Flop

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A picture of our girl cat, October. She is white with tabby markings and green eyes. She is sprawled out on a brown desk in front of a window, and next to a rainbow storage tower.

Outside of a trip to Tesco, been doing my best to just flop out and murder all the things in the Commonwealth in Fallout 4. I do it, knowing we’ve got a good selection of sandwiches for everyone tomorrow, and that’s what we wanted. Smallest’s new lunchbox arrived today — she bought a Bento box. She’s excited by the concept, but… Read more »

Vivi Dangerbox

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A photo of our cat Vivi in a cardboard box from Amazon. Vivi is a tuxedo cat with a primarily white front, and his brown eyes are looking in my direction. The box is on a narrow ledge at the front of a glass-fronted cabinet.

Vivi loves his boxes, even when they’re not in the best of places. I’d tucked that one on the ledge to remind me to take it to be recycled, so of course that’s when he decided it was the right time to camp on it — not when it was on the much wider couch. Cats, innit. We’ve got a… Read more »

Bleh

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A photo of me. I'm a white woman with brown hair, glasses, and a lip ring. My eyes are rolled back in my head to go with my not impressed facial expression.

Stars, so. The UK Supreme Court passed a ruling this morning giving the thumbs up to gender essentialism, which, gross. I’ve been taking advantage of my current Fallout 4 play to distract me from feeling too doomful. Youngest also helped by coming through to take advantage of the PS5 being available, thereby blocking me from watching the news on loop. But… Read more »

Friends

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A photo of me with our cat Halo. He's a white boy with tabby markings, green eyes, and a pink little nose. I'm a white lady with long brown hair, glasses, and a lip ring. Halo is in a blue play cube, and leaning out of it to rest his head against mine.

Halo is a sweet massive baby. He’s still not okay with being picked up or held, but he loves getting and receiving pets. I took this picture this morning in the middle of a lil purrfest (of which I also managed to get a recording of, so, win). Tuesday is also the day of the weekly ISG chat, so that… Read more »

Catbutt

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A photo of the back half of our biggest cat, Halo. He is white with tabby markings, though all you can see of his markings is the racoon-esque banding on his tail. He is partway in a gray play tube... and only partway, because his brother Vivi was there and didn't move once he crammed in. Said cat and said tube are on a brown blanket on my bed.

Pictured is what happens when you’ve got four cats who are more or less happy being in each other’s pockets. Vivi was laying just inside the tube, so Halo crammed himself in the remaining bit — and laid on his brother. I’d put my hand past Halo to check, and yeah. Vivi was like, whatever. Naw, the closest we get… Read more »

Planning

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A photograph of our cat Raven when he was a 3 month old kitten. He is a tuxedo cat with white pawns, and a white blaze down his nose. He has mixed black and pink toebeans, which you can see on one paw pointed towards the camera. He's curled up in a little ball in the cup on the cat tree.

It’s Easter next weekend, so we sat down as a group to plan what we’re going to do. Which is to say, making sure the kids understood that if we’re going to do like we normally do (go to MiL’s house and snack) that they have to be prepared to do most of the legwork for laying out and putting… Read more »

Chillin’

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A photograph of a pair of knit socks in progress. They are made with green variegated wool. The one at the top of the photo is complete, while the lower one is not. There are a handful of multicoloured pens on the light brown desk between, as well as the pattern laying underneath the top sock.

And lo, the A/C is on and doing its thing. I’m amusedly the least hot person for once, and more so now that I’m right under the cold air. I commented to R that my glasses are fogging up, which honestly, is amusing me more than its worth. Which is to say, yes, friends a-visiting. In the finest of introvert… Read more »

In the Bag

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A photo of our girl cat, October. She is mainly white with tabby markings and green eyes. She is laying on a brown desk with a back leg jutted off to the side. There's an open but screened window behind her.

And la, another week in the bag. Even though I didn’t have anything taking me out of the house, it’s been a really exhausting one for like, zero reason. And it’s not the having kids in my bubble, as they’ve both been off doing things this week with friends. Littlest was making and opening blind bags with a friend and… Read more »

Four for Fighting

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All four of our cats in the bathroom. October is the one most left, standing on her hind paws. She is white with tabby markings. Next to her sitting on the edge of the bath is Vivi; he is a tuxedo cat and primarily white underneath. Standing beside the bathtub is Halo; he is large, mainly white, and also with tabby markings. Just coming in the room from the right is Raven. He is also a tuxedo cat, but with a cute black nose.

Today, I give you gratuitous cats. They were all in the bathroom chasing the teeniest fly, which. Cats, innit. Better than yesterday, when Halo broke a mug by jumping on the counter chasing a ginormous hornet. Which was confusing, because we’d not spotted the hornet at first, and he doesn’t jump on counters. (he was fine. no damage from either… Read more »

What to Do…

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A photo of our cat, Raven. He's a tuxedo cat with grene eyes and a little black nose. He's got a very green tone to him because he was hiding under a green footstool, and my attempt to take the photo apparently picked up some reflected green.

Whew, so. I’m finally mainly caught up on shop-related tasks. Photos happened, editing happened, and I just finished the listing in my shop. I should probably circle back to the pride ring listings and include the little ‘don’t see your flag, contact me’ note. I forgot to do that. It’s fine for the minute though… not like anyone is going… Read more »