Pen Pusher
"Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

~Rebecca West, pen pusher.

Labels: annoying cats, birds, daily quote, pen pusher, preacher, Rebecca West, religion, St. Francis, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women

  posted by Matildakay at 11:27 AM 0 comments

The Annoying Cat story that tops them all
Just when I thought I had seen it all and heard it all when it came to annoying cats, turnto23.com posts the annoying cat story that tops them all.

We’ve all seen firemen rescuing cats out of trees on TV and in the movies, well recently a cat rescue attempt happened right here in Bakersfield.

According to ABC23 an annoying cat crawled up a 60-foot tree and got stuck for 10 days screaming its head off the entire time!

Local residents tried to get the fire department to come out and rescue the annoying cat, but they said that only happens in the movies. So one man crawled in the tree to attempt a rescue and got stuck himself. The fire department was called out to rescue the man in the tree, which they did, and since they were there, they tried to rescue the annoying cat too. But the annoying cat evaded the firemen and climbed even hirer in the tree.

The annoying cat also evaded Animal Control, a County fire truck with the BIG ladder, and a County Parks and Recreation truck with a lift.

But this annoying cat story gets even better…

Read what happens next:

“After elevating the lift and moving it into position, the cat jumped out of the tree from about 60 or 70 feet.

Unhurt and confused, the cat ran headlong into another tree and finally darted under a car and crawled up into the engine. It took some time for Animal Control officials to extricate the cat. The lucky jumping cat will be available for adoption after 4 days from the Kern County Animal Control”

And if you think this story is unbelievable, watch the video on turnto23.com of the annoying cat falling out of the tree and running around crazy and ending up inside the motor of a nearby parked car.

I can’t believe there’s an annoying cat even more annoying than all the annoying cats that live next door to me and torment me everyday.

Labels: ABC 23, Animal Control, annoying cats, Kern County Fire Department, Kern County Parks and Recreation, turnto23.com

  posted by Matildakay at 7:17 PM 2 comments

Looks like I'm not the only one with Annoying Cat problems!
The annoying cats that constantly plague me seem to be infesting other neighborhoods as well. N.L. exposes one such neighborhood's cat infestation on Paperback Writer.

And for those of you who thought I was making up my annoying cat problem... take a look at this photo! Take a look at what I deal with everyday!



God help us, annoying cats are taking over the world!

There should be laws against annoying cat infestations.

Labels: annoying cats, Bakersfield, cat infestation

  posted by Matildakay at 3:52 PM 0 comments

Spring Cleaning...


Lately I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning and getting rid of things I don’t need, use or wear. And with the help of some friends I cleaned out my garage. Boy what a mess my garage was! But after two trips to the dump, I reduced the amount of junk I had by a hundred percent. Seriously I probably kept 4 boxes total.

The garage was like an all day treasure hunt. There was stuff in there that I haven’t seen or thought of in years. We even found a box of wedding stuff from my wedding, which went right in the trash. Seriously, why was I hanging on to wedding stuff?

What I kept was a few items I might try to sell on ebay and a few items from my childhood and tax documents from my old business that I can’t get rid of yet.

And guess what was hiding behind some of the boxes in the garage... kittens! Two of those annoying kittens had gotten in my garage and were hiding behind boxes. They ran like crazy when we moved this big box. We caught those annoying kittens and marched them over to my little old cat lady neighbor's front porch and left them there. I swear those annoying cats are everywhere!

After the garage I moved onto my house. Gutted the closet of all things I don’t wear, including sadly, all of the heels I can’t wear anymore because of my knees. I’ve hung onto them the past few years hoping I’d be able to wear heels again. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that heels will only be a dream for me. So out they went. Bags of shoes! I tell you it broke my heart to get rid of my heels.

I also got rid of a bunch of knick-knacks I don’t have room for in this house I’m living in now. And donated tons of things to Dirty Spanglish’s yard sale.

I’m sure I have tons more I could get rid of and probably will when the mood hits me again. But one thing this Spring cleaning has done is make me “into” my house again. I have nice furniture and nice things and I’m in the mood to finish decorating my house again. I’ve even got my eye on some new art from a local artist!

Maybe I should do Spring cleaning more often because then I can get new things!

Labels: annoying cats, ebay, Hooker heels, shoes, Spring Cleaning

  posted by Matildakay at 9:30 PM 0 comments

A New Crop of Annoying Cats
I was walking from the house to the garage the other day when out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the many annoying cats that belong to my little old cat lady next door neighbor, lounging under the trees in my back yard.

Annoying cats! I thought and then froze mid-step.

Kittens! There were four annoying kittens snuggled up next to that annoying cat!

“Unbelievable they're multiplying!” I said out loud. The annoying cat actually winked at me.

Of course I immediately went back into the house and grabbed my camera to get photographic proof for you all, my readers, of the fruit of the cat-wailing and moaning and sex-screaming – cat sex rendezvous’ I constantly suffer through night after night after night as if they were the ‘outside my window pornographic theatre players’.

