to calling you and calling you and couldn’t reach you. I said well I am not far from Dwayne’s apartment and I would see them all when I got there. When I drove up to the gate of my brother Dwayne’s apartment and typed in the gate code and drove in and parked in the visitors parking I got out and grabbed the laundry basket full of ingredients for this manicotti dish that I had planned to make for the thanksgiving feast. My brother Dwayne’s building was built into a hill and there was an express elevator to get to the first floor so I pushed the button so I could take the express elevator when I heard someone call Kyle.

I turned around to see that it was my mother so I made my way towards her as she was coming down the stairs.

AIl grab the other side she said reffering to the laundry basket I was carrying

I said no you don’t have too, but she insisted

good lord she said this is heavy I can see why you wanted to take the elevator

She was explaining to me that she came out to the parking lot because Dewayne said that I should have been here by now. We got into the apartment and her and dad started to unload the laundry basket that I had packed the ingredients into and we found that we have no manicotti shells. So me and my dad made a quick trip to the local H E B where we got two boxes of manicotti shells and a metal disposable dish pan. we had just gotten back on the road to my brother Dwayne’s apartment till we I remembered the day before yesterday that it was on the agenda to get some shredded mozzarella cheese for the manicotti dish that I was going to make and I explained to my dad

Hey, can we circle back around I forgot that I needed to get some shredded mozzarella cheese

yeah that’s fine dad replied.

so, we circled back around and this time we were able get two bags of shredded mozzarella cheese and dad wanted to get some dinner rolls and French bread, so we got that and despite the two extra items we were able to get in and out of the store in a decent amount of time. When we got back to the apartment mom chopped the onions and dad chopped the green peppers. Dwayne watched his favorite podcasts then turned the tv to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, which was probably good because there were already three people in the kitchen working on the thanksgiving meal and that was not what you call a real big space. but I greased the pan and got the rest of the ingredients ready. Eventually dad joined Dewayne in the living room and turned on the football game. I thought I had put too much ricotta cheese, so I took some out of the mixing bowl that I was preparing the ingredients in. Once I had all of the ingredients in the mixing bowl I stirred and mixed everything up and stuffed the manicotti shells. My mother helped me, and we put it in the oven for thirty minutes. After getting the manicotti out of the oven. We turned the tv off and prayed and said what we were thankful for then we dug in and turned the tv back on.

The Manicotti turned out great. I had less than half a glass of white wine with it and that made it even better. We also had scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole to go with the meal and for dessert we had a cinnamon apple pie, and a Dutch blueberry pie. After cleaning everything up and a meal like that of course I had to have a nap. We then went riding around because Dwayne wanted to see what was closed and what was open today and I wanted to see if there were any new decorations up at one of my favorite neighborhoods. Some good news in the training that I have been trying to do with my cats it looks like they might be starting to know when I want them to go into the bedroom. It’s something you have to keep enforcing. They are not completely trained but it’s a start.

That next morning, I got up and just threw on some clothes and made my way over to my brother’s apartment in the hills. There we ate a bunch of leftovers and basically discussed if we were going to the birthday party of the new addition to the family a couple of years ago. I had a lot of things to do for work and for this blog and so my first thought was no plus the fact that a didn’t agree with something going on that involved a couple of members of that side of the family a few years ago. That will more than likely be explained in future blog post’s. By mid afternoon I went back to my place to shower because basically that morning I had just gotten up and thrown on some clothes and while showering I was basically contemplating on wether or not I should go to the party for my 2nd cousin. I mean not only was it my 2nd cousin it was also my 2nd cousin’s 2nd birthday and he was only going to be 2 one time. Not that I thought that he would remember this but hey you never know. When I got out of the shower and shaved and brushed my teeth and all that good stuffI was thinking well my brother has been sort of anti social here lately when I say here lately this anti social thing that he has had going on has been going on for a few years and I was very sure he was probably going to end up not going. I thought one of us should go So I washed my face with this face scrubb for men that is suppossed to smooth away fine lines and wrinkles. I also Put on a black polo with some newly purcheased jeans that I bought that were kind of a dark blue. I then sprayed on some Axe deoderant body spray and called my brother and asked for mom

or dad because mom and dad’s cell phones don’t work up in the hills where my brother’s apartment is. I basically explained that I was on my back to Dwayne’s apartment and that I had decided I am going to my little cousin’s birthday party. One of the things I was trying to tell myself with this disagreement that I was having with these two relatives on the side of my extended family that the two-year-old was a part of was people are not always going to agree that doesn’t mean we have to hold that against them. Be the bigger man. We stayed longer than we said we were going to of course, but by the end of the event I think we were all glad that we went, and we stopped at Chili’s to eat on the way back to San Antonio. Once back in

