goodbye cat lady

so we had this woman living above us who you might remember from such previous posts as this or this. i will not mention her name for possibly privacy issues.

turns out she really did have cats. turns out also she still liked to play loud hippie music in the evenings, that our ceiling leaked not once but TWICE while we've lived here due to her oversights, and that she's a little creepy.

on saturday there was SO much banging coming from upstairs. i could hear it while in the shower with the water running. sometimes in the past we had heard weird banging/rolling sounds (affectionately referred to as "roller cat" noises) but this new sound was nothing compared to that. then we left for the day and saw workmen going upstairs (presumably creating the banging sounds) but didn't think anything of it.

then yesterday when brandon came home from church he noticed all her pictures and knick-knack things had been taken down from her front room, so we asked the building manager about it and she confirmed that yes, she had moved. this is a direct quote: "it's probably better for everyone." they are now remodeling the apartment (hence the banging).

so now _________ is gone. and i'm actually kinda sad about it. i guess it IS time for us to move...the adams ward disintegrated, cat lady moved, etc.

but her being gone makes THIS story so much better:

a couple weeks before christmas i made cookie plates and made brandon come with me to deliver them to all the tenants in our building (some of whom i'd never met, but hey, it's christmas right?). _______ wasn't home when we stopped by so we left them with a little tag on her doorstep.

the next day there was an envelope stuck in our screen door. inside the envelope was a card shaped like a cat (i am not making this up). inside the card it said:

"Greetings.
Thank you for the baked goodies.
[name]"

i'm not sure i've ever laughed so hard. i was DELIGHTED that not only did the cat lady give us a cat card, she was so thoughtful and nice to send a thank you! i still smile thinking about it. after that i decided she wasn't so bad...and maybe i will miss her every time i hear "philadelphia." :)