I love my cat

My baby came back to me! After two and a half days of depression he came back to me! It was a wonderful event.

I had been at my friend Jodi's house and I called my mom to ask her to check the door and see if miko had come home and once again the answer was no, but she told me to come home and look around for him since the sun was going down and he might be out. At this point I had almost given up hope and I wanted to just leave miko to be wild. Then something told me to just go home and look for him anyway, and so Cheri, Jodi, my sister and I went back to my place and we started looking around.

We didn't get past my house when Mel spotted two cats across the street, but on the porch of my house I saw something dart off to the corner. Sure enough Miko was in the ally between my house and our neighbor. There was a small hole in the fence between the houses and now we think he has been in their back yard the whole time, since they are men with home construction hobbies there is a lot of junk in their back yard for miko to hide in.

So, I was able to kneel down on the ground and call him to me, he nearly ran away when Jodi Cheri and Mel started to come over but I told them to stay back and Miko was hissing and it was a very shaking process. I got him inside and said some mean words and washed him up later on that night.

He is now before me lapping up as much water as he can. He has been doing that since he got back. I'm so glad he is home and I was happy to hear him running down the stairs to eat when I gave him new food this morning.

God is so good that he would make a cat come to his master with such obedience when this cat rarely ever does that. God took this cats natural want to be an outdoor cat and shut it down so he would walk right to me and allow me to drag him back inside where he will most likely never see the light of day if I have anything to say about it.

My faith has been put on new foundation. Kind of weird that it took losing and finding my cat to have that happen but when it happens it happens I suppose. I am so happy to have my cat back. May I never lose him again.

I would love to say thank you to everyone who prayed for Miko on sabbath. I think I shall do that during family time at church next weekend. I just smile every time I look over and see him there, just sitting there, doing what he does. I hope he knows I will be watching him like a hawk from now on.

Song : I love you by Cranberries

http://www.imeem.com/gamajb/music/OP-pOEiD/the-cranberries-i-love-you/

My Baby

I...I'm a very sad person today. My special baby Miko has gone missing. I don't know how to handle it. I have looked outside. I have rampaged the house. I have asked my neighbors. I am losing hope. He doesn't know this house, he doesn't know this street. My precious baby that I have had for 8 wonderful years is missing and I don't know what to do.

He might have gotten out last night while a traveling bible sales man was praying with me and my sister at the door or later on that night when the door was open in the dark. I hate his curiosity...

This morning he didn't wake me up and when I poured food in his bowl he didn't come running down the stairs. I have checked in the closets, the cabinets, and his favorite place under mom and mel's bed. My heart is heavy and I feel like crying. He is my baby and I wish he wasn't missing. Oh great....now I'm crying...

Song : Who am I to say by Hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE_uRaoSMBs

I miss my baby so much.

NI HAO!!!

"Don't think about what you can't do,

think about what you can do!"

I love that little Chinese show! Ni Hao Kai-Lan, its so sweet and all the kids at the day care love it. At first I thought it was a stupid show that came out in the hype of the Olympics in china but like Dora, Diego, and Handy Manny this show teaches you a lot! Today I was watching it with a child I was baby sitting and Kai lan said something really good. "Don't think about what you can't do, think about what you can do." and its so true!

I've always enjoyed watching kids shows cause its just cute and fun but when I watch Kai lan I learn so much! Speaking in Chinese (at a child's level mind you) is almost as fun as talking in Japanese (my Japanese is barely above 5 year old levels....)! The way they say grand pa and thanks and hello are so cute!!

Different languages are so much fun! I wish I could learn them all. I wonder if we will have different languages in heaven...doesn't seem likely....fuuu...

Music : With Reflection by KOKIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tehrLcmRMwA

(seriously, watch it, wonderful voice)

Waves of doom

Today I had a very spiritual experience. Well..its more like yesterday cause its 2 in the morning but whatever. I went to the beach with my awesome friends and we had a ball of a time! But I figured out something wonderful about us as humans through the nature that God uses so cleverly to teach us with.

When swimming there are a few things you can do about the waves. You can, one, watch the wave come and dive into it so you don't have to wait for it to hit you. But then you still are in the wave and you still feel the full power of the wave from the current below. Or you could, two, try to jump before the wave comes and control the situation but that usually ends in you falling too soon before the wave hits and then you get water up your nose and it burns and you cry inside and gag a little. Then there is the other way, third, you could relax and let the wave carry you and its only like a little bump and you giggle cause you feel like you are floating.

If you are really daring, like Jodi's little sister Kayla is, you can lay back and float on top of all the waves and just relax. Having total trust that you will not go under unless a terribly large wave comes and destroys you!

Try as I may I could not find it in me to just have faith and float for more than two seconds. As soon as I felt a wave coming I tried to touch my feet to the ground but the wave had me too high and I just ended up having water in my nose and blaming those around me for not giving me good advice on how to float. I only got more annoyed because all those around me were finding ways to float and I just couldn't do it! Jonathan was floating using a board and when I tried to do that I couldn't trust the board to hold me and I went under. Then I tried floating the way Kayla was doing it and I still had to try and control the situation by wading my arms and kicking my legs a little while Kayla was totally still. Try as I may I just couldn't do it.

So, in my defeat, I just swam along allowing the waves to carry me and surely enough I was happy but I was getting pretty far out to the deep end. But Kayla did too, but she was floating so she was okay. Anyway I just found all of it interesting after I had a while to think about what had went down. It was a wonderful day and I met the wonderful and talented and funny Todd and Heather. I hope that I can hang out with them in heaven once I learn to just float and not worry about whether I will fall if I don't help God out.

Okay its late, I am just now getting back into a little bit of a sleeping pattern! Yay for sleep!!

Song : Somedays by Regina Spector

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlk2equCBXU

Insomniatic...

Oh...look...the sun is coming up again...

....and so begins day two of no sleep.