17 posts tagged “kitties”
Isn't he freakin' cute? And, yes, I really named him Jesus. I'm alternating between the English and Spanish pronunciations to see which one he prefers. I'm not sure how old he is (his papers aren't as complete as I'd like), but he's definitely a runt. He got all of his shots yesterday, so he's a little stunad today but has little bursts of energy where he just trots around the upstairs exploring. The other kitties haven't really warmed up to him yet. Three days and they'll all be best of friends, I'm sure. And then he can keep Dinah company in NYC.
Some random pictures I had hanging out in my camera for the past couple months:
And now a look at what my weekend holds:
I've got a test in Cultural Psychology to study for and a writing test in Spanish. Not quite sure how I'm going to prepare for them, but I'll figure something out. The other two columns of books are for my thesis. I raided the stacks at Olin with Chrissy this afternoon and found some surprisingly decent sources at Cortland's library, too. Now I just have to read them.
In other news, I've heard nothing from the remaining grad schools (uh, since yesterday... what? I'm impatient!). I've started researching several alternatives just in case I don't get accepted to any of the programs I applied to... I think I'll make an appointment with Steadman at some point this week to hear her thoughts. Hm. Also, the chili festival is next weekend! YAY! And the New Pornographers are coming to Ithaca in April! Definitely gotta get tickets to that.
From a couple weekends ago:
We had some pretty wicked hail. It was great. And after checking out the Apple Harvest Festival (it sucked... way overpriced, though it's the only place I've ever seen old hippies, college students, Tibetan monks, a Mayan man, and Mennonites mingling in the same place), my mom and I headed over to Ithaca Falls before stopping by the high school. Cornell is considered "Big Read" and, obviously, Ithaca High is "Lil Red."
And these are from this afternoon:
Fall has definitely arrived.
I tried a new Japanese place tonight with my mom. Ithaca has quite a few awesome Asian eateries.
Plum Tree is the best, but this was one had pretty good gyoza.
How about some cute cat pictures?
Yeah, they're pretty adorable.
That's Auggie (or Auggila as I like to call her) under the table, Harpo gazing out my window, and Dinah sticking her hand in the water as she drinks. It might be hard to tell from this angle, but she's not actually lapping the water off her paw, just holding it in the water. Yup.
The goldfish plant is blooming! That is the coolest thing ever.
Harpo and Lucia. I totally missed the kitties when I was in Florida.
My grandma's wedding picture. And Melissa's engagement ring. It was really hard to get a good shot 'cause the diamonds were too sparkly for the flash.
And my latest tattoo... all healed. I'll eventually have cherry blossoms falling down the whole length of my calf. I got this done at Ft. Myers Beach Tattoo Studios by the owner, Bill Hannong. He was super nice and did a wonderful job. I'll definitely be making a trip to Florida to have him finish it up.
Harpo finds some adorable ways to sleep. And he loves helping my mom out.
First things first, how about some adorable kitty pictures? First, we have Auggie and Dinah taking a nap on my taco chair. Next is Dinah on the kitchen counter. And lastly there's Harpo being crazy in the kitty thing my mom got from the SPCA.
On Saturday I hung out at my brother's apartment. It was pretty much a marathon session of watching TLC and old Nickelodeon game shows. He has an adorable kitty named Razor who was very intrigued by my purse.
Before we went to Wegmans, Chrissy and I decided to see if the mall was open. It wasn't. Buuut there was an underground door in the middle of the deserted Target parking lot that we had to check out. A footnote to the end of the video, Chrissy is terrified of drive-by shootings for some odd reason.
Video of Chrissy being a piggy and finishing off the milkshakes.
So, the Nor'easter is coming through tonight and tomorrow. By midnight tomorrow we're supposed to have between 18 and 36 inches on the ground. Wow. Needless to say, I'll be staying home from school (I doubt I'll even be able to get out of my driveway much less all the way to Cortland). My mom said Tops was absolutely packed, like when there's a hurricane coming through--no water left on the shelves, parking lot filled to the brink, lines down the aisles. Fun! I got a couple books through PBS today and I checked out some classic anthro books from Cornell (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific--a copy from 1922!!--and A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word, Leach's Rethinking Anthropology, and Lévi-Strauss' The Savage Mind), so I should have enough to keep myself productive.
Today when I got home from school there were about 8 turkeys in our front yard. They're so cute! They were talking to turkeys that were across the street and behind the house. I took a picture of the turkey snow prints.
And these were taken the other day (the sunniest day we've had in a long time).
So, it's pretty freaking cold today. It was -1 when I woke up with a windchill of -16. Brrr. The roads were terrible. Ithaca isn't very good at the plowing thing. Cortland was a little better (see above video with Meatloaf soundtrack) but the sidewalks at school were ridiculous... I almost died like ten times walking around campus. It's supposed to get up to 30 tomorrow, so that'll be nice. Especially now that our pipes are freezing.
How about some pictures? There's one from this morning ('cause on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I'm up and gone before the sun). The other is from late morning on my way home on the backroads... they were not fun. And the last couple are the mailboxes 'cause... they looked pretty. And at the bottom are some kitty pictures (Harpo put himself in my backpack, I swear.) Ennnnjoy.
So, this morning I woke up at the ungodly hour of 9 a.m. because the sun was shining right into my eyes (the downside of not investing in curtains). I also realized I had two very large kitties at the foot of my bed and about six inches of leg room. When I looked out the window, I saw it was snowing... it was a pleasant surprise being as this is Ithaca which has a reputation for being a frozen tundra six months out of the year and we haven't seen snow in quite a while. When I went to put my coat and boots on I found Loki making a mess out of the downstairs closet. It's his favorite thing to do lately... he'll knock down all the scarves and climb his way up to the top of the closet for the best napping place. Anyways, when I got outside it was pretty freakin' cold (19 degrees to be exact... 7 degrees with the windchill). The snow was pretty fluffy, not ideal for making snowballs, and it hid the mushy ground from the past week of rain. Gross. In the last few pictures you can see Dinah gazing longinly out the window at me. She used to make that same face when we lived at 62 Hudson Heights. And the last two pictures are a few days old... you can usually find Dinah or Lucia curled up on top of the fish tank at some point during the day and I managed to capture another picture of Auggie mid-yawn.
I'll leave you with a couple of videos. The first is just the snow falling and the second is the kitty party that happens every morning once they see I'm awake.
