Jeweled Vixen

Thank goodness it wasn't Tuesday yesterday. I have my internet, land line and T.V. with Time Warner. It all went down sometime yesterday morning or afternoon. The guy came this morning and fixed it all in about a half hour. Now I can watch NCIS and NCIS:LA tonight.

While he was in the basement working on that, I unboxed my new Shark vacuum and put it together. Now I have a real vacuum, not just one of those little 2lb stick vacs. I can't wait to put it to use. I also went to the Post Office and got my mail. My packages from Petco were there. I ordered some cat food I hope the cats will eat.

I also ordered a boa on a stick toy for them and a package of two pads you use for cat beds. My one cat wants nothing more than to be with me. She will sleep on the floor here in the office or drive me insane by coming over every five minutes to meow at me and want to be petted. I put one of the bed pads at the end of the desk and she is sleeping soundly on it right now. We are both happy.

YAY! There is a new batch of kittens and their mom on the Live Stream channel I watch. Laika is the mom and she has four kittens. Valentina is a tortie, Yuri is a ginger and white boy, Pavel and Boris are both all black and the only way to tell them apart is that Boris weighs quite a bit more than Pavel. Laika is a calico and is so sweet. Foster Dad John was petting her and she was just eating it up, making air biscuits and purring. He got up and she followed him.

She was abandoned with her kittens. They are so itty bitty and she is so sweet I can't fathom why someone would just abandon them, especially in such weather. He lives near Seattle, but it's still cold there. I'm glad the cats have John to take care of them. In case anyone is interested in checking out the kitty cam, just click Foster Dad John. They are being called the Cosmo Fosters and John named them all while I was watching just a few minutes ago.

The cabinet under the kitchen sink has two doors. For some reason, my cat Ruffles dislikes having the left one shut. Just the left one. Every time I go to the kitchen, it is open. Sometimes all the way, sometimes just a little, but it is always open. I shut it and the next time I go, it's open again. I put a rubber band across the handles to keep her from doing this, but it finally broke.

Well, Thursday I got a rubber band around my mail, so I put it across the handles. I could hear her out there trying to get it open. It kept banging. I was laughing to myself at how frustrated she must be, but she was persistent.

When I went to bed, both Ruffles and Coco got on the bed with me. Coco gets on my left side and Ruffles gets on my right side, so I pet both of them at the same time. I realized that Ruffles didn't have her collar on.

Friday morning, I went looking for it. It was hanging from the bottom of that cabinet door. It was caught inside the cabinet and was hanging out. She must have tried putting her head inside to get the door open. I put the collar back on her and I took the rubber band off. I'm afraid she could hurt herself or get her head caught in there if I leave it on there. Strangely, the door hasn't been open at all today.

My cats are acting like, well, animals. I was sitting here minding my own business and could hear them running around in the living room. Suddenly, I could hear hissing. I looked out and Cooco was hissing at Ruffles and both of them had their paws raised, ready to smack the other one. I yelled at them and they slowly backed off. Coco went in and got on the bed.

Just now, I was going to the kitchen and on my way, I found Ruffles' collar lying on the floor in the living room. They both have break-away collars. I have no idea what they were doing that would cause Ruffles' collar to come off. Brats!

I laughed until I cried.

Last night I went to Albany to visit with some friends and watch the football season opener between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. I'm a huge Giants fan and was almost as pissed as Eli Manning when they lost by one touchdown. But we had so much fun. I hadn't seen any of them in at least two months and we always have a blast when we get together. I haven't laughed that much in a long time. :)

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I've been slowly learning how to use this laptop. I've never used one before, so it's been interesting. One thing that's been bugging me is that, unlike my desktop, there is no audio control button. If I have the main computer sound turned all the way up, there is no easy way to turn it down if I come across an especially loud video. Or so I thought! I just discovered by accident where the audio control is, so now I'm happy.

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My cats have been driving me crazy with the food situation. They are so damned picky! I had always fed them dry food, but they would eat the food for about a week, then turn their noses up at it. I would buy a different brand and they would eat that for about a week, then turn their noses up at it. Lather, rinse, repeat. I have had up to four different brands at one time of half-full bags of cat food. :/

Two or three months ago, I started feeding them wet cat food because Ruffles had a problem of not being able to digest the dry food. All was well for about a month, then they started not liking it. I tried other brands and types of wet food, but nothing worked. They seemed to like the paté type best, but I can only get that in one brand - 9 Lives. They have not been eating it though. So I bought pouches of shredded food. They absolutely will NOT eat it AT ALL. They ate practically nothing for two days.

I had to stop last night on the way to Albany to get some snacks for the get-together and I also got the old 9 Lives paté food. When I got home, I gave them a can. It was GONE almost immediately. They also devoured the can I gave them this morning. Guess they like it after all. Brats.