Thanks Hil, Insent to profile.

We definitely need Fay pictures.

Thanks for all the Tilda praise! I think I look ghastly in the unconscious picture, but I couldn't delete it because she looked so beautiful and the sight of her hand on my face just broke me.

She's six months old tomorrow. I keep boggling. Look how wee and fragile she was!

hey all sending out lots of health ma~~

today was a tad exciting. We took the cat to the Emergency vet. He started limping on Saturday - and it got worse. so we took him in early this morning. Of course as he turns from affectionate ( if slightly unpredictable) lovebug to tiger - he stops limping. The vet gave us some pain med that might help ( if he sprained something , which is one possibility) but decided not to put him under , because our vet has some x-rays of his shoulders ( which have a bit of arthritis). I still have no idea if he sprained something, it is his arthritis, or an ingrown dew claw. ( no dopey drugs at home , so we can't clip his claws). meanwhile , he started limping again when we got home. But he is happy, hungry and curious.

We did have breakfast/brunch at the scharffenberger chocolate factory restaurant and wander around Berkeley for much of the rest of the day. WE just had pizza here. My sister K was here for a quick stop - she is stationed in Japan and was in Va for a week. She stopped in CA to visit before going back to Japan. Percy was originally her cat. He doesn't actually seem to remember her, but somehow he does seem to know she is his friend.

Hee. I HAVE pictures, but the only pictures I have at the moment are the ones on my phone. However, I may possibly be able to make more pictures happen today, as I'm photographing the kids like billy-o for our yearbook, and thus have the digital camera signed out...

Yay for geeky parents! Not that I have them myself, but yay for them anyway. (My parents came to see 'Fellowship of the Ring' with me because they thought they would finally have some idea what I'd been obsessed about when I was nine. They fell asleep. My Dad kept remarking on how clever the special effects were. They were utterly bemused by the fact that it made me cry.)

And, JZ, you are an equal part of the gorgeousness of the Unconscious picture. Which I appreciate you may think is BS, but is in fact entirely the case. It is an adorable picture. A. Dor. Able.

I totally skimmed, but I caught that Andi asked how cat medicating was going, and it's going much much better. It's still not exactly easy, and he runs away when we give him a squirt of liquid, but since this requires much less manhandling of him, he doesn't stay hidden in a corner of the house, wondering why the humans are assaulting him.

Courtesy of Deb Grabien:

Knut the Polar Bear Cub

Oh my god! I must have a polar bear cub of my very own right now! Thanks for that Daniel! Of course I'll never get that song out of my head ever.

Of course I'll never get that song out of my head ever.

This is me. It's horribly invasive of one's brainspace

It would probably make me attempt to remove my brain using the marble coffee table if it didn't come along with the visual.

My parents came to see 'Fellowship of the Ring' with me because they thought they would finally have some idea what I'd been obsessed about when I was nine. They fell asleep.

Heh. I went to see it with my dad. When we got back home, my mom had just finished wrapping some presents and there were some empty wrapping-paper rolls, and we had a sword fight with them. (My mom rolled her eyes at us and told us to clean up when we were done. My sister rolled her eyes at us and reminded us that we weren't eight years old.)