Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Confessions I

Dear readers,

we have a confession to make: we are secretly in charge of the household we live in. Please don't tell our parents because exposure of our behavior could get us in trouble. We are also not quite sure if they actually appreciate our "leadership," but we just couldn't remain inactive any longer. Without us, we are convinced, life would be very chaotic at home.

Let us give you a few examples:

A few weeks ago, our parents were arguing about where to go on vacation this year. It got really unbearable for us. Mom asked dad where he wanted to go. He responded he didn't want to think about it. Mom got upset and told dad that they could at least talk about possible options, like if they still wanted to visit their friend Andrea in New Zealand or if, perhaps, they should finally go to Asia. We thought we'd help them out by drawing their attention to possible destinations by jumping on their world map canvas in the living room. Since Hattori is much better at jumping high and long, we decided he should give it a try first: after all, he'd have to jump almost two meters from the back of the chair to the top of the canvas. He did great and landed on the same spot thrice and thus was hopefully able to make our suggestions heard. They are Spitsbergen, Greenland, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea and Libya. What's great about them is that they are quite exotic, while still not being too far from Austria. We understand that our parents have to take a vacation from time to time, but we don't want them to be gone for too long. Believe it or not, we really miss them when they're not home. Hanzō has even tried clinging to dad's legs in the morning to prevent him from going to work, but that's a different story.



When we need to clean up our parents' mess, it is Hanzō's turn. The other day, our parents had this smelly brown liquid they drink from minature cups, we've heard them call it espresso. The cups smelled so terrible, and it seems like they didn't even notice because they left them on the table and continued drinking them. So we decided to help out and get rid of the smell by covering up the cup. It was so frustrating for Hanzō because it didn't work, as you can see:



That's it for now. Hopefully, we'll be able to remember a few other examples of our leadership in this household, so you get a better sense of how much we're actually in charge here. It's time to take a nap now because otherwise we might not be able to get the 16 hours of sleep a day that we need ;).

Until next time,
your sleepy Samurai


Monday, February 10, 2014

Our World: The Bed

Dear readers,

since our parents abandoned us for a weekend at the beginning of the month, we'll dedicate this post to probably our favorite spot in the apartment: the bed, where we love to cuddle with our parents. We were not completely alone, of course, as our Omi took care of us, but she was busy studying for an exam that we were not the center of her attention. We tried so hard to distract her by playing with her pen, sleeping on her notes and practicing our climbing skills and then pretending to be stuck and needing her to rescue us. Life is fun, for us at least.

When mommy came back on Sunday night, we could barely believe it was her. We started sniffing on her legs, her shoes and her face, and were happy to confirm after a few minutes that it was indeed her. We got to cuddle with her a little bit, but it was already quite late, so mommy kicked us out of the bedroom and went to sleep. Sadly, we are not allowed to sleep in the bed with our parents yet because apparently, we are still too rumbunctious. It is not our fault that it is so much fun eating mommy's plants, uprooting daddy's bonsai and chasing each other a little bit during the night.

Long story short, we were so needy, we kept meowing in front of the door, hoping for mommy to let us back in. Sadly, our parents have started locking the door at night because we've figured out how to use the door handle (you should have seen mommy's face when we first let ourselves into the bedroom). It doesn't keep us from trying, in spite of this little "hurdle," though, especially since it makes a lot of noise and usually wakes our parents up. Mommy didn't get to sleep that night, and the night thereafter... Thank god we're so cute because otherwise, our parents might have already thrown us out the window. Haha.

Proof of how cute we are: