I've had my LG-VX5200 for about 4 years and the time has come to replace it: the replacement battery has now started to die. I've spent a good bit of time today sending pix messages from my phone to my email address and thought some of you might enjoy seeing these.

Snowcrash kissing Sugar, moments before she whacked him:

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One year ago today was Sugar's last day. Earlier that morning, she had finally pooped after days of being unable to. We spent the entire morning cuddling, her eagerly letting me pet her stomach since she was feeling so much better. And as I was petting her, her fur was accumulating around my fingers. I thought, "I can't keep Sugar, but I can keep ( Read more... )

Preface: This is a bit hard to write. It's something I'm ashamed of, but I feel needs to be said in public.My skin picking addiction hasn't just hurt me. I also pick at my cats: the skin around their cuticles, their claws when they're peeling, their chins when they have zits or blackheads. What I am most ashamed of, however, is that I did this to ( Read more... )

I had a strange experience this morning. I had just entered the bathroom, having just left bed for the day, when I heard a very loud meow that sounded distinctly like Sugar. This was not a meow that any of our other 3 cats would have been capable of producing. Then logic kicked in; I realized it couldn't possibly have been Sugar; and that if any of ( Read more... )

The owner of these Siamese kittens has been posting pictures on siamesecats, and it's made me so happy. I have no pictures of Sugar as an itty-bitty kitten, but seeing these pictures and this video helps me remember Sugar as a kitten. And that makes me smile.

Aww, there are two Siamese kittens in Virginia: click here. One's named Spice (which Rob and I want to use for the name of our next Siamese) and one's named Sugar. I don't think I could ever have another Sugar, but how cute are they ( Read more... )

Kosette is not feeling well. She wouldn't get up this morning, even for food (which, for Kosette, is huge... she loves food). She eventually got up to take a big crap on our bathroom rug. I was hoping that would make her feel better, since she seemed constipated, but she's back to lying down now and not moving much. We're giving her an hour and if ( Read more... )

I was just cuddling with Kosette, trying to figure out how best to describe her in words, when the image of a cup overflowing came to mind. Further thoughts made it more specific: Kosette is like a large mug, maybe even a beer stein, overflowing with Tang. This is why she's so moody and can't tolerate affection for too long, because the Tang starts ( Read more... )

I seem to have forgotten how to sleep after Rob leaves for work. These last 5 days I've been waking up every half hour or less. I can't get comfortable in my own bed. It's like I've never slept in it before. I'm jittery and I don't know why. I haven't had any caffeine for a long, long time. I'm not really sure what's going on. I am wondering if it ( Read more... )

Just walked across the Oriental carpet in our main room, and stepped on two sticky spots. Instead of being instantly repulsed, like I normally would have been, I grinned and walked across them multiple times. Why? Because those spots were sticky because I gave Sugar her laxative on that carpet twice and couldn't clean it all when she, quite ( Read more... )