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peppermintyrose

Holy Flurking Snit! You're Not Dead!

Oct 30, 2013 18:41

So, I've been gone for ages! I would not be at all surprised if a bunch of you wrote me off as possibly dead and permanently missing in action. I know I have the inbox of a thousand fanfic updates and also pleas of "WHERE YOU GO????" So mea culpa - I feel so damn guilty. Time to explain myself ( Read more... )

pmr's mea maxima culpa, after dead i must know

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this is Elbly who can't be bothered to log in anonymous October 30 2013, 09:24:34 UTC

It lives! It LIVES!

Very sweet kitty. She sounds like the cat for you - investigating and researching everything, testing her theories. A match made in kitty-heaven.

Re: this is Elbly who can't be bothered to log in peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 09:30:06 UTC

Lol.

She *is* well suited for us. She was scratching the shit out of the kids at the shop who were poking her. That's a point in her favour. Not in her favour - her habit of galloping noisier than a horse across wooden floors at 3am. Although that just usually makes me laugh. :D

Re: this is Elbly who can't be bothered to log in anonymous October 30 2013, 12:16:56 UTC

hah! There's a Facebook cat poster thing that goes round from time to time which has a picture of a very cute cat on it, and says something like: "I don't always run around the house like a crazy creature, but when I do it's in the middle of the night and for absolutely no reason at all."

The joy of dogs is you can crate train them to stop them doing just that. Ahhh! The joys of sleep filled nights.

You can still buy cats from shops in Oz? Really? Sad times :(

Re: this is Elbly who can't be bothered to log in peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 22:45:27 UTC

I've seen that macro! It's so damn true. I've never known such a small cat to walk so heavy either. At the moment, she's on my printer so I can witness the magnificence of her bum in my face.

You can - but we went to a shop where they have rescue kittens. Basically, cat shelters farm them out to various pet shops all around the place, so you don't have to go to a shelter. Myth was dumped just outside the shop, so she was a direct rescue.

fffbone October 30 2013, 11:57:28 UTC

Nice to have you back. You've been busy.

Myth seems like a perfect pet. I love that name. I love black cats too. I gave my sister a black kitten for her birthday once. I miss having a kitten. They're so much fun. My husband is not a fan of cats. Everytime I asked for a kitten we end up with a baby instead. So not going there anymore.

peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 22:48:02 UTC

I have been.

She was originally called "Meth" by the boys - for her night time jaunts around the house at high speed, but Mr. Minty insisted on a change so that he could tell the vet something respectable. :P

What do you mean you don't want more babies! You've gotten your old litter up to spec! Lol - I know what you mean. Funnily enough, it's like having a toddler again. And both Mr. Minty and I extend our cluckiness towards the cat. I even handcraft her feather toys so that she can destroy them with impunity.

fffbone October 30 2013, 23:26:47 UTC

Meth would have been so cool. Middle name Blu. In honor of Breaking Bad. LOL.
I am jealous of your kitten. You'll have to post pictures and updates.
HA HA I hit 50 back in May If I had a new one it would be like making my own grand child. No thanks. I'd rather have a cat.

peppermintyrose October 31 2013, 09:45:43 UTC

Lol - I hadn't even thought of that! But it sure would be fitting, since Son 1 and 2 are into Breaking Bad. :D Maybe we should have called her Heisenberg.

I will post more pictures, as soon as I take them. Worthfighting4 is enjoying vicarious kitty action too via email. :D Cats are much nicer than children, so I wholeheartedly agree with the cat/child substitute. :D

It is alive! anonymous October 30 2013, 12:23:36 UTC

Yay....so glad you are still around.

Darn pets...just like kids taking up way too much time and so often looking so darn cute.

I'm not sure how I feel about AD...trying to let it sink in.

But I'm so glad to see you post and looking forward to more!

Vi

Re: It is alive! peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 22:51:13 UTC

And now I shall start talking at you all again. :D Perfect timing with the book - which is quite lucky for me. Maybe if I'd been delayed another month, you all would have left, and I would be talking to myself (again).

