Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome…..  Mendy!!

Mendy is our new cat!  She is about a year old (we think) and we adopted her from a rescue agency.  She arrived this evening, and we let her look around the house a little bit.  Then we shut her into the downstairs bathroom so that we can slowly introduce her to JB.

I have to admit, I’m pretty worried about this.  I really want them to like each other and to get along – and I don’t want Mendy to come in and dominate JB.  JB is a little bit neurotic to begin with, but he’s really comfortable with me and in his house.  I don’t want to bring in a stranger that invades his space and his territory, and makes him feel threatened.

We made a little bit of a mistake, I think, because I picked up JB and S picked up Mendy and we tried to introduce them to each other.

Bad move.  JB went completely nutso, hissing and scratching and growling.  Which got Mendy started doing the same things.  I tried to hold onto JB, but he went so completely crazy that he smacked me in the face and I let him go.  S grabbed him (letting go of Mendy) and held him tightly and just let him watch her.

I felt so bad for him – watching this newcomer invade his space and explore his house.  I’m really afraid that he’s going to be scared and uncomfortable in his own territory.  I’m going to do my best to get the two to get adjusted to and like eachother, but I have already made it really clear to S and the adoption agency that if it doesn’t work out, we have to take her back.  JB is absolutely my first priority.

That being said… Mendy is really freakin cute.

She is a little ball of energy, exploring everywhere and constantly wanting attention.

She kept wanting to go upstairs to find JB.

She is so beautiful, with a white coat, a few brown splotches, and a tabby tail.  And beautiful, blue eyes.

So from now on, we are taking it slow.  We are keeping Mendy in the bathroom with her litterbox, food and water, and will take it one step at a time and slowly allow them to meet and greet and get used to each other.

Back to this morning.  Breakfast was a pizza pretzel and a couple of clementines.

I actually bought the pizza pretzels for S, because he always orders them when we go to Barnes and Nobles and I found them in the freezer section of the grocery store.  But I had to try one to make sure it wasn’t poisoned before I gave them to him

Mid-morning snack was two more clementines.  I’m almost done with the bag I bought a couple of weeks ago, which is good because they are starting to get a little mushy.

Lunch was a salad with a Hebrew National hot dog and roasted squash seeds from my acorn squash.  They are delicious!

And I satisfied my sweet tooth afterwards with a VitaTop.

Then it was time to cowboy up and tame the monster butternut squash I had waiting for me.  I decided to make butternut squash fries.  I cut up the first half into fries by hand.

Then I remembered my new veggie spiral slicer, and decided to try the larger blade!

I baked them for about 40 minutes at 425 degrees.  Dinner was spiral fries with pork tenderloin, sprinkled with some parmesan cheese.

Delicious!  And dessert was some peppermint ice cream.

While waiting for Mendy to arrive in the evening, I watched an episode of Private Practice.  That show is a little too dramatic and unrealistic for me, but sometimes I watch it anyways.  You know what I like about that show?  It shows that you can have a seemingly perfect life – you can be rich, beautiful, a successful doctor… and be unhappy.

Money (and beauty) cannot buy happiness….

But maybe two cats that get along and love each other can?

Let’s hope so…