Random updates

I've had a bunch of potential posts popping up and swirling around in my brain over the past several months and not one of them has made it to the blog.

I was going to write about riding my motorcycle while wearing pearls. I was going to write about the smell of popcorn and chocolate every so often as I'm riding home through Clinton. I was going to write about how much being 30 feels just like being 29 and about what I've learned in the past year. I've also been meaning to take and post pictures of the baby cardigans that I'm making for my now 1 year old nieces, and how I managed to knit 80% of the first one in the week that I bought the yarn and how it's taken me several months since and I still haven't finished either of them. I was sure that I would have them done with time to spare before their respective birthdays. It turns out that I'm most productive as a knitter when I'm away from home and don't have a house to putter around.

I'm now working full time again, and this past weekend I've been sick with a cold which is sort of ironic since my new job is tracking flu data and I spent Thursday registering hundreds of people for flu shots. All I can figure is that I wore myself out and ran down my immune system giving the cold an opportunity to settle in. Consequently I spent the weekend snuggling with a kitty under the covers and indulging myself in anything I felt like eating. The downside to this mini break is that life rolls on and there are things to be done...

Molly, Queen of Cushions...

Mr. Mick close-up

Well the renovation work lately has been very slow and boring so I'm posting a cute (if blurry) picture of Mick doing his thing, chillin on the sofa arm.

Sleepy Kitty Cuteness

There are lots of baby pictures being passed around the internet these days, so I thought I would combat it with Kitty pics. Unfortunately the sound of a digital camera about to fire mere inches from his/her face is enough to wake a sleeping cat, so they're only partial sleepy pics. I guess I need to acclimate them by taking more pics ;-)

Here's Miss Molly lying infront of the refrigerator exhaust vent. Why that's necessary in this heat wave I really don't understand.

And here's Mr Mick sleeping in one of their favorite spots on the cow pillow.

And now returning to sleep after I so rudely interrupted him ;-)

Cats with Huevos

Who knew that Mick would love a purple plastic Easter Egg so much? Someone at Trader Joe's was hiding Easter eggs among the groceries and Paul found one with a fruit leather inside while he was working the dairy box. He brought it home, I ate the fruit leather, and the egg got tossed onto a table or something and then we didn't think about it again until the next morning when we came down to find Mick zinging around the house chasing it! He was having a grand ole time, too. Now, just for a little perspective, our cats tend to knock things off of horizontal surfaces in order to see them fall and then get bored and move onto the next thing. But I guess the egg has just the right amount of slipperiness and lightness to make it Really Fun (TM). And of course it got him into a crazy, wild-eyed, rolling around on the floor like he's been hitting the 'nip just a bit too hard thing going on.

Here's a pic of Mr Mick McMickleson sleeping in "Chickenwing pose"... it's a new yoga asana for cats ;-)