Straight Away

Manchego has arrived!!! :) While I was making the money yesterday from 4 to 6 PM, Jochem and my dad picked him up in Kampen, a tiny little village in the east of the Netherlands. My whole family came to visit: my dad, my mom, who had just come back from a week with her relatives in Spain, and the new homeowners: my little brother Jordi and his girlfriend Silvana. Jochem and I are absolutely in love with him. He is beautiful, sweet, and CRAZY! He has an unstoppable energy that is very funny, but also very tiring. It took me an hour and a half to get dressed today! I've already had to spray water on him three times because he was either taking a very close look at Pasta and Pesto that was making me very uncomfortable, or because he was creating havoc on our desk. We also had a really bad night's sleep, because he was sleeping with us in our bed but actually wants to sleep on top of you in some way. Now, Jochem and I are probably the most restless sleepers you'll ever meet. We keep moving from side to side every few minutes, and our bed is not that big, so we actually have our own blanket because we got so tired of fighting for the one blanket. So in one night Manchego has probably fallen off of us a dozen times, and one time he actually fell out of the bed. It's been pretty wild! Manchego is actually just as bad, because he was sleeping in my lap just now (which allows me to write this blog in the first place) and he just fell off! Luckily he climbed right back up and fell back to sleep, but now I'm kind of scared to wake him up, which I'll have to do soon because I need to have lunch before going to work. I'm just afraid he'll make more mess in my pristine apartment. Of course I know that having a kitten means having a mess, but right now I am in such denial. But I think my straightening days might be over real soon... Can you imagine having kids?!