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Weird, comments won't take a plus sign. 3 plus days...there, I'm done.

I sort of adopted my cat on an impulse, and when I brought her home, I was racked with buyer's remorse of sorts, thinking about all the responsibility and changes this would cause. Now when I think about that, I want to kick myself. Thank goodness I did keep her! And the little one that came along a few years later...I got her for a few bowls of kibble.

Cats are hardly any work at all! I like to joke that a cat is like a goldfish. Yes, I have to clean up after her and I really should vacuum more, and if I go away for 3 days, I need to find someone to check on her, but that's about it.

I imagine having a dog is a lot more work, but I'm sure it's worth it!

I feel bad for people like Modfan who care more about their stuff than other living things. I like my stuff, too, and my cat scratches up my sofa, but what am I going to do - get rid of my cat to save my stupid sofa? Hell no!

Funny how I was so reluctant to adopt a cat at first, and now I can't imagine life without her. She is so bratty - chewing on plastic bags, escaping out the front door, getting into everything, coating my apartment in fur - but I love her! She just purrs constantly. I love that sound.

I miss my little one. She would carry little stuffed animals around in her mouth and leave them at my bedroom door! She purred like a diesel engine when you scratched her belly.

I generally like most other people's pets, too.

Well, I'm sorry that I don't really have any suggestions, but I'd like to make three comments:
1. Thank you, Rachel, for showing us a perfectly decent, but very typical apartment. I think this reflects the majority of apartments (at least mine, and I don't even have as nice a floorplan), and I wish we'd see more of these where people do a good job with what they've got. Which leads me to:
2. Rachel, your apartment is beautiful...you've really done a nice job decorating and arranging it.
3. I'm gratified to hear someone else say, "finding the right furniture to hide/store/utilize space, and not wanting to always be spending money."

Indoor furniture outside is white trash. Sorry, Abby. And I've lived in SoCal for several years now, and I can't always tell when it is going to rain...hence my rusty bike.

About SoCal winters: gray, cool, and rainy.

I love when my cat crawls under the covers with me and purrs us both to sleep, but that happens rarely, and only lasts ten minutes. The rest of the time, she tends to walk around on the bed, get into stuff, chew on my glasses, and generally wake me up. So I lock her out at night. And I don't really like cat hair in my bed. She's allowed in during the day, but I always make my bed. I'm not a good sleeper, so I am protective of what sleep I can get.

My other cat always slept quietly on the corner of the bed all night unless she got hungry, so I let her in at night.

I read an article once about how pets in the bed/bedroom do significantly disrupt their owners' sleep.

I use Tidy Cat - the one with the green lid (sorry, can't remember the exact name). I'm really only using it out of habit and convenience. I used pine litter for awhile, but I can't remember now why I went back to Tidy Cat... Anyway, I am reading these comments with interest because I would really like to switch to a litter that doesn't track EVERYWHERE (and is a little more natural).

I do have a question! My indoor cat likes to go outside, but I won't let her roam around without supervision (we're not allowed to have outdoor cats where I live and there's coyotes). There's a short walkway with a railing from my apartment to the stairs. Do you have any ideas of how I could close off the walkway so she could sit outside but couldn't escape down the stairs? Then I could also leave my door open during nice days.

P.S. She's a good jumper.

Thank you!

Maybe the writer is not allowed/doesn't want to make holes in her walls, so that's why she is using tension rods to hang her curtains.

I agree with ammanda: green would look nicer, but I would pull it from your bedspread or little rug. I think the lime green looks out of place because I don't see that color anywhere else.

Fatale Attraction - yeah! That's why the S chairs and tulip table never looked quite right in my apartment...