Category Archives: our furry overlords

Spin We Turn Watch And Wait

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A couple of weeks ago, I came to the end of the garbage bags filled with yarn. While I was knitting the last scraps into something that looked more like an acrylic hallucination than a cozy cat blanket, I felt itchy about the whole thing and decided to go buy some yarn. For me, this is a sortie into enemy territory: inside every craft store lurk the kind of women who, in groups, look at me and see an alien. Fortunately for me, I’m a bitch. Even more fortunate for stray cats, I sailed through the store, glowering at anyone staring at me because I am freaking MATURE, and found one pound skeins of poofy synthetic yarn on sale, some for as little as $2.99. The colors are appalling, but who cares? I carried off as much yarn as I could stuff into two large shopping bags and escaped without a scratch.

How To Loosen A Jar From the Nose

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The jarred pepper and marinara sauce version of the Jackson 5. Guess who's Tito!

Drusy’s lying across my lap and over my right arm. My nails are wet and I’m typing with just my left hand. Minutes ago, I finished fussing with milk, now tucked securely into heated yogurt cups for the night. America’s Test Kitchen details how to make Apple Upside Down Cake and I just erased Friday’s oddly tedious General Hospital. I’m waiting for my sisters to call back about whether or not they’re going to jar peaches with me tomorrow night. I’m pretending to blog. All of this is normal, and I bet at your house, you’re this busy, too.

A Keepsake And A Kiss

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We’ve just returned from the Menlo Park Mall, where the Mac Store replaced my power cord without a fuss, and where Radio Shack had a whole wall of noise-canceling headphones that will prevent me from going postal on my chattiest co-workers during student training season. They’re lightweight and practically homicide-free!

And for you: a pretty face.

Lovely Sweetpea as a kitten peering through the darkness of the dining room.

Trying To Make His Way Home

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Day One of the motorcycle safety course and my brain is FRIED. Days Two and Three promise to be doubly hard. I’m so psyched! I may not be able to blog until Thursday, but I don’t know. We’ll find out. In the meantime, meet a local celeb. Everyone knows him!

Tom, one of our outside cat friends, inquires about a bite to eat.