14 posts tagged “kitties”
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.
We had some weird-ass weather today. First it was cloudy, then the sun came out, then it was sleeting (is that a word?), and then more sun, then light snow, more sun, and then a hail storm. I can't remember the last time I've seen real hail. They weren't huge but they certainly made a lot of noise. Have a listen. Fun fact: when I went over to pick up the hail, the wind changed directions and I had tons of hail blown into my hair. It was neat.
And now for some Dinah/Harpo cuddling.
- Did you kiss anyone at midnight on New Years? Nope, I was asleep.
- Are your holiday decorations still up? We didn't put any up this year. Our neighbors, however, went fucking overboard with the decorations. And they're still up. It's getting really annoying.
- Did you gain weight over the holidays, and if so how do you plan on getting rid of it? Nope, I stayed the same... it'd be nice if I could actually lose a few (fifty) pounds but that would take some effort.
- Do you play video games? Kind of. I like Katamari and Parappa but I've been watching movies on my PS2 rather than playing games.
- Do you have pets? Let's see them.
The kitties that live with me. (Auggie, Dinah, Loki, Lucia, and Harpo). Dinah is my cat, Auggie and Loki are my mom's, Lucia is Chrissy's, and Harpo is everyone's.
Our red dobie, Magenta, who lives with my dad in Florida.
Some video I took from my window this morning (late morning):
Finally it feels like winter. The fifty degree days were very unsettling.
And these are for Chrissy 'cause she hasn't had her kitty dose in a while. L to R: A rare event--all five kitties in one place; Dinah and Lucia being too cute for words; Harpo sleeping in a laundry basket during Christmas Eve dinner; Harpo owning my laundry basket; and Harpo passed out.
