Welcome Baby Oren

Gelsey and Lezley celebrated the New Year with their new puppy, Prince Oren.


Happy New Year!

Epiphany around the WWW

Three Kings Day Traditions
Three Kings Day Parade
The Season of Epiphany
Twelve Days of Christmas
and
King Cake

For Sale: AstroWorld

The rides at Six Flags AstroWorld have stopped spinning, but it's not to late to have a piece of it for your very own.
The Auction lasts 3 days with rides and memorabilia being sold on Sunday.
I wonder if this would fit in my back yard?

Eyes Wide Open

It's so hard to get a good picture of Rafe.
He nearly always anticipates the flash
and closes his pretty blue eyes.



After many tries---I got him, eyes open--- even if
he was a little annoyed by then.


See all the pampered pets at the Friday Ark
and Don't miss the Carnival of Cats every Sunday
hosted this week at Pages Turned.

Dancing with the Stars

ABCs Dancing with the Stars makes its return tonight.
I saw Tatum O'neal and George Hamilton interview a couple of times yesterday.
George at age 70 looks darn amazing and Tatum was her usual snotty self and appeared to wish she was anywhere except promoting the show.
I wonder if she knows she sucks and is just trying to get this over with.
A couple of the dancers are keeping a blog on the official site.
There is only one sugary entry each, pretty boring.

The Bachelor in Paris

ABC is giving away a trip to Paris their new Rose Ceremony Game.
Aside from the main prize, 10 random players each week will be chosen for a weekly prize of a $1300 goodie bag.
I just looked at the list and made some random choices.
There are several Sarahs, a Venus and, even a Princess to consider.
Official rules are here.
Don't forget the first episode is Monday January 9th.

It's here!

Our cat bed , coatrack, I mean "Total Gym" has arrived and passed through KittyCustoms.
Soon Hubby and I will look like Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley.
I'm thinking just putting the damn thing together will be quite the workout.

Orange Cat Stolen

A kitty was stolen at gunpoint from a Dallas PetCo Yesterday.


Rhett says:
I sleep with one eye open

New Stamps

Long 'o line at the Post Office yesterday.
I had to mail a package and it seems everyone on Galveston Island needed to buy a book of the new 39 cent stamps in anticipation of the rate increase Jan. 8th. I was annoyed that the line is tied up with this and thinking some of those people could at least have purchased them from the vending machine.
Then I see there are only 37 cent stamps in there, no 39's and no 2's eithor. Oh.

Spaghetti around the WWW

Spaghetti Day

Spaghetti Warehouse

Chicken Spaghetti

Flying Spaghetti

Spaghetti Monster
and
Spaghetti Harvest

Elmo Says

"Who Wants to Die?"

Silly Kitty

Rhett is 18 months now, but still plays like a babycat,
then conks out with his toys.

Fifteen pounds

I've gained 15 pounds since my store closed in July.
There I said it.
Clearly sitting on my butt does not expend as many calories as managing a busy retail store.
I can't fit in my work clothes.
I can't fit into my favorite jeans eithor.
I guess I don't have to look too far for my New Years resoulution, do I?

Job hunt begins

I have a lot of choices and I'm trying to do some research before I start interviewing.
When I was in school a lot of people said they "knew" a broker that would sponsor me but I just looked outside my door and there is no line of Texas Real Estate Brokers out there waiting to train me and put me to work. I know, that would be too easy....:)

Fog and Little Cat Feet

I love the way a sleepy fog hangs over the bayou in the morning and grabbed my camera when I took my walk



I heard a little mew from under a hibiscus bush
"Here kittykitty"



She let me scratch her ears and even posed for a pic before moving
on about her day



She reminded me of one of my favorite poems:

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg



The Carnival of Cats is now up and running for
your kitty viewing pleasure

Hangover cures around the WWW

Hair of the Dog?

Drink water?

Take Cysteine?
Drink this first?

and
too bad for you There is none...Next time just say NO!

First Post of 2006

Christmas Palm

I did not want to pack up my Palm tree so I moved it to the upstairs deck.
I think it looks rather festive up there.

