Saturday Plans....

I have gotten some Holiday items ready to go in finally!  However I'm going to be at any SCA event today with my teens (and my daughter's bff) so I've got to go get ready to leave.  I am determined to get them in tomorrow!!  I realized that I need to put in some different styles of address cards in the store as well.  Any suggestions??  Hope everyone has a good day/night!

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!!

Dead Kats Can't Post...

First, I overslept.  Maybe partly due to the fact that I took a sleeping pill last night (which I'm supposed to do on a regular basis but don't  ::sigh::) and partly... ::flings out accusatory finger:: it's all the cats' fault!!  Yes!  That's it!  It was a catspiracy!!  Zaphy, Oberon, Star... even Thomas was in on it!!  All of them!  All of them, I tell you!  They wanted to make me sleep.  Those vicious evile cats just kept laying around me, on me, over me, near me... purrrrrrrrrrrrring.  All part of their diabolical plan to make me wake up, look at the clock, freak out when I saw that it was past time for my daughter to be at the orthodontist appointment that I had rescheduled for October, and then for them to laugh their little kitty heads off... except when I was looking, of course.

I think they did it in retaliation for my not going to bed early enough to please Their Majesties/Highnesses (titles vary as they go in and out the door or as the cat guard changes... don't ask me, I'm not in charge here, I just feed them).  Star just realized that I'd come into the office for more than a few minutes and suddenly poof!  here he is on the chair beside me.  That's okay, I'm going to shut down as soon as I post this and he can come cuddle up on the bed.  We're still working on his skittishness.

It never fails to amaze me how cats can change in their lifetimes.  But even more so with feral/rescue cats.  If anything happens to put them under stress, they often revert back to their early behavior.  So it's like winning their trust all over again.  You have to show them that you are a member of their pride.... their family.  Show them that you are not going to go away, not going to leave them to starve, to shiver, to die.  Now in some cases of rescue cats, it wasn't the owner's fault, death and/or illness and/or job loss can make a bad situation happen and if there isn't someone to immediately take the pet.  ::closes eyes::  I've had to say "I'm sorry, but I have all the cats I can handle right now" to friends and it hurts like hell doing it (pardon my french).

Back to what I was saying, sorry got off track there a bit, but when something traumatic happens in a cat's life (which may or may not be visible to the cat's companion) it's back to the beginning, do not pass GO, do not collect 200 cloth mice.  So, now I am patiently trying to restore the confidence and love in Man in a little skitty black cat... carefully.  Not that I won't always worry about him.  I worry about all of my cats, but he's a black cat and some people, quite frankly, are... strange... in a bad way.

Good night/day... and may it be a quiet one.