From commentor Bowler1701:
This is Pumpkin. When she was a tiny kitten, I grabbed her from under the hood of our Beetle. We already had a house full of cats so I was going to ask our veterinarian to find a good home for her. After a few seconds of holding her close I couldn’t let go. She’s been with us now for 8 years, and she’s a delight. She follows me around the house and talks a lot.
What’s on everybody’s agenda for Hump Day?
electricgrendel
Work until 7 a.m., then class from 8 a.m. to noon. Then I have to go to the hospital and get information about the patient I’ll be taking care of tomorrow; then a nap. Then I do the 3 – 4 hours of work it will take me to get ready for tomorrow. Then sleep.
My Wednesdays suck. A lot.
currants
Getting through it.
Keith G
Such a cute girl!
I work Wed-Sun, so this is my Monday. The weather in Houston has made the turn: Nights in the mid 60s and days in the mid 80s. This after one of the hottest Augusts on record. The eight day forecast shows no rain and constant temps.
Now it’s getting cool enough that I wake to find two kittehs curled together in a ball on the side of the bed. Another 10 degrees cooler, and I will awake to find I am part of the kitteh ball.
I love autumn.
stuckinred
See here how everything
lead up to this day
and it’s just like
any other day
that’s ever been
Sun goin up
and then the
sun it goin down
Shine through my window and
my friends they come around
R. Hunter
J. Garcia
Scott
Other than work — picking up new comics, and hopefully finding out more details about the apparently awesome package that got delivered for me at my old workplace a few days ago…
Phyllis
Another meeting to get everybody on the same page about technology in our district. The real issue is everybody but our IT director is on the same page. And he’s got that surly/everyone’s an idiot attitude working for him. So, win-win all around.
Rosalita
what a sweet little kitteh! these early morning pet threads with my coffee always help my day get off to a decent start. I love the happy expression on her face.
this hump day is nicer than others for me since i’m off next week, and a fall cold front will be arriving just in time to get out and enjoy it.
SiubhanDuinne
That is an adorable kitten! Perfect name for her, too!
SiubhanDuinne
We’ve also had a break in the weather in Atlanta after one of the most brutally hot summers I can remember. A big storm that came through Sunday and Monday cooled things off nicely, and overnights have been getting down to low 50s. Delicious!
I’m trying to cram in a lot of tasks in the next few days, as I’m leaving next week for a three-week vacation.
Steeplejack
I’m working the second of two (usually infrequent) day shifts, filling in for someone who has been out for two weeks and is just getting back. Off work at 3:30, then I have a bit of a break before going back to work at 3:30 tomorrow. Schedule still not posted for next week (they’re supposed to be done two or three weeks in advance, but, hey, policies are flexible if they only hurt the drones), but I assume I will be returning to the dark side.
Thinking about having a nice sit-down dinner tonight, since I rarely get a chance for one.
Nice kitteh up top.
WereBear (itouch)
Mmmm, the constant commenter. She’s adorable! Your instincts were right. She worked out.
Today I am supposed to pick up the rental car because mine has a smashed forehead from a tree branch blown down in the storm we had Monday night. I haz a car sad.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Humping.
arguingwithsignposts
I have an ortho doc appointment today to look forward to. And i didn’t think Ross Douthat could be a bigger douche than in his writing, but damn if he didn’t prove me wrong on Colbert.
ETA: cute kitteh!
jurassicpork
My cat Popeye is exactly like that. He follows Barb and me around the house, is very verbal and not shy about demanding whatever he needs (Since last summer, has an ice cube addiction). He was a rescue from June last year. He ran right up to me as I was walking to the store and remembered me from the previous April when I fed him once.
He also is obsessed with us sitting on the toilet and literally sprints in the bathroom to be petted as we sit there. Does anyone else’s cat do this?
Gonna have a tough time making the rent on Friday. Anything you kind people could do to rescue us would be greatly appreciated. More details are here or here.
cmorenc
@Anne Laurie
You’re almost as bad about cats (especially strays) as my next-door neighbors down at the beach, who run an animal shelter for cats out of their house. At any given time, there are between twenty and thirty cats making their house home base, some of whom are house cats, some of whom live out on an extensive wrap-around porch/deck that’s been screened in and entirely given over to cats, and some are true “outdoor” cats who live out under the bushes (lush oleanders and wax myrtles) during good weather and underneath the house during bad weather. Our houses are out on a barrier island, so the house is raised one floor up on pilings and has a huge open underneath area for cars, seating, etc). This doesn’t count the feral cats who simply come by periodically to feed at their house.
THE BEST PARTS:
– In the portion of their yard immediately adjacent to ours, there’s a cat cemetary, complete with marble headstones for many of the cats, and simple wooden crosses for others, about thirty cat graves in all.
There’s a cat treehouse next to our yard, connected by a twenty foot catwalk to their wraparound porch/deck that’s also given over to the cats (the treehouse and catwalk are enclosed with wire fence).
Their house sits on a corner lot, and on the (somewhat busier) residential street on the side away from our house, they’ve erected a “CAT CROSSING” sign to caution the cars, and had the town erect speed bumps so cars will be forced to slow down and not run over any kitties.
