I think this year sucks. Mega purrs to not feel down. Bad enough if you have
a reason but really bad if you can't think of what it is. Maybe not enough
sun?

Perking purrs sent your way. With bells on.

Purrs are on the way, pronto! I hope you feel PURRked up ASAP. ;o)

Donna, and the Cheer-Up Committee known as Captain and Stanley

Pamper yourself a bit.  I hate it when I'm bummed and don't know why; how am I
supposed to fix it?

Rolling out the purrs your way.

Theresa
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My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Ooooo many pick-up-your-spirits purrs coming your way! Maybe look out
the window at all the snow?  lol Will that help? ;)  

You've got perking up purrs and chirps on the way.

Jill

Once you get down there is only one way to go  -- UP.  Purrs that you will
find something to be cheerful about.   MLB

Hope you're feeling better by the time I type this!

-L.

Lots of perky purrs on the way. :)

Absolutely! Purrs coming.

Perky Purrs Posted Punctually :-).

Yowie

Lydia wrote:

Some people come to the newsgroup to cure the blues.  Sounds like you
need a cure for the "blahs".  That's OK, we do those too.  Blah-curing
purrs on the way from six kitties just for you!

Regards and Purrs,
O J

"Perk up" purrs on the way from Mistletoe and Smokey.  Scooter offers a
dollop of (little) doggie drool if that will help.
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

Of course, Lydia, all the purrs you need coming over. And a hug too.
{{{{Lydia}}}} Cuddle up with Jazz and smooch him and hug him (I don't
know how he'll like that though).

Could you be coming down with a cold?  That usually gives a "dumpy"
feeling.   MLB

Purrs!
--
Britta
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's
covered in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

Perk up purrs sent.
Suz

Purrs to cheer you up coming.  Just not seeing sun and having a long winter
can cause you to feel miserable, like it will never end.  But it will.  The
snowdrops have already been up here, and are starting to fade.  I just love
to see them every year, it gives me hope that spring is not far away.  I
also have some crocuses out, mauve ones, and some promising for the next few
days, maroon & yellow striped, white, yellow, and purple ones.  Some of them
are on my dog's graves for remembrance.
A very few daffodils are out in my little wood, and lots are in bud in the
garden nearer the house, in twelve weeks it will be May, which is my very
favourite month.
I love May because everything is growing.  I will have foxgloves and Honesty
blooming in my front border, all lovely shades of purple, lilac and white
and the poached egg plants will show their yellow and white faces but only
to the sun.  People passing by stop to admire.  I will have birds, blue &
great tits, and perhaps English robins using my nest boxes and I will hide
behind a tree a bit later, with my binoculars to watch the parents in and
out, feeding all hours of the day.  I love it and it will all be here in
just a few weeks time!!

Some of you will remember earlier in the year I had big trouble with my eyes
and had to have some operations, and it wasn't all that good result.  I had
a retinal bleed which took the total sight away in my right away eye a few
hours after the op.
It gradually dissipated, this blood, over a period of months and although my
sight will never be the same again, my optician has made me a pair of specs
that have me seeing the best I have for four years, since this all started.
Which is absolutely marvellous.  I can now read the time on a clock across
the room.  Wow!

Well, you might imagine that all this eye trouble would affect my
birdwatching.  It did.  It's not much good looking through a pair of
binoculars if one eye isn't much cop, as we say here, it just fudges the
other eye as well.
To go back to work, I needed an assessment for equipment that might help me.
I got it, and it's all great, I can earn a living again.

I had a letter from what used to be the "Society for the Blind" and now call
themselves Vista to be more PC, asking me to come in for a follow up
consultation.  So I did.   I said "oh, I had my last low vision assessment
at the hospital, and they said I could only have three things."  So the very
nice person said "what did you choose?" and I said I'd chosen a
light-gathering magnifier shaped like half a crystal ball, a hand magnifier,
and a magnifying ruler with a line in.  Just so I could go back to work, you
understand;-)  And I did need them but there was something else I really
wanted, which was demonstrated to me, I knew they had it, but it would have
been the 4th item.  A monocular.  Like a binocular, but for one eye.  I
coveted it, but couldn't have it.  Three items only.
When I went to Vista last week I had to take the aids I'd got and say if I
was using them.  I said I was and they'd enabled me to go back to work.  The
person said, well, is there anything else that might be useful to you?   I
said yes.  A monocular.  She asked me what I might use it for.  I wasn't
sure whether to tell the truth or not, that I wanted it to watch birds with.
So I said I needed it if I was walking around and needed to see a street
sign which was way up on a building.  Which I do, and they are!
Probably if I'd I come clean and said I wanted to watch birds with it, they
might have given it to me anyway but I thought they might not.
Anyway, I was not exactly not telling the truth.  I definitely would need it
for reading a street sign up on a building ;-)
It's coming in the post.  I promised if I didn't find it useful I would
return it - not much chance of that!

My eyes are now mended as much as they can be, and the specs I have do the
best they can.  I have had 5 eye ops now, and I don't want any more, so what
I have now, is what I've got.  I can still drive.  I can't sew.  The thread
is the same colour as the garment..

Tweed

perkpurrperkpurrperkpurr . . .

Ginger-lyn

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Soncek (Sunshine in English) sends his sunniest purrs and I send my best
wishes for you to start feeling much better really soon, Lydia,

Perk up purrs are coming your way!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Purrs and perking up thoughts and wishes from us all here.

Pam, Rob, and the Fayetteville Five + Calvin, Sonya, and Speedy the d-thing

Lots of purrs coming your way.

Peppy, perky purrs on the way

cheering up purrs coming to you from us.
Christine and Omar, Oreo, Midnight, Robin & Tucker