San Antonio, I got in my car and drove to my place to check on the cat’s and make sure they had food and water and spent the night at my place. The next morning was basically just a repeat of the previous morning just getting up to brush my teeth and shave and throw on some clothes and drive to my brother’s apartment up in the hills. I visited with family and then got bored and walked up the trails a little way. I came back and my brother was getting cranky I noticed on that note I left and went back to my place I needed to shower anyway. After I was done showering and putting on some clean clothes making myself look more presentable, and making sure the cat’s had food and water I got in the car and drove back to my brother’s apartment in the hills and once there we decided we wanted to go eat at Dairy queen. It reminded me of trips back to this small town we lived in close to the Permian basin when we

we’re coming back from grandmother’s and grandfather’s houses. The grand parents on both my mother’s side and my father’s side both lived in the same town. Not much has changed about dairy queens from the inside except maybe the menu a little bit and they still have the dilly bar. I remembered they use to have a bunch of other kinds of ice cream bars. I always remembered the dilly bar and I had one. So, after the Dairy Queen trip we went back to my brother’s apartment in the hills and that’s when mom and dad thought they should leave. They just wanted to beat the traffic that they knew they were going to encounter the next day with all of these people going back home after the Thanksgiving Holiday. I think my brother Dewayne was just ready for everyone to leave. So basically, that is how my thanksgiving went this year. We have talked it over with extended family on my dad’s side and we think that we are going to do more stuff with them around the Holidays next year.

Today I wanted to talk about they shy kitten or cat. I wanted to talk about that because, yes, I found a way to keep the momma cat’s that I own from disowning the runts of the litter basically by just making use of the cat carriers that I keep around the apartment or kept around the apartment that I lived in at the time. Basically what I did was the kittens that I found that momma tossed away or abandoned I would just put them in the carrier with momma and the other kittens. However, from what I have observed it is those kittens that the momma cat is trying to abandon that become the shy cat’s. All of the online places that I went to as far as conducting research on this subject said the same thing. “lay out food for the shy cat.” or “lay out treats for the shy cat.”

What you need to remember about the shy cat is that it takes time for the shy cat to learn to trust you. You have to build that trust. Of course, at the time that I had the shy cat I didn’t have time to work with her or do any training with her I was working and the people that I was renting from were being a pain in the you know what. I just think it is funny how they had all of this time to do all of these inspections but yet they couldn’t fix things in the adequate amount of time. However, getting back to the issue at hand of the training of the shy cat I guess I did have the time just not enough time to where I thought it would be effective. But I actually found out later is just a little bit of training can really go a long way. This is also what I say about when someone is nice to someone just a little bit of kindness can go a long way. “You can attract more flies with honey than you can by being rude.” That is actually a saying that has been around for a very long time. According to google AI. “Treats and food being laid out for the shy cat should be something that you do for the shy cat on an everyday basis.” I never even thought about this because of that little thing again we call time. To be honest with you at that time I don’t even think I really had time to think. When you find yourself in a situation all of a sudden and you don’t know how you even got in that situation in the first place that can happen and because that is happening that makes the situation that much more stressful. There is a good chance that the shy cat that I was dealing with could sense that I was stressed out and she got a negative vibe from me. Animals can pick up vibes like that. But the bottom line according to google AI is. “Be patient and give them time to adapt, let them roam around the living space, and explore, also try to avoid any sudden moves when the shy cat is around.” Also, according to google AI; “speak to the shy cat in a soft tone of voice, and don’t force them to do anything, sudden moves and forceful interactions can lead to making the shy cat more afraid of you.” The information that I am sharing with you in this post is really all I got when I was looking for information about how to handle the shy cat that was living with me last year. However, the lack of information I got at that time could have also been that I didn’t have a lot of time at this time last year and so that cut time for me to do my research not really in half but less than in half. Now that I am finding more information, I am thinking that this is a topic that we need to visit again. Sorry for the delay on getting this posted this week. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving and have a great weekend.