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Catty’s Signature Diary - January 13th

CURRENT MOOD-NOSTALGIC

For the first time in the past six months, I got to sleep in my own bed last night. It was really nice, and I felt like the luckiest ghoul in the world to be surrounded by all those little things I used to take for granted, but that makes a home special. Things like the squeaky door to my bedroom that I would never let my dad fix because it was my "intruder alert", or the soft yellow quilt my grandmother made for my seventh birthday; the one I cried about when she gave it to me because I thought that yellow was my unlucky color, but now the quilt is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Or how the thirteenth slat on the blind that covers my street-facing window is bent just enough so that the light from one of the streetlamps comes through at just the right angle for me to lie in bed and make shadow puppets on the wall. I think most of all I just like that it's quiet because on the road it never is.

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Catty’s Signature Diary - April 13th

CURRENT MOOD-RELAXED

I've been reading this new book, all about the mysterious disappearance of the last queen of the vampires. Her name was Elissabat, and on the day of her coronation 400 years ago, she simply walked away and hasn't been seen or heard from since. I guess the story is interesting to me because, from the outside, it's hard for any monster to imagine walking away from the fame and glory of being a queen. I can't say that I am in the same position by a long way, but sometimes unlife is a lot different when you're on the outside looking in. I remember talking to a fellow teen scream star Veronica Von Vamp about this when we were doing a music video together. She said that sometimes monsters envy another monster's unlife because they imagine it's perfect, even though unlife never is, so when the monster that's living that "purrfect" unlife chooses to leave it behind to do something else, no explanation is ever satisfactory. "So don't waste a lot of effort trying," she said. "It just takes time away from doing what you want to do."

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Catty’s Signature Diary - March 13th

CURRENT MOOD-EXCITED

Last night I gave a small surprise concert... Well, not surprise, I guess, since we'd been leaving clues to where it would be online. Anyway, a group of ghouls from Monster High came backstage after the concert, and I know they thought they were hanging out with me, but I think it was the other way around. I can't explain it, but I really felt a kinship there. One of them was a clawsome surfer ghoul named Lagoona Blue. She told me that she wished I could come and play a concert at Monster High, and I told her if she had any extra lying around that I wouldn't mind having that wish come true :). We exchanged emails, and as I watched the ghouls leave, part of me wanted to leave with them. It's hard to have friends in this business, at least ones you can count on.

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Catty’s Signature Diary - December 13th

CURRENT MOOD-FRUSTRATED

I've completely lost my voice. The doctor said that I have "vocal exhaustion" and we've had to cancel the concert in Barceluna. I could actually feel my voice going in Weresaw during the second encore, and I should have chosen something a little easier on my throat, but because the energy from the crowd was so clawsome and because they were chanting "MCR-MCR-MCR", I sang it. I feel terrible about Barceluna, but nothing that reading the news couldn't make worse. There's a report from an "unnamed source" saying I canceled the concert because the concert promoter wouldn't paint my dressing room in my lucky color. I have a lot of superstitions, but none of them involve the color of my dressing room.

To make matters worse, I'm not supposed to talk at all, so my vocal cords can rest up. Right, I wouldn't mind giving the whole music business a rest. When did it stop being fun and turn into work?

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Catty’s Signature Diary - October 13th

CURRENT MOOD-CAUTIOUS

I started thinking last night about how many shows I've done since I started performing, but it's pretty unlucky to count certain things, so I stopped. It's a lot, though. I was in my first talent show when I was only seven. I don't remember all the details, as well as my parents do, but I have no trouble remembering the crowd at the little theatre jumping to their feet and cheering when I was done. Even then, it all made my fur stand on end. Still does. I definitely remember when I was twelve, and the limoscream pulled up into our driveway to take us to the finals of the national show where I got runner-up; well, it's all been a blur since then. Lately, though, I've been wishing I could have a "normal" unlife, whatever that means...

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Catty’s Signature Diary - September 13th

CURRENT MOOD-EXCITED

Lucky me! Just got my finalized concert schedule, and it looks like I'll be closing out the year by doing shows in Londoom, Scaris, Boolin, Weresaw, and Barceluna! My manager thinks they'll all be sold-out shows. Hopefully, I'll get to do some frightseeing too. I've always wanted to see the Eiffel Terror lit up at night and take a tour through the Terror of Londoom. I won't get my hopes up, though, because my schedule is usually packed tight. Oh well, at least I'm getting the chance to go and meet some new creepy-cool fans.

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Catty’s Signature Diary - Cover

It would be very unlucky for you if you read my diary.