Can you rearrange all the lines that take place?

[sovay]

Autolycus chirped at me as I was putting my boots on. spatch said he was asking where I was going. I told him I was going to see my mother: the person who carried me in her mouth when I was a kitten and groomed me all over and taught me to be a cat. That seemed to satisfy him; he made a more extensive mrrrrp and clicked away with all his little claws across the floor. Rob and I took buses out to Arlington to meet my mother; we had variously fried things at Fresh Pond Seafood and then malteds from the Abbotts Frozen Custard that recently opened in Arlington Center. I gave her a copy of Maida Heatter's Happiness Is Baking: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake (2019) with a bookmark of black and white cats curled up sleeping to mark the East 62nd Street Lemon Cake, a variant of which has been my family's signature cake for years. I'm sure Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) contained an inappropriate amount of father issues for Mother's Day, but we still enjoyed it.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Father issues are much preferred to mother issues on Mother's Day! I'm glad Autolycus understood your explanation.

[sovay]

Father issues are much preferred to mother issues on Mother's Day!

Fair point! We avoided irony.

I'm glad Autolycus understood your explanation.

He's a very perceptive cat.

[chanter1944]

He's a very purrceptive cat. XD Couldn't resist. He's also darling, by the sound of it. <3

[sovay]

He's also darling, by the sound of it.

He is! We are very lucky in our cats.

[heron61]

That sounds like a wonderful day. Also, I was quite surprised at how good (and how much I liked) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - using vast battle scenes at both the beginning and the end as backdrops rather than the focus of attention was (for me at least) utter genius - it's not like vast special effects heavy battle scenes are anything new or wondrous anymore. Also, I really liked how the big space battle at the end specifically wasn't a vast spectacle of mass death - it helped make the deaths that occurred far more meaningful.

[sovay]

That sounds like a wonderful day.

Thank you! It was low-key (and rainy—I had been supposed to garden for my mother, but meteorologically that was not going to happen) and really nice.

Also, I was quite surprised at how good (and how much I liked) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

It took a little while to pull together for me, but once it did I really enjoyed it. "He didn't chase them away . . . Even though he yelled at them. And was always mean. And he stole batteries he didn't need."

[yhlee]

I told him I was going to see my mother: the person who carried me in her mouth when I was a kitten and groomed me all over and taught me to be a cat.

:D

[sovay]

:D

These things are important.

[gwynnega]

That sounds like a lovely Mother's Day, with Autolycus's approval.

[sovay]

That sounds like a lovely Mother's Day, with Autolycus's approval.

It was! My mother refers to him and Hestia as her grandkittens.

[sholio]

I told him I was going to see my mother: the person who carried me in her mouth when I was a kitten and groomed me all over and taught me to be a cat. That seemed to satisfy him; he made a more extensive mrrrrp and clicked away with all his little claws across the floor.

AWWWW. This delighted me. ♥

[sovay]

This delighted me.

He is a pretty delightful kitten.

[thawrecka]

Aw, that sounds like a lovely day.

[sovay]

Aw, that sounds like a lovely day.

Thank you! It was.