She's so fluffy and adorable. Although sometimes she gives me a look like she thinks I'm a batshit crazy monkey who does weird stuff like go into a cubicle and shower myself with water.

I'm going to have to read it again, not at a full clip, but I think I'll do that when my hardcover gets here, so I can see the artwork in full colour.

I'll post this afternoon, after work and before dinner. :D

Re: It is alive! anonymous November 1 2013, 01:52:13 UTC

Well just to warn you there is very little color to the book. AD is very much like your new kitty....black and white.

The cover and endpapers are beautifully in color but the rest is all black and white. One of the things I love about LD's art is all the bright colors....so I was admitedly a bit disappointed.

Re: It is alive! peppermintyrose November 1 2013, 07:57:34 UTC

Oh, that's a shame. I just get frustrated with Kindle - it's not the sort of thing you look at images on, really. For me, the printed page seems so much clearer and more defined. But I don't mind too much that they're in black and white. If the front has any kind of raised picture or glitter, I'm sold. :D

About time! anonymous October 30 2013, 19:59:58 UTC

But really I am happy to have you back. I know all about kittens. We gotta. New kitten so small we hade to bottle feed him. Plus he got a abcess so we were not sure he would survived. I just love him, and that's saying a lot.

I would check in to see if you had posted. Glad to have you back. I haven't read the books although I have heard good things.
Oregon

Re: About time! peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 22:54:45 UTC

Tell me about it.

Oh poor little thing. Myth hasn't had any problems, thank goodness, but she's an inside cat, so I'm hoping she doesn't have too many. When I have taken her outside, the birds have intimidated her. At the moment, she's sleeping on my printer and I can see her foot twitch out of the corner of my eye while she's having a lovely dream. Keystrokes have become the bird's beaks clacking as she kills them. :D

They're good stuff. I've got to think some more about them, because there's an overarching mystery - and I have James Marsters to talk me through it all. Luckily, there's a wiki for it, so I won't have to turn to fanfic for my questions on how other people think.

anonymous October 30 2013, 20:12:44 UTC

Myth is very cute, I do love black cats. But Earl is a little upset as he believed you were contracting him for, oh, say, 200 years or so to come and be king of your skinks.

He's tried being king of our skinks but, while I removed the one from the dining room, the one in the pantry still remains free despite the odd sighting. Also he likes to chew cords and did kill a power supply to the laptop, but the computer mouse remains at large. One day he will get it though :)

So he's very sad :)
Ooshka

peppermintyrose October 30 2013, 22:59:06 UTC

The boys desperately wanted the black one. And Earl can definitely come be King of the Skinks. Myth looks plaintively at the asian house lizards on the walls, but she's got no chance. And she's afraid of birds. So Earl would be her King as well.

Lol - I love his little antics. It was hearing of the craziness of Earl that got me thinking maybe we should get a cat. So now I can sit looking at the new "legs akimbo splayed over the edge of the printer" and enjoy a little bit of Earl in my own home.

I should send you all the old mice I keep for some god forsaken reason after their buttons break, and then see a new mouse and think "Fuck it, they're only $10" and buy a new one. It's a disease thinking "OMG, what if I can't click something late one Sunday night! I'll be glad I kept the mice then!"

anonymous November 7 2013, 09:30:30 UTC

Oh no, Earl couldn't be king of another cat. He refuses to fight even though he's over 7.5kg of solid muscle (well, a bit of fat but that'll be his penchant for eating any cashew nuts that get dropped - it's also why the vet says he has such good teeth). And he's got enormous paws and, really, if he showed the slightest sign of standing his ground, any other cat would head for the hills.

But he thinks he's a cuddly toy, and mostly just pretends he hasn't seen that strange cat wandering through our house :)

Computer mice are only interesting if they are being moved by someone. Just lying around they don't have the same appeal. But clicking is a dying art anyway - I have a 3 yr old who can't use a mouse but can swipe away at the iPad and find anything she wants :)
Ooshka