Corbie is sitting at my feet. Heidi is next to him. Heidi is purring loud enough to rival Val (otherwise known as sonic boom under water cricket) simply because she is next to her best friend. Life is good.

Just came out of the laundry room to catch Miss Heidi kissing her reflection on the dishwasher door. She jumped when she saw me and looked all sorts of embarrassed. I'm not sure I can survive this one.

Started out yesterday. WHen I returned from my Poseidon walk (more on that later) I ventured out back with the dog. Still dressed all pretty mind you, in my nice long blue skirt. What do my ears hear? A plaintEive "mew? mew?" in a voice I only hear at the vets. That is, Miss Val, mewing as she hardly ever mews. (She's one of our smoke-and-gin ( Read more... )

As the subject suggests, the vet visit yesterday didn't go *nearly* as well as the previous ones ( Read more... )

I'm currently waiting for the relocubes to be dropped off. Anywhere between 8 and 12, and I'm actually hoping for a wee bit later, so that maybe some of the cars along the streets by our house will go away. We have room in the back of the house for one, but I really wanted the second one to be dropped off on the side of our house, where the door ( Read more... )

No, for real ( Read more... )

Laure brought home a bottle of Ryan's Irish Cream (because I just don't *like* Bailey's, which is fine since Ryan's is way more affordable, the way we go through it) and tonight we will get tooted. Have been driving myself sick all day, plotting the ways I would take care of people who would try to do that with one of my animals. We will snuggle ( Read more... )

Asking for thoughts and healing prayers and such ( Read more... )

1) Wake up ( Read more... )

You know you've grown up when, in the third week of January, it finally snows, and your response is not "YAY SNOW!!" but rather, "er, dammit." You can blame it on a good many different things: for me, it makes my hand, and nearly all my joints ache, it flares my back up, it house-bounds my dog, and I don't want the outside cats to have to deal with ( Read more... )