My whiskers, let me show you them

A shot of Tasha when she was our visitor, soaking up the sun

Feed the kitty

I love the cartoons with the big mean dog and the teeny kitten!

Cute +10

This kitten is almost too cute to be real. Beware!

The Lyric makes my knees hurt

The house of the theater used to be a full semi circle shape. At some point, they walled off the sides nearest the stage, making a more wedge shaped house. The walled off portions are now hallways and storage areas with slanted floors. My path from the house to the office (where I print things) goes out a door, down a ramp, through a door, down more ramp, turn left then up a ramp, turn right then through 2 more doors, up a few stairs, turn right, then up stairs to the second floor. I do this often, and fast. The place is peppered with small flights of stairs, everywhere you go. It’s definitely not ADA accessible, and gets to be hard on the knees! It doesn’t help that the leg of the tech table intrudes in my space and I whack my knees on that sometimes. The whole thing is still much much better than last year when the tech table was in the balcony.

Meatloaf

Ever wonder how the cat's legs are arranged when in the meatloaf position? Wonder no more:

kitty tail tale

I just saw the funniest thing. I was playing with Anna, using a piece of string. She was chasing it, I was dangling it and so forth. I dropped the string on her, and it landed neatly over the base of her tail. She was still chasing it- and spent several moments spinning in a circle, centrifugal force keeping the tail-string out of her reach, while I laughed at her. The string fell off, and kitty stumbled a few steps in one direction until she regained her balance. Priceless!

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!

Friday I got to play with icing again. Lucy wanted a pineapple cake this year. Mom baked the cake in 2 round pans, and I took it from there. I got out the food coloring and the good ole' Betty Crocker icing and had a good time. It turned out nice and pineapple-y. The whole time I was making it the Spongebob song was in my head. ("Who lives in a pineapple under the sea!") The real pineapple was very useful to have as a reference. Mom cut off the top and stuck it on the cake before serving it Saturday.




When I went out to water my plants yesterday I heard rustling under the bushes. My first instinct was to squirt the sound with the garden hose, assuming it was a squirrel. Turns out, it was a teeny baby bunneh. It was cute, so I got my camera. It was also terrified, being a bunny, but too stupid to actually run very far. It was gone, or at least better hidden by the time I finished watering.

Yesterday I managed to drop a Rubbermaid container of Chinese leftovers on my right big toe, causing a great deal of pain. The edge managed to just hit the cuticle, which has now turned very purple. I couldn't even yell in pain properly, just sort of croak. It amazes me how much something so small can hurt. It just throbbed all the rest of the night, as I limped around at the show. (The preview went fine, I took many photos.) It feels better this morning, but I'm still going to keep it elevated as much as possible. Sigh. I decided not to post a toe picture, but I have one available on request! It actually doesn't look like much. :)

One show closes, and another one opens. We've been loading in 2 Pianos, 4 Hands this week. It's been hard work, but not too bad. We've had a small crew, but a good one so the work has gone pretty quickly. Tomorrow is my only day of tech before I go out of town. It's too bad that I'm missing the rest of tech because 1. I like the LD, and it won't be torturous like the last tech, and 2. I don't make any money when I'm not there. :(

I've been feeling kind of crappy this week. My throat started feeling scratchy Sunday, it hurt to swallow Monday, and one tonsil was visibly swollen yesterday. Last night I came home from work, ate something, and fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours. I'm feeling better today, so I'm hoping it goes away quickly. I don't have time to be sick right now.

Because this is a very dull post, here's a hamster with a carrot:

Oh yeah, it's more kittens

I spend a lot of time in tech just sitting here waiting. Sometimes I pass the time by looking at kittens. What of it?

Tired Kitties

Youtube: all the kittence you can handle.

ha ha!

For Mike

Who's still alive?

Are you guys dead? Donald just necromancy-ed himself out of the blog tomb. Heather returned from the dead (vacation) and Robyn and Chrissy were alive all along. So what about the rest of you? I want to hear about all the boring and/or interesting stuff in your life. C'mon. It won't hurt.

Alert! Cutest hamster ever on cute overload.



Yesterday I walked again. This time I went past 59th St, so I got to look at some new (to me) houses, which was cool. There are a lot of really neat houses to look at in the area, with cool yard landscaping. The yards are all pretty small, so it's neat to see the different things people do with them. I like walking in the residential area because it's pleasantly shady, and looking at houses is entertaining. One thing I've learned on my walks is that a lot of people are getting their roofs redone. I've seen lots of yard signs and several crews hard at work. Surprisingly, I haven't been barked at by a lot of dogs.

I made chocolate chip cookies yesterday. I did my baking across the street because my mom likes the company and her kitchen is set up nicely to cook. I also lack several ingredients you need for cooking, like eggs and margarine. My dad decided he wanted a chocolate chip cookie with raspberries in it. I scoffed at him, but let him do it. Well, I had a bite of that raspberry chip cookie while it was still warm, and it was damn good. If that one hadn't been in the last batch I'd have made more. I'm still surprised at how tasty it was. I took Anna along, and she spent about half an hour in an intense stalking pose, watching a chipmunk in the bushes just outside the window. It must have been very tiring, since she spent the rest of the day sleeping.

When I got home I opened the new computer parts that ups delivered and touched them to take off Donald's curse. More computer parts are due to arrive today and tomorrow. The invitation to my cousin's wedding in October arrived, so I opened that too. It's on handmade paper, which is nice. There is one weird thing. Their reception is on the Air Force base, so we're supposed to provide SSNs and driver's license info for all people attending. I'm a little irked at this. I know they are concerned about security, but come on. Why do I have to give out my SSN at every turn?

Ow! damn, that's cute

The cute here is so intense that if you are not careful, it will cause physical damage. Reader beware:

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

If you are ever feeling sad and need the cute to fix it, this is your site.

for example:

I wish I had her life

It's really tough being a cat.



Yes, I took your picture!