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September 19, 2001 :: "It’s a good thing she’s adorable"
I forgot how cute kittens are. I forgot how they scamper about and play with everything. How the entire universe is fascinating to them. I also forgot how often they get into trouble.
Last night I made a huge bowl of popcorn. I set it down. Astrid promptly jumped in it.
Later on I poured myself a glass of
This morning she was sleeping on my chest when the alarm clock went off. I said hi to her and she licked my nose, yawned and hopped around the bed. I forgot all about the keyboard.
He said. She said. There’s 23 Comments
soda :)
By bakiwop :: September 19, 2001 11:20 AM EST
pop.
that's so cute it's almost painful
By leslie :: September 19, 2001 11:48 AM EST
It's not "soda" or "pop", it's "Coke". And I don't mean the brand, because I'm a Pepsi-man personally. It's just like "Kleenex" has come to mean all forms of tissue.
By Dave :: September 19, 2001 12:29 PM EST
ya know mr. zilla, this soda/pop thing is starting to get out of control. mayhap you should let your readers decide (so we can show you the error of your ways! ;) ). i demand a poll! :)
By bakiwop :: September 19, 2001 12:31 PM EST
Soda, Pop, Soda Pop, Coke, Cola, fizzy lifting drinks -- use brand names and you fare better.
As for kitten cuteness...cuteness is the only thing that has saved all of mine from being made into either bedroom slippers or sporrans. Sometimes only barely. I figure any kitten that enters my house will do about $85 to $200 worth of damage or do something that terrifies me and requires an expensive vet visit for no real reason at all except to make me feel better. Even having very high places with no easy accesibility expressly for the purpose of putting the nice breakables out of reach doesn't work, as those areas are automatically Kitty Paradise. I've learned not to yell and so far my cranberry glass and the expensive Chinese cloisonne vases have survived. Several pieces of colbalt glassware, however, and some crystal candelsticks, have no been so lucky.
I love my cats.
By Sherri :: September 19, 2001 12:58 PM EST
A yawning kitten may be the most aggressively cute thing on this planet.
By Todd :: September 19, 2001 01:38 PM EST
awwwwwwwww! :)
By zal :: September 19, 2001 02:48 PM EST
...until you smell their cat-food breath
By tracy :: September 19, 2001 05:20 PM EST
...until you smell their cat-food breath
By tracy :: September 19, 2001 05:20 PM EST
Whoopsie. Sorry about that.
By tracy :: September 19, 2001 05:21 PM EST
Aw, she licks noses! My cat does that - and hands, and feet (tickles), and my arm when I'm trying to type. She woke me up once by trying to clean my hair. It was too long for her and she kept getting tangled up in it.
And it's "pop". But then, no one calls it soda in Canada. :)
By Natalie :: September 19, 2001 08:22 PM EST
All right Natalie! [high fives] These other cretins and their secular language will just have to learn. And Leslie of all people. Tsk, tsk. A former Royal Oak resident too. She’s turned to the dark side with that 's' word. So sad... Come back to us Leslie. Use the pop word. Just for us. Do it.
By Davezilla :: September 19, 2001 09:02 PM EST
A kitten (or cat) cleaning between its toes is the cutest.
I fed stray dogs and their puppies last night. I'm in animal-lover heaven.
By andrea :: September 19, 2001 09:14 PM EST
You're all wrong with this soda/pop argument.
It's "ginger".
So there.
:)
By pixeldiva :: September 19, 2001 10:17 PM EST
Ginger? Is that a Scots thing?
By Davezilla :: September 19, 2001 11:23 PM EST
Yup.
Ginger is a scottish thing, specifically the west of scotland, and the glasgow area in particular.
Usage is usually of the form:
Gonnae go tae the van (ice cream van that drives round the streets) and get me a pack o' fags (cigarettes) and another boatle o' ginger, here and take they emmties back tae, and make sure they gie ye the right nummer o' twennies back (taking a glass bottle back means that you get 20 pence in return).
Here endeth todays lesson in Glasgow culture.
Ahh, how I'll miss it...
maybe.
By pixeldiva :: September 20, 2001 06:48 AM EST
Okay, okay, I've been outed. I'm not the chic New Yorker you all thought I was. It's pop! Pop I say. It's not soda. Soda never feels right when I say it. Pop. Ah, I feel so much cleaner now.
By leslie :: September 20, 2001 07:21 AM EST
Pixeldiva is of course lying. She calls Diet Coke "juice".
By D :: September 20, 2001 08:18 AM EST
D is of course right. I do call it juice.
But that's because I like to be different... and "ginger" makes me cringe.
:)
By pixeldiva :: September 20, 2001 08:20 AM EST
Bravo Leslie!
Hmmm Ann. First ginger, now juice. Well I suppose that’s better than calling it soda.
By Davezilla :: September 20, 2001 08:47 AM EST
I realize now why my kitten spilled my pop. She was preventing me from drinking anything which supports the bin Laden family. How could I not see this?
By Davezilla :: September 20, 2001 08:54 AM EST
ahhh, cats - the new weapon in the war against terrorism.
soda
By bakiwop :: September 20, 2001 11:38 AM EST
It's Soda Pop -- both together, said with a slight twang and the "O" in "Pop" has two syllables.
As in: "Ah wus jes gawin t'th'kitchen an' Ah thowat as Ah wuz thewstie, mayabe ya'll wuz thewstie and ya'll's lak me t'bring ya'll back a soda pa-wp."
By Sherri :: September 20, 2001 12:43 PM EST
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