The Cat Nanny Diaries

Meet my latest clients:

Fiona and Jaz!

It seems that everyone is getting their post-covid travel in, and I am the official cat-nanny of the neighborhood! The one on the left is a lap cat and the on the right is the climber:

I swear these two could not be more different.

One of the skills I must learn as a cat and house sitter, is how to navigate the remote control of the owner’s television. I have never come across the same remote twice. You got your Roku, you got your Dish TV, you got your Apple TV and this latest house has Direct TV. I am always re-learning the channels. I just want my NBC, CBS, E! and Comedy Central. One cannot live off Netflix alone. I do actually like to watch network television – I’m old school.

Speaking of Netflix, I have found my latest favorite show to binge…

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is so funny. It came out in 2015, pre-Covid, but it’s so relevant now because the main character was living in a bunker for 15 years and then finally gets free. Talk about shelter in place. In some ways this show is almost therapeutic.

I didn’t realize that I am still sort of coming out of whatever psychological mind trip the pandemic did on me. Like I didn’t realize how much I missed dancing until I saw a cover band playing R&B music in downtown Oakland and it felt like my heart was going to explode. And last month I felt motivated for the first time in a long time to go shopping for new clothes and try on new things rather than just sitting around in yoga pants all the time.

All the rainstorms this month almost triggered my shelter-in- place trauma all over again. But knowing this time it would only last a few weeks and that the sun would eventually come back made this waterfall in the dog park worth it:

All this rain made me feel lazy and here it is, January 20th and I still haven’t put up all my Christmas cards on my refrigerator! Well, that’s mostly because I haven’t been home. I have only slept in my own bed seven days in December and only 12 days in January. That’s a lot of cat-sitting!

But they’re worth it.