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Happy Birthday Arthur

You are everything I could hope for.

Friday Catblogging: Light My Fire

Mingo has become mad for candles. Don’t know why; they’re not a new feature in our home. But suddenly, he must stare into the flame.

Our living room is two steps down from the dining room. There’s an open wall between the living room and the dining room. In the picture, what you’re looking at is Mingo standing on the back of the living room couch, gazing in rapture at a candle that’s lit on the ledge between the two rooms.

It’s pretty funny, as soon as he sees I’ve lit the candle, he races to this position:

Candle-gazing
Light my fire
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Friday Catblogging: Pair in a Chair

Not exactly cat in the hat, but pair in the chair.

From above
I’m in ur chairz, rooning ur furniture
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I’ve got to remember to have a camera handy…

next time I make the bed. You guys have no idea what you just missed. Turns out pillowcases are evil and must be killed.

Friday Catblogging: Just too cute for words

He’s just so cute

A brief glimpse of my life

This is one of those “sorry blogging has been lame” posts.

I am working to finish editing The Study of Witchcraft. Essentially, I am double-checking every book in the bibliography to see if it’s still in print. This is…slow. And already overdue.

I am also furiously trying to finish my first pass at the Teen book before the summer, since summer is when Arthur will be able to do most of his writing.

I am trying to prepare for ConVocation. One of the workshops I’ve been asked to do is one I haven’t done in several years, so I should compile more elaborate notes than I actually have. Also I would like to look better than I do for an event, and I notice big hunky chunks of gray roots coming in, but the place where I get my hair done probably doesn’t have time for me until Tuesday and I leave Wednesday so that’s cutting it close.

I’m really busy at the day job. I brought work home.

Arthur is a pain in the ass. Wants to be driven all kinds of places, wants money every time I exhale, eats so much that I pretty much can’t leave the supermarket, and expects laundry and cooked meals to appear whenever I wiggle my nose.

So. Busy.

And I really want to get back to doing thoughtful, eloquent, ravelicious blogging. Someday soon.

Snow day!

Not only is school closed for Arthur, but work is closed for me. Whee!

So I told Arthur we should do a Calvin Snow Dance, sort of a thank you to the Snow Gods for the day off, and Arthur insists there is no such thing as a Calvin Snow Dance. I’ve been Googling for a while now, “calvin and hobbes snow,” “calvin snow dance” “dance for snow” and more. Not finding any cartoons. So consider this a bleg. If you’ve got a link to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon showing the snow dance, or the sacrifice to the snow gods, or any of that, please step forward.

Whee! Happy!

Arthur’s report card kicked ass.

Pretty things

I went to the Wicked Faire yesterday.

Look what I got!

Friday Catblogging: Cats on Chairs

Fanty on the ottoman
So cute, so curly

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