Sparks!

I must be sizzlin' today!
It seems that whenever my Mistress pets me, sparks come out of my fur!
It doesn't feel all that great either. It kinda feels weird like I should run, and I start to, but then the feeling goes away!
How weird! I don't think I like it.
I mean, I want Mistress to pet me, I like it, no, I love it! I love all the attention, cuz most of the day I'm sleeping and she's doing something else in the living room and I'm all curled up in my bed, so when I see her, I wanna be petted!
But not if I get these shocks and sparks come outta my fur! Yucko!
I asked Mistress why this happens, and she said cuz it's still winter and the air is so dry.
Well, yes, we got snow on Thursday, lots of snow, but it's staying lighter longer so. .. why does winter have to last so long??!!
She says she has to get something called a humidifier so it won't be so dry.
Now, wait a minute! I don't want anything with FIRE near me!
She just laughed and said it's purrty complicated. Sounds easy, but scary to me!
I guess I'd rather have a few sparks now and then, then something with fire!

Today would've been Squeakers' sixth birthday. Mistress really kinda misses her. I need to knead her some more. . .I like to do it, she likes when I do it, and she makes this noise like "Mmmmmmmmmmmm!" It's a happy mmmmmmm sound too! I guess I better get my paws moving. .. oh the life of a furry masseuse!

Making lists are fun!

• I am spry today
• So is Mistress
• I don't know what spry is
• It's snowing outside
• We've been expecting this snow for a couple days now. They even closed schools for this and they say it could be as much as 6 to 8, or 4-8 inches!
• Bella, the cat that belongs to Mistress' aunt, wasn't peeing
• Mistress' aunt has the same name as I do. . .Sandy
• Human Sandy was really worried about Bella. She took her to the vet on Monday
• The vet said it could be one of three things: Bladder infection, kidney stones, something else that Mistress can't remember.
• It turned out to be something called "Sterile Cystitis"
• Sterile Cystitis is the same thing as a Urinary Tract Infection in humans.
• Bella will be okay in a few days.
• I haven't blogged in 9 days
• But I put out two entries today!
• Squeakers, my Bridge sister has a birthday on Saturday the 28th
• She would've been six.
• Mistress really misses her.

The Big Bad Kneader Has Returned!

I guess lately I've been really lazy. . . but then, so has Mistress!
Sometimes I think she'd make a great cat!
But anyway, Mistress found out what was wrong with her, and stopped doing it, whatever it was, so she had more energy. . . for awhile.
Then yesterday she kept saying "Ooooh my leeeeeegs! Ooooh my baaaaaack!" she went to that workout place for the first time in months. . .if that workout place makes you cranky and tired and and sore, well, I'll stay home, thank you!
She felt that way too, yesterday.
I was in the bedroom most of yesterday, all curled up in my Morgan's bed, and she was all curled up on the sofa, with a book. I didn't see her for more than a half an hour.
So when she finally came to bed, I got happy!
I followed her, back and forth from the bedroom to the bathroom, and then when she got into bed, I hesitated, but then I hopped up on the bed. She was lying on her tummy, which is kinda weird, yes, she likes to lie on her tummy, or her side, actually, but when she first gets into bed, she lies on her back and I lie on her tummy or her legs, until, in the middle of the night she kicks me off in her sleep!
So I went up to where her head was and I gave her some headbonks and purrs. She didn't stir much, so I gave her some more headbonks and purrs. A hand came shooting up out from the covers and she petted me.
But that wasn't what I wanted!
So I walked on her. Back and forth and back and forth on her back. At first, she groaned and then she made some happy noises, so I stopped, and I started to knead.
More happy noises.
Then after awhile, I stopped, so another hand came shooting out from the covers and she grabbed me!
Ya gotta watch out for those shooting hands!
But then she smooshed me up against her and she said "Thank you Sandy!"
For what?
Today, we both slept in a bit. But when we got up, I decided to follow her around, even on her desk, which, since the monitor came, is off limits!
In fact, I just moved her mouse, and she said "Hey!"
But I just want to spend more time with her! And I wanna see what's in that box she keeps dipping into!
She says it's cereal, but I don't buy it!
She said "Wow Sandy, you're really spry today! What got into you?"
I don't know, and I don't know what spry is, but I just checked out her secret box on the desk. . .. it really is cereal!

My Human is Trying to Be A Cat!

And she's doing a really bad job of it too! Talk about being a second, or fifteenth, rate cat!
Before, she was actually meowing at me, I think cuz I was meowing at her! Finally, I stopped meowing cuz I wanted her to SHADDUP!
Then, she said her back was a little stiff. Waah waah! What am I supposed to do about it? I knead fronts and sides, not backs! So I had been laying down for a while, and I am an old cat, no matter how ya slice it, so I stretched, very gracefully, I might say.
She saw that and she said "Hmm, that might work for me too!" So she grabbed the arm of the rocking chair thing and put one leg up and stretched her back leg down as far as it would go. I think it was a pathetic attempt, but she said she's only human. Then she went and did it with the other leg, still pathetic.
Then she said "Ahh! That feels better! Now I know why everybody wants to be a cat!"
Too funny I furgot to laugh!
She makes an awful cat. Cats are graceful, she isn't. Cats are sleek, she isn't. Most cats can sing operas, she can't .. .she can't even sing rock 'n'roll or the score to The Sound of Mewsic!

