Okay.  The main ringtone on my cellphone used to be the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme, not from any great love of the film (I've only seen it once) but because the Doctor Who theme wasn't available until recently and that was about the only sci-fi-themed ringtone I could put up with.  I use my cellphone as an alarm just about every day, ( Read more... )

I really need to start keeping my camera by my chair.  Because they just moved, but a moment ago I had one cat each curled up with heads resting in almost exactly the same attitude on my feet.  One cat to each foot.

Yeah, they're related all right. 

I dreamed last night about a friend, someone who drifted away a few years ago.  In my dreams, he'd come back, and we were trying to pick up the friendship where we'd left off.

Words
Burning before me

It was always an odd one, in part because of distance and in part because of cultural differences.  We had some grand old times chatting, though, ( Read more... )

With the wind howling outside, Sneakers has been whapping at the glass of the window trying to catch the leaves flying past.  *sigh*  As Warrick might say, sharp as a marble.  She was doing the same thing with snowflakes recently ( Read more... )

Let me just say that there's nothing quite like starting the morning by stepping on a mouse haunch.  >.<

Why, oh, why, if my cats gobble down half a can each at every meal and then beg for crunchies, why can they not finish a whole mouse?  It's not like they were saving it for later, either, not if they just left it on the bathroom floor.  *sigh ( Read more... )