Do you have a popper by any chance?

No, ma'am. I use a saucepan. I coat the bottom with a thin layer of high heat oil. I put in three kernels and apply high heat until they pop.

Then I add more popcorn and shake vigorously.

It all pops in a hurry.

I dump it into a bowl.

I put butter into the saucepan until it melts and pour it over the bowl of popcorn.

Then I pour half the popcorn back into the saucepan and salt both the popcorn in the pan and in the bowl.

Then I pour the saucepan popcorn back into the bowl and salt it some more.

Buttery and salty and popcorny. Ta da!

I'm definitely a dog person who somehow has two cats.

Heh. I've had a cat for a year now. She's a family cat - was my sister's, then my father's, now, apparently, mine. I'm not even quite sure why - he and my sister decided she should come live here and I guess I didn't really have a reason why not.

I've known her all her life (I picked her out as a kitten at the HS) and I do love her. It's nice (mostly) to have a warm body curled up at night, and I sure don't have that on any regular basis from human types. So I'm glad in a way to have her around. But man, I am so not a cat person. I did fully not realize that before.

Do they need food, cleaning up after, or attention? Also, are there bodily fluids or any sort of odour involved?

Maybe I'm just not an indoor cat person. None of our cats were - Gracie wasn't until she came here, when she's like 17. The constant attention and god, the litter, were never an issue before now.

But man, I am so not a cat person. I did fully not realize that before.

Heh. It's funny, because they're a lot easier than dogs in a lot of ways -- no barking, and mine either use the litter or happily go outside, and they're happy with dry food and water, and don't beg at the table. And they are loves, and very sweet, often pretty funny, and I love to take pictures of them, but ... they don't come when I call. I can't imagine trying to take them for a walk, unlike Loki.

Very different species. I'm missing the wagging tail and the welcome home and even the slobbery kisses.

I like outside pets with thriving social lives. I'm not ready for a committed relationship.

I never understood people who insist they are cat people because dogs are so needy. Our cat would come inside and sit with us or on us. Our dogs...would come to us for food or if they wanted something to hump. Difference is, we could find the dogs when we wanted to play. Who the hell knows what the cat got up to in her spare time.

Do they need food, cleaning up after, or attention? Also, are there bodily fluids or any sort of odour involved?

HAHAHAHAHAHA. Is this why you didn't borrow Noah for pictures in cranberry delicto?

Also, Grace has double ear infections. Sigh. No wonder she had a fever.

The cats sleep about seventeen hours a day on our bed/the sofa/the kids' bed, and then have noisy, thumping all over the place cat wars when we're ready to go to sleep, and/or come sleep on our feet.

Hey, does anyone here watch Nikita on the CW? I ask because (minor non-plot related spoiler) I wrote an episode of it that airs this Thursday. HA!

Who the hell knows what the cat got up to in her spare time.

See, this is the indoor cat problem. I always know where she is because 90% of time she's all up in my face. And the dog knows various "go away" or "no" signals. The cat could give a shit about that, she wants what she wants, whether it's my food or my lap.

And again, I cannot say how much I hate the litter thing. Hate.

Outdoors are different. A cat who can head out and go about their business (and their business) is a whole 'nother thing.

Is this why you didn't borrow Noah for pictures in cranberry delicto?

ISTG, they can be so cute until the cleaning has to start. I can't even imagine full time.

Poor Grace!

Kristen, unwhitefont that. It's totally not a spoiler. It's great news.