That's Taking a Looooong Time Mom!!

 "So da kids were at their dad's house this weekend.  Dad was in Memphis at a gig.  (He's going to be playing in Smurfreesboro this Saturday too!!) So we decided that mom should rest this weekend."

"She went to the eye doctor's office today.  Tomorrow she'll see a neurologist, a psychologist, and a painologist.  I think that's right.

So that's why we made her rest.  She probably won't be around tomorrow and we'll make her rest Wednesday too."

"Mom has to put in the price changes for each section by hand!!  That takes a long time!!  But this section is done!!  Whoot! 

(and mom found one section wasn't even showing!)"

"Mom's working on this section now but she's not sure when it'll be done.  She's going to put all of the Halloween stuff on sale first and then all of the Breast Cancer stuff.  The Halloween stuff will come down the second week of November (so other Winter stuff can go up).  The Breast Cancer section will stay on sale through Christmas."

Charlotte's Mom Says Thanks...

 "My mom got an email from Charlotte's mom

this morning when she turned on the 'puter"

Thank you! I received your money [Lee County Clowder was whose donation this was attached to] and your good wishes for her. She is still with us. She drank a little water yesterday and moved to a different "cave" in the house. It's so hard to watch her going through this, she's been with us for so long that it's hard to think about her not being here.  You are nice to send this to help.  Best wishes to you and yours.

 

"Mommy's friend is a Witchy Woman!!"

They're Doing It Again!!

 "You are getting sleeeeeeeepy, very very sleeeeeeeeepy.  You will go to mom's store.  You will use the CafePress Halloween Sale of 15% off by putting in the code SPOOKY15.  This will also work on any Halloween items in CafePress.  When you wake you will check your green papers and plastic and see if you can afford to get something but regardless you will wake feeling refreshed and full of energy."

 "Trick or Treat section"

 "Witchy Kitty or Woman; Magic Man or Cat"

"Nine different versions!  heh heh heh"

And Star has been lying down on the bed with me most of the day.  This is a Good Thing™.  My husband got groceries on the plastic last night and brought me home an inexpensive bouquet of roses because he knew how depressed I was.  He also got kitty treats.  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Horde and I have decided to keep him.   ::grin::

Lazy Sunday

The cats and I are laying down on the bed.  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde is industriously engaged in trying to teach me both Synchronized Sleeping and Creative Lounging 101.  Thomas says, "Yes, once she get these two down, we can move on to the more advance forms such as the Cat Nap Curl, Sleeping Stretch, and one of my personal favorites... the Topsy Turvey Sleep."

Thomas is the cat between Star & Mister Kitten.

Da Boys would be extremey happy if just let them sleep in peace!

Rain, rain, go away!

Now I have nothing against rain.  Oh wait, yes I do.  At least, so long as it doesn't progress further than gentle or splopy rain.  (as an aside, the word splopy is not in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.  I find this an affront since that is the only real way to describe rain that comes down in splops.  harumph!)  Anyway, because it's more of an OMG we've got to pull out the mucking big umbrella and occasionally take down the computers because of lightning (damn you, you evile lightning!) it means that my joints go "Woman!  Woman!  What do you think you're doing?!" meh

Fortunately I found a heated mattress pad last year (the last one in a queen size, which turned out to be a king which only worked on one side when we got it out of the box), the only one left in town.  So we set it up so I have the heated side and my husband has the unheated side (he wouldn't ever use the heat anyway.  The minute I turn it on, zooooooooom, there are cats going, "Why thanks mom!  I thought you'd never get around to fixing the cat bed again!"  Serious.

But last night I was abandoned.  I almost cried because there was nary a cat to sleep with me.  Alas.  I got on my side as I normally do and turned out the light.  After a minute, there was a heavy (but not 15 pound kitten) stealthy set of paws working their way up my body.  My savior!!  Sir Thomas of Snuggle came to my rescue and snugged himself right up against myself so that I could feel him purring.  ::sigh::  It was just what I needed to go over the edge to sleep.

Today's sneak peak, in case you haven't checked out the shop, is from the Wicked Kitty/Woman section:

Oh yes, and I'm still hard at work on the Winter Holiday cards.  I have a few 'Santa' Cards done so now I'm going to do a few Hanukkah cards, more Christmas, some general Happy Holiday, and Kwanzaa.  I'll see if I can't get some of these in today or tomorrow.  My weekend is already booked so if I can't get them in before then it'll have to wait until Monday... all contingent on getting anything from my day job!  Some of my older graphics have been on sale but I need to put them back to regular price now.  BTW the Winter Holiday cards will have their own sections on the main page to make them easier to find!!

Aha! Finished Just in Time!

I managed to get all of Magic Men/Cats and Witchy Women/Kittys in just in time to get one graphic request in from the day job.  Which means half an hour of work and then it's off to take the sick daughter to the doc-in-the-box.  Depending on how I feel, I'll start working on Christmas, unless I have something else from the day job.

