Category Archives: Cats
Friday cat blogging.
That little tuft of fur behind Kari-cat's left ear? Love. It has always been there.
Friday cat blogging: Photo Booth edition.
Kari-cat looks at me adoringly...
...and Perl loves me.
A few days later, Kari-cat went for the "attack".
Perl couldn't care less about anything when she's sleeping.
Friday cat blogging.
Last night, I fell asleep on the couch for over 30 minutes. When I woke up, both Perl and Kari-cat were nested upon me. It brought me back several years, to this:
Nepenthe and Karelia nested upon Rachel c. 1999
(Oh, Neppie girl, miss you so very much one week after saying goodbye.)
The dog days are over.
I stopped believing in making New Year’s resolutions awhile back.
Hopes and dreams and intentions are ever present at the beginning of each year, sure. Especially as I begin 2012.
Resolution? Something about that word holds me back, creating a feeling of setting myself up for failure.
A few things would please me:
- Reading another 40 books this year like I did in 2011. (It might be more difficult, I picked some long and wordy classics to tackle this year.)
- Playing fantasy football next season. (People tell me I might be good at this based on weekly picks and constant Twitter commentary during the season.)
- Completing a Flickr 365 (wait, leap year!, 366) project. (Bought that DSLR last May and have not taken nearly enough photos with it.)
- Maintaining weight and A1C at a level that makes me (and my endocrinologist) happy. This entails more exercise and more carb counting than I did in the last couple months of 2011, but not a huge undertaking.
Most of all, though, I want to acknowledge that happiness is finding its way to me. Yeah, 2011 ended sadly for me after an uplift felt throughout December. It is, however, so difficult to look longingly at the stuff that sucks when there is so much promise for the good stuff to find me this year.
RIP, Nepenthe.
There’s a poem waiting to be written, but for now, there’s just this.
Nepenthe (a.k.a. Neppie Butt, the Nepinator, Neppie the Clothes Slayer, Eternal Kitten)
July 6, 1997 – December 30, 2011
Sunday cat blogging.
Sometimes the Kari-cat just looks so old and worn…
…but I’m grateful for the moments she still runs around like a maniac, even if they happen less and less often.
