The Black Cat

Im about to tell you a story that you are not going to believe. Jack and I can hardly believe it ourselves and have not stopped laughing about it since.

First let me tell you how my day went as it leads up to this very funny ending. The perfect ending for a good day, in the life of Jack and Susan that is.

Today was my Friday, tomorrow is a holiday and Jack's birthday is Saturday the 12th. I have been thinking and preparing for Jack's Birthday for weeks. I was able to purchase Jack a gift that I ordered online. I was happy about that, and that it was arriving today, just in time!

So Today I had a fairly quiet day and I have been anxiously awaiting a parcel from a friend in the U.K.. I had a funny feeling it would arrive today. Call it intuition or like Jack, call me a witch, either way I had a feeling it was coming today. I got the knock at my door from the postman and sure enough, it was here! I started dancing around with it like a little kid who's never been sent a present. I felt extremely excited and wanted to open right away. I didn't know if I should wait so Jack could see or just open it. I set it down on the coffee table and ran to get a knife. Before I took the knife to it I examined the stickers and writing on it. "OOH, it says 'Royal Mail'! WOW, I've never had anything sent to me from anywhere but the U.S.. This was so neat to me. I ran my fingers around the box and even smelled it. I really don't know why other then I was trying to soak up every bit of it. I removed the string from around the box, which by the way was totally neat to me. I've never gotten a parcel with string around it. Why this fascinated me I don't know. I finally opened it and slowly started pulling out all the goodies. I read the card enclosed and felt choked up, but had promised I wouldn't cry! It was like Christmas or my Birthday! I loved everything! I could not email this person fast enough to thank her. I was so excited and happy that I typed the wrong password to my email three times. I thought I'd never get it right. I called Jack and he was tickled pink and was so glad and excited also. I finally felt like someone on this earth gave a damn. It was the pick me up I really needed and I love this lady with all my heart! They don't get any better then her!

Later in the day Jack's present I ordered came and that was great too. I was happy it arrived on time for his birthday. Jack picked me up so we could run to the grocery store. I wanted to order him a cake and he wanted some blueberry tea. On the way home we were about 4 blocks away and we had to slow down to let a car in front of us turn. As we were slowing up I noticed an all black cat in a parking lot about 20ft away. I jokingly said "oh no, don't cross our path black cat". Jack looked over and chuckled a bit. I kept my eye on the cat as we started to move again. Suddenly the cat began to walk faster and came closer and closer to us. Just as we are picking up speed the cat was at a dead run next to us trying to cross in front of us. Jack said "oh my god what is that cat doing!, it's RACING US!". I said "Oh crap it's trying to cross in front of us!!". Jack HAD to slow up a bit to avoid hitting the cat! As he did it darted out in front of us and crossed the street. We both started laughing and saying Oh MAN!! It was completely unbelievable! Jack started calling me a witch and telling me It was all my fault that I was the weird one. I was freaking out and laughing so hard I nearly wet myself. We continued to talk about it during dinner and I told Jack that no one would ever believe us. It was just to crazy of a story. I can still see that cat at a dead run next to our van determined to cross in front of us. Amazing is all I can think to say.

So that was my day...the perfect ending!
Susan
~peace~