Star has had his outdoors gadabout for the morning and is back on the job here in the office in the chair beside me.  He started to get up on the top of my chair and then on the arm of the chair so that he could peek at the screen to make sure that I was Doing Things Correctly™ but then decided the chair was a Much Better Place To Be™.

Wence cometh "Get Off The Table?" or Off Mommy Brown's Table!!

In the store there is a Gray Cat who says "What Means This... 'Get off the table?!'".  As I'm sure you know, all cats do this.  So do ours.  But while ours sometimes get onto other tables, it primarily comes from one particular table.  You see, leading from the living room to the kitchen there is a wall where the pantry is located.  Against this wall is a drop table which belonged to my wonderful husband's grandmother, Mommy Brown.

:::sighs::  This morning, I said to Zaphoid as I went to make coffee, "Get off of Mommy Brown's table."  As I came out of the kitchen to come back to the office to turn on the computer I said to Star, "Star, get off of Mommy Brown's table!"  After I got dressed and headed back to the kitchen I looked at Oberon and said, "Get off of Mommy Brown's table."  Thomas has not been getting onto Mommy Brown's table lately.  This is because I scored 14 boxes of books from Freecycle (this afternoon I'm giving away an old computer to someone who needs one, whoot!).  But then he's always preferred to work on silly sleeping poses instead anyway.

I'm going to check with the day job and see if they have any work for me.  Until I hear from them, I'm going to head over to the shop and put in some more of the graphics in Magic Man/Cat and Witchy Woman/Kitty.  And if they don't, I'll just keep on working on the shop today.  Once I get the other eight for each section (four cane cats & four wheelchair cats) I'll start working on Christmas Cats, unless someone requests cats for Thanksgiving.

One Down... Eleven to Go!

I've just finished putting in version one of Wicked Woman into the shop.  Whew!!  It seriously takes some time since I have to go in and manually change the size of the graphic.  gaaaaaaaaah ::head:desk::  I'm hoping that most of the rest won't take as long.  Many times when you import items from one section to another the size stays the same so you don't have to do that.  ::crosses fingers::  At any rate, I've got to take a grocery break.  Wheee fun!  Not.  I am also happy that, while I didn't find the information I was looking for, I did manage to figure out how to get the darn sidebar to close up to just the section headers.  Now if I could just figure out how to get them to open up when you went to that section.  ::sigh::  I'd better head out.  The sooner I go, the sooner I'll be back.  Star will be guarding the computer until I get back.

The Time! The Time!

Which I just noticed.  This is a Good Thing™ since my kids really should take their night meds sometime before midnight!  Now, granted they are both teenagers now.  Oh wait, what was I thinking?  ::stares about innocently, whistling tunelessly, and rocking back and forth with hands folded behind her::  What was I saying?  Ah, yes!  The time!  It's about time for the Changing of the Cat Guard™ as well.  Oh you thought I was just making that up, huh?  No no no no no!  That graphic comes from vaaaaaast vaaaaast, make that vaaaaaaaast experience of the Changing of the Cat Guard™.  I've already Changed the Cat Guard™ at least three times tonight.

At any rate, I did manage to finish uploading all, and I do mean all (oh I'd kiss my computer but that would mean moving!!) of the Witchy Woman, Magic Man, Witchy Kitty, and Magic Cat graphics into Kat's Kats.  muahahahahahahahahahaha!  Oh no!!  Now I have to put them in!!  arrrrrrrrgh!  That's okay.  I just wish I could figure out a) how to make the link to the blog not look like... typing... ewwwwww. and b) now to nest things so that you don't have to see everything at the same time.  grrrrrrrr  It bugs the heck out of me and I don't know enough about programming to do doodleely squat about it.  PoohBears!!

::sigh::  That's okay.  I'm going to find a Good Book™, a Good Cat™ (or two... or three... dare I say it? four?), and Go to Bed™!!  Have a Good Night/Day!

Busy Morning!

Whew!  I've got to take a serious break before I put these up but I managed to finish all of the graphics for the Magic/Witchy section.  Now I'll just have to put them up.  Which, oddly enough, usually takes longer than making the graphic itself.  meh.  At any rate, for those who are interested, this is what will be upcoming...

Witchy Kitty 1 & 2
Witchy Kitty Cane Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Kitty Chair Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat Cane Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat Chair Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Woman 1 & 2
Witchy Woman Cane Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Woman Chair Cat 1 & 2
Magic Man 1 & 2
Magic Man Cane Cat 1 & 2
Magic Man Chair Cat 1 & 2

I'm sure you've noticed the trend of having a Cane Cat & Chair cat in my designs.  There's a reason for that.  Actually, two reasons.  First, I've had friends all my life who've had to use canes or chairs and it's always kind of bugged me that there weren't any cool shirts etc designed for them.  Then my knees went out when I was 26 and I started to have to use a cane or chair off and on through the years and noticed, gee whiz, there still aren't a lot of really cool shirts out there with regular people using canes or chairs.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.