• The neighborly gossip on my street cracks me the hell up! Almost anytime I run in to someone on our street, they update me about what they know about what is going on with other people on the street. Nothing malicious, it just makes me laugh. I know the gossip about us is about our “barn” or “pole building” (of which it is neither, but that’s okay).
  • I do NOT know what happens to my hand when I am writing cards/letters. My normal, legible handwriting becomes NUTSO. Part of it is me not giving myself enough space on my desk, but even when I move to a larger surface it still gets a bit nuts.
  • I deleted a whole section here that was me questioning the purpose of Memojis, Facebook Avatars, etc. If people like them, they should use them. I don’t need to understand why.
  • I took Friday off so I could have a four day weekend! Before, I was trying to save up all my vacation time for two summer vacations we had planned but I am kind of doubting those will both happen. Ha.
  • This post is lacking photos so here are some cat stories:
  • I’ve “trained” (as much as you can train a cat) Khali to come on our bed and lie in front of my pillow for Khali Special Time (KST) – where she rolls around and purrs like crazy and wants all the pets. Khali is so soft and fluffy and I want to pet her all the time and she doesn’t want to be petted much of the time… but when she lies in front of my pillow, she’s game, for whatever reason. The downfall of this (besides cat hair all over my sheets and pillowcase… but that’s just my life) is that if I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I come back and she’ll have moved there, wanting some pets! Oops! I did “train” her she’ll get petted there… I should be happy she wants the pets, no matter what time of day. It was pretty funny last week though, when I was gone for a minute and both her and Apollo were in front of my pillow when I came back!

  • Last week Starbuck was hunting a bug in the bedroom as I was reading and getting ready to fall asleep. She was running all over the bed and getting up and down the headboard (a no no), and finally, she jumped up from the bed and caught it with both paws. I was so proud of her, and put it in a tissue to show her it was dead and she no longer needed to hunt for it, but she continued hunting well past when I wanted to sleep. Ha. Nothing like a cat jumping off a headboard next to you or ON to you. UGH.

Starbuck in calmer times

  • Remember this cute cat house my parents got the cats? It’s still out, despite being decorated for Christmas, because the cats love it. Although, we had a scare with it the other night! I got the treat bag out and usually everyone comes running but Apollo didn’t show up, which was odd, since he was nearby in the cat house. I looked over at it, and it was turning in circles as he tried to escape – the pad that goes in the bottom of it had somehow covered the hole to get out and he was stuck! Poor guy!

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