Friday Night Lament: Fuzzball 23 In which Fuzzball comes to the sad realization that he is NOT always the Center Of The Universe by Fuzzball "schoooooooool's.... out... for .. SUMMER!" Sing it with me, kits and kittens! Mom's going to be home for the seven weeks! At our beck and call - can opener in hand.

Except for that required teacher training stuff that she has to do during her summer vacation... that week of classes, the three day workshop, the 2 day symposium, the 10 extra days of 'volunteer' tutoring, the week it'll take her to pack up and move classrooms... um...

Okay. So she'll be home TWO weeks instead of six. She can just pour on the spoiling during that time! Ah, I can see it now! Dry cleaning my sherpa pillow, dust-busting the drapes (there is SO much cat hair collected on them... you'd think she'd have MY high standards...) Cooking special delicacies for her Fuzzball and the terrible twosome - chicken soufflé with wild field greens - beef and liver slivers lightly browned with vegetables and covered with gravy - Homemade Kitty Kibble... I'm delirious just thinking about it!

WHAT? Oh No! Papa and Razzi just overheard mom talking to the <insert evil laugh here> CAT SITTER! This is NOT a cat whisperer, kits and kittens. This is the <evil laugh> CAT SITTER! Mom's planning on going to the homestead for a family reunion during those two weeks! MY two weeks! The weeks that were her chance to make up for the other 50 weeks of ignoring the Fuzzball while reading those Changeling Books...

The <evil laugh> CAT SITTER! Mr. Scoop The Litter Box Just Once A Day and Only Serve Canned Food In The Mornings <evil laugh> CAT SITTER! He doesn't watch the Food Network when he's here. It's ESPN and you don't WANT to know what else. After all, he's a 17 year old high school senior who makes money in the summer by being a <evil laugh> CAT SITTER!

Okay, okay. Got to settle down here. Got to calm down. Deep Breathes. Groom. Lick, lick, lick... I can deal with this. I can make it work for me. Give me a minute. . . . . .

A NANNY! That's it! The Fuzz will hire a NANNY to take care of Papa and Razzi and of course, my exalted self! I still have mom's computer password and I KNOW that there are tons of job sites out there! Mary Poppins, meet Dr. DooLittle! How hard can it be?