They are about 5 months old...so tween kittehs?
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
askye - Mar 16, 2009 2:02:00 pm PDT #3785 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Scrappy - Mar 16, 2009 2:05:13 pm PDT #3786 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Don't play fight games with your hands, even though it's fun. Hands are for petting and nuzzling only. Use laser pointers or feathers for attack play from the very beginning. When they bite you (and they will) get used to instantly and LOUDLY saying OW! right in their ear. It has worked with all kittens I have raised to get them to stop biting hands or the dreaded undercover footbite in the middle of the night.
Also hold them on your lap often and make them stay there a bit longer than they want, if either of them is shy. If they haven't been socialized well, it takes a while to make them see how nice lap-sitting can be.
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2009 2:08:25 pm PDT #3787 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Five month olds seem to be so cute! Comcast OnDemand has a "Pet Adoption" section featuring cats from the Chicago city shelter, and they have two adorable five-month-old boys right now that I would love to get. The woman doing the presenting said that Henry was the friendliest cat they'd ever had there, and just as she said it, he jumped up and tried to wrap his front paws around her neck and she just had to pick him up and snuggle him! And then there was Horton, who was going wild in sheer bliss over her rubbing his tummy--he kept wriggling around and flopping over, pleading for more. So damn adorable!
billytea - Mar 16, 2009 2:29:33 pm PDT #3788 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Elsie just died. I'm not quite sure how we get from here to the next 20 books, but she was so upset about being sent to the convent school that she feel into a fever, and has been hallucinating for the past 20 pages or so, while her father prays that Jesus might take mercy on a sinner like him and bring his daughter back, but the doctor just declared her dead.
She was killed by the mere threat of Catholicism? That is quite simply awesome. Is the Pope also able to make people's brains explode just by looking at them? I mean, obviously the current Pope can, if the Star Wars movies are anything to go by, but I didn't realise they'd got the death ray already working by the 19th century.
Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2009 2:37:06 pm PDT #3789 of 30000
brillig
Don't play fight games with your hands, even though it's fun.
Yeah, tell that to Hubby. He tends to laugh and say Ow at the time, so that ruins everything.
sj - Mar 16, 2009 2:51:28 pm PDT #3790 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
After the conversation in here today, I should probably feel guilty about eating girl scout cookies, but I don't.
Stephanie - Mar 16, 2009 2:54:04 pm PDT #3791 of 30000
Trust my rage
The HFCS in Yoplait makes me sad as it is my favorite yogurt. I think there is a type of Yoplait without it but it doesn't taste as good.
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2009 3:00:05 pm PDT #3792 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
After the conversation in here today, I should probably feel guilty about eating girl scout cookies, but I don't.
I simply don't believe anyone should feel guilty about eating anything. Life is too short. If you want to eat organic, free-range, locally grown everything and eschew processed foods, HFCS, and hydrogenated oils, then rock on. But if, in the middle of that eating plan, you get mugged by a box of Thin Mints, there's no useful good in feeling guilty about it.
askye - Mar 16, 2009 3:05:34 pm PDT #3793 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I have pictures!
Nalu
I'm thinking of changing Nalu's name to Dean. He kinda has a Dean Winchester vibe to him.
I'm not sure of Maddie, I kinda like the name and couldn't think of anything fannish to change it to.
beth b - Mar 16, 2009 3:07:14 pm PDT #3794 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I agree with Steph...NO GUILT! Seriously, that is part of the problem with food -- guilt makes people eat really weird.
I don't want choice taken away -- I just want it easier to make choices
And I love to eat. So I want to sit and enjoy my food. I will never buy that food is just fuel.