"Our Song"

I'm house sitting right now. More importantly, I'm cat sitting.

It's stressful for these little guys, as they just had to move to a brand new house and not even a week in, their mommy leaves for a two week trip to China.

One thing that keeps them company when the peoples are away is that their mommy likes to keep the radio or music on so they're not always alone. I've had the iPod on for them to listen.

Their mommy and I kind of have "our song" which makes me think of her when I hear it, and makes her think of me when she hears it.




This song came up not long ago, and when I started singing along with the song, I had kitties run to me and meowing. Maybe they know it's our song, and makes them miss their mommy.

Either way, I think it's the most adorable thing ever!

My heart asplode.

#4 for now.

In the efforts to get this "7 Things You May Not Know about Me" thing actually accomplished, I will skip the previously half-written passionspiel I was working on and just lost steam midway (Okay, I had to look at something else and then lost the zeal for it) and replace it with something else that's a lot less interesting, but generally unknown about me.

I tend to sleep in tree position on a semi-regular basis.


...kinda like this, but much without the arms part. I also tend to place my foot at the other leg's knee to create as an evenly-sided area as possible.

That's because after having slept with my man-cat during the cooler times, he likes to sleep in little areas where he's surrounded by warmth, and by making a little nest with my legs, he's a happy boy.

The things I do for cuddles. I just can't resist.

Roommate Weekend!

This weekend shaped out to be a Me + Roommate weekend, as we got to hang out and do fun fun stuff this weekend. It's been a long time since we've actually hung out, so it was fun to have this time for us.

After spending a good deal of Saturday running around the SGV running errands (and fitting a few rounds of Mario Kart in), I grabbed some cupcakes, we got some Chinese takeout and headed for the Hollywood Bowl where we saw MGMT (YAY!) Spoon (Awesome!) and BECK (OH YEAH!), with Beck playing a good deal of his set with the LA Philharmonic strings, conducted by David Campbell.

I had almost forgotten about this concert completely, and when I did, I wasn't sure if I was still going to go. I had bought the pair of tickets back in May at some cafe during the show's presale for my roommate's birthday, which was 5 days prior to the show. Even cooler was the fact that I really had no grand scheme to get the best seats (I'm not rolling in that kind of cheese), but wound up in the "Super Seats," which are actual plastic seats with armrests and drink holders instead of benches. Since they were my roommate's tickets, she could have taken anyone she wanted, I'll say that I'm very happy that she took me (about which I'm sure she gave no second thought).

The show was pretty awesome. The lineup was amazing, and I was very excited to see MGMT and Spoon, and I realized last night this was my third time seeing Beck live (#1 was Coachella 2004, #2 was the first Detour Festival 2006). It was an awesome set, kicking things off with "Loser," then launched into the newer stuff from his latest album.

Even cooler was that for this show (including during the Spoon set), I noticed they were using this swirl effect around the layers of the Bowl, which I've never seen before. Beck's set took full advantage of this effect as such:

I'm a big enough nerd that I was very happy to find a free program that can batch resize images, and then at the show I remembered my camera has a continuous shooting mode that shoots 2.5 frames per second. All this paired with my recent discovery that you can make animated images on Photoshop made for a nice little geekfest of making animated GIFs.

As cool as that may look, it doesn't do the night justice, as these sights were accompanied by some awesome sounds, and I'm sure there's some way to capture sound on my camera, but I like to use my camera to take pictures...sorry.

You can see more images from the evening, including more swirly stage animations and cupcakes in my Flickr set

After waking up too early today because I failed to turn off my alarm, I lazed about, did some laundry, and headed for Chavez Ravine to see the Dodgers play the Giants as part of Fan Appreciation Week. Roomie got the tickets for free thanks to BoA, but we didn't partake in the special tickets that offered free drinks to fans. Oh well. Our seats weren't too bad, (Reserved first base side within foul ball territory) and we later learned it was also Deaf Appreciation Day, which was sponsored by some company that had reps as ASL interpreters at various stations where they would accompany the hearing impaired fans when they were ordering at the refreshment stands. I thought that was really cool.

It was a fun game, and a great one, too, with both teams staying even on hits, but remained scoreless up until the 11th inning when the day's theme of bad calls and a few missed balls by the Dodgers gave the Giants a run for them to win the game. What sucked was that the Giants deliberately walked Manny twice. BOO.



You can see more pics from the game here.

