The History of Cat

Most of us know Catherine Diana Jeanne Schlenker simply as Cat. Other nicknames include Kit, Cate, Schlenky and Catness. However...she hates being called Kathy (Doug.)

I first met Cat in August durring the summer between my freshman and sophmore year of high school. We were in Albion at the annual Jackson High School Band Camp. She was an incomming freshman that year. It was either Tuesday or Wednesday of that week and durring out two hour break in the middle of the day, I was napping in the air conditioned chappel (which is where rehearsal was held, so I didn't have to go somewhere else) when two young girls walked in. I knew one of them already, Kaitlyn, but I had not met her freind Cat.

They were practicing their sets (pictures formed on the feild by the band) in the isles of the chappel and needed some help. I was one of the few people that had a folder that showed every members position on the feild, so I offered to help them after they asked. For the rest of the week and part of the summer I spent my time hanging out with Cat and Kaitlyn.

Over the next several months I hung out with Cat a bit and built a friendship with her. In March(?) of that school year I realized how I felt about her. I wanted to ask her out. We had a half day and I planned to ask her when I saw her later after I went out to lunch with some friends. Well...while I was at lunch, my good freind Mark asked her out.

For the next four months they were together, but I did see and hang out with them often. They broke up in June and Cat and I started dating after that.

Since then, it has pretty much been us together. There were a few breaks in there but we always remained freinds. Most recently I dated Melinda. Cat was my freind through it, though I treated her like crap because I was blinded by Melinda. (Cat and Melinda don't get along) But that is over and Cat and I are better freinds than we have ever been. But that is all we are...just friends. We will let nature take its course and if we decide to go out again, it will be fore a very very long time. But we aren't rushing anything. Just living life as it comes.

Now we spend most of our time together. Running erronds for parents, hanging out with freinds, going to the beach or the lake, getting ice cream and just walking around the park at dusk to watch the sun set.

She is the only friend I have that has been there for me through everything. The good times and the bad times, she is always there next to me, even when I am mean to her. No other friend has been as faithful.


I take her on family trips, and we have a list of places we are going to go when we get older and have money. She is a very smart, talentes young woman. She is a great photagrapher and an excellent musician (Trumpet.) She is decent at sports (Soccer, Frisbee, Running) but I can't get her on a bike haha.


If you ask me: What is the greatest thing to ever to me? I would have to answer: Being born. Next to my life, I would say becomming freinds with Cat. Over the years we have developed a connection that is just amazing. She is my favorite person in the world and I would do anything for her. She supports me unconditionaly in my sport. She will wake up at 5:30am to drive across the state to stand around the top of a hill in freezing weather only to watch me on my bike for a grand total of 20 seconds (Fisk Knob.) There is nothing more I could ever ask for in a person than in Cat. To me, she is the prettiest and most perfect person I have met.


And that is the history of Cat through my eyes. I left out a TON of information because I didn't want this post to be four pages long, but if you are curious about certain things, just ask. And Cat, if you want me to add something let me know. I'm sure I missed something important.