Sushi for Breakfast

(Click for full size)

New Years Eve around the WWW

New Years Countdown

New Years Drinks

New Years Times Square Cam

New Years Sydney

New Years Safely
and
New Years Resolutions

Kitty Photo Shoot

Sometimes I get asked why there are always more pics of Rhett than Rafe
This is why.

All I wanted to do was get a picture of the 2 of them for a New Years greeting.

Rhett sees the camera and gets right to work with an adorable pose.
Rafe starts rolling around


Rhett still posing, Rafe rolls out of the shot


Rhett continues to look cute and Rafe will not look at the camera


Rhett getting bored with this now and Rafe won't open his eyes


Rhett gives up on looking cute and attacks his brother


See lots of photogenic KittyCats at Sunday's Carnival of Cats hosted this week at Elms in the Yard

How come....

this shit never fits back in the boxes?

I'm so blonde

I am making panels for the living room windows.
They are coming along nicely except for when I went to put the first one up I see I have sewn shut where you stick the rod in on every single panel...duh.

Dreaming in the Past Tense

Last night I had a very vivid dream that I ran in to an old friend from High School.
We were so happy to see each other and sat down to chat.
It didn't even seem strange that Barbara has been dead since 1995.
Dreams are funny that way.

Reunited

Rhett couldn't bear to see me packing away Grumpy Santa so I guess it will be a permanent fixture on the futon Boyz Bed.





Rhett says: MINE!

See more spoiled pets at the Friday Ark

Shopping: Not a bargain

I was online shopping this morning and saw this site advertising Louis Vuitton bags starting at $9.99 and 97% off retail.
Well, doesn't that just sound too good to be true.
Of course, these are not Louis Vuitton they are knockoffs and not very good ones.
The site has a lot of "compare too" and "retail value" verbiage to make it look like you are getting a bargain.
Whatever.

2006 Horoscopes around the WWW

Your Chinese/fung shui horoscope

Your love and romance horoscope

Your career horoscope

Your New Age horoscope
and
Your weird horoscope

Poor Rhett

I'm trying to put away Christmas and Rhett is so unhappy with me



His beloved Grumpy Santa is in this box



Maybe I should leave it out for him

On the Soap Box

Yesterday was trash day, but the garbage collectors had the day off and most of our neighbors have left all of their post holiday boxes and bags on the curb to not be picked up until Thursday, so tacky! The sad thing is that our neighborhood offers recycle bins for both paper and aluminum. Because of this, our household is only filling the local landfill with a bag or two a week. I hate it that more folks do not take advantage of these bins. Besides, do you really want the whole world to know that Santa brought you a shiny new big screen tv or a computer?

Post Christmas Pics

Our California Girls
(click for full size)

Gabbie and Lexie J.
More Pics

Mc Yucky

A woman is going around saying she lost 37 pounds by eating only at McDonalds for 3 months.
Bulemia anyone?

Kitty Resolutions

Laurence Simon is asking the cats to send in their New Years Resolutions.
What does your kitty say?

Some Post Christmas Pics

Our New Jersey Girls

Gelsey

Lezley

With cousin Emma

Hurry up Santa!

Google Doodles

Google always has a little fun with their logo for holidays and this week they did a kitty and mousie Christmas series.
Cute!

Meowy Catmus, Desi

Fur ME?


A new mousie!


Fangu Santa!


See Desi, The Boyz, and lots of other kitties at Watermark for the Christmas Carvival of Cats

Caroling around the WWW

Horseback caroling

Trolley caroling

Caroling Present

Caroling Past
and
Caroling Corner

Shopping: Total Gym 1700

So we wanted one of these.
We've Seen Chuck Norris's infomercial and thought that it would work nicely downstairs as a coat rack. A quick search on Google turned up oodles of them for around 350.00.
If you buy one from the official site however, they will be happy to accept a small trial fee followed by convienent billing of 16 payments of only 99.00.
OUCH!

Grumpy Santa's Christmas Countdown

Grumpy Santa Says:

"Ok, it's over. Can I go back in the closet now?"

Merry Christmas