My, What Big Paws You Have!

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current book: Finished Dark Water. I think Gilead is up next. Ryan, are you up for some synchronized reading?
current music: “When U Love Somebody” by Fruit Bats
current socks: Snowflake SmartWools. It’s negative fucking miserable out there. I don’t know where early December got the idea to masquerade as late January.

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Trouble

I came home today and saw that the cats had been up to NO GOOD. I walked in the door to find three Da Bird attachments (one still in its bag) and one empty Da Bird bag in my entry way.
Exhibit A:

I then walked into my bedroom to find my sock drawer—which just happens [...]

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Merry Merry Christmas!

I wish I could get a picture of all three cats, but Monte has sequestered himself upstairs until very recently. Now that the house is dark and quiet, he feels brave enough to jump on kitchen cabinets, throw up on the basement stairs, and snuggle up in my lap as I type this. Probably tomorrow [...]

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Uh-Oh

I just caught Monte—the world’s most bulimic orange tabby—with his head in my queso. I fear that this night is not going to end well.

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It’s Almost Funny

Almost. In the ongoing saga of Things Going Wrong, and in the spirit of using my blog to bitch unreservedly about my personal life, I add the following complaints:

my management company has not returned any of my three phone calls about the “fix-it” list. On this list includes the fact that I have no [...]

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Gratuitous Cat Pictures

One of these days I’ll get my regular camera charged up and cleaned out so I won’t have to keep subjecting you to tiny thumbnail pictures. But in the meantime… how cute are my cats? I took a nap yesterday and awoke to this:
 

 

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They Go Together Like RamaLamaLamaDingityDingaDong

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Packing

Trying to, anyway.
(his eyes are a little freaky because I was playing with the green-eye reducer)

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Second City, City of Broad Shoulders, City in a Garden, Gem of the Prairie, The City That Works…

…The Windy City.
There’s some debate as to the origin of this last epithet. Some say it was popularized by the long-winded and boastful speeches that were given in support of Chicago hosting the 1893 World’s Fair; others claim it had been used at least a decade earlier in reference to the “refreshing lake breezes.”
Decide for [...]

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Kittens!

I’m baby-sitting a friend’s two kittens, an experience which, although lots of fun, has overturned my fate as the crazy cat lady. Having four cats follow you into the bathroom is a bit much. Monte loves the kittens; Clarabelle… well, she’s coming ’round. And the kittens are, well, kittens: one of them has jumped into my bathroom trash can [...]

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