I'm still working on those legislative priorities. They should be done tomorrow.

Today I came over to visit my friends in the reporter house but they were all gone! I guess they were all out working. They're all back this afternoon and I've been having lots of fun going from office to office visiting them all, and getting to know the new InternKittens. As I predicted, they totally love me.

The reporter house smells pretty funny today. A couple of strange guys in overalls were spreading white stuff all over the walls. It makes me feel rather drowsy. I think I'll hop up in my chair with the red fleece blanket and take a nap think about my legislative priorities some more.

Hello again!

It's been a long interim. I'm glad some of my friends are starting to trickle back into the capital. The reporter who brought me the red fleece blanket came back on Monday. I've really enjoyed sharing my office in the reporter house again. A cat can never have too much attention.

The last few months have been pretty exciting for me. Did you know I nearly died? After a lovely summer soaking up the unusual, but very welcome, spell of heat and sunshine, I started feeling kind of funky and wasn't breathing very well. Then one day I went to visit my friends at the reporter house and I almost couldn't breathe at all. My friend Rachel scooped me up and she and Joe drove me to the emergency vet. They thought I had been hit by a car. The people at the vet clinic thought so too until they figured out that I have asthma and that's why I couldn't breathe. They gave me some medicine and I'm fine now, but apparently I was minutes from death. Thank you, Rachel and Joe for saving me! I was very grateful, even though it meant a trip to the vet.

Speaking of Joe, he retired right after that and I really miss seeing him in the press house. I hope you're enjoying your retirement, Joe.

I've also been dieting and must say I'm feeling a bit more svelte than when the last legislative session ended.

I'm looking forward to next Monday when the session starts and all of my friends are back. I'm currently drafting my legislative priorities to give to my politician friends. I know this is a bad budget year, but I think I have some great ideas. I'm sure they'll agree.

I'm also looking forward to meeting a whole new set of ReporterKittens. They call themselves "interns." A few of them came yesterday, but I haven't really gotten to know them yet. I'm sure they'll love me. Who wouldn't?

With the legislative session coming to a close (or so we think?) and sun and warm weather returning to Olympia, I'm planning to take a hiatus from blogging for awhile. I also hear the reporter who lives in the office with the red fleece blanket is leaving next week to go back home until next year, and the last two kittens interns will be gone. Sad times. I'll miss the new friends I made this year, and my friends in the politician houses who go home for the rest of the year.

But my old friends Austin, Curt, Rachel and Joe will still be in the reporter house and I'll come by to visit them when I'm not stretching in the sun or scratching my back in the parking lot.

Thanks everyone for reading my blog! See you next session!

Wow. It's been a long time since I updated this thing. We've had some lovely sunny days in Olympia, so I've been out enjoying the rays and rolling around in the gravel outside the reporter house. It's a great way to scratch your back. I highly recommend it.

And when I haven't been soaking up the sun, I've been busy helping my reporter friends. Things are getting more and more hectic around the capitol as we get near the end of the legislative session, and I'm putting a lot of hard work into being cute, sweet and loving so my friends don't get too stressed out. It's amazing how a little snuggle can make someone smile.

It's a gloomy day in Olympia. It's been raining off and on, the sky is gray, the air is cold and damp, and I find that I lack motivation for my usual cat activities, except for napping. One of the reporters offered me some smoked salmon for her lunch, and I didn't even feel like sniffing it, much less gobbling it up as I should. Woe is me. I hope my motivation comes back, because it isn't every day that someone offers me smoked salmon. I'm sure I'll eventually muster the energy to eat it. Perhaps a nap would help.

Zzzzzzzzzz....

I hope you like the new blog layout. I get restless if I have to look at the same thing for too long. But, you know, I'm a cat. Restless is in my nature. Except when I'm napping.

Which I'm about to do in protest because the reporter who lives in the office with the red fleece blanket would not share her lunch with me! I was there earlier -- and she kept disturbing my morning nap to scritch my ears, I might add -- but wandered outside for awhile to make my rounds, visit the guard who lives in the security shack, the usual. I came back a few minutes ago and found a delightful smell wafting through the reporter house. Something beefy. Soup, I think. Well, this smelled like something I would enjoy, so I followed the reporter up the stairs from the kitchen to her office and perched at her feet. I waited patiently. I kneaded the carpet to show I was expecting something good. I even purred. And she didn't share. Not one morsel.

"Isn't that one of the first things humans are taught?" I thought. "That sharing is good?" And yet. No soup for Bob.

So I retreated to the chair with the red fleece blanket, where I'm now grooming myself to show her that I don't care about her or her lack of concern for my hunger. Hmph.

I heard one of the humans mention that this week is Sunshine Week. You wouldn't know it around here, though. There's been very little sun. Mostly rain, and some sleet earlier. It's pretty yucky outside. I didn't want to leave the house this morning.

I'm a pretty big fan of sunshine. It's nice and warm to lie in. We should all celebrate sunshine this week.