The overseas catslaves cards made it into the mailbox this morning so
they're on their way... I realise they'll probably get to their
destinations some time in January, but better late than never! I had
JUST enough stamps left in my drawer to get them all in the mail.

regrettheerror.com daily publishes the corrections and apologies of
newspapers around the world, and it's time for their year-end awards:
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/12/crunks_06_the_y.html
Don't miss the part about Queen Elizabeth laying 2000 eggs.  :-)

I'm nothing if not resourceful. Thinking of possible ways to help pay the
dentist because in addition to what I've already paid for, I need one more
extraction plus either two gold crowns or one crown and one root canal, or
two extractions (three total) and a gold crown. In any ...

I have to put a sign up in our break room at work asking the cleaning crew
(who speak no English) to not open the dish washer or turn off the
dishwasher switch.  Can you tell me if this is a fair translation (I used
the babelfish web site to get this)?

Inspired by the Catmas Tree -
http://www.felinediabetes.com/phorum5/read.php?7,535741,535741#msg-535741
Oh catmas tree, oh catmas tree
your branches green they tempt us

My MIL took the kids so that Fred and I could have dinner and go to a
concert last night.  Yeah!
I visited the cheese monger and got some gourmet cheese, crackers, and a
sour cherry lemon compote that was spectacular with the goat cheese.  Yum.

Well, I've got another one for the collection - not the best one yet but not
bad ...  http://tinyurl.com/y9am59
I made them wait while I went to get the camera and they weren't too happy
with me!

I've been participating on this ng since 1999, and yet I don't feel
that there is anyone here who likes me very much, or values my
contributions. I don't know why that would be, though - I'm a
genuine cat-lover, I respond to other people's posts, I have a good

thought I better introduce ourselves as I seem to not be able to return to
lurk mode.
I live with DH and six cats in a very small town of about two hundred.  I
need to say up front that I don't always get things posted correctly due to

In the last couple of weeks Snoopy has decided to sleep on my pillow, it's
funny hearing her purrs through the air and through the pillow, it's like
she's purring in surround sound. :-)

Well, all holiday cards are mailed.  I don't know if the overseas ones
will arrive in time or not, but if not, my abject apologies.  RL has
been kicking my butt these days....
Oh yes, the cats insisted that I let everyone know that it was NOT

Normally when i sleep, I'll have Mayhem curled up on one of my pillows
and Mischief curled up at the corner of the bed at my feet.
Well now IMP has decided that I'm not a scary human anymore and in
order to get pettins and scritchins he has to jump ON the bed.  So he's

Just now, Miranda was meatloafing on the desk beside the computer.
Suddenly, she fell over (I think she fell asleep). She immediately
righted herself again. Now her ears are clearly saying, 'I didn't mean
to do that but I hope you will *think* I meant to do it. And stop

Cat owning image gets makeover:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2070205.ece
I love this line:
"There used to be this stereotype of the post-menopausal spinster of this

Today when I came home from work, there were seven cards waiting for me!
Next to sending out cards, receiving them is the most fun! I've had a
total of 14 now, and only one from a non-rpca person.
All scritches and cuddles sent to the cats have been duly distributed.