Why is everything cable?

Hello world!

I've had an exciting day. After a week of deliberating, what-ifs and soul searching, we brought home our first fur-baby!

We went to the shelter last weekend for an open house event, and had no intentions of leaving that day with a cat. We weren't prepared for one yet, but we wanted to check out the shelter anyway and see if it was a place we'd want to adopt from when we were ready. We found this little girl, and I fell. in. love. She's super tiny, even though she's a year old and fully grown, and she's sweet and friendly. She was a stray, and she's already had a litter of kittens! Admittedly, I have a soft spot for black cats - my first fur-baby is a black cat. 

We wanted a week to think about it and prepare, and during that time we got some supplies from Petco, even though we weren't 100% sure we'd get her. We also did some budgeting and looked at how much this endeavor would cost us. We realized it would be about as much each month as we're paying for cable, so we made the choice to cancel the cable - a decision I was (shockingly) totally okay with. I love my T.V. time, but I've actually watched almost no T.V. since we got the cable. We didn't have it for the first couple weeks here, and I guess I learned how to self-sooth in other ways, because once we got it, I barely cared about it. I'm not saying we won't get it again sometime in the future, but for now, I can totally live without it. Rescuing a kitty > Bravo. Internet, on the other hand, I need. Good thing that's a lot cheaper. 

It's kind of funny - ever since we knew we'd be moving down here, every conversation we had about things we'd need to buy came back to cable. I'd mention an expense, and my husband would say "well, that's cable, right there". A gym membership? That's cable right there. Dinner out? That's cable. Regular eyebrow waxing? Cable. And so on and so on. 

When I looked at the cat expenses, I showed him the number, and he said "well, that's cable". This made me laugh. "Why is everything cable??" Somehow it became our own personal form of currency. 

Anyway....our kitty's name is Dolce, and she's currently busy exploring her "forever home" - as the women at the shelter call it. 

She won't stay still for a picture, so that's the best one I got. 

That's all for now - I'm about to run to the store and get her some food. I'll try not to photobomb you all in future posts...even though we all know the internet was made for pictures of cats. 

xo