They’re nice folks, but eccentric as Hell about kitties. And all the cat food bowls they put out attracts raccoons and possums, who sometimes come up and crap on my back deck at night. But I grit my teeth and put up with it, because they’re nice, helpful neighbors other than their excessive eccentricity about cats.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts: Good morning! How’s the arm?
arguingwithsignposts
@SiubhanDuinne:
swollen at elbow. still very painful to move. trying to figure how to get dressed for work, dr appt.
thanks for asking. (typing with one hand atm)
SiubhanDuinne
@aws: Hope you have had/will have it properly looked at, with appropriate meds. In the meantime, have Lady Smudge kiss it and make it well.
Kristine
Cute kitty!
@arguingwithsignposts: good luck with the doctor’s app’t.
Inhaling coffee at the moment. Getting ready for the day job in a few. Next couple of days will be spent doing lit searches for a project I’m helping with.
WereBear (itouch)
@cmorenc: Some of us do so much… Because others do so little.
R-Jud
I’m going to Chicago next week for the first time since 2005, and that’s really all I can think about. There’s a few business meetings to get through, then I’m running the marathon, and after that I’ll be hanging out with the friends I haven’t seen since before I got married, meeting the kids they’ve had in the meanwhile, etc.
And I am totally going to Hot Doug’s.
WereBear (itouch)
Since I can’t edit in my touch, I’d like to add that I hope the nutty cat folks are getting everyone fixed. Plenty out there need a home.
Skepticat
@jurassicpork: My cat does indeed do the “Privacy? What privacy?” thing in the bathroom. He seems to think that this is the only time he’ll have a captive audience, apparently missing the other 23.9.7 hours of the day.
debit
Today I am going to attempt to get through my work day without killing anyone, then go shopping for one last wedding gift, then hit the makeup counter and hope I can find something in between “12 year old girl” and “Elvira: Mistress of the Night” in lipstick, since those two extremes are currently all that I seem to have in my house. And then I’m going for a nice long run, god damn it. I’m taking two Aleve and my knee can just deal with it.
SiubhanDuinne
R-Jud: how long are you going to be in Chicago? I’ll be there too end of next week (50th HS reunion) and have plans to meet Emily/ellaesther for brunch. Any chance you’ll have a little time?
SiubhanDuinne
@R-Jud again: Er, ignore mine at #25, I see that you’re running the Marathon on the Sunday which is tthe only time to meet up. Ah well. Another time. Safe travels and good luck running.
JCT
@Skepticat: We have the same ritual with my kitteh. We usually respond by rolling him up in the bath mat “burrito” style. Quite the sight with his orange tail sticking out and waving around. Freaks the hell out of the dogs, though.
Now he often runs in and lies down on the bath mat all ready to be “rolled”. Silly puss.
Carrie
We’re cleaning out the basement today, throwing away lots of accumulated junk/ treasures, some things from when I was a child. My mom has decided to sell the house. After my dad died a month ago, this place seems too big without him.
Oh well, new beginings.
Ash Can
What a darling kitty!
On tap today: As many errands as I can cram into the hours Bottle Rocket is in school. It’s going to be a busy day.
Ash Can
@Carrie: That can be a difficult process. Good luck with everything.
(And FYWP for not letting me edit my own fucking comment.)
tessl.
Today I’m finishing up the laundry, making my husband’s birthday cake, and trying to ignore how far behind I will be at work when I get back there tomorrow.
And I’ll be doing it with the windows open, thankyouverymuch, because the fall weather has hit here in Athens, and it is delightful. (minus the absolute need for allergy meds, that is.)
Oh, and I also had a cat who always rushed to follow us into the bathroom, then would lie across her target’s feet and gaze up as if to say, “since your hands are free, how about some luv?” Sometimes she would follow to express her displeasure with specific people (including, once, my mother, just because her visit disrupted routine). She’d jump into the tub and pee right over the drain while staring hard and angry at you. It really was the most polite way of acting out; I got lucky.
General Stuck
Sweet Pea
Paul in KY
Lovely looking kitten. Glad you gave her a home.
jayboat
Cute overload. Love that face.
Cliff
@JCT:
you shoulda seen molly getting dried off with a old bathrobe the other night, she somehow got her head so far up the sleeve the tip of he nose was barely poking out ..
all the while doing the Ooooohh that feels good wiggle … I LOL’ed
new pics up of a warm, humid fall morning ..
http://mollymaesden.blogspot.com/2010/09/warm-fall-morning.html
JAHILL10
Adorable little kitty face! I’d have been stuck with that one too!
Wednesdays are Hell Days this semester. Work in the library til 3:30 then teach two back-to-back classes from 4:45 to 9 p.m., stagger home, try to cook some dinner before falling asleep. Yuck.
Daddy-O
12:40 day game. With my 25-year-old son. Picture perfect weather. Dinner later.
Doesn’t get much better.
Carrie
@Ash Can:
Yeah, not easy. Going through someone elses treasures and clearly not seeing any practical need for them, that’s the hardest part I think. Have a lot of stuff to donate to the charity shops this afternoon.
trollhattan
I happened across Wil Wheaton’s blog today, in time to find his charming rescue story.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2010/09/to-celebrate-the-legacy-of-our-awesome-dog.html
asiangrrlMN
Cute, cute kitteh.
@arguingwithsignposts: I’m sorry to hear that your arm is not getting better. Hope the appointment goes well.