You probably already know not to play with the cat with your bare hands, but when you went shopping, did you see all those "kitten mitten" glove thingies with extended fingers?
I got some of these to play with my grown cats. Scared them shitless. They love most cat toys: feathers on the end of a fishing pole-like thing, feathers on the end of a bendy stick, pretty much anything with feathers. The glove thing caused one to run and hide and the other to back off slowly while in the classic cat arch, hissing and looking panicky from side to side.
It seems likely that most cats love these, since they're quite popular at the store, so I mention this not to refute Andi, but rather to say Ycat's-cat-toy-loveMV.
peanut butter toast:
I forgot my original reason for posting!
Happy Birthday, Suzi!!! May it be your best birthday yet, and the start of a wonderful year.
Wait, why aren't you supposed to play with kittens with bare hands?
Nora, if you don't want to talk finances with them, maybe tell them you gave up eating out for Lent?
Or just "Oh, I'm really sorry, that's not going to work for us, but maybe you can come by for drinks and dessert?"
why aren't you supposed to play with kittens with bare hands?
I think on account of the scratching. I have a pair of work gloves that do nicely but dangly toys on the fingers sounds way fun.
Nora, if you don't want to talk finances with them, maybe tell them you gave up eating out for Lent?
I read this as "gave up eating for Lent". I laughed out loud before I re-read and realized it was actually a good idea.
"I gave up spending money on eating out for Lent" might get you an invitation for them to pay your way....
I just stumbled across a birthday present for Suzi
an Italian folk metal band doing a duet with Christopher Lee ( opera )
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it is just beautiful, in the most bombastic way
Yikes KT, thats crazy. Its things like this that make me hesitant to set up auto-pay in Bill Pay. I do it all manual. Yes, I am paranoid.
Omnis, I'm sorry you're stuck at work today. Are you in the middle of tech still?
Yes. Both stages are in tech. Thankfully Mark is handling the one stage with minor annoyances from the designer as I play tech support for his equipment.
The fun is teching this stage. Poor SonusExM is getting pummeled by the director. I just wanna call Wonder Woman to put some invisible shield for him. Alas, she doesn't exist, nor does her shield. So poor SonExMach is getting bombarded. Not fun for me, but especially so for him. Oy.
If I close my eyes, can it be Sunday around 9pm? Cuz then I'm in time off. It's only through tuesday morning, but still. I need to get away.
Omnis, if it had been auto-pay, I would have been fine. It was a paper check they processed twice.
The reason I didn't use bare hands with wee kitties was to avoid teaching them that hands are toys to be pounced on, fwiw.
