OH GOD OH GOD.

[moonvoice]

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, LIVING WITH THESE CATS IS TURNING ME INTO A CAT.

I am compelled towards sunspots. I hiss at things I don't like. I think I'm forgetting how to do human things like university and cooking (I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON). And when they start playing SOMETIMES I JOIN THEM AND THEY WELCOME ME INTO THEIR GAMES.

If you need me, I'll be curled up with the felines. Slowly becoming one. Or maybe not so slowly. Maybe keeps looking at me with this sleepy superior look of; 'yes, welcome to the fold little one, soon you shall be sleeping 22 hours a day and playing with invisible bugs. Yesssssssssss.'

Comments

[silverjackal]

Heh. You might want to talk to them about the "no cooking" part of the transformation. Surely leaving that skill is in their enlightened best interest!

[moonvoice]

I'm pretty sure they're just interested in recruiting chefs.

Seriously, today has been the day of:

MOET: 'PIAAAAAA, CAN I GO OUTSIIIIIIIDE? LOOK AT HOW WAAAAARM IT IS OUT THERE? YOU LOVE ME DON'T YOU? PIAAAAAA, CAN YOU HEAR ME BETTER WHEN I STAND ON THE KEYBOAAAAARD? WHAT ABOUT NOOOOOOW? I CAN FIT MY HEAD IN YOUR MOUUUUUUUTH. WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'GO AWAY?' DON'T YOU LOVE ME? LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEE. LOVE MEEEEEEEE.'

Followed promptly by Maybe following the plaintive meows of Mr. Whinge-fest of Whinge-festonia, and then she also jumped on the computer desk and instead I got:

MAYBE: 'GO AWAY MOET. PIAAAAAA, MY TAIL IS ON YOUR FAAAAACE. LOOK I JUST TURNED ON THE SCANNERRRRR. I'M HUNGRY AND YOUR FOREHEAD TASTES LIKE NRMRMRMRMMMMM. GO AWAY MOET. NO MOET, I SAID GO AWAY. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO GET OFF THE DESK? NO. I WILL STAY HERE FOREVER. FOREVERRRRRR. OH WAIT, THERE'S AN INVISIBLE BUG. WAIT HERE GUYS, I'LL SAVE YOU! PIAAAAAA, MY TAIL IS ON YOUR FAAAAAACE.'

Clearly that animals talking in caps has influenced me a great deal, but I think it just revealed what I've always known about the cats.

They've been creating this coalition of evil. In the past they'd take turns jumping on my computer desk to get my attention. Now they're both doing it at the same time. I feel like I'm in the middle of some kind of feline soap opera.

[ariestess]

Is this necessarily such a bad thing?

[tsukikokoro]

Welcome to the Cult of Cat! It is about time, sister. Your membership card is in the mail.

[darakat]

And drawing balls of string?

[callistra]

Sounds like a good gig - if you enjoy catfood though...

[drgnhlr]

When I spend time petting Siren, as she sheds, it collects between my fingers and I always claim to be turning into a were-cat.

Our cats are strange critters. But we love them bunches. :3

[eldriwolf]

First you understand them, then you answer them back--gradually you become like them

It can happen with many animals, for me, if I Live with them long enough.
cats--goats--dogs
( I once found myself making a rude comment in goat, when a dog asked me something---talk about embarrassed!)

[thesharedself]

Yessssss! I see no problem with this situation. ^.~

[hrafn]

LOLOLOL!!

I learned to hiss to show disapproval from one of my parrots (NOT from all the cats I grew up with. it's a very different sort of sound).

And to this day I don't know if the other random chirps and whistles and squeaks I make in the course of going about my business are because I've lived with parrots for most of my life or because I'm just weird like that and the birds reinforce it.

(I am sad that I can't do the sideways Evil Eye staring thing that parrots can, but I try.)

Just remember that the tempting moving red dot is NOT A BUG it is JUST LIGHT and you can never catch it because the source of the light will always keep it moving and there's nothing physical there to catch anyway.