{"id":131,"date":"2011-12-06T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/12\/a-st-nicholas-day-request\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:34:19","slug":"a-st-nicholas-day-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/12\/a-st-nicholas-day-request.html","title":{"rendered":"A St. Nicholas Day Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Happy St. Nicholas Day, everyone! Later this week I\u2019ll be over at the revamped Virtuous Pla.net, now known as Ignitum Today, musing about St. Nicholas and Santa. (I think, at least. The post is as yet unwritten.) But today I have a semi-desperate request to make.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve hinted around at it, but now that the paperwork is all official and we have found a house to rent and all, I guess it\u2019s time to make the big announcement. The Ogre has a job at Ave Maria as a visiting professor for the spring semester!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re very excited. I\u2019ve never actually been to that part of Florida, but I hear it\u2019s beautiful. My mom is beside herself because she loves vacationing in Florida. I\u2019m beside myself because I\u2019ll be within driving distance of this<\/a>. The Ogre is never beside himself, but he is glad to have a job. The kids are beside themselves at the prospect of a beach.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re throwing ourselves into moving insanity yet again,<\/i>\u00a0but this time there\u2019s a bitter pill to swallow. Our cat, Loki, who I rescued from a very bad place when the Ogre and I were just dating, can\u2019t come with us. The house we are renting is strictly a pet-free zone. If the circumstances were different, we\u2019d probably just look for another place, but rentals are not easy to come by in Ave Maria and this one is perfect in every other way, and besides we have about three weeks before we have to leave Texas, which doesn\u2019t leave much time.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m trying to find her a place to live. This cat has annoyed the life out of me for the last six years, but actively finding her a new home has made me realize how much I actually love her. She\u2019s moody and tempermental, like all cats, but if you show her some attention she\u2019s yours for life. She absolutely adores the Ogre and will probably be heartbroken when we leave her somewhere. She is fixed but she\u2019s not de-clawed, and she does like to scratch. She scratched up our couch, actually, before we discovered that if you put those hanging door-scratchers around the house she\u2019ll scratch those instead of the furniture. She\u2019s not terribly fond of children but she does tolerate them, and when she gets her tail pulled by a too-friendly child (or a too-naughty one like Charlotte) she usually just yowls and finds a bookshelf to jump up and hide on.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also very fat and lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Not a great picture. According to the Ogre, she is being difficult.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So if you or anyone you know would be interested in taking our cat, please email me at calahalexander(at)yahoo(dot)com. It may be just a temporary thing; we may be moving again in the summer and be able to take her back. But it may be permanent. There\u2019s no way to know at this point. Regardless, we are very sad to have to let her go and would be so incredibly grateful to anyone who would be willing to give her a good home, temporary or not.<\/p>\n

Thanks, everyone! Happy St. Nicholas day!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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