Woooo... okay. So cat update. After we lost Bizkit we discussed if we should adopt a cat. The answer was a loud YES! So in a hope and a skip we went to a cat adoption event. Talked with all the foster parents and viewed all the cats. I personally LOVED like 4 of them. My luv was eyeing these two boys that I was like... uuuuh nope. They are giants and would scare the ever living beans out of Lyuna. ( I've learned those big boys were later adopted together by someone! Yay! ) Okay so the shy calico I was liking but wasn't in love with the foster mom was kinda being pushy and it turned out she was the one in charge of the charity and the event. She was also pretty horrible in communication when it came to texting back and forth and sounded like she wanted me to join her group and start catching and fostering cats myself. Which is not a possibility at this time. Gave me shady vibes. And the other cali girl already had someone filling out paperwork for her. ( She was adopted like 3 days later or something ), and then there was this lovely and cute kitten but the foster wanted her to be adopted with her brother. That was a no go... 1 cat to go with the 1 cat we have at home. Suddenly adding 2 would most certainly overwhelm Lyuna. So then there was this beautiful brown and black cat which was called Annie... she was the foster mom's "Little Orphan Annie". Her story was that she was found behind a shopping center kinda sickly and had recently given birth to kittens which did not survive. When she was healthier she was spayed and had gotten all her shots. When we met her she was a week after recovering from her spay so her stomach was a lil bloated and shaved down. She LOVED being petted and was just the perfect personality to mesh with Lyuna's. This will be our cat, I had decided. The foster LOVED us too. I talked about my background and my love's background and she felt we were a perfect fit. Okay now it's paper work and money transfer... oh wait. Nope. DESPITE the foster being 100% ready for this... and me 100% ready to receive her... the Lady in charge... yeah remember her... she said that there wasn't any time to finish the paperwork and I'll have to come some other time. The event was 30 minutes until being over and it would take 1 hour to do the processing. Wait... what? I already filled out ALL the paperwork ahead of time online before I even came. The only thing I hadn't done was pick which cat we wanted. Maybe I was just being ignorant but I felt all that needed to be done was signing a few pages, get a picture done, and get handed over the vet papers and the cat. And the foster even said she was willing to stay for however long it would be needed because she felt as long as her Annie was going to her perfect forever home it shouldn't matter. She had free time after all... she stated this. Lol. Personally, me too. I didn't care if it took 3 hours I felt Annie was perfect. Well okay... sure.

I ended up going home without a cat that day. I did however get Annie's foster mother's number and gave her mine. We were going to get her and wanted to work out our schedule together to meet up with the adoption group's blessing. I wanted to do this all correctly and if the organizer said we have to do it a certain way then fine. More time to get more toys, I guess. So it takes a while before I can get another Saturday off to align with the stars to get the cat... but then I receive a text from the foster. Her job is relocating her to Canada... 4 days before the event I managed to get off. D: Lemme tell you this foster mom is amazing though. She's like... "F the charity. You're perfect for Annie. Let's meet up and I'll give her to you." (( During this time I was battling the Charity organizer through text to finalize that I wanted Annie and not join the group! LOL. It was super weird. )) So Annie's foster mom arrives at my door and I let her in. I meet her and her partner and show off all the cat stuff I have ready for "Annie". I then show her the pile of files I have on vet records of both Lyuna and of our passed cat Hazel. I wanted her to know "Annie" would be well taken care of and not to worry about her. I then showed her Lyuna and we kept "Annie" in her kennel to see how they reacted to each other. Lyuna was super curious and did not hiss even once that day. So before the foster mom left I told her we decided that the name we would be giving "Annie" will be related to Lyuna's name. While Lyuna is a mixture of the name Yuna and Luna both meaning Moon... "Annie" will be named after the stars. She is now named Astra. We have our Moon and our Star. Since we already have a kennel ready for Astra we let the foster mom take that back and out of the toys she brought I asked which was Astra's favorite so that we would keep it. It's a banana. Like a catnip kicker banana toy you can find at Walmart. It looked nasty but we kept it. After all I felt it would be mean to separate her from something truly familiar to her. Glad I did... that really is her favorite toy.

Lyuna is warming up to Astra but she's still wary of her. They... "kinda" play with each other but they have yet to fight. Unless you count the time I was trimming Astra's claws and when Astra growled Lyuna ran up and slapped her. Protective bodyguard kitty, Lyuna is. Lol. Astra is a snuggle fiend and I love it. Her fur has gotten softer since she's been with us and she's gotten used to our schedule and she just fits right in. :3 I've taken a bunch of photos of her and videos. I've even taught her how to sit on command. She's very food motivated. :D So you'll be seeing pictures of her at some point. :3