The Romantic Cat Lady

By Christine A. Grabar

A single woman and her two cats have been residing in a nice apartment in the West Valley of Phoenix, Arizona, for a few years and decided it was time for a change. Christa, Mars, and Venus begin an exciting journey east to the beautiful North Carolina coast, where they will begin an exciting, new adventure! Once the family settles into their nice, upscale townhome, Christa enrolls into the local university to begin pursuing an MBA and eventually meets a nice professor close to her age that sweeps her off of her feet! At the same time, Christa receives a promotion to an executive assistant position with the local city office. After courting for a few months, Steve and Christa get married and move into a beautiful, new single-family home after returning from a romantic honeymoon in the Outer Banks of North Carolina! Steve, Christa, Mars, and Venus enjoy all of the holidays in their new home because they have plenty of room to invite family and some friends over. Once the holidays came to an end, the happy family just enjoys everyday life in their new home and community where they plan to live happily ever after!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496959164

Christine A. Grabar

I have an Associate’s Degree in Business and a Bachelor of Science Degree. One of my future goals is to pursue my MBA. I am not sure yet which university I will be going through -- it all depends upon where I am residing when that time comes. I had mentioned UNCW on the back cover of my book because I thought I would be relocating to Wilmington, NC a few years ago, but my plans changed. I now have two great cats again! One of my cats passed away in April of 2016 due to old age and health issues. Recently, I had adopted a female, adult cat from the no-kill animal shelter I volunteer at a few Saturday mornings per month. I have lived in the following states due to moving with my family—mostly my dad’s job transfers over the years: Long Island, New York (where I was born and lived for the first eight years of life); Western New Jersey; Charleston, South Carolina area; Central Valley of California—Visaila and Fresno; Phoenix, Arizona (I transferred here in 1998), and I had lived in Upstate South Carolina and worked in Charlotte, North Carolina, for most of 2004. I came back out to Phoenix—West Valley in 2004—to be near my mother who was still living at that time.

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CHAPTER 1

Relocation

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C hrista has decided the present time would be an ideal time to relocate to Coastal North Carolina with her two wonderful cats to have a fresh, new start! In fact, Christa had experienced living in Coastal South Carolina for a few years when she was younger and loved it because it felt like she was on vacation all year long! Christa knows her male cat, Mars, and female cat, Venus, will be fine with the relocation as long as they have trees with plenty of birds in them to watch from safely inside of their new home. In fact, Christa said to Mars and Venus, We will be making this long, but good journey to our new home as a family. Christa became more excited about her upcoming move as she discussed the moving plans with both Mars and Venus. Mars, Venus, we are going to be living in a nice, spacious townhouse which means you will have even more space to explore! Also, our new community is located near a pretty lake area with a park which means I can take you both for occasional walks outside on your harnesses if you sweeties would like to safely experience the great outdoors. I can also finally buy you both that cat tree I have been promising to get you for the last few months. In fact, I can shop for your new kitty tower as soon as we get settled into our great new home, said Christa! Plus, she told them there would be more trees on the grounds of their new community which would mean more birds for Mars and Venus to watch. Also, Christa told both Mars and Venus there would be plenty of people-watching opportunities too. This had really excited the kitties! Both Mars and Venus started purring up a storm at the thought of new scenery and more bird watching in their futures! These Arizona kitties will enjoy experiencing a new life in North Carolina with their mom! Their mom is especially looking forward to a fresh, new start where she believes everything will fall into place once they relocate and settle into their new home! Plus, she is looking forward to taking occasional day trips back down to the Charleston, South Carolina area where she had once resided many years ago.

Christa has enjoyed working as an Administrative Assistant for a local city office; however, she was looking forward to making some changes in her life. The managers and employees in Christa’s office have been like a close-knit family to her for the last few years which has made going into work very pleasant for Christa. She will miss working with them and hopes the next group of people at the city office she will be working for back east will be this great to work with. At the same time, Christa felt excited about her choice to relocate while she was removing her few personal items from her desk on that last day of work. At lunchtime, Christa’s coworkers and managers surprised her with lunch and cake in the conference room. Of course, Christa was delighted and grateful they all gave her such a nice sendoff! Thank you all for this nice lunch and everything else you have done for me. You all have been extremely generous with me the entire time I have worked back in this department which I really appreciate, said Christa! Christa gave her contact information to her manager and told her that she and anyone else from this department are welcome to come and visit her if they should ever come to the Wilmington, North Carolina area on vacation. Later that afternoon, Christa hugged everyone goodbye and headed home to get ready for the big moving day. Mars, Venus, we need to turn in early tonight since we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow, said Christa!

The moving truck had arrived early on Friday morning to pack and load up everything. Christa had already packed her luggage and all of the cats’ stuff in the car. Mars and Venus were already in their carriers and ready to head out. Once the movers had finished loading everything onto the truck Christa had done a quick walk through with the apartment manager. The apartment manager said everything looked good and clean; therefore, she told Christa to expect a full refund on her deposit which would be mailed