...and of course, there's always more room for kitty love:


I haven't been spending much time here for the past week or so (I was sidelined last weekend and happened to be in M-town), and I have to say there is some sense of comfort in being here. Still, I went to bed last night with a blanket over my window to act as some sort of privacy screen, for though It's been some time since the more recent incident inside the house and even further from the first incident, I still felt uncomfortable, since the last time I went to the Hollywood Bowl with my roommate, I was left home alone and in my room to have a peeping Tom make his way atop our basement doors to peek into my room. Not to say that I expect such a thing to happen every time we go, but something felt unsettling to me, and I felt like I needed to do that.

Either way, this weekend has been really fun and I'm so glad I had this time here and with my roommate and with the cats. It's truly been a very long time since we've done anything like this, and it's something that I miss that I wasn't fully aware of until now.

This Month's Moment of Zen

BLACK CAT ON MY TRAIL

:3

There's nothing like neighborhood tuxies coming from afar to be all cuddly.

As I sit here thinking about the previous sentence, it's taking a lot of normal person of society behavior restraint to stop me from 'sploding from cute and going crazy and thinking, "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, I want to go walking and have cute, collared tuxie kitty following me around on my walk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" *dies*

I mean, I'd otherwise allow myself to do that, but I'm currently sitting in a leather chair at a Honda dealership, and I don't think it would be good for their business. I'm not going to involve myself in any funny business...I came here to get my car tuned up, not down.

Garbage in, Garbage out

There is nothing wrong with starting the Morning Pages when you're no longer sleepy groggy, right? I guess I'm making my own rules and those apply.

This is my morning, part II, and miraculously enough, I did manage to put in at least a few hours of sleep. Then again, I did hit the hay around 2, and then wound up waking with horrible tummy pain around 5, at which point I went running to the bathroom. I did feel a little rumble of that before going to bed, which I thought was just something that attributed to cramps, so I ignored it and passed out, not knowing that it was going to later kick my tummy and ass. Is that TMI? Meh. I'm just happy I managed to go back to sleep after that, and even remembered to turn off my alarm so I wasn't going to be persuaded to wake up at a certain time. After my second trip to the WC this morning, here I am, starting my daily writing exercise, and the kitties are already welcome in my room (cue kitties as they make their entrance as I type this).

I suppose this is what I get for betraying my usual love. I did try to keep in mind some of my company last night wasn't the most thrilled with Leo's taco truck, and I do recognize that there are a lot of people who don't, so we had the option to go with the familiar, or go with something new. I've been kind of curious in trying Sonia's taco truck, who is up the street from Leo's and is supposedly the truck of Leo's ex wife who left him because he supposedly cheated on her (both bits of information I gathered at different times, I guess I'm somehow kept abreast on taco truck drama...then again, it is Leo's I'm talking about). I was the maverick of the group and ordered a burrito instead of tacos like the rest, because I was pretty hungry, having only eaten some leftover veggie tostada fixin's that probably would have fit on two tortilla chip rounds, a mystery flavor hot pocket, and maybe a piece of candy. The burrito was okay, slightly spicy, and had a decent amount of meat, but it was agreed across the board that the tacos were not up to par with Leo's, even though the actually had a nice looking veggie taco (which doesn't count in the taco tally, apparently, because there is no gastronomical damage in putting a bunch of beans and salsa in, so it's more like a side). The food was so disappointing, we did wind up going to a sure fire good meal, Carnitas Michoacan, in order one good taco to wipe the ugly taco taste from the mouths of some, and more importantly for one, to introduce one of our party to Orange Bang! which was discovered she never had before. That could not be for one, and CM was going to happen in short order.

I didn't have anything, but the four of us shared a nice, large order of Orange Bang! I also did steal a small bite of an al pastor taco, for I'm not sure if I ever tried it there (though through the course of my going there, I'm more than certain that I have). Either way, it was good, and those who had redemption tacos were well satisfied.

That all said, it can be said there is something working against Sonia's as well, as my tumms is not happy with me right now. Of course, it could have been caused by other things, but what? I didn't even have alcohol last night (oh wait - I had a swig from "backwash bottle" and was gently persuaded to take a remarkable hit from The Bottomless Flask (damn you...which really actually means *hugs* yay, friendship!!!) but the booze wouldn't do something like that to me.

Needless to say, I find fault in those who have given that place a favorable review, unless this upsetness is caused by my shaking the hands of someone with dirty hands then eating my food, but that doesn't even make sense either, because I had a burrito, and was eating as I unwrapped the thing from its double layer cocoon.

