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So I've apparently created a monster with Mandy and Bean when it comes to electronics now. This was the scene last night when I sat down to use the laptop:

I kept trying to explain to them that it wasn't the iPad and there weren't any games they could play on the laptop. I don't think they believed me, though. :-) But hey, if it brings the two of them within six inches of each other without fighting I'm good with the occasional paw swatting at the arrow as it goes across the screen. *g*

It was a weekend full of kitty cat mischief. I don't know what got into Mandy and Bean on Saturday and Sunday, but it gave me plenty of photo opportunities!

I have finally figured out how to get the two of them right next to one another with no hissing, growling or fighting - break out the iPad! I was trying to play Angry Birds, but Mandy was having none of it. She kept whacking at the screen, trying to smoosh my Luke Skywalker bird. Grrr…. So I finally gave up and turned on one of her cat games where she tries to catch a mouse. Well the mouse squeaks when her paw hits it. After several squeaks it drew the attention of Bean, who hopped up right next to Mandy. I thought the fur was going to fly but they just sat there, side by side! Bean had never seen the iPad games before, so she watched Mandy for a long while before giving it a shot herself. She didn't do half bad! She likes the fish game the best. I was just amazed at how long they sat there next to each other!

Bean must have decided she loved all things technology after that as John discovered when he tried working on the desktop computer in the den:

She obviously didn't want ME to feel left out as she came downstairs a bit later and thought I'd apparently been watching TV long enough. See all the static on the screen? See where her little kitty paws are? Yep, the little stinker turned off the cable box on me! Right in the middle of Copper!

Cats and electronics - gotta love it!

Current Mood: amused

My friend

maguie pointed me in the direction of this video and after watching it I had to share it with all of you cat lovers on my flist. I laughed my butt off! This is SO Mandy. John and I cannot work on the computer (especially the laptop) without her wanting to "help". :-)

Enjoy!

Current Mood: silly

Last year on May 2nd I started Pet Appreciation Day, in honor of my cat, Chloe. She had her photo in the Cat Fancy calendar but sadly we lost her just days before. So I wanted to celebrate her life and Mandy's as well. And now we have little Bean. :-)

So like last year I hope you will all post pics here of your fur babies, the ones you have now and the ones you've lost. And tell me about them! Let's make this a fun day all about our four-footed "children". :-)

And I'll start it off! Here are Mandy and Bean, the little stinkers. Mandy is 14 years old now and Bean just turned 1 year old last month. They continually keep us on our toes and bring us joy every single day.

And now it's YOUR turn! Let me see those furry creatures of yours, be they cat, dog, hamster or fish!

It was one year ago today that we lost our beloved Chloe. It's still kind of hard to comprehend she's gone, even after all this time. We still feel her loss keenly and I've been holding back the tears today. But I try and console myself with the knowledge that she gave us 15 wonderful years and that she loved us as much as we loved her.

Sleep well, my little puffin.

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The grocery store was running a special yesterday - buy a case of Coke, get a free kitten! LOL!

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...well, for at least 10 minutes, anyway. :-) After six months of co-habitation together, unfortunately it's become apparent that Mandy and Bean will never truly get along with one another. Bean tries and tries, but Mandy just doesn't want to have anything to do with her. So that's why when this happened last night I nearly fell off my chair. Thank god I had my phone sitting next to me and quick snapped this picture. Don't ask me what possessed Mandy to climb into the bed where Bean was sleeping, but John and I loved it! It didn't last long, Mandy got up after about ten minutes, but there was no hissing or growling and Bean was all, "yeah, whatever, I don't care if you're in here with me". Could this be the first step toward acceptance?? Keep your fingers crossed!

Current Mood: hopeful

Bean, sweetie, I know you're just a little kitten, but even you can't fit everywhere! You do, however, get an A for effort. :-)

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How 'bout some kitten cuteness to start off your week? :-)

John and I were doing laundry over the weekend, and when the towels came out of the dryer the hubby thought it would be funny to lay them over the cats.

As you can see, Bean heartily approved of a warm towel to sleep under! LOL!

You can just see Mandy in the background. She preferred to sleep on the towel instead. :-)

What? My cats spoiled? Nah!

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So. It's Friday. Should be a good day, right? It's payday, it's the start of the weekend. Good, right? Yeah, except if you're me and walked into a shitstorm at 6 am this morning with emails from after I'd already left last night. It's been five hours of complete crap with no end in sight. AND I have to go back to our old building for a meeting today which starts AFTER my normal quitting time. So lucky me, I have to work OT on top of everything. I've already got over 3 hours OT this week as it is. Well, I guess it means even more in my paycheck next week.

Ok, enough of that. Thought I'd take a break from all the crap and think about good things instead!

