La Miccia Corta

Living together is HARD.

I've told Jac that lately he's got a short fuse with me -- you know, a quick - to - anger attitude -- and basically that translates into "hai la miccia corta" which would be understood by an unknowing italian as "you have small genitalia".

They always take things so personally here.

I don't know. Jac is moody and I can't seem to do 100% of the things right in his eyes all the time --- but my saving hope is that at the moment we are not in an ideal situation... there are another 13 days left before we are allowed to move house so we've just got to find someway to survive the next two weeks without too much damage. It is looking to be difficult.

I just need him to humor me with a miccia a bit more LUNGA -- ya know?

Life goes on though. We neutered Flip this past weekend which has turned out to be a traumatic experience for Jac & I (sure we complain about how he claws at us and bites our feet... but we actually just really love him for the crazy cat he is) --- but we've been noting down to minute details any and all behavioral changes we believe have been brought about by the --- uh --- change. We want our Flip to be just as he was or would be...

But in the end we really did the right thing. We weighed the reasons for months before deciding. The new house has a garden that is really easy to escape from -- and we can't have him populating the neighborhood with little Flips, as cute as they would be -- Rome already has a HUGE stray cat problem -- and not enough homes to place them in--- best not to take part in producing more. Also because we want to get a little friend for Flip, a kitten --- which we hope to introduce a month or two after we move in to the new place. Cats don't like too much change all at once. And since it's going to be a female kitty we don't want any procreating going on there either.

And he'll be less likely to want to escape from us -- that's important.

So there it is.

Other things... i'm just tired and want things to stop HAPPENING for awhile so I can enjoy the summer. But with changes as work, which i'll elaborate on in a more appropriate moment -- seem to indicate that things are about to get crazier.

There's a whole summer ahead ....