July 2012
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How to find the perfect names for your characters →
Filing away for B’s next screenplay hahahaha
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Cat Challenge Day 12: The most destructive thing...
BY FAR the biggest mess Eleanor has made that has taken the LONGEST to clean up was when she got into my yarn.
One time, she did it while me, B, and V were home. I left the room to go to the restroom. I came back, probably 2 minutes later, to find yarn wrapped around furniture, going under the coffee table, twisted around a chair leg, etc, etc. while B and V sat and laughed about it. Here is...
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Cat Challenge Day 11: Favorite name for your next...
I don’t believe you can do any better than naming a female cat with an old lady name. There is something so dignified, yet absolutely adorable, about those names… the same description holds for cats.
How could you name this anything other than Harriet, Maude, or Esther?
Disclaimer: I don’t know where this picture came from. I can’t find a source. Sorry.
One that I...
June 2012
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Cat Challenge Day 10: Favorite name for your next...
Male names are a source of contention in my marriage. B thinks that he should be allowed to name a son Ramses or Xerxes. Since that’s not happening, I should maybe let him name pets. BUT I’d really like to have a Franklin Delano to go with our Eleanor.
I just googled “cats dressed as FDR,” hoping some awesome picture of a cat in a wheelchair would come up. No dice,...
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Who are the LeBron James characters in literature? →
I feel like the Draco Malfoy description is entirely too positive.
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Cat Challenge Day 9: Least favorite cat you’ve...
I think eye boogers are the absolutely grossest thing on animals. I would rather clean up Eleanor’s vomit/poo in the car messes that happen every once in a while than have to clean out eye boogers constantly. My sister’s college roommate’s cat was an eye shit machine:
Of course it was worse than that on random days, but who would take a picture with that going on? His name...
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Cat Challenge Day 8: Favorite cat you know (that...
I’ve limited myself on these next two days…I won’t be using any cat that is owned by a relative of mine. That is ruling out a lot of cats, but I don’t need the melodrama from saying something not totally nice.
Some couple friends of ours have three cats. Here is my fave:
This is Stella, about 8 months ago. I feel like she is bigger than that now. Her...
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I’m 80% sure a vampire works somewhere near me. There is a car in the parking lot that is ALWAYS covered with some kind of tarp…Keeping the sunlight out. I see a woman working on covering it every once in a while. She is very painstaking about it, and always seems to make sure that even the door handles are covered…To be able to open the door without touching metal.
Some...
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Cat Challenge Day 7: Least favorite cat breed
With breeding, a lot of crimes against nature are committed. In my humble opinion. But the specific things I have a problem with, in order from “not-so-bad” to “why-do-you-exist,” are:
Long-haired breeds are a hot mess.
Munchkin cats are pathetic.
Sphynx cats are nothing that is good about cats.
About a year ago, our water heater broke and pwned the shit out of...
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Cat Challenge Day 6: Favorite cat breed
My favorite “breed” is definitely mutt. I love getting kitties that need a home, and I don’t think many of them are classy and bred on purpose. It’s also fun because you never know how your cat will grow. I would’ve never guessed that Eleanor would be so loooong, and have such a tiny head.
I suppose for a real breed, I like domestic short hairs. Simple and...
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So, it turns out that planning to move out of the...
…And it is already majorly stressing me out. Six months before it will actually be happening.
Some of the positives of the process (to keep myself from having an unnecessary panic attack):
We’ve decided to sell a lot of our things, since paying for storage units costs more than what our junk is worth. I’m actually pretty excited at the thought of getting rid of a ton of...
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Cat Challenge Day 5: Weirdest thing your cat does
The weirdest habit Eleanor has EVER had was sucking on my ear lobe. It was creepy and gross. It was always my right ear lobe, and it got callused. She couldn’t help it, though…She was just a sad little homeless motherless baby. She stopped when she was about 6 months old. Now that I’m thinking about it, I almost kinda sorta miss it. When she stopped, it was like a sign of...
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Cat Challenge Day 4: Favorite big cat
Whenever we had to pick a wild animal to study and report on in elementary school, I chose tigers. I mixed it up every once in a while: Sometimes the orange Bengal tiger, sometimes the white Bengal.
I really have no idea why tigers were/are my thing. Maybe they most closely resemble domestic cats? I also generally like stripe patterns. I don’t know…I don’t think there is...
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