"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."

Tuesday night my Jeep hit a wet patch and I skidded out and rear-ended a car in front of me. No one was hurt but the back end of the car will pretty much have to be replaced. There was no damage to the Jeep thanks to the plastic bumpers. The cop basically saved me $116 by giving me an "official warning citation" which shows as a ticket on the report but saves me the money.

But, good news! We caught Gemma last night! We were out "cat hunting" and just when we were giving up Daniel saw her. We sat there for about 10 minutes and called her and she eventually came right out of the trees and ran right to me. We figured she was covered in fleas (not too hard to deduce since she was scratching like crazy) so we gave her a bath which she hated, naturally. She is acting a little bit weird. Her meow used to be really high-pitched and sounded almost like a bird, and now it is lower, and she is meowing a LOT. We think she got in a fight too because she has a battle scar on her nose that is pretty big, about half an inch long. She is also apparently fearless now. She tries to run out the door every time we open it and every time she gets in trouble she just looks at us like, "You can't be yelling at me, I'm a free woman now!"

She's also cuddling on me pretty much every chance she gets and she hasn't looked twice at Daniel. It's weird! He did all the work though. He was really good at seeing all the cat eyes in the dark when I couldn't see them at all, and he saw Gemma right when we were about to go inside. Yay for the Cat Hunter!!