thankful

today i am thankful for my beloved cat, liger.

6-ish years ago a friend of mine called to ask if i knew anyone who could take her lovely cat, samantha, off her hands. she was moving and not able to take samantha the cat with her.

i tried to find someone but to no avail. i told the friend i tried but failed. she said that she was going to have to take the cat to the animal rescue league the next day. i said "i'll be over in 5 minutes."

i wasn't looking for a cat...i had a lot going on in my life at the time. partying every night, tumultuous relationship, weight struggles, work struggles, life struggles. i didn't need another responsibility, as i could barely take care of myself. it took some time for samantha to warm up to me, but we became fast friends.

my friend tosha and i decided that samantha was way cooler than the name she carried, so we renamed her liger.

and wouldn't you know it? that little booger rescued me from myself. i stopped being so selfish and thinking only about myself and started caring about someone else. after all, i was now responsible for keeping another living being alive.

so today, i am thankful for my little ligeroni lover buns bananas boo boo bigglesworth. i'm not a mother to human children yet, but i love her as if she were my first born.