Katie Twenty Something: My cat winks at me

Katie Twenty Something: My cat winks at me: "I wonder if anyone elses cat winks at them, it kind of spooks me out, but it also kind of reassures me is alive. I might as well talk abou..."

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I love laughing, I like going on road trips with my feet up on the dashboard, I love being married, I love red wine, I like pubs and pub quizzes, I love winning pub quizzes, I love Sunday roasts, I love my cat who is called Catty and has a big belly, I like the seaside, I love pretty accessories, especially if they have something miniature on them like a teacup or a telephone, I love wedding related things, I like going in to the Yorkshire Dales with my husband, I love leggings, I love my family and talking with them on the telephone and seeing them in person, I love Facebook, I love making people laugh, I love windy autumnal days, I like being at home of an evening with my husband and cat, I love most varieties of cake,I love Leeds and I think I like camping but I don't know yet. I think I like the idea of it more than the reality in England.

My cat winks at me

I wonder if anyone elses cat winks at them, it kind of spooks me out, but it also kind of reassures me is alive.

I might as well talk about my cat, although it doesn't bode well that my second post is about him...I promise there is more to me than him.

Catty lived in Wood Lane in Headingley where our old flat was. Catty miaowed at our window one night and I opened the curtain to see him miaowing as if to say 'well let me in then!!!!' I fed him some Bernard Matthews Turkey Ham, and the rest is history!

Well, there's a bit more to it than that but I won't bore the non Catty fans with the full story. Essentially he is my cat and my husband Josh has grown to love him, I think he realised he had to get on board when he gave me an ultimatum - it's me or the cat - and I hesitated just a fraction too long. He was something of a legend in Headingley - Catty, not Josh, and as we lived in a student area, a lot of the residents had a lot of time on their hands and a lot of kebabs to feed Catty with. If you look up Eric Le Cat on Facebook, someone (it really wasn't us!) he even had his own profile on there.

So he moved with us to the new house and has a really tough lifestyle. He wakes up around 8am in the living room - he can't sleep upstairs with us as he likes sleeping on people's faces and tummies - I feed him, he goes outside for a wee, he comes back in fifteen minutes later, he sleeps until 5pm when Josh gets home, Josh feeds him, he goes outside for a wee, he miaows, plays with his scratching post, plays with his squeaky mouse, I get home, play with him and his ribbon, he sits on my lap getting strokes, then sleeps until 8am. I genuinely don't know how he does it all in one day.

Here's the lazy bugger:

'what.'

My first bloggy blog on Blogger!

Today is the first day of my blog life! I'm so excited I may weep. Well not actually weep, but I'm fairly excited about it anyway.

I have a new job and it's in the online marketing business, so I decided to get my ass online and get media-d and webb-d up (you can see I'm fully on board with the ol' technical terms already). I've got a shiny new job title of Online Marketing Executive, swanky huh? Anything with executive has got to be good right?

Actually no, an old boss of mine said that anyone with Executive in their title is likely to get paid less than someone without...gutted. Ah well, it's a new career path for me and I like a new challenge and to be challenged creatively, so let's see how it goes!

In other news from today, I went charity shop shopping (or op shopping as my Mum and Harold Bishop from Neighbours used to call it, all charity shops were called op shops on Neighbours) (My Mum is in no way connected to Harold Bishop by the way, I realise what that last sentence sounded like...I wish she was!)

So anyway, my friend and colleague Rachel and I went charity op shopping and I stumbled upon Paul McKenna's book which challenges me to 'change my life in 7 days' - I presume it means change for the better; how awful if it actually is desgined to change your life for the worse in 7 days and I haven't read it properly...poosies. Anyway it was only 99p, so if my life does go horribly wrong in 7 days, at least I didn't spend a fortune in doing so...

I ordered Rachel's birthday present online last night (after spending her birthday office collection fund on lunch out last Friday lunchtime in Kobe ) it is due to arrive tomorrow and I can't wait to see her reaction...I'm terrible at buying presents that I would like to receive for me.

Things to be excited about tomorrow:

1. Rachel's present arriving (along with a key bracelet I might have ordered for meeeee)
2. Tom Grapes is coming into the office (ex i-to-i-er) and he has no idea we are all wearing checked shirts in his honour!
3. My eBay purchases finish tomorrow, I'm hoping to make some dollar!
4. Talking of Honor - there might be a fancy dress plan afoot for Friday which is her last day in the office! I can drag out my fake moustache!
5. I'm going to make cake pops for the bake off next week, chances are I'll be excited about this until next week
6. Posting another blog!

Here's a picture of me and Rachel sharing our first dance at my wedding. She looks happy: