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Friday, July 11, 2025

The Sweetness


Sweetie is gone. 



I'm not really a Jimmy Eat World fan, but one of my many nicknames for Sweetie was The Sweetness, so I've always held a spot for this one in my heart. Plus, it is a great song, regardless of how I feel about the rest of the group's music, which isn't terrible, but just seems like so much more of that mid-level radio fodder of the year it came out, 2002. 

The Sweetness found us on July 16th, 2016 - four months and one day after Tom died. She was another cat abandoned to San Pedro's wilds, and we went through a lot with her over the not even 9 years she had us. Our time in the little apartment in Redondo Beach didn't exactly make her happy, but since moving to TN and giving her a whole house and a backyard she spent almost every day all day in, we could see how we'd changed her life and even her attitude. A once "tough love" cat became amazingly affectionate. She slept between Kirsten and I almost every night since arriving here and now, well, it's hard to move on. Luckily, we have Knox, the younger brother that Sweetie didn't ask for or want, and who is himself a bit standoffish with affection.

We'll break him of that habit. 

Regular posts will resume Monday. For now, I'm too devastated to do much of anything.





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