Thank You Skeezix!!!

Okay, okay. I know I haven't blogged in like forever and I'm so sorry, but I see that I don't have any followers yet, so I guess it's not a hot blog. . .but I hope it will be!

Anyway, I just wanted to change things around a little and I'm glad I did. Thanks to http://www.skeezixthecat.scratchingpost.com/. Thank you for all your blogging help Skeezix! I don't know what I would've done without you, and I don't know what Mistress would've done either.

So, I was alone for Christmas, like I know a lot of cats were. I was fine, I was left two whole bowlfuls of food and two bowlfuls of water! But I didn't eat much. Now Twinkie on the other hand! (see upper right) was naughty, but he got the fresh-and-ever-potent nip from the Farmer's Market!

i tell ya, there is just no justice for us cats!

I chose to ignore my Mistress when she came home. Well, I didn't like her attitude! She didn't put her bags away right away and so I thought she was leaving. And she did. She took that fresh catnip down to HIM! I decided to forgive her after she put the bags away, and I did miss her, so I did my kneading thing.

So this is the last day of 2008! Mistress is watching hours on end of I Love Lucy and some dude came over and fiddled with our lock, but Mistress was home and said it was okay.

So I hid under the bed, of course! Now I'm out and I want food! NOW!

Happy New Year to all!

December 16, 2008

Okay, so I haven't written in awhile, but things have been busy. I don't think I have many readers anyway, I guess everykitty's over at the Psychokitty's blog?
Anyway, a friend called Mistress yesterday morning, telling her that her neighbor had passed away from a massive heart attack. Then she said that lady had two cats. One who bites, they are taking that one and putting her to sleep, I guess, not because she bites, but because she's kind of old and sick.
The second one's name is Charlie and he's huge! He's at least 20 pounds of orange tabby! Well my idiot Mistress decided to take him! What a nut!
He scared me to death! I went under the bed and left Mistress a Special Sandy Early Christmas "Present" there! All my friends on Catster concatulated (a Catster word for congratulated) me for doing that.
Anyway, he kept staying and staying and staying! Finally Mistress came to her senses, well, her mom came to her senses for her and she said that I wouldn't like another cat to handle, I could barely handle Squeakers and she was here before me! And since Mistress isn't working, she can't afford more litter and food and vet bills, and since he lived with a heavy smoker, I mean, Mistress friend next door could smell the smoke in her apartment, he could pawsibly have lung problems or cancer.
Or not, but we don't want to take any chances. Plus, I love being an only cat, having her all to myself!
So she dreaded it, but she walked Charlie downstairs, almost getting a hernia doing it! And gave him back to the friend of the lady that died, she thought she'd have big trouble, but the lady understood, but kinda made Mistress feel guilty when she said "Don't worry Charlie, Grandma wants you" and she kinda slammed the door in her face.
Oh well, the most important thing here is
I am an only cat again! Yipeee!!!

The Art of Being Mistress (It's not dirty, I swear!)

Squeakers and I used to look at Mistress and think: "How can a woman DO all that stuff? Why doesn't she just sleep and eat like we do?" Well, then we wouldn't have our .. .I mean it's MY entertainment now.
She recently lost her thing called "job" I don't know what that means, but now she's home almost constantly! It was fun for awhile, but now it's annoying! Just like last year when she was sick, but much longer! It was funner to watch her run around like her butt was on fire, but now she only does that once in awhile.

Before:
8:00: Get up and turn on TV
8:30 Stand under water. Squeakers was so interested in this, I still don't get it. Squeakers used to watch her. I mean, why do they need to stand under water if they're just gonna dry themselves off later?
9:00 Eat something, but do the kitties eat? Nooooo!! We only eat at night
9:15: Run around saying "Oooh! I'm running late! Oooh I need to do this and this and this and this yet! Ooh! Squeakers get out of my way!"
9:25 Runs around like Energizer bunny, puts coat on, pets us and leaves
9:30-5:15: No entertainment. . .sleep and nap and fight time for the kitties
Anytime after 5: Two legger comes home, drops bag and says "Oh what a day! I'm tired .. .Sandy, I need to talk" Then she proceeds to talk to me for awhile, until it turns into whining, then she asks "Sandy, am I whining?" Duh.
5:30: Sometimes she yaks on the phone to her mom or her friend Jennifer. Sometimes, if she felt ambitious, she'd grab her gym bag and rush out the door with out so much as a by your leave, and she wouldn't come home until our dinnertime! Luckily, she's not that ambitious, only in the summer and spring.
7:30 or 8:00: If she's not ambitious, she gets off the computer and makes herself something to eat, but did we get anything? Nooooo! Unless Squeakers could get up on the table and snitch a piece of chicken. .. boy do I miss that cat!
8:30 on Wednesdays only: the Purr Meeting on a Catster group called the Social Cats, purring for sick/lost kitties and the families of sick/lost/Bridge kitties.
9:30: Hallelujah!! We Eat!! by this time I'm dying of starvation. Sunday nights Squeakers gets Stinky Goodness, but, forgive me Max, I won't eat the stuff
10:00 Friday Nights: Pizza and Poetry night on the Catster forums!
10:00-12:30 or 1: TV, play and rest times, sometimes the Mistress stays up really late, but on Friday, that's cool, cuz we like Catster P&P!
Saturday Mornings: Mistress sleeps sooooooo late, I guess P&P wore her out!
11:00: The Mistress rises from her royal stupor
11:15: Turns on TV and puts in a DVD
11:16-Whenever: Watches DVDs, talks on phone, eats, naps, basicaly being a cat
7:00: she eats
9:30 We eats
1:00 bed
Sunday:
8-11:00: If she feels like it, she listens to John Tesh's Intelligence for Your Life radio show
11:15: Talks on phone, I swear, her jaw should be wired shut!
1:00: If she feels like it, she pushes that growl monster around, scaring Squeakers, barely scaring me under the bed
6:00: Laundry sorting time
7:00 Extreme Home Makeover, she watches it, she doesn't do it!
7:30-8:00: Laundry
9:45 Laundry's done, she scurries to get it before they close and lock the doors to the laundry room, who "they" are, I have no idea.
10:00: Yaks on the phone SOME MORE!
10:01: Squeakers tries to help her make the bed or tries to snuggle in unfolded laundry.
11-12:00: Bed

