girlfiend

I bought one of those cat scratching posts that comes with a little baggie of catnip. I put the catnip in my pocket so the Fiendling wouldn’t get his hands on it now that he’s figured out how to move furniture around so he can climb onto tables.

After dinner I took the Fiendling out for a walk to my brother-in-law’s house. We’d been invited for dinner, but since we’d already eaten I figured we’d just walk over and say hi. Before we even left our front yard we stopped to talk to my next door neighbor and his dog. The Fiendling was having a blast walking around holding the dog’s leash and I must have dropped the catnip because when I looked down I thought, “where the hell did that dime bag come from?” before picking it up and remembering it was just the catnip.

I finally wrestled the dog’s leash from the Fiendling’s hand and we began our walk. At the end of the block I ran into a friend, her husband and their two little girls on their way to get water ice. I decided water ice sounded like more fun than baked ziti, especially since we’d just eaten dinner and we walked back up the block towards my house so I could grab a couple of dollars. It turns out my friend’s the aunt of one of the girls who lives on my block and of course we ran into her on the way to my house. The little girl, her brother, their foster mom and their foster grandmom all stopped to chat so I left the Fiendling with them while I ran in to get the money.

When I came back all of the little kids were playing on the sidewalk with the bigger ones and the adults were all huddled together. They were all discussing a baggie they’d found on the sidewalk. It sounded like they were planning to smoke it to see if it was weed. It didn’t smell like weed, and if it was weed it was definitely low quality, but why not roll it up anyway, they’d decided. And of course I realized after about 30 seconds that it was my catnip and I told them that it was catnip and we all had a good laugh, but now I’m wondering if they think it really was a shitty bag of weed and I just didn’t want them to smoke my stash.