First up, I posted ST: Enterprise fic yesterday! Only one of you was able to guess which fandom it was going to be (congrats cadia58!). Yes, I'm still on my Scott Bakula kick. :-) Many, many thanks to all of you who read it and those who took a moment to leave me a comment. Meant the world to me, as this was a new endeavor for me and I'm thrilled a few of you enjoyed it. I have a feeling I've got another Archer/Tucker story or two in me. :-)

It just felt so good to WRITE something, you know? And as a wonderful by-product of that, while I still had the momentum, I started writing again on my next new ebook. That sucker has been sitting dormant for about a year and a half now. I got it about 75% finished and then ran out of gas for some reason. But this time I know I'm going to get it finished and published!

I signed up for my next glass blowing class, which will be February 9th. I got two of my good friends at work to sign up as well! I'm really looking forward to doing this with them. I know they're going to have a blast and want to go back again.

I leave for Florida two weeks from today! It's my best friend charityflint's 50th birthday and she wanted to spend it at Disney, so now there's a group of 8 of us going. I haven't been to Disney since I was 10 years old! Can't wait to get down there! And it will be great to leave the freezing cold of Chicago for a week for the sunshine of Florida. :-)

Last but not least, how about another daily dose of cute? Just got Mandy and Bean a new toy called the Turbo Track. It's one of those toys where the plastic ball is inside and they can't get it out. They love it! The best part is that it got them in close contact with each other and there was no hissing and growling on Mandy's part since she was more interested in playing with the toy. Here's hoping the more they play near each other the better they'll get along with each other.

Ok, gotta get back to the nonsense. Have a good weekend, everyone!

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It's my beautiful girl Mandy's day on the 2012 Page-A-Day Cat Fancy calendar!

With her getting sick last week it scared me that she might not be here today. But thankfully she's bounced back and she's back to her old self. :-)

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Morning, all!

Sorry I haven't been very chatty lately on here. I've been dealing with a sick cat for almost a week now. Mandy came down with…something. One minute she's fine and the next she barely eats, drinks or leaves her bed. This went on for 4 days. I finally told John to make a vet appointment. Mandy was acting just like Chloe did when we found out about her kidney failure and we were terrified we were going to lose her too, only a few months after losing Chloe. It was just too much to even contemplate. So John no more than makes the appointment and Mandy snaps out of it! Over the last two days she's been eating and drinking like crazy, is back to grooming herself and is awake and alert the majority of the day. So we moved the vet appointment to Monday instead. But if she continues to improve we'll cancel it. I can't imagine what was wrong with her but we're so relieved that she's bouncing back. Especially since her day on the Cat Fancy calendar is Monday. We already lost Chloe before her day back in May. I wouldn't have been able to handle it if Mandy didn't live for her special day.

Whew. So yeah, been kind of tense around the house, but things are improving and so is my mood, so I thought I'd catch you guys up on what I've been doing.

Remember the glass fusion class I took a week ago? Got to go and pick up my finished pieces the other day and here they are!

Not bad for my first try at this. But the weird thing is, that wasn't supposed to be red, white and blue. It was supposed to be red, white and GREEN, for a Christmas pendant. The piece of glass I picked was green! I don't know why when it was fired it turned blue. So now I have a 4th of July necklace instead of Christmas. [pout] But I do like how the pastel one turned out.

The weather was nice here the other day, so John and I got outside and put up the Christmas lights on the house and the fence and the bushes. I had to take this photo when we were done - Christmas meets Thanksgiving. :-)

And to end with your daily dose of cuteness (even though John would kill me if he knew I was posting this *g*) I give you A Man and His Kitten - Relaxing

Thanksgiving is tomorrow! I have a four-day weekend! Woot! It will be my last days of rest for a while, though, as my office begins packing up on Monday for our move to our new building on December 5th. It's going to be freaking mass chaos with over 100 employees all doing this at the same time. There are going to be so many totes and boxes piled up you're not going to be able to walk down the hallways!

So yeah, I'm going to do nothing but eat turkey, watch TV and read books for the next four days. :-)

If I'm not online tomorrow, I want to wish all of my friends here in the U.S. a very Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble, gobble!

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Shall we start off our Friday with a dose of cuteness? :-)

First I give you Kitty Yoga, as presented by Bean:

Don't you wish YOU were that flexible?

And then there's Mandy and Bean, chilling out in the Kitty Condo:

We now return you to your regularly scheduled morning...

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So Bean surprised the heck out of the hubby and I the other night by suddenly launching herself from the floor straight up onto the TV stand. This was the highest she's jumped since we brought her home and is proof that she's growing by leaps and bounds. But is it wrong of me to want her to stay the adorable little size she is now? :-)

Of course this is now her favorite spot in the house because she's so proud of herself. "Look Mom! Look Dad! Look where I am!" The little stinker.