I hope the tumms gets better soon. I'm supposed to go to an exhibit today, which I'm going to have to stomach, then I'm supposed to picnic. I can't very well picnic effectively if the tumms ain't having it...and if that be the case, that would be a bummer for sure.

It's funny that as I do these morning writing exercises, I find myself simply recounting what happened to me the day before. I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, I think, it's just that's what bubbles to the top on thoughts when I click on the "New Post" button. I guess this morning's events is concerning enough to dedicate to a blog entry (perhaps to my readers' dismay), but perhaps this entry should remain here as a constant reminder that do not try to have Sonia's again, and if you can't stand the wait for Leo's (of which, should have been an indicator for us, since there was NO LINE at this place), just go to Rambo's. Rambo's is not that that bad.

But yeah. I'm sure the more I make this more of a habit, the more that I'll be able to let out more things that perhaps need to be processed out of the inner workings of my head. Something like how instead of lying here longer to write an entry about the new camera I ordered yesterday, or having a nice cuddle session with the kitty that's currently purring my arm, or even taking a cat nap, I should really shower in order to start my day...

KITTY IT IS!!!

Working at Home

Granted, I really don't spend a large amount of time at home. On top of that, when I do, I'm usually in my room, working on things on my computer atop my bed. I hear it's not good to do that, because your body knows you use this space as a working space, so when you sleep, you wind up thinking about working more, since the space where you do both are one in the same.

But if you have something like this accompanying you whenever you do, how could you resist?


For the record,there's no cute, mangy little thing next to me. That's partly because my internal body temperature is another 10 degrees with my laptop on my lap as my kitty cats are roaming about the hot, hot den.

Packin' the Heat

Even at 7am, it's pretty hot. Like sweaty hot.

Of course, it doesn't help that I decide to make myself ramen for breakfast. Not only that, along with some other things, I make it spicy as well with white and cayenne pepper. I tried to let the soup cool a little bit before eating, but time and hunger prevented me from doing so. I was working up a sweat eating the stuff, but it was so worth it.

But then there was the kitten. She's now banished from sleeping with my roommate, who will be working the swing shift for the rest of the month, so her room is unavailable to the little terror, which meant she was milling about my person the whole time.

Every now and then, I'd look down at her, and she'd look up at me, and do her cute little kitten head tilt and gaze at me with her ice blue eyes. Against my best judgment, I finally picked her up and placed her on my lap for that human contact that she wanted. As expected, despite how hot it was, she stayed and lay on my lap as I finished my food.

I mean, really...
Could YOU resist this face?

She may not be that big, but her little body creates a good amount of heat. Combine that with the hot, spicy soup, I was melting, but really happy since I was eating soup while having a cute kitty on my lap.

I'm thinking of a word that best describes this...suffering from heat though enjoying it at the same time...

...oh yeah. Shadenfreude

...is Good Food

Yes, it was pretty hot today (and still is in this house)
Yes, I did wind up walking 1/3 of the way home from Little Tokyo and then spent about 30 minutes being DASHed around my 'hood.
And yes, I'm making soup for dinner.

I was originally going to make a small batch, but out of impulse, I decided to upend the rest of the veggie broth that's most likely past its prime in the pot. I should have left at least a bit to soften my next batch of black beans. Add to the mix a cup of lentils, a small handful of chopped onions, and chopped up chicken sausage that's been smoked and seasoned in cajun spices. I'm debating on whether to add another, or at least half a sausage to the mix, not really looking for more sausage action, but to get a better spicy flavor incorporated into the broth.

Add to the mix the fact that I'm in bed right now, which is warm, and I have a sprawled out kitten next to me that's a bit lethargic, but has managed to inch her way closer and closer to me. Now her paws are touching my arm. She's VERY warm.

No matter how hot it is, I'd never give up soup, or kitties.

This Weekend's Moment of Zen

more cat pictures

Kioko

The new addition to our home is so cute, but I feel like I shouldn't get attached.

She's been her for a week tomorrow, and she's been living in the bathroom until my roommate deems her large enough to roam freely about the kitty hazard house. That doesn't mean she stays there all the time - my roommate most often takes her into her room and bed and they hang out and nap together, and I usually nab her a bit in the he morning and before I go to bed when I'm in my room.

