Comfier Than It Looks

Ambrose is a giant velcro kitty. He wants to be touching Mommy at all times. Here he is snuggling beside Mommy's legs.

Mirror Mirror

I like to sit here and help Mommy put on her make-up. Her make-up table is a little messy...I have no idea how it got that way.

Maybe if I keep knocking over her perfume, it might break... and she might start wearing the perfume we kitties got her for her birthday.





P.S. We are very sorry that we haven't been able to post or visit our friends blogs much lately. Mommy has been working waaaaay too much. We have missed all of you very much. We have been practicing our pathetic please-help-us-blog-faces, and now that Mommy has more free time, we hope to be visiting a lot more now.

Stinkification

UPDATE: Mommy has been very, very, very busy at work and school, and hasn't been able to help us post or visit our friends' blogs. We will return to posting and commenting after July 1.

MOOOOOOMMMM!!!! Ambrose is touching me!

Mommy Speaks

Today, we have a very special guest blogger. Ta da! Introducing...Mommy!

This is the mommy speaking:
This is a very special time of year for me. All my precious kitties have had birthdays and gotcha days within the last couple of weeks, so this time of year reminds me how very lucky I am that these perfect little felines chose me. Today I share the story of how Grrreta rescued me.

It all began on a rainy day in April of 2005. My life was about to change in the most magical way. I hadn't had a pet since I was a young child, and wasn't planning to get one. I was a bit of a workaholic and didn't spend much time at home, so I didn't even consider getting a pet. My life was happy and complete, and all was well. Then one day, I stopped by an auto repair shop and learned that the owner had recently died, and the shop was closing. As I was walking out, I noticed a pretty tortie kitty rubbing up against a bag of cat food. I heard one of the employees yelling at the cat and saw him throwing pennies at her really hard. I stopped in my tracks and demanded that he stop. He did, but as I spoke to him, another employee started poking the cat with a stick and making crude comments. I was horrified and insisted that he stop too. I asked whose cat she was. They told me she belonged to the shop owner who had just died, and that his family didn't want her. The receptionist had been asked to find her a home, but the one person who was willing to take her had returned her within two weeks. As I looked at that kitty's sweet face, I knew at that moment that I couldn't leave her there. I couldn't let her stay with those people. I definitely didn't need a cat. But, I knew that little cat desperately needed me more than anything in the world, so I told them I wanted to adopt her.

I whisked her away to her new home at Casa de Mommy. I had no idea what I was doing, and I even caught myself sneaking up to her while she was sleeping to make sure she was still breathing. I was like a nervous new parent. Eventually I got the hang of it. In the four years that we have shared our home, Grrreta has taught me some of the most important life lessons that anyone could ever learn. 1. Napping. Everyone feels better after a nap. (How could I have spent so much of my life being too busy to nap?) 2. Kitty snuggles. There is no more magical feeling than snuggling with a warm furry kitty and listening to the comforting rhythm of a sweet rumbly purr. 3. Snacks. Serve them like clockwork, and never be late. 4. Sleeping at night. Totally optional...that's what naps are for. 5 Play. Let nothing get in the way of a good game of THoE, except maybe snacks and naps.

On that rainy day in April, I thought that I was rescuing Grrreta, but as I look back on our wonderful life for the last four years, I realize that I was the one who was rescued. Grrreta saved me from a life without kitty snuggles, naps, and so much more. Kitties are sort of sneaky that way. They let you think that you are the one rescuing them, but they are the ones that rescue you and make your life richer than you could have ever imagined.

Water Is Yummier When Slurped from Mommy's Glass

Ambrose is taking a nice big drink out of Mommy's water glass...right next to our kitty water fountain.

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*Also, Parker of Perfectly Parker is entered in the "My Curious Cat Contest" . It would be wonderful if we could help her get lots of votes. Please stop by the My Curious Cat Contest website and vote for Parker. You can vote ONCE EVERY HOUR between now and April 30, so please vote as often as you can.

Kitty Ping Pong

Since Ambrose has lots of energy and can sometimes be a little too rambunctious for the rest of us kitties, Mommy is always on the look-out for toys that will keep him occupied. He loves batting balls around, but they usually end up under furniture. Mommy decided to buy some more balls, so she wouldn't have to retrieve them every day. Well, she really outdid herself this time. She found a great deal on 144 ping pong balls...yup, 144 of them! This is the box they came in. She had already taken out over 100 of them by the time this picture was taken. We love our ping pong balls! We can barely wait for next weekend when Mommy cleans house and has to retrieve all of those balls from under the furniture.

** Also, Parker of Perfectly Parker is entered in the "My Curious Cat Contest" . It would be wonderful if we could help her get lots of votes. Please stop by the My Curious Cat Contest website and vote for Parker. You can vote ONCE EVERY HOUR between now and April 30, so please vote as often as you can.

Bad Camera Angle Friday

Mommy said that I have an "exceptional physique", so I wonder why she would want to buy some DIET kitty crunchies. Do any of you kitties have any suggestions for yummy tasting diet kitty crunchies? (I'm pretty sure they must be for Mommy to snack on, because I can't possibly maintain this exceptional physique by eating diet food.)