Goodbye Scootie Patootie!

The world lost another wonderful kitty today. Scooter, a 20-year-old femal cat on Catster left for the Rainbow Bridge after so many health problems for the past 3-4 years. Everyone was thrilled that she even made it to 20. But it's been a hard few months for her and her pawrents, and of course, the last few days were the hardest, she refused to eat, even her favorite; baby food, and she pretty much stayed in one spot and slept, today they put her to sleep and she is off to the Rainbow Bridge and almost all of Catster is mourning.

Scooter will definitely enjoy the Bridge though, it's just her style.

Farewell sweet kitty! *blows a kiss*

Twistie Ties: The Cheapest and Funnest Toys Ever!

I don't know why, but there was sonething on the floor, I guess cuz my Mistress can't see as well as some, she misses things.
So I just had to kick it!
And it moved!
Wowee!
I kicked it all over the floor, then it disappeared! Where, oh where did it go?
Mistress heard me batting something around, and she saw me looking in one particular spot, so she found it and said "This? Is this what you were playing with? "
Then she called it a Twistie tie!
It has a name!
I've heard that some cats play with milk rings, there's even a Milk Ring Hockey League (MRHL) on Catster! And Squeakers liked to play with dirty q-tips (Euuuwwwww!!) But above all, these twistie tie things are the best!
So I kicked it some more, and it went and hid on me! Darn little @!&*@!
Mistress tried to help me find it, but she couldn't find it either, she said she hopes it doesn't break her vacuum cleaner belt the next time she runs that growlly monster!
So she did me a favor, she took another one out of the kitchen drawer, but she told me not to swallow it, she doesn't wanna rush me to the emergivet!
I don't wanna be careful! And I don't wanna go to the place she calls emergivet *emergency vet*
I Wanna Play!!
And if milk rings are just as fun, I didn't really care for them before, then I might be joining that team! They should have a Twistie Tie Team!

Cleaning Day

Cleaning day? What a mess!
It all started last night, Mistress had been watching another I Love Lucy marathon! I swear, it's the second one in a month, and this one lasted at least sixteen hours. .. or one nap for me! She also switched back and forth to the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. While she was doing all that sitting, instead of eating I had her do me a favor and get her fingers moving, she let me go to a Super Bowl/birthday party at the Late Late Show on Catster. Well, back and forth we went, Lucy, Puppy Bowl (along with the cute Kitty Half-time sponsored by Bissell) and the party, and at the end of the party, Mistress had Squeakers, my angel sister, play the violin for the birthday cat and his girlkit. To understand all this, you'd have to be in the Catster crowd, or furmiliar with it, otherwise it sounds funny.
Anyway, while all that was going on, she remembered a card that her Gram made for her one year for her birthday, a picture of her in a sexy costume on a stage, with Squeakers next to her playing the violin! Gram likes to cut pics out of magazines and paste the heads pics of friends and family on them and she makes great cards. So anyway, Mistress was ripping the place apart looking for that card, she just did some cleaning last month and put some things in a different area, and of course, she couldn't remember where she put it!
Humans!
It wasn't just that card, it was alot of other cards too. After ripping the bedroom and some of the living room apart, her aunt from Dallas called
She just celebrated a birthday on Saturday too! Happy Birthday Aunt Irene. .. even though I've never met you.
Anyway, while she was talking to her, all of a sudden the light popped up in her head, I wonder if that really happens? And she found the card! It was in a basket on the kitchen table. .. duh! The card was the first one she saw, with Squeakers playing the violin.
After she got off the phone, and put the apartment back together, almost, she decided to record the Puppy Bowl, they had been repeating it all day, and after that, she sat down and looked at Squeakers pic and started to leak, major flood.
Then she sat and held Squeakers' urn for awhile, she even showed it to me. We snuggled for a long time, and I put the warm fuzzies back in her. .. what does she need with that Squeakers anyway?
So today, she started picking up some more mess, and scrubbing. I stayed out of her way until she got into the hall closet where the food can go, but she hadn't put it there lately, it had all been on the counter. So then she got crazy cleaning up that closet, and put the food back in there. .. the counter looks nice and empty now! she also had six boxes of Butterfinger cocoa *long story* and she got that all straightened out, but then she got up on a stool and stuff came shooting out from the top shelf! Wrapping paper, toilet paper, a lampshade, my tomb *carrier* Pow pow pow pow!
Wow!
I just had to watch that, although when the tomb came out I kinda backed away. I can't believe she kinda reorganized everything, threw a lot of stuff out, then she put the tomb away *phew!* and found Squeakers' old tomb and put it on top of mine. She has a spare vacuum and she wants to get rid of it, downstairs there is a free table, so she's going to take it down there, along with some other stuff, including the lampshade.
I'm glad she wasn't hurt,I had to make sure she was okay, she didn't fall or anything, but that stuff just came shooting down so fast! I gave her a few cheekrubs to make sure she was okay.
Then she took away my scratchy thing! For awhile she had a piece of old cardboard on the floor, I guess she has to break up old cardboard boxes and bring them down to be recycled, so while she was waiting for that, that cardboard was my toy!
She also took my Fancy Feast box away!
I'm not sure if I like this cleaning stuff, oh it looks nice when it's done, but you have to say goodbye to a lot of stuff!