It's been a HOT minute!

If you're unaware of the phrase "It's been a hot minute", don't feel like you're too old to understand what the youngsters are saying these days or that you missed the latest incredible movie that everybody will be quoting for months! A "Hot minute" is only known and actively used in the English language by myself and a small handful of 3 other people. A hot minute (depending on the context) can be compared to an amount of time as if it was molasses slowly creeping it's way the down the actual North Pole itself, or it can be like a new baby cat dashing for it's lair under the bed when it gets shot with a water bottle!

"It's been a hot minute since i've written on my blog" -Long time/molasses

"It's been a hot minute since I ate Wendy's" -Short time/super fast/recently

So, right now, I'm going to take a hot minute to get us all caught up (no pun inteded).

After our wedding, when Kasey and I got back from our trip to Missouri, we didn't hesitate to get right back into the daily grind. We spent lots of time organizing our new apartment and getting everything put away. We jumped right back into work and school and began our jourmey on the "day train" instead of "cloud 9".

School has kept Kasey plenty busy, and as the youngters do in fact say; "kicking our trash". A celebration is thrown whenever she has no homework and we usually end up doing something special like taking a jog to the nearest park and shooting some hoops or somthing. Work is equally keeping us busy. I recently have actually applied for a couple of new possibilities. One can only take calls like, " QUERRRRRRRRRRRRRRO 4 CAIXAS DE SUMO!!" and complaints over and over and over on the phone in Portuguese for so long. It kinda wares on you and starts to attack at your "happy gland", you know, the one inside your heart that makes you feel happy or sad.

Other than work and school, there has not been a whole to report at the moment. Except for "Toby"....

So, just this last weekend, Kasey decided that she REALLY wanted a new addition to the family (and not the kind the takes 9 months to be delivered by the stork), but a CAT! I've not had the best of experiences with cats in the past. My grandma has 2 cats that she refers to as "Real people/Royalty in cat suits". I once had to babysit those little royal kings, and I soon became their laughable jester at the round table in their castle. I already wasn't a "cat man" before that period of life, but the experience even furthered my desire to welcome a furry feline into the front door. Needless to say.. we got a cat.

We've had the cat for what seems FOR-EVVVV-EEERRRR (imagine the kid from The Sandlot)!!! He's just a baby and loves to be obnoxious and tear up all our furniture. When I try to cuddle up with my wife to watch a movie, he has to come in and try to lay down in between us. He's already showing signs of a rotten, oversized rat like the ones on The Princess Bride. After much conversation, Kasey and I have agreed that a baby cat is not the right addition to our family at the moment, so we are already giving him away.

To Kasey, we're saying Hello and Goodbye to the cat in less than one week.

To me, we're saying goodbye to the cat after a LIFETIME!

So either way... we got the cat, and now we're passing him on... and it's been a HOT minute!