You know …

she’s just lying there under her favorite blanket, thinking some deep thoughts.

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Lord knows what I will do when the weather finally gets hot and I have to put the red fleece blanket away. Hope will be devastated.

Another one of Hope’s quirks:

She enjoys perching on my printer right beside my desk, but she only sits there when I am sitting at the desk at my laptop. Because, you know, it’s all about closeness. She, and her “Listen, lady, I don’t need you, just give me more Fancy Feast and leave me alone” don’t fool me! She sits on the printer, her front arms curled up beneath her so she looks like an amputee, and she stares at me with unblinking eyes that, frankly, freak me out.

But the quirk is: I am not allowed to pet her while she sits on the printer. She finds touch UNBEARABLE when she is there. When she’s lying on the bed or on the floor, I can basically pet her to my hearts content, she sprawls out on her back revealing her belly to me, I can make her stretch her arms and she just GOES with it, every muscle stretching, her “toes” all splayed out, I can do anything to her when she’s on the bed, she loves it, her purrs thunder through the room.

But while on the printer? NO TOUCHING, I BEG OF YOU.

I reach out and she recoils, standing straight up, staring at my hand, like, “WHAT. ON EARTH. do you think you’re doing?”

I’m just petting you, Hope, chill out.

But don’t you see that I am on the printer right now? And don’t you know, doesn’t everybody know, that I must not be touched while up here? Isn’t it obvious why?

Well, actually Hope, no, I’m a bit confused as to why.

I reach out to pet her again, because I enjoy tormenting her, and she backs up, horrified, and leaps off the printer to go and sulk in the corner.

She’s so weird.

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10 Responses to You know …

  1. red says:

    I am DYING LAUGHING

  2. red says:

    I seriously cannot recover.

  3. red says:

    Glenn – picturing you photoshopping all of that (and the little thought bubble-clouds – hahahaha) is KILLING ME.

  4. Glenn says:

    …and since it was all done on company time – I got paid to do it!

  5. just1beth says:

    That is TOO funny!!!! You know, when she is on the printer, maybe she is hoping to catch a glimpse “Skyward”….

  6. Cara says:

    That blanket is lovely. I want one now. : )

  7. tracey says:

    Glenn!! You are awesome! Hahahahaha!!

  8. red says:

    It’s so damn funny. I keep glancing at it.

  9. sarahk says:

    I love how into Hope you are. I’m the same way with Minerva–she just amazes me every day!

    Glenn–you’re a genius.

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