So, yeah. Here it is. I'll start posting journals more regularly I think.

~~~~~~~~~EEVEE~~~~~~~
[ ] You are cute
[x] You love to play
[ ] You don't like getting into fights
[ ] You hate the darkness or you are afraid of it
[x] You have a best friend forever
[x] You love your best friend very much
[x] You usually don't lie
[ ] You don't say bad words
[ ] Most people love you
[ ] You are youngest of all your siblings
[ ] You like to wish upon a star
[x] You have a lots of stuffed animals
------TOTAL: 5

~~~~~~~~~VAPOREON~~~~
[x] You can swim
[ ] You go to swimming pool at least one time a week
[ ] You hate the racism
[x] Someone has said that you are hot
[x] You are very social
[ ] You don't spend more than 2 hours on the computer or TV
[x] You enjoy sleeping
[ ] You know most of your neighbors' names
[ ] You can speak in another language than English.
[x] You visit social places
[ ] People call you a "smiley face"
[x] You LOVE spending time in the water
------TOTAL: 6

~~~~~~~~~~~JOLTEON~~~~
[ ] You are a street kid
[x] You have been in an accident
[ ] You usually get into street fights
[ ] Your favorite kind of music is rap
[x] You have been shocked by electricity
[x] You seriously need to get a life.
[ ] People say you're too egoistic
[ ] You have tried gangsta style
[ ] You try to be really cool
[ ] You really want someone
[ ] Last thing you did before you sit on computer was meeting with someone.
[x] You hate something right now
------TOTAL: 4

~~~~~~~~~~~~FLAREON
[x] You are kind of a hothead
[x] people try to calm you down
[x] When you want something, you won't stop until you get it.
[ ] You are seriously waiting for something right now
[ ] You annoy people
[ ] You like cartoon villains more than heroes
[ ] You would like to have red eyes.
[x] You were born in summer or spring
[x] You can think of crazy things
[x] You have burned something
[ ] Things around you are stupid
[ ] You don't like your life at a moment
----TOTAL: 6

~~~~~~~~~~~~ESPEON
[x] You believe in magic (depends on how you define magic. I believe there's magic in the world, but it's not hocus pocus stuff. It's the love of a mother, the romance of a first kiss, the sound of the ocean. God that's corny. >_< Imunna shut up now)
[ ] Your first boyfriend/girlfriend dumped you
[x] You really love someone
[ ] You believe in love at first sight
[x] You haven't tried to smoke,drugs or drink alcohol
[x] You are a goody-goody......
[ ] ......or average
[x] You get injured easily
[x] People don't really get you
[x] You MUST do something right now
[ ] You are like a psychic
[ ] You have a great sight (what?)
------TOTAL: 7

~~~~~~~~~~~~UMBREON
[x] You love the dark.
[x] you like to wear/see/use the color black.
[x] glow in the dark stickers are cool.
[ ] you are sometimes thought of as evil by your appearance.
[x] you look out for yourself at times. (Doesn't everybody a time or two?)
[XXX] you have or would like to have a umbreon in your pokemon games.
[ ] you are terrifyingly silent.
[ ] you have eyes that make people timid or afraid.
[x] you have helped or been helped by someone but never said 'you're welcome' or 'thank you'.
[ ] you are somewhat of a loner.
[x] you love to go out in the night.
[x] You have excellent vision in dark places.
------TOTAL: 8

~~~~~~~~~~~~LEAFEON
[ ] Fall or spring is one of your favourite seasons.
[ ] you adore the color green.
[x] you love flowers but choose not to pick them.
[ ] clean, green and pristine is your way of life.
[x] animals adore you and you adore them.
[ ] you are a very peaceful person.
[x] you care deeply for anyone even if you do not know them at all.
[x] you enjoy longs walk in nature or the woods.
[ ] you are a vegetarian.
[x] your eyes are or you wish for them to be green.
[x] you really can't stand cold days.
[x] people really love to be around you.
------TOTAL: 7

~~~~~~~~~~~~GLACEON
[x] Winter days are your favourite seasons.
[ ] cold weathers don't phase you with or without a jacket.
[x] you have (or wish to have) amazingly snow white or light blue eyes.
[ ] You live in a place where it's cold all year round.
[x] Hot days are your most hated time of any week.
[x] you don't mind cold foods.
[x] You have once used a cold joke during cold times.
[ ] You adore very much the colour white.
[x] you take long walks in the snow.
[ ] you have a cold personality.
[x] people can't really call onto you for sympathy.
[ ] you have heard the song Cold by crossfade.
------TOTAL: 7

And Umbreon wins by a hair! Sweet. I love Umbreon!

