1. Draw hot bath, add bubbles. Bubbles are too old, don't foam. Eh, so what. Watch tuxedo cat watch water.
2. Turn on soft all-instrumental music to drown out neighborhood noises and funny sound of rattling plastic in bedroom.
3. Sit in bath.
4. Veg. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.
5. Have tuxedo cat sniff at you, stare at the water, try to eat your hair.
6. Snorgle tux cat.
7. Tux cat leaves.
8. Exfoliate with lavender-rosemary salt scrub.
9. Rinse.
10. Get sniffed at by tux cat again.
11. Pull plug, get out, dry off, turn off music. Ahhhhhh.
12. Blindly search bathroom and bedroom for glasses, swearing you left them RIGHT THERE.
13. Happen to look in middle of bedroom floor and see glasses, pick them up.
14. Remember earlier funny sound, notice new teef marks on earpieces.
15. Put on glasses, grumble at tux cat, write blog.

I haven't been posting much lately, have I? Well, the killer allergy attack last month kind of took my brains away for weeks and also meant I didn't do anything.

The process I usually do to upload kitty pix is temporarily unavailable :( so there are some new photos that have been saved for blog-sterity but I can't post them.

So here's a several months old and only mildly amusing video of TK. I hope it will tide us all over.

Yes, with all the special effects of a 60's Godzilla movie or an early Doctor Who episode, here's a giant kitty destroying Stonehenge.

Tux v. Stonehenge

And now the video, not for the easily disturbed:

Bowing to my superior knowledge of Cat (and more time to think about it), Mr. LT agrees that when TK typed the new emoticon, he was trying to describe the face HRT was making at him.

Thanks also to Auntie M for her rendition of Tattletale TK having the temerity to complain that HRT doesn't like being beaten up.

To illustrate (pls. note eyebrow and tongue):

Tortie tongue!

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Nope. Still mine.

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HRT-tongue

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[';p

Future appearances of TEH OFFISHUL TK EMOTICON are still almost guaranteed, though.

Two posts today -- I'm sure that doesn't assuage the appetite of ----------------->

Nablo7

Mr. LT came into the other room to tell me a story, and here are his notes:

"TK ambushed HRT, ran away, bounded off of Daddy's laptop, ran up the cat tree, looked back at HRT with ears flat and taunting expression.

He hit 4 keys simultaneously on the laptop and it produced"

[';p

which Mr. LT interprets as pretty much the expression TK had, namely, cat with ears flat, eyes half open, tongue sticking out.

I believe this should be the Official TK Emoticon. Techno-brat strikes again.

[';p

Several hours later: I just realized that in fact, when they're chasing around, HRT flattens her ears, growls and leaves her tongue stuck out at him. So maybe he was trying to communicate what she was doing to him?? "Daddy, tortie is [';p at meeeee!"

Thar be a gale comin' off Davy Jones' locker, blowin' a typhoon t'us!

(There's a very strong sea-breeze and it's probably going to rain a little tonight.)

This weather report brought to you by Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Arr

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This will be short as I am still very tired. Did not realize how long Pirates is, it didn't seem like it, but lo, our 9:30 show did let out at 12:30, which meant I didn't get to sleep till after 2. Then had to get up and have an overfull weekend of not nearly enough sleep (not in own bed), almost enough food (with enough bacon!), just enough booze, too much sugar and caffeine, and way way way too much fun with panels, shopping, discussions, readings, shopping, parties, talks with friends, chats with new and interesting people...

I am only awake right now b/c friends stopped by on their way out of town to pet HRT and TK. HRT was okay with it and submitted to snuggles and scritches, but TK was FREAKED with his eyes bugged out in that way he does so well b/c he is scared of all strangers and never saw a wheelchair before. I am eating and going back to bed. Expect kittehs will have a nap after all the excitement.

No chaoses completed AFAIK. Tortie still has all her fur and there were a few crunchies left. TK even wanted to be petted before he ate the gooshyfood! Him actually missed us being gone for soooo long (Sat. about 10:30 AM till Mon. about 7 PM).

Man, I am tired. But it was a lot of fun. I have a ton of new books to read and I can hardly decide which to tackle first.

See tags for details.

Reactive Maladaptive Motivation Disorder With Constipation (RMMDWC)

RMMDWC primarily involves explosive, emotional behavior and responses characterized by the aberrant inability to adjust to normal responses or behaviors while losing the will to do anything meaningful, exacerbated by an uncomfortable and unnatural inability to defecate.

Wait, I thought this was supposed to be a fake, randomly generated disease...

Mah washer's sprung a leak,
And half mah oven don't heat,
Mah cats woke me up afore dawn,
And mah mattress does sag.

I gots the suburban housewife bluuuuuuuuuuues...

Since I often talk about tuxedo cats, the Google ads at the bottom of the page for me are always about formal wear.

And since I call my tortie HRT, I get ads for "hormone replacement therapy".

Evidently b/c of this blog, Google thinks I'm a menopausal woman who cross-dresses in men's dinner jackets!