Penelope’s been reading too much Marie Kondo…
Penelope Kitten wears Los Angeles Sanitation coveralls. In her little red wagon are a broom, trash bags, Windex, and a bicycle bell.
She marches into the afternoon sunspot populated by the household cats whilst dragging her little red wagon and ringing her bell.
penelope kitten (squeaking): cat nap time is over. (ring ring)
Hamlet: Whaaat?
penelope kitten: we’re going… “minimalist.”
Hamlet: Hunh?
penelope kitten: gotta get up so we can clean up. (ring ring)
Hamlet: Ahhh…I’m sleepy sleepin’, P.
penlope kitten: up up up. (ring ring ring)
Marcy: Shut up. (hissssss)
Hamlet: Okay okay. What are we cleaning up?
penelope kitten: everything.
Penelope starts throwing all the cat toys, pieces of tissue paper, and cardboard scratcher remnants into the trash bags.
Hamlet: Wait no! That’s my favorite mousey toy.
penelope kitten: gotta go. it’s disgusting.
Hamlet: So what if it’s covered in kitty spit, dried catnip, and is missing all the stuffing? I love it.
penelope kitten: gotta go. so do these.
Hamlet: Nooo. Those are my tissue paper pieces. I need them.
penelope kitten: you haven’t played with them in 2 months.
Hamlet: I was saving them.
penelope kitten: for what?
Hamlet pauses in panic.
penelope kitten (tossing them into the trash): gotta go.
Hamlet: Marcy! Help me! Penelope’s throwing away all my cool stuff. She’s in a cleaning frenzy! She’s KonMari-ing the whole house! We’ll have nothing left! Nothing!!
Marcy (yawning): Like that box over there?
Hamlet: GASP! Not… MY BOX!
Penelope kitten whips out her pocket knife from one of the pockets on her coveralls, ready to dismantle Hamlet’s box.
Hamlet leaps into his box.
Hamlet: This… is my box.
Marcy: This is what happens when a millennial kitten watches too may Ted Talks on YouTube. Millennials take everything to the extreme.
penelope kitten: hey, marcy very much. I think this plant has seen better days. better let it go.
Marcy: How’s about we minimize your dry crunchies and Friskies cans.
Penelope kitten pauses in panic at the thought of her dry crunchies and Friskies cans getting minimized.
penelope kitten: ok. moving on. (ring ring)
Marcy goes back to sleep while Penelope grabs her broom and continues with her clean up.
penelope kitten (squeaking): now. this decimated peacock feather –
Hamlet (from his box): Nooo!! Not my decimated peacock feather! I worked for hours on that!
Marcy: Heh heh heh. It’s always much easier to minimize someone else’s stuff.
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8 Comments
Penelope and Hamlet, you need a mediator. This sounds like marriage between a hoarder and a neat freak.
How about if you decorate Hamlet’s box to look like a piece of art and store his treasures inside, and Hamlet you agree to put your things away when not in use?
2 late. all gone. i put hamlet on the patio so the whole place would be minimalist. v relaxing.
squeak,
penelope kitten
Ha, ha, ha! This made me actually laugh out loud. The pictures are so cute, and the one of Marcy is priceless!!!
ha ha. i took the one of marcy. she doesn’t like it. it’s my fave.
squeak,
penelope kitten
Hey Penelope, have you seen my collection of tchotchkes? I’m missing some toy cars…
don’t know about those.
squeak,
penelope
(walking away very fast)
What’s one cat’s treasure…..
lol – so true!!
xo,cynthia