My computer was down for over a week, so sorry if I didn't reply to your messages or comments. I'm working on it. XD Right now I'm wading through over 500 email messages, and that's in addition to 200+ deviations and 73 messages of all kinds on dA alone, not counting the other websites I frequent.

Point is, I'll get to it. Thanks for the understanding.

Or it should, anyway. D: We finally got our new kitten after the death of my beloved Mushu. We've had our new boy for about two weeks. We got him a couple days after Mushu passed because, as I stated in the previous journal, it's how my family copes with the death of any of our pets.

And boy howdy, is this new kitten a doozy.

He's also a Siamese, but unlike all our previous cats, he's from a breeder rather than a shelter. Now, don't get me wrong: I have nothing against shelter cats. all of our cats previous have been shelter cats, including the other feline resident in our household (A Maine Coone called Max). It was a long decision about whether to get a shelter cat or a cat from a (reputable) breeder. We went with breeder, because right now we wanted a kitten that would already be affectionate (because he was hand-raised) and knew the ins and outs of living in a house. Again, I'm not saying a shelter kitten couldn't have all these qualities.

Anyway, back to our new kitten. He is a Blue Point Siamese (our previous Siamese, Mushu, was a Seal Point), and is already revealing quite a set of lungs on him, as is typical of his breed. And we love it. The 'talking' and 'whining' is quite entertaining and we're on the road to deciphering each specific meow and cry (because he has many). We named him Cato. That's right, Pink Panther enthusiasts, we named him after Cato from the Pink Panther movies. It's a tradition we have to name our pets after literary or movie characters. And he's proving deserving of the name, which requires you to say daily 'NOT NOW CATO!'. He likes to sneak attack, and hide out before tearing about. We also call him Little Stig or The Stig, though you won't understand the reference unless you watch the funny British car show called Top Gear.

He's apparently latched on to me and now follows me around as best he can (he is too smart to come downstairs where the dogs are), and he's not afraid of anything. In fact, when we took him for his first vet appointment, not only did he talk the whole way, but as soon as we opened the crate in the exam room, he strolled right out, bold as brass. He's a bit clueless and loses track of toys you toss, even if they land right in front of him. He's also taken to our 14+ pound cat Max. Max is not so fond, and is regularly chased around by Cato, even though this kitten weighs less than three times his size.

Cato also attacks my toes under the blanket while I'm sleeping. That's if he doesn't drop a toy on my face first.

Kittens are definitely like Valium. He's helping me cope with Mushu's death, and I'm on the way to being a happy person again.

Easter is a little hollow this year. We had to put my cat, Mushu, down on Friday. It was very sudden and he was only seven. There was little to no time to prepare for this, as he only got really noticeably sick on the day we ended up having to put him down. We went to the vet and he was pretty sick so she gave him oxygen and fluids and told us if his breathing didn't improve, to take him to the Emergency clinic that night. So we did, and it turned out very, very badly. I was there when they put him to sleep...

It hasn't quite sunk in yet. The house is very quiet - he was a Siamese, so the house was usually filled with the sounds of his meows. I find myself still going through the motions as if he's here - don't stay too long in the basement with the door open because he might come down. Don't leave the back door open because he might get out, watch the Easter dinner while everyone else is getting the other stuff, because he might come to try and eat some of the ham. Stuff like that... I miss him very much; we had as close a bond as human and companion can get. He was my cat.

We're getting a kitten soon. It's how we cope, my family and I. We get a new pet to help us take our mind off the loss, so that we have something to laugh about as we wipe our tears away. It's going to be another little Siamese. Mushu was a Seal Point (Dark, dark brown almost-black markings) and the little male of the litter I'm leaning towards is a Blue Point (silver blue markings). It's going to be mine... I still have a hard time accepting it though.

R.I.P
Mushu.


For all you wondering, the reason our Siamese was named Mushu was because when he was a kitten and we first met him, he was very feisty and we'd just seen the Disney movie Mulan, with Eddie Murphy as the little red dragon. It was perfect for him, since he was just like Mushu.