beth, how awful! I hope she's ok.

Beth, all kinds of ~ma going out to her. I hope she's safe.

Jilli playing with her mini-me doll is awesome. Cash getting excited over a cami is equally as awesome. Both are very smile inducing.

Ashton cat has been sleeping in our bedroom since he got sick but I think DH is over it now. Ash *is* doing much better... Enough to return to his habit of being very chatty if we're asleep and he wants attention or food or whatever. I don't mind it that much because when I had my place my furry roomies were almost always allowed in my room, but Mike has always had a closed-off bedroom policy with his cats. Which I understand, for the most part, so I let his ruling stand, but I will miss falling asleep to the sound of a purring kitty.

Tons and tons of found-and-home-and-safe~ma to your volunteer, beth, and at least as much ~ma to her parents. How terrifying.

Skippy McSkipperPants here. About 600 posts missed and the last 100 or so skimmed. Hate doing that! And yet.

Safe and sound ~ma for the teen.

Skimmed too few of the Christmas tales. What I saw sounded good. I hope family gatherings were drama free and fun.

We had lovely gatherings here and at my parents. Presents were just the right things. Food was scrumptious. The worst was the mushroom barley soup that was just plain bland; the best was the very well received homemade Irish Cream and Kahlua mix. Yum. The broccoli cheese casserole was mighty awesome too. Alas, MIL decided to pour water in the pan when we clearly could have scraped out another cup or two.

Yesterday was all about resting. Today I am working like mad to prepare for departure early Tuesday to snow country.

There is much more, but again with the working like mad part.

~ma and hugs and such all round.

Also, baby! Well done, GC.

Beth, I hope she's okay. That's so scary.

One of my sister's cats was recently diagnosed with diabetes, so my sister is adjusting to giving her twice daily shots. She seems to be doing okay except she's nowhere near as chatty as she used to be.

Speaking of noisy cats, KBD's cat has taken to hissing at me, but only when I'm up and moving. It's like she's scared I'm going to kick her or something. When I'm still she sucks up to me and wants me to pet her. This is new in the last month or so. Any insights?

I'm introducing KBD to Life on Mars UK. Jury still out.

DH and his bro are working on organizing the garage today. Me, I did my time yesterday while they hung out by doing all the laundry and dishes and general clean up after our house full of guests, so I'm going to see "A Single Man." I never go to movies by myself anymore, so I am really looking forward to it.

If he doesn't like it, there might be something wrong with him. But then, I actually liked the American version too, once it stopped nudging us.

I don't think I actually typed out the YAY GC AND FAMILY! I really need that upgrade where my thoughts are sent to the board. Not all of them, but some of them, which makes it tricky.

I wish I had some advice, smonster. I call Mike's two cats Sketchy and Psycho (when I'm not calling them Poop-butt and Puker). One only likes me when Mike isn't home and the other one hisses at me every third or fourth time I see him. It's usually when I'm walking around and he thinks I've snuck up on him or he feels cornered. We've used the pheromone plug-ins and the Kitty Calm liquid with minimal results, but they might be worth a try.

oops, i left my little cat locked in his feeding cage (long story, but he eats in a kennel) ALL NIGHT LONG. Poor little guy, he had to poop and tried to squeeze the poop out the grated door but that just didn't work very well. I was all frantic this morning trying to console him and clean up the mess while still getting to work on time in my hobble-boot. *sigh* praise be for him being on prozac, as he was quite chill about the whole situation (obviously, since he didn't cry loud enough to wake me up even though his kennel is on the other side of my bedroom wall.) and hopefully won't hold this as a grudge against me. Especially upsetting since he was totally experimenting with lap-cat behaviour last night, and i've been trying to coax him into lap-cat for years now, and i really hope he won't associate that with getting locked up all night.

smonster- does the behaviour change based on what shoes you are wearing (or not?) there seems to be a dissasociation btwn seated you and walking you....has anyone been kicking the cat recently? Ok, that sounds awful, but maybe if it's an indoor/outdoor cat? And i'm all for the feliway diffusers. I see such a change in attitude (yowling, anxiety, aggitation) when mine run dry.