There has been a lot going on and I have been busy sleeping. When its hot outside, a cat needs his sleep.

Mom went out of town on Sunday to go to a meeting where the people call her boss. The meeting was in the mountains. I heard the big man talking to Mom on the phone Sunday night. Mom was mad because it is summer time but when she got to the mountains, it was very cold and she forgot her coat. She had to buy one at the airport and she said it has rhinestones on it. Mom is not a rhinestone kind of Mom, so when she brings it home, I'll surprise her by biting the rhinestones off for her.

Me and the big man had some trouble while she was gone. He was putting the tent houses up and he wouldn't let me in the storage room! There might be mice in there, I needed to check it out but he kept shoo-ing me away with his big foot and his cut leg with little threads in it. I tried to tell him I was checking for mice, but he wouldn't listen so I just bit him. He yelled at me and locked me in the house! He's not nice when Mom is out of town.

She was supposed to be home in time for supper Tuesday night and me and the big man were going to surprise her with her favorite food: tomato soup. Well, while we were straightening up our messes Mom called. She was very sad because they bumped her off the plane. I was really worried because those planes fly really high and she got bumped off I'm sure the fall would hurt really bad. I don't think cats even survive getting bumped off those airplanes. But the big man explained she got bumped off before she got on the plane, so she didn't have to fall at all. Whew.

I was listening to the conversation and Mom was talking loud enough so that I could hear. She said the plane was overweight and they wouldn't let all the people on. Well, that plane needs to go on a diet, is what I said. They were picking people who did not have something called a connection to bump off the plane. Mom didn't have a connection. I thought maybe she left it at home with her coat so I started looking for it. Mom needs to stop forgetting to take her stuff with her when she leaves. I didn't find her connection, and then I remembered that I don't know what a connection is, so maybe I overlooked it.

The people at the airport told Mom and the other people who forgot their connections that they would be on another plane in 3 hours. So Mom was not going to get home until after bedtime. Boo hoo. No surprise supper for Mom. I don't think she was too disappointed about not getting her surprise from us, because she called the big man later and said the people at the airport gave her a surprise: they delayed her late flight. She was very surprised by that.

Mom was supposed to be home for our surprise supper at 7:30. Mom got home at 1:30 instead. I know she was more tired than ever because she pulled in the garage and left everything, even her purse and cell phone, in the car. She went in the house, walked right to the bed and fell in it. Poor Mom. Maybe she should put that connection thing in her brief case so she won't forget it again and get bumped out of the plane.

The phone rang at 7:30 the next morning and woke her up. She sure was grumpy and she stayed grumpy until way after lunch. I went outside and ignored her. Who wants a grumpy Mom? Then I heard her tell the big man that she was so tired when she was flying home. When she got off the plane, she went out to get on the thing called the shuttle bus to ride to her car. The shuttle bus left just before she got to it and she had to wait another 30 minutes for the next one. She didn't like that at all.

She's better today. I've been working in the office with her today. She has on those flipflop shoes and I like attacking those. I have been stalking the printer and attacking her papers, too. Well, that was long update and I'm tired. I think I'll go take a nap and get rested. I need my rest because it takes energy to be cool and I am a cool cat.