Update on Flip

It's been a while since i've spoken of the cat.

And i'd like to let ya'll know he's gotten HUGE and beautiful. We've got him eating science diet "Hill's" which is super-de-duper fancy scientific cat foody stuff -- so his coat is super slick and shiny and black and his greenish-yellow eyes are big, piercing and curious.

He loves to surprise attack from behind doors as we enter rooms, has figured how to open up every damn door in the house and when we come home from a long day at work he likes to be picked up and cradled like a little baby while he purrs and arches his back.

He has a love for all things wires and has a little stuffed cat toy he ports around in his mouth wherever he goes and that he loves to play (gasp!) fetch with.

At night when we try to read he plants himself between us and our books and purrs until we cuddle him and stop reading. He bites our feet when they stick out from under the comfortors and when he's very sleepy he'll climb into the tiny space between Jac and I as we sleep and pass right out.

He's a lovely cat.

I can't wait to get another one :-)

Jac is kind of holding off on the idea but I shall have my way!

Oh, wonderful.

I've been sick with a cold all weekend so despite my best efforts, and tons of optimism -- I didn't get to do much of anything.

There was a rather lively lunch on Sunday at Jac's parents place with his french relatives. Halfway through I joked to him "So is this was our family dinners going to be like?" -- imagining my american relatives and italian kids.

But my kids will be tri-lingual.

But let's not talk 5 years down the line.

So the appartment situation is that after a failed attempt to rent the little apartment for a more reasonable price (the one the con artist showed us -- we got in touch with the real owner) -- we called back "The Lips" i.e. the owner-ess of the original apartment we saw and liked -- the empty one with ugly tiles.

But it's our best bet. And I kind of like the idea of having an entire apartment, completely filled with all hand-picked IKEA furniture -- according to our specific tastes.

I've never had that before.

So we talked to her but she says she has someone interested and she is waiting for them to bring in a pay slip -- and so she can't tell us anything until Wednesday.

So Wednesday, if she says so--- the place is ours and we can start fixing it up to hopefully move in by July 1.

If not, we'll just say it wasn't meant to be and Friday its back to the torn n' tattered pages of Portaportese.

Apartment hunting in Rome is so stressful.

I just want it to be over so I can start the fun part :-) -- interior design of my first "real" home!

Exciting.