She's such a sweetheart. She's afraid of sound, and obviously that's not a good introduction when I came into the bathroom to use/visit her and I had the overhead light that also turns on the exhaust. She's very, very curious, and a little playful. Now when I go to the bathroom, she gets up from her little nest and goes to wherever you are and wants some love. Even when I'm brushing my teeth or using the neti pot, she's perched right near my feet, and she wants to be on my lap when I'm on the toilet. She's also a parrot-kitty, and loves staying on your shoulder. As soon as you step in the bathroom and start petting her, she just revs up the purring.

But she has this cold. It started with little sniffles during the weekend, and it's gotten worse. Before, she would just sneeze a lot, and they'd be juicy little bits that would spray some kitty snot about. In the past few days, however, it's obvious that she's congested - as she tries to breathe through her nose, you can just hear the congestion as she breathes. And she sneezes A LOT. On top of that, her left muzzle doesn't look good, as when my roommate got her, she had black specks all over her face, which my roommate decided to try picking off. Turns out those were scabs, perhaps from scratches from the other kitties. Now that spot looks red and raw. I've also noticed "flea dust" in her rather thick fur (she'll be a fluffy), and I actually saw a flea today, which confirms their presence.

Since I've been missing my roommate since she's working the swing shift again this week, I've sent her emails and notes about my concern for Kioko. She sounded really bad yesterday, where her breathing drowned out her rather loud purring. When I came home last night, I got a note reporting that she isn't getting better, but is eating and drinking, and that I should just change her water and give her lots of love. I could easily do that, but that's not going to make her any better. I wrote back asking her if she should go see a vet. Her reply was that she thinks she should, but doesn't have the money right now, and she and someone else read that something like that should go away in 7-10 days.

Only thing is, she's still small and growing. If this doesn't kill her, it may permanently damage her respiratory system. It also doesn't help that my friend told me the story when she first got one of her cats, he had a cold, which started affecting his eye, and had to have eye gunk put on it.

I don't know. The situation frustrates me. Sure, my roommate had the money to get her and buy her necessities, but she should also be responsible for taking care of her. Maybe she shouldn't have bought new tires for her project car if she knew she was going to have a cat, an added expense, especially since this situation has come up. She isn't like a project car or a camera or something else wrong with the house that could essentially wait to be fixed until the money is there, we're talking about another life she's decided to take care of, of which she can't right now. I'm afraid to think that she thinks that whatever happens happens - if she gets better, that's cool, if not, that would suck and she's out the money she's spent on her already, but maybe this way she could get an all-white cat people have been giving away that she would ideally want.

I offered to lend her money to take her to the vet, but I'm not sure if she'd take it, and even if she did, I'm afraid she may think it's a waste of time, money and effort.

Everything Happens for a Reason.

In a really bad summary:

Roommate got in a car accident yesterday, which leads to a few things.
-I get to justly use my Arby's coupon that the Coupon Fairy gave me on the day it expires as her comfort food, only she's on a special diet which makes the trip more interesting
-Her back hurts from the accident so she doesn't go to work today, which usually means she does some crazy things (not included in this crazy is her dishes, as usual, of course)

I forget my phone at home today, which makes things more interesting.
-Thankfully it was on vibrate so my roommate didn't have to deal with the incessant beeping all day
-Of course, the day I leave it at home I get cool messages like a picture text of YUMMY looking tostadas
-It's okay, because I was having a very yummy meal at a club downtown on the boss' husband's company's tab
-But I also miss a voicemail left by my roommate after the Lakers lost (boo-I wasn't that sleepy), who asks to borrow my camera when she goes to Disneyland tomorrow, and that I have to watch out for the kitten in the bathroom, but she doesn't think the kitty is much of a door dasher...

WAIT, DID SHE SAY A KITTY?!?!?!?


Yes, a kitty.

That's taken with my picture phone. Better pictures are forthcoming when I learn more about this adorable stranger in my commode.

But she's so scared and timid and BEAUTIFUL.

KITTY UPDATE:
As soon as I posted this entry, my roommate gets a phone call and gets out of bed, at which point I use that time to GET ALL INFORMATION I CAN FROM HER!

Kitty is a pound purry. It's a girl. Very interesting she decides to get a kitty now. All the same, I guess she's living in the bathroom for the week until she gets better used to...us?

Tentative name: Kioko, which means something like, "greets the day with happiness" or some cute junk (it's actually "child born with happiness"). She's not a playful-seeming type, but that may be because she's living in a bathroom right now (though she spent the whole day on my roomie's bed, and was pretty mellow, I guess.

Okay, I seriously need to be asleep NOW otherwise I will very much regret it. More later.

Ich Bin Geliebt.