So here they are… the new crop of annoying cats!



I wonder if the SPCA picks up annoying cats and kittens?

I wonder if my little old cat lady neighbor knows her annoying cat brood has grown by four?

Why in the world did that annoying cat pick my yard to have kittens in?

Ugh! Just what I need… more annoying cats to deal with.

Labels: annoying cats, Bakersfield, kittens, SPCA

  posted by Matildakay at 11:03 PM 5 comments

Some Annoying Cats get more Press than Britney Spears
I don’t know whom Nora the piano playing annoying cat hired as her publicist, but maybe Britney Spears should check into it. Just one day after being featured on the Drudge Report, Daily Mail and my blog, Nora was featured on MSN’s homepage with a new video.

That’s right folks, Nora: The Sequel!



This annoying cat knows how to market herself and now has her very own line of merchandise!

Don’t you think the merchandise is annoyingly over the top?

Folks, we’re talking about an annoying cat here!

Something is wrong when an annoying cat gets more press than Britney Spears.

Someone please stop this annoying cat madness.

Labels: annoying cats, Britney Spears, Daily Mail, Drudge Report, MSN, Nora the piano playing cat

  posted by Matildakay at 2:49 PM 4 comments

Some Annoying Cats have Talent
Some annoying cats have talent. Like Nora, the piano playing annoying cat and Internet star, her youtube video has had 2.5 million views.

Watch the musical stylings of annoying cat Nora:



My little old cat lady neighbor’s annoying cats are not in the same league as Nora. No, their talents are: lazily lounging in my yard, eerily staring me down, pacing back and forth on the window ledges, creepy close encounters, waking me up at night with their cat-wailing and moaning and sex-screaming – cat sex rendezvous’ outside my bedroom window, using my yard as their personal toilet and killing birds and leaving their remains for me to find.

I do have a piano, but there is no way in hell I’m letting any of those annoying cats into my house to play it. I don’t think I’d do it even for 2.5 million unique visitors to my blog.

No, I think things are better left the way they are between the annoying cats and myself. Them being the bane of my existence and me plotting their demise by air pistol or any other of the various fun suggestions readers and friends have made. They’re lucky I still brake for annoying cats on my street!

Labels: annoying cats, Bakersfield, Blogging, Music, piano

  posted by Matildakay at 1:01 PM 10 comments

The Great Fountain Mystery
I’m not a yard person. Meaning I don’t like yard work. In fact I don’t do it. I have a gardener. The house I live in now, the gardener is provided by the property management company and included in my rent. The gardener comes on Thursday afternoon. Because the gardener works for the property management company instead of me, we don’t have conversations. We don’t talk about the dead looking banana trees that they never trim. We don’t talk about the flowering tree that hangs over the back fence and gate and is so overgrown that it feels like a jungle. In fact other than the occasional sound of the lawnmower in the backyard when I go home for lunch, or the tell tale sign of the back gate being left open, I’d never even know the gardener had been there. They mow the grass and that’s about it.

I like my house better than any house I’ve lived in as an ‘adult’. It’s got a big front yard that wraps around the house and a nice size back yard. If it wasn’t for my neighbor’s annoying cats camping out in my yard it would be idyllic. The front yard even came with a good size fountain near the front door in what I guess would be the flower bed if it had flowers instead of shrubs.



I never gave the fountain much thought. It was pretty to look at but wasn’t a working fountain with water and all. My friend’s little girl once filled it with wild flowers she pulled from the grass. But to me it was just a yard ornament. That was until recently.

“What happened to the fountain in your yard?” My dad asked.

“I don’t know. What’s wrong with it?”

“It’s missing.” Dad stated.

“Missing!”

“Yeah its gone. Didn’t you notice?”

I rarely use my front door. I always enter my house through the side door after parking the car in the garage. So I hadn’t noticed the fountain was gone.

Now there is a pipe sticking up out of a slab of cement where the fountain used to be.



It looks strange.

I have to ask. Who in their right mind would steal a fountain? And how does someone steal a fountain?

Do a bunch of guys sitting around drinking beer decide to steal a fountain on a drunken dare and pull up in front of my house in the middle of the night with tools and strong arm the fountain into a truck?

It has to be the oddest thing to steal.

I have to admit; my first thought was to suspect the gardener. But since we don’t talk about the yard, I didn’t think I could accuse him of stealing the fountain.

And then there is the dilemma of telling the property management company that someone stole the fountain from the front yard. Would they make me pay for it? I wondered.

I still don’t know the answer to that one.

The other day a friend and I were driving past Las Palmas Nursery on Coffee Road and we both noticed all the fountains and fancy garden ornaments.

“There’s your fountain.” My friend joked.

I laughed. But I couldn’t help but wonder… Is there a black market for yard fountains?

It’s a mystery.

Labels: annoying cats, Bakersfield, flowers, Fountain, gardening, Mystery, yard work

  posted by Matildakay at 9:39 PM 8 comments