Absolutely Nothing

I’m sitting down to write because I told myself I would at least three times a week. Every great writer (or creative writing teacher) I’ve known says that there is no such thing as writer’s block. They tell you to get up, have a walk, eat, watch TV or better yet, just sit down and write even if it’s about absolutely nothing. Okay, here I am writing about absolutely nothing. Thank you Mr. Henderson.

5 Yoshi’s here with me. Yup, good old Yoshi. He is a handsome cat with yellowish-green eyes and sleek, glossy black fur. When Patrick and I met him at the Petsmart adoption center we fell in love with him because he reminded us of my Mom & Dad’s cat, Boo. Anyone who’s ever met Boo wondered immediately why we fell in love with Yoshi. Boo has attitude…to say the least. He is gray and short-haired. He has the shape of a Siamese cat, but he’s got a big butt; very pear-shaped. He tends to get into things. As a matter of fact, if it is true that everyone has a purpose, getting into things is his. That, and always being underfoot. When he is caught doing something wrong, and you run up to him yelling or clapping your hands or both, he just stops and looks at you. “Why are you bothering me?” He seems to say through narrowed eyes. But he’s a cutie. That’s why we fell in love with Yoshi.
“So,” you ask, “is Yoshi like Boo?” Yes, of course he is. Patrick and I were doomed to live out our wish, thus learning to be careful what we wish for. When we chose Yoshi, he was in a cage with another black cat. At the time, they called him Bucky and his parenthetical title was “the fat one". Oho…they thought he was fat then? He’s massive now, he has surpassed Boo in enormity. And like Boo, he too is a trouble-maker. His favorite place to be? Why wherever we don’t want him, of course; for instance, pressing his fore-paw into your surgical wound and sinking all 18 pounds of himself into it.
Yoshi’s meow sounds like a gargle. It’s cute, but sometimes he does it without opening his mouth and that’s kind of creepy. But all in all my Yoshi’s cute and wonderful…even the birdy-sounding gargle-meow.