Grandma Slave is Visiting Us

Grandma Slave is coming to spend the night with us so I can go to parent teacher conferences tomorrow. My first Parent Teacher conferences, to be followed Friday by my first stint volunteering at a PTO event. Luckily Grandma isn't one of those people who comes in and disses the dirt all over your house. On the floors, in the bathrooms, on the furniture, on the kitchen table. We've been down for the snot this week, and there's pretty much a crust on everything. Including us. However, she's also not the kind of person who comes and cleans your house for you. No, that is called a maid, and we can't afford one.

I also plan to use Grandma Slave's presence to get some writing done, if she'll allow it. Which is what makes this post relevant to "writing".

Here's what makes it relevant to cats: it should be interesting to see how Grandma Slave interacts with Meankitty and Big D while she's here. Owing to her hectic jam schedule (by that I mean the jamming she does with her band, not the strawberry jam she makes and freezes), the 6 cats who live at her house, the dog, and an until recently unreliable vehicle, she hasn't been to visit us lately. The cats have fallen into quite the routine with Nanny Slave, with the little tricks they play on her, especially at night. How is Grandma going to react to The One Paw? What about Mad Door Scratching? Do you think she'll appreciate the Midnight Face Inspection? Not that the Party Cats don't have their own nighttime quirks, such as Cat Pan Bingo and Free Range Peeing, but hey -- this is Meankitty we're talking about. She of the Subtle Psychological Torture and Manipulation. I heard a rumor they were adding a chapter of the SOHC handbook on the tactics she has revolutionized.

JW