Cats Gone Viral
So, I shared a news article on my Facebook. It was just an article about the Hemingway cats and how they survived Irma...
The most amazing thing happened. It went viral. At least, I feel like it qualifies as viral. I mean, okay, first, what defines viral? Over 10 shares? Over 100 shares? Over 1000 shares? 1 million shares...
Maybe it didn't go viral.
But here's the thing, it definitely blew up. Like, my phone is blowing up, style blow up.
Anyway, so I posted this thing. People started liking it and sharing it... I mean, people I don't even know. I was just like... WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!?!?!
AND THEN... People got into comment wars. Someone was like who cares about cats, and others were like CATS ARE LIFE!
It got serious.
I weighed in on the comments a little just to kind of throw my own thoughts in the mix.
But okay, guess what the total shares and likes were?
Go on... Guess?
75 shares, 132 likes.
Wild. I've never had that happen before. I almost felt like a famous person when they post something and all these people are randomly liking it and hitting like.
Here's some real talk discussion though. SO there are 54 cats right? How do we know ALL those cats are actually decedents of the original Hemingway cats? Did some just sneak in, like... "I'm with him".
Did they check IDs at the door? Or was it just an honor system?
How many litter boxes did they have?
These are the things that I like to know! Anyway, my thing is, I had no idea that the Hemingway house or cats were even a thing until like about a week ago. Now I'm all about them. I want to go visit! Like, really bad.
Well, since the Hemingway house cats seem to be getting back to normal, hopefully everything else in Florida is starting to get back to normal too.
Things in PA are same same. Tonight I went to Starbucks and then to the gym. It's been a productive evening. It's hard to be productive at home with 3 cats. I don't have 54 like the Hemingway house, but even just with 3 there's always one trying to get on your lap or meow at you for treats, like they just take turns on and off.
Just read an article that apparently some residents in Florida may not have power for weeks. So, I'm just kind of, trying to think about that and my own situation where we just take this stuff for granted instead of appreciating it. Although they also have dispatched 30 thousand line workers to work on restoring power. So, hopefully it comes back soon.
I know I went without power for 10 days when Sandy hit and it wasn't fun at all. Although I still remember that moment when I came home on that one Saturday after work and power had been restored. The first thing I did was take a super long hot shower, make some food, and watch a movie in my PJs on my couch.
Simple things in life I guess.
Update on the Miss Plantation situation... I still haven't peeked at any social media. It's not that I don't want to. It's just... Well... You know. It's complicated. I wonder what your situation is down there... I definitely wonder. I saw 4 hits yesterday... So in my mind, that's kind of you waving "Hey, I'm here". Hmmm... It's complicated.
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