Yesterday was a beautifully odd day.

Things that everyone must do:

Go see the Kara Walker Exhibit at the Hammer. It's there through June 8. I can get into it in greater detail at a later date, but what I can say now is that it is absolutely breathtaking. I can easily say that the images of her cutouts, drawings, paintings, and projections has to be seen in person. I didn't even have the time to go into the video gallery. In addition to going to see Kara Walker, everyone has to tell me when you're going, because I definitely need to go again and see what I missed.

Eat Peruvian food. Take people who've never eaten Peruvian food to eat Peruvian food.

Things I must do:

Send thank yous.

I already got my spare stylus, and I'm ready to play my new DS game: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All. Never would I have thought I'd be playing an attorney video game, but after helping my friend play the demo if its sequel during the super geek out DS demo download session, the format is pretty fun. One can easily say...OBSESSION!



Needless to say, the checkbook has been removed and has been replaced with the DS and a brand new organza bag of games the only holds two games, not including the one loaded into the DS. Let's just hope that this one isn't lost.

With Age Comes Wisdom...

...or just better observational skills.

I grew up with Hello Kitty and the Sanrio gang. I loved My Melody and the Little Twin Stars, but Hello Kitty was also a standby favorite.

For those who haven't been into my bathroom before, it's hall Hello Kitty-d out. That's no fault of my own; it's all my roommate's doing.

Even so, in all my life, and all this time living here with all this Hello Kitty towels, washcloths, bathmat, soap dispenser, etc. etc. etc. Hello Kitty always in my life, have I never noticed until tonight that she's a bobtail!



Not convinced? Here's a CGI version of Hello Kitty (and friends). It's actually really cute and random, and I think very much worth the watch. I will love the person who can point out my absolute favorite part of this video:


And if you're still not convinced, here's another video with older clips. Yes, more bunny bobtail action going on:


I cannot believe I've never noticed it before. I also never would have thought I would discover such a thing when I was on the toilet, brushing my teeth while I was staring at her butt.

I can never see Hello Kitty the same way again. What a great role model! It goes to show that being a little different than most (in her case, being a bobtail cat) doesn't mean that anyone would love you less. Look at Miss Kitty White, everyone loves her!

The Things I Do for Love

I guess I should better communicate my plans sometimes. I had thought to visit my family yesterday, and it never dawned on me that it may have been wise to tell them, because when I made my way back to Monrovia, I arrived to an empty house save for two sleeping cats. Not that I'm sore about having cats to myself, I was a little sad to know that I wouldn't see my family.

Especially since I didn't know if they were alive, or not.

Saving you the paranoid details I just deleted, after about an hour of frantic calling beforehand, I learned that everyone's safe and accounted for.

But it's times like these that make me realize that I'm always a little sad to come home to an empty house - even back in high school when I'd come home to an empty house, it was always a lonely and sad feeling.

But now we have kitties.

In particular, one lonely kitty who missed my papa, and likes to cuddle when it's chilly out. All of which, I exploited for some cuddle times with my boy-cat, which he also exploited for a warm place to sleep.

A place where he got to sleep all night. On the couch. As I woke up, completely uncomfortable through the night, and finally left (sadly) a bit after 5 to beat the traffic.

I should be thankful for the June Gloom for the cuddles opportunity, otherwise Arlo would have stayed on the dining room table chairs, looking cute, but unwilling to cuddle so long as he has a black, fuzzy pelt on him. What I shouldn't be thankful for is the fact that they call it June Gloom, even though it really starts in May. I always remember this time of year as gloomy days (though not always a bad thing), and I remember when I was much, much smaller, I was kind of bummed when the sun wasn't around when my birthday rolled in. It comes in a month sooner, so why not May Gloom? Wouldn't that be more accurate? Why not give May the gloomy love, too?

But I guess the vowel rhyme rolls off the tongue better. And I'm a sucker for it too.

Raw Hawaii

Realizing that it's coming close to three months since I took a week out of my everyday life and spent it on a boat cruising Hawaii, I've decided to release ALL my photos from the trip, despite the fact that I haven't finished ordering and captioning/titling all the images.


Click to view the collection

The first four days of my pictures are correctly ordered, and captions go as far as the first two pictures into day three. Once at Kauai, the images may be not as easy to navigate chronologically, since I was shooting with 4 cameras, 3 using film, the timestamps don't work quite as well as the digital shots. I'm also pretty sure the panoramic shots are not next to the composite images that made them up, which I made a great effort to keep together in the albums I was able to organize.

