Miss You Monster, Love You Lobster |2021

Today is the third anniversary of Monster’s passing. He was my first, and only first, Ragdoll.

What all can you say about The Supreme Commander? He was such an amazing cat, right up till the end. He was a faithful companion and loving sidekick, one who was always around but not always involved.

I have written many a post about Monster, I’ve posted many a pic of him as well. He was always a mixed bag, I never knew what all I was going to get. Totally not a Forrest Gump reference.

And the funny thing that I realized who/what that meant to me only recently, as I sat down this past weekend to write about Dream Theater’s Instrumedley.

I’m not even going to try to translate over all of the songs, IIRC there are ~12 or so, all combined into one amazing amalgamation of amazing acoustical astonishment. Link above if you are interested.

Sometimes my mind is ahead of itself. I call that my hindbrain, some sort of … yeah, whatever kastle. Sometimes my mind is ahead of itself and I write about a generalized topic that has yet to come.

It’s happened many times in the past and this is certainly one of them. You see, I wrote a post (as noted) called “Instrumendly, I Hardly Knew Ye”, this past weekend. I didn’t know why, I just did.

As the week played itself out, I had a growing sense of what it meant and why it meant. But not till tonight did I finally understand the relationship that my brain was trying to tell me about.

That relationship was myself and sir Monster-ifica, the most excellent Ragdoll. The Supreme Commander.

Monster was such an amazing cat. And like the Instrumedly, Monster was an incredible combination of a dozen things that represented parts of my life. I was so enriched to have had him as a companion.

I was going to post up some unreleased pictures from the vault, but there’s really only one that was an accurate representation of my life with Monster, and the love I had for him.

Monster Mo Bobster, Monsterifica, Lobsterifica, Lobster Puss, and all the other pet names we shared, I raise my shot glass filled with very chilled Vodka and say:

To you, for I am a better human for having had you in my life.

To you, for I found renewal.

And to you, I whisper the words of our last goodbye knowing it isn’t our last.

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Editors Addendum –> 20210530 I wasn’t sure that I wanted to post this picture or not as it’s EXTREMELY personal. VERY EXTREMELY personal.

This was at 10:31 pm local, the time of Monster’s passing in 2018. I had two shots of vodka setup. One for me, and one for my homie. Love You Lobster – Then, Now, Forever More.

And yes, I know that Youtube is Killing Videos – 2020