My Cat Ashe

This is my cat Ashe.

The letter e is silent, pronounced Ash. I didnt name him, my ex-boyfriend from college did. I'm a single parent with a dead beat dad. Ashe is 6 years old and hasn't seen/heard from his dad since he was 2. It is for the better. Anyway, Ashe is my baby. He greets me when I come home with his little face in the window as soon as the garage door opens. When I leave in the morning its hard sometimes to drive off and watch the garage door close with his little face in the window again. It even makes it worse when you can see he is meowing, but of course I can't hear him. This may sound silly to some. It's just a CAT! An animal, not a human. But to me...he is all I got. Until I have a child of my own, Ashe is my child.

So I'm going out of town for 2 and half weeks and can't leave him all alone. The only people I trust to watch him both have cats of their own and Ashe doesn't play well with others. That only leaves me 1 option. He has to go to the country with his grandparents. aka...my parents. Ashe LOVES it there. A big house with a long hallway that he can pick up speed and actually run through the house. Plenty of large wooden pieces of furniture that he can crawl under. My mom likes it b/c he cleans. He comes out with cobwebs on his wiskers. It really is funny. And then he sneezes.

This brings me to my choices. I mentioned to my manager that I have to take my cat to my parents this weekend and I wasn't looking forward to driving to Oklahoma and back all in one day. I already have plans Sunday and Monday so Saturday is my only option. Well, this morning my manager said that if I wanted to leave at 2pm on Friday to get a head start on my drive to Oklahoma, maybe I could go, stay the night, see my niece and drive back Saturday instead of the same day. Not a bad idea!

I accepted her 2pm leave time, but the more I think about it...I don't want to drive tomorrow night after a day of work. Ugh. I have one of the worst cars for long distance driving. So do I leave at 2pm and actually drive? or do leave at the normal holiday time of 3:30pm and drive early Saturday morning and back Saturday afternoon.

I guess I will have to wait to see how I feel tomorrow.

Here are a couple pictures of Ashe. I think he could be a cat model....seriously. He takes good pictures for a cat!