What's scary is the fact that I have two more rolls I have yet to develop, because I've been a bit lazy and cheap to take the two proper black and white shots to a place that can develop them and scan to cd (I don't do prints).

Maybe now that I know people can view these images, I'll be bugged enough about their ordering/lack of captions that I'll slowly chip away at organizing everything. I'm sure it will eventually happen, but I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you.

Still, I hope you enjoy the images. Hawaii is too photogenic for words.

Today's Moment of Zen

Today's been a rather stressful day, and tomorrow's not going to get any easier. But as soon as I left work, things were just going my way, or at least the littlest things are making me happy.

I stopped by the grocery store to buy some water and replace a bag of chips I polished off that Nat had bought, and as an impluse (and I was hungry and crav-y, bought another bag of chips. Upon checkout, I told the gal I didn't want a bag, and she told me that I should have been there sooner, because they were giving away canvas bags all day but just ran out. I thought that was cute. She then told me that the reason they were doing it was because they were going to stop using plastic bags in about a month! Wow! Now, not to diss my area, but I really didn't think my neighborhood would adopt such a thing right away, and the city hasn't even passed or enforced such legislation!

But today's moment of zen is this Free Craigslist ad I ran into:



It got a "best of Craigslist" flag.

I am completely enamored by the fact this little girl has a birthday party that seemed to go real well, and instead of keeping her special balloon with all her favorite princesses on it, she wants to give it away for another little girl to enjoy. Just as endearing, if not more is the fact that her parent(s) actually went about to actually seek out another little girl to have her turn in enjoying the balloon. I can see so many parents not want to go through the hassle to acquiesce to their daughter's request and deflate the thing and toss it in the trash, but I could imagine that any little girl who is as giving as this girl is, must have picked it up somewhere, right?

I hope (and am pretty sure) I am wrong when I say it's hard to find people like that. It really gets you "right 'ere" and the black-hearted cynic in you just dies for the day.

Of course I know that this kind of generosity in this world is extinct, after all, there's whole websites devoted to giving.

Speaking of, I need to get caught up with this challenge...

BEST THING IN THE WORLD (Today's Moment of Zen, Part II)

KITTY! (taken from itty bitty kitty committee)

This is ultimate 'splode from cute if I've ever seen it.

It looks like a tortie, and she's so cute! Look at the little kitty fur on her nose! High contrast whiskers!!! TEENY PAWS!!! I love tiny kitten ears that look like sea lion ear flaps! Her eyes aren't even open and she still has her umbilical cord!

What endears this image to me more than anything is the fact that this is pretty much the age that we found Mia, complete with umbilical cord and complete blindness. She was all squealy and once squealed herself raspy when we didn't feed her in time (we ran out of kitty formula), and despite all that, she wound up surviving our rearing and is now the sassy bag o' donuts she is today.

I honestly do not see how people cannot like kitties. They must have hearts of stone.

Today's Moment of Zen

Just when I thought I've seen the cutest kitty vids, I'm shown even cuter ones:

If you don't think this is cute, well then YOU HAVE NO SOUL.

Sound is not necessary, but if you listen closely, it just makes the video even more endearing.

All You Need is Love

From kitty cats.

Going home to see my babies is exactly what I needed.

Sure, I get to see other cats in between, and I even work with one, but Mia and Arlo are my babies. Not only that, they're even more affectionate than ever. It's always the best when even Mia wants to lay down on my tumms or rest her chin on my leg. And of course, there's my boy-boy who spent a good part of the day outside, so he was still sleepy when I arrived, but as soon as he woke up, he walks to the living room, hops on the couch, and just cuddles right on my chest.

Then I just 'splode from cute.

Even though it's not necessarily a good thing, but it's adorable how chubby Mia's become, and how even tinier her head looks now, and I just love watching Arlo gets picked up and just stays still, or even better, when he finds a perch on a box near the hallway, and whenever someone passes by, he'd take a cute and playful swipe at you.

If you'll excuse me, I think someone wants a cuddles.


This was seriously one of the best moments of my life.

Today's Moment of Zen

I have a feeling today won't be so bad. I've been invited to attend the board meeting for my work today, and I feel very honored that my boss would like me to be involved with that. Then again, we're having lots of problems with our board.

Either way, one can never have enough of cute kitty vids, particularly when it's of kitties eating things they otherwise wouldn't:

Makes me want one now.

Yes, I mean the lollipop and the kitty.

Thanks to Greg for this video.