From a Car to A Cat

Having finally made the commitment to buying a car, you can probably guess that i've been doing a fair bit of driving about town - in order to get used to the feel of the thing, driving on the right hand side and, of course, changing gear with my right hand instead of my left hand. And you'd be right. Generally, i'm beginning to get used to it, after an initial couple of hiccups of putting the windscreen wipers on instead of the indicators. But, hey! Everyone is allowed a couple of mistakes (provided they don't result in a crash! At least that's what i say). Anyway, one of the major things that i had wanted to do now for sometime (and not gotten around to) was getting a cat. Having had workmates go through the 'adoption' process here, they had agreed to take me to the right place so i could sort it all out.

So, today, the day came and after leaving work early (it WAS Labor Day today after all - a bank holiday), we headed out to Petsmart, a pretty big Pet store over in Mount Pleasant so i could see if there were any animals that interested me. After having a bit of a faff-on over paperwork (i had to come back into town and go back out again), everything was duly sorted and i was now the proud 'owner/parent' of a 4 month-old ginger tom cat whose working name was OJ (obviously for his colour but unfortunately reminding me of OJ Simpson). A short journey and 'OJ' was at his new home and having a wander to see what the place was like. Of course, OJ has now been ditched and he is now officially called Jasper (thanks, Mum!). And he's adorable. Pictures will no doubt follow at a later date - just to let visitors take note. I hope they're all cat people.