The hubby is being entirely unhelpful by encouraging the action, as I came home from work the other day and found Bean watching "Fish TV". Yes, you heard me right. Don't ask me how John found a cable channel that shows nothing but fish, but he did. [shakes head]

Needless to say, Bean is now plastered to the TV screen, completely enamored of the fish and turtles swimming by and yes, she tries to catch them. :-) I let her have some fun last night and put on Fish TV for half an hour. Here's the photographic evidence:

I love the way she's silhouetted in the last one, her little head cocked to the side. :-)

Speaking of Bean - are any of you believers in karma, fate, reincarnation?

John and I were organizing Bean's vet paperwork and for some reason I just then realized that she was born in May. That's the same month that we lost Chloe.

Coincidence? I'm not so sure.

We had been to other adoption events and saw lots of kittens but none of them "spoke" to us until we saw Bean. Why was that?

Me, personally, I'm a believer in reincarnation. And it gives me great comfort to think that perhaps our Chloe has come back to us. Because there are things that Bean does that Chloe did, too, that has made me stop and do a double take. I've also more than once started to call her "puffin", which was Chloe's nickname. And even though we didn't adopt Chloe until she was about 4 years old, I can totally see her acting just like Bean as a kitten. :-)

So yeah, I think it was fate that Bean came into our lives. ♥ ♥

Current Mood: content

Morning, everyone!

Ah, here we are, another Monday. Blech.

Had both a fun and quiet weekend. On Saturday my best buddy charityflint and I had another glass blowing class. This time we made pumpkins! Though mine had some difficulties in the forming/molding process and the instructor said, "Looks like you've got a gourd instead!" He thought it was humorous but I'm not too pleased that mine is somehow half the size of everyone else's. But he did say that the colors in mine (red, orange and yellow) had a neat twist going on. So if the colors at least look cool I'll be good with it. Charity and I also purchased a lightbox to go under our free-form pieces we made last time and holy cow, they look fantastic lit up from underneath, because of all the clear glass. Really makes the colored strands stand out. Our next class won't be until December now, when we go in to make Christmas ornaments. Charity is picking up our pieces on Wednesday then bringing mine over on Friday before we go on our ghost tour (woot!) so I'll try and post picks of the pumpkin on Saturday or Sunday.

After class Charity and I went out to lunch then back to my house where we hung out with the hubby for awhile before all heading out to dinner, then Charity was on her way home.

The weather on Sunday was terrible. We even had a tornado warning! So I stayed inside and watched some TV, did some computer stuff and read an entire Quantum Leap paperback book.

And of course I spent some time playing with the cats, so I give you your daily dose of cute - Bean in her pop-up cube. Gotta love that little pink tongue!

And how was YOUR weekend?

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And in other kitten news - how in the WORLD is this comfortable?? LOL!

Current Mood: amused

So Mandy still hasn't truly warmed up to Bean yet. We've got some hissing and growling going on, but Bean hasn't given up on making Mandy her friend and if last night was any indication, Mandy might be starting to be a bit more tolerant. Check it out:

Sharing the cat tree - first step toward friendship:

Sleepy kitties are sleepy:

And soon there will be peace and harmony in the land! :-)

Current Mood: lazy

So you're home sick, stuck in bed, bored out of your mind. What to do, what to do? Ah-ha, I know! Download apps on your iPad for the CAT! Guaranteed hours of amusement!

I give you Mandy, the techno-cat in action....

Current Mood: amused

The life of a kitten is sooooooo hard....

Current Mood: jealous

So our well-planned cat introduction just went out the window as Bean made her escape from the bedroom when John opened the door a little while ago. She shot right between his legs and nearly collided with Mandy, who was in the hallway.

Bean went right up to her and was like, "Hey! Hi! Nice to meet you!" and Mandy was all, "WTF??"

They sniffed one another then Bean was on her merry way down to the living room before Mandy recovered and ran and hid down in the basement! [facepalm] Mandy is twice Bean's size, which is why we got a kitten so that Mandy wouldn't feel threatened and instead she runs and hides like a baby!

John's like, "Yep, Bean's gonna be in charge around here."

I'm just glad there wasn't any hissing or growling or swipes at each other. Though Mandy just may be in shock and won't be so pleased next time they meet. We'll have to see.

John let Bean have the run of the place for about a half hour before putting her back in the bedroom so that Mandy would come up from the basement. He's going to bring Bean out again later for another half hour, then increase the time each day so that by the end of the week they'll be out together all day.

And hopefully there will be peace in cat-land in the Nice-Miller household! :-)

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Cats gone wild!

Cat and Mouse

Second Annual Pet Appreciation Day today!

Gone, but never forgotten

What a deal!

And there was peace and harmony in the land...

I can fit! I know I can!

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It's Mandy's special day!

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