That was then, this is now, when she is home constantly, almost, and Squeakers is gone:
8:00: She gets up if she feels like it
8:02: Bewitched (WGN America) OR Step By Step (ABC Family) OR Golden Girls ( Lifetiem, so many choices!)
8:30: Golden Girls
9:00 Little House on the Prairie (Hallmark) or computer job search, answering emails, yakking on phone, whatever
10:00 Little House on the Prairie, only if it's good, if not, Good Times (TVLand)
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30: I Love Lucy (TVLand)
12:00: Extreme Home Makeover (possibly, she likes to stare at Ty Pennington's mole) or grocery shopping, or water-standing
1:00: Cheers
1:30: Job search, phone
2:00: Little House on the Prairie (if it's good, if not, continued job search, phone, cleaning)
3:00: See above
4-5: Leave it to Beaver
5-7: Phone, dinner preparation
8:00 Dinner with Bill Cosby
The third verse, same as the first

At least I don't get confused as to where she is, but I am confused now, cuz now she says she might not leave today, her Mom is running around like a nut trying to get ready and get her fridge fixed
Then sometimes that friend of hers, Jennifer comes up with her BIG huge dog. I retreat to under the bed! She might come up tonight with her Mistress to help MY mistress with some electronical thing *rolls eyes*

December 12, 2008

Phew!
Good sence has come to my Mistress! She is NOT taking me with her to her Mom's to decorate the tree!
The trip was always kinda iffy, even if Mistress was going or not, but she's going and I'm staying and that's that! There's white stuff on the ground, I hate riding in cars, Mistress is scared of her Mom yelling at me again, I don't know that place at all. . . and I might do something I shouldn't on her mom's purrr-fect carpet!
Okay, so I'll miss her, she'll miss me, her mom might niver get to know me, but so what?
I'm staying home!

By the Way, the human screwed up, the top pic is of Squeakers, the next pic is of me, just don't want anyone getting confused, I am a meezer, Squeakers was a calico
Night night!

December 11, 2008

Well, I'm here, finally.

Thanks to Max, you know, the Psychokitty? Silly question Everyone knows the Psychokitty! I got my Mistress. . .I call my caregiver "Mistress" because she isn't my real Mommy, she's my second owner, and we're too close to call each other "person" and "kitty" so I call her Mistress and I listen to her problems. She's got a lot lately. . .

Ooh, I'm getting ahead of myself, I'm sorry. Anyway, I told her, after reading all of Max's books and posts and seeing friends like Toulouse and Skeezix on here to, well, we belong to a great website called http://www.catster.com/, in fact, my dearly (?) departed sister Squeakers http://www.catster.com/cats/58594 has just been made Cat of the Week!, and why, oh why haven't I? so anyway, sorry for rambling, but this would be a great place to make some great new friends and get together with some old ones! So Mistress finally got ON her duff and made me a blog!

She's still kind of upset about Squeakers, she was Mistress' first cat, well, that she had living on her own anyway, and she left when she was way too young. Squeakers was only 5 going on 6! But she had old cat problems for a young cat. She was spoiled and very adaptable. Mistress gave her toys that she only played with for about 2 minutes, if that, she bought a stroller and Squeakers would love going out and the little Sticky People, to use Max's creative terminology, by the way, do I need to ask purrmission before I do that? anyway, they loved her to pieces. Little brat got all the attention, but I came later, and Mistress really loves me, and she is kinda spiritual in some ways, and she thinks that maybe I came for a reason, even though Squeakers and I couldn't stand each other for the longest time.

Now I am the only cat. What fun is that? Though there are no lines going to the litterbox and food dish, no "special kidney food" for me to snitch while Mistress isn't looking, no furry face to slap "just because" and no fighting over who gets Mistress' lap. What fun is that?

I was the one who warned Mistress that something was "not right" in the air, and lo and behold, Squeakers was breathing her last few breaths. Even after that, when Mistress came home from the Emergency Vet alone, I still looked everywhere for my fighting buddy.

Anyway, I pawmise my blog will be more interesting in the future. My Mistress likes to write, and to type. And she's out of work, who isn't? now so she has plenty of time, she says no, but I says she does!