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26868. judithathome - 4/3/2012 10:23:35 PM We're fine...nothing hit around here...it skipped us.
David was here and we all watched the mayhem east of us on local TV. 26869. thoughtful - 4/6/2012 12:42:32 PM If I hadn't mentioned it, I recommend "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield. Has everything a gothic novel should have including a neat resolution that ties up all the loose ends. 26870. thoughtful - 4/8/2012 4:41:35 PM Happy Easter Everyone!
 26871. arkymalarky - 4/8/2012 9:57:06 PM How cute! Happy Easter! 26872. concerned - 4/10/2012 4:37:31 AM Hi, thoughtful -
Nice picture!
Btw, I've got an Easter plus one day story regarding my cat, 'Nightling'.
I was eating dinner after getting home from work this evening and was starting with a salad with lots of thousand island dressing on it.
Well, a piece of lettuce all gooey with dressing flipped off my fork and wound up somewhere under the table. I took a look around, expecting to find the lettuce stuck to the floor, but instead it was glued to Nightling's hind leg by a big glob of thousand island dressing. You see, she likes to hang around while I eat probably because I sometimes pet her.
Well, normally, I'd expect any cat to freak out and head for the hills if a big globby piece of lettuce flew onto their leg and stuck there, but she was cool, just sat there, and let me pull the hunk of lettuce off of her, and even wipe most of the dressing off her fur before she left. It was like she was giving me a chance to clean up my mess:)
I was alternately apologizing to her and making like that snickering hound I remember in old cartoons, but she took it all in stride. Cats can be surprising. 26873. thoughtful - 4/10/2012 2:25:29 PM Cats can be funny. I remember one time when our old cat Emily was sleeping on top of the back (loose) cushion of the sofa. She moved in such a way as to roll the cushion over with her on top, hit the seat and keep rolling until she hit the floor. She immediately looked up at me with a smug look on her face saying, "I meant to do that." 26874. Wombat - 4/10/2012 3:04:45 PM Concerned,
More likely hoping that you'd drop something other than salad off your fork.
Funniest cat story: My parents lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn, which had a deck where we would grill and eat dinner durin the Summer. Our backyard also had a tree that had branches extending into a neighbor's yard. The neighbors had a pair of Corgi dogs with free run of their backyard. One of our cat's favorite games was to walk out on the one of the branches over the neighbor's yard, and lean down like a vulture. The Corgis would literally go insane barking and jumping up and down on their short little legs. One evening when we were eating dinner on the deck, the cat went out on the branch to do his usual thing. He must have gone further out than normal, because the branch suddenly broke, depositing him in the neighbor's yard, literally right in front of the Corgis. They were paralyzed with shock at their tormenter's sudden arrival, and in the second that it took to regain their senses, the cat did a four-legged spring up onto the six-foot-tall fence separating our yards. He then jumped down into our backyard and hid under a rhododendron bush until he regained his composure. 26875. Jenerator - 4/12/2012 9:29:17 PM Speaking of cats - this is HILARIOUS!
Kitty Ennui
26876. vonKreedon - 4/12/2012 9:38:35 PM Yeah, that's hilarious! 26877. OhioSTOPAS - 4/13/2012 12:35:27 AM More for cat lovers:
Simon’s Cat 26878. OhioSTOPAS - 4/13/2012 12:35:50 AM Hey, Jen - Happy belated birthday! 26879. arkymalarky - 4/13/2012 12:59:42 AM Love it Jen!
I had a Siamese as a kid and one Christmas Bro got a train with a short track and plastic tunnel. Jasper was fascinated with the train and just sat and watched it go round and round and through the tunnel. He just couldn't figure the tunnel part out, so he straddled the track to look through the tunnel. As he was looking in the ttain hime its round, hitting him 26880. arkymalarky - 4/13/2012 1:01:36 AM Damn phone...
...hitting him in the ass, and he took s trip through the tunnel. 26881. Wombat - 4/13/2012 5:51:53 PM There is little that is funnier than seeing a cat get embarrassed. 26882. arkymalarky - 4/13/2012 10:33:08 PM Haha! Very true. Dogs don't seem to have that emotion often. 26883. wabbit - 4/17/2012 11:14:08 PM I remember seeing the first Simon's Cat clip and thinking, this guy actually has a cat.
Gotta love Henri, thanks for that Jen! He reminds me of one of my cats. 26884. Wombat - 4/29/2012 8:32:20 PM Wombette is headed for Quinnipiac University. Sent the deposit off on Friday. How to pay for the rest of it... 26885. wabbit - 4/29/2012 10:10:15 PM Cool, she'll meet PP! I just went past there a week ago on my way to the Met, saw the signs and thought of you, wondering whether Wombette had made a choice yet. 26886. arkymalarky - 4/29/2012 11:00:31 PM Yay! 26887. iiibbb - 5/1/2012 3:02:21 PM So it was my birthday yesterday.
I got a car. Well... I got the car my FiL can't drive because he has Alzheimer's. He was starting to run into things (there is a lot of evidence on the car that he'd started to make contact with things that are firm. He was also never good about maintenance. The brakes are completely shot.
Because it was so far out of date registration wise (according to the tow company) - it turned out it was easier to transfer the title to me and just let me take it out of state. I really need this car. My 16 yr old 200,000 mi Saturn is starting to have very regular problems and it can't handle the weekly interstate commute until the middle of summer
We're moving there this summer.
Anyway --- although there was a lucid point where he consented to give me the car, that can't be relied on. This week he noticed his car is gone and now he's not happy. It's already be transferred to me.
I feel guilty and I don't know why. I feel bad for my FiL - dementia has made him very irritable. He gets really nasty to my MiL, wife, and his son --- I have thusfar evaded his ire. Now I feel like I'm going to be seriously in the crosshairs.
...sigh...
at least I don't have to go this week. This might blow over with more time --- but then again it might not. He semi-accepts that the car was loaned to me because mine wasn't working, but I don't think he's really bought it. Definitely has forgotten that he agreed to give it to me.
I wonder if he'll notice the out-of-state plates when I return.
I guess I feel guilty because I feel like I bungled the exchange after finding out that the registration was still valid when the plates were surrendered he just hadn't put the stickers on in years - but didn't find that out until the deal was sealed.
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