Missy's Corner: October 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Where are they now?!

3:04 PM

WHOA! Two posts in the same day!? What has gotten into this girl?! Tehehehe! Don't deny you weren't thinking it! This post, is a special post to honor our kittens' 6 month birthday! I got in contact with the families of Belly (now Pippin), Schrodinger, and Socks to see how much their babies have grown, and boy have they! Along with pictures, I had everyone send a little blurb about life with the kittens and its interesting to see how much they have in common, despite living in separate homes.

SCHRODINGER

"Schrodinger is doing great. He and Jinx love each other and play all the time. Between the two of them, our apartment is almost completely remodeled every time we leave. Definitely never a dull moment. Oddly enough, Schrodinger loves water and I find him in the bathtub or sleeping in the sink all the time. I attached a pic of him long-catting across a chair. He's huge now but he still has his kitten face!"

BEFORE LEAVING

TODAY
Schrodinger "long-catting" and Jinx

PIPPIN

"my name is zoe and i am the adoptive mother of pippin. ryan is my boyfriend, the father of course :). we are in love with him! he is one crazy kitty with amazing ear hair behind his ears!!! he looks like an old man. he definitely has grown since we first got him...he loves to crawl under our blanket at night and lay at our feet while we sleep. oh and, he looooves to play fetch with me, yes i know it is strange! i know of dogs that don't even play fetch. he just grabs a toy mouse and brings it to me so i can throw it for him to repeat the process...and right now, he was sleeping on the top of the couch behind me and reached out to put his paw on my shoulder and keeps passing out. you know those times in school where we fall asleep and our head becomes heavy and falls then we jerk back up to catch it? yeah, he is doing that right now. hahaha."

BEFORE LEAVING

TODAY

SOCKS

Socks is in love in his new apartment (yes, it's his, the rest of us just live here), although he plots daily to escape one day while the door is open... if only just for a few hours... He has made a great friend in Camlo (who, at 4 years old, is at the same level of destructiveness as Socks), and once saved Camlo from a particularly ferocious cockroach (who soon after became a lunchtime snack)! He has even started sleeping next to me on the bed at night... when he's actually sleeping and not attacking my feet! He's getting big, finally fits into the collar that was about 3 inches too large when we got it for him, and has started eating so much that I've had to upgrade his food/water setup (although I ignore his incessant whining about not being able to overeat like Garfield). Overall, he's doing great, and is an integral part of our family :)

Socks can be reached for comment at socks@ichristo.com

BEFORE LEAVING

TODAY

WOW, those kittens have really grown and changed! Can you believe the coat on Pippin? Or how tiger-like Socks looks? I find it very interesting how much Monkey and Schrodinger look alike; I think I can say, without a doubt, that those two are twins.

Monkey and Savannah are still growing too! As of Monkey's last vet appointment, he weighed in at 7.5lbs and still has a long way to go! He still spends most of the day snuggled up on the couch, under the recliner, or next to the husband pillow. Mister and I still can't believe he can get under that chair. I know one day we'll come home to him stuck under there! This "little" boy is also a major snuggle hog! There isn't a day that goes by where he cries for one of us to find and pet him. Just last night, Mister had his feet up on the table and Monkey climbed up and fell asleep. He always uses his big fluffy tail to announce his presence, and if Monkey feels you are paying too much attention to your laptop and not enough to him, he's found a way to let you know.

Miss Savannah is still her petite self, but has a gorgeous coat color. From certain angles she looks almost black but is in fact a really dark charcoal gray, with a light gray undercoat. When the light is right, you can even see her stripes! Miss Savvy has taken a liking to hiding under the covers; actually, its more like anything that can cover her! Whether it's a blanket, newspaper, or jacket as long as it is dark, she's happy and she'll purr real loudly to let you know! Savanna, likes to get into a lot of mischief too, and recently started jumping from the bed onto Mister's dresser to chase the fish! But when she isn't being "Under Cover Toe-Eating Monster" Savannah loves chasing and snuggling with her brother.

Of course I can't finish this post without mentioning the greatest cat of all, Kitty. Without that sweet, loving cat there would be no Pippin, Schrodinger, Socks, Monkey, and Savannah; there certainly wouldn't be a "Missy's Corner" too! Every time I look at our beautiful babies, I thank her for coming into our lives and putting up with us humans. Since her babies are growing up, she has started to gain some real weight. Gone is the scraggly, "skinny-ma-link" that first came to our doorstep. Kitty has also started to show a lighter more playful side, too, occasionally chasing the kittens around the house and snuggling with us at night.

MAY ALL FAMILIES HAVE MANY MORE STORIES, MILESTONES, AND BIRTHDAYS WITH THEIR BABIES! Till next time ya'll!

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The Great Stay-cation!

10:06 AM

Ever since the economy took a huge nosedive, people have been looking for ways to save and pinch pennies anywhere possible; from driving instead of flying and eating at the dinner table instead of at restaurants. New trends are popping up everywhere! When I first heard the term "stay-cation," I thought it was a joke! Some kind of nonchalant way of calling a person boring or unimaginative for staying home instead of flying to the ends of the earth on their vacation. Boy, was I wrong! Last week, Mister treated me to five straight days of vacation that stayed pretty close to home. Leading up to his time off, we pondered about places to road-trip, possible family to visit, or just plain doing nothing. Needless to say, I was worried my five days at home would become very monotonous and boring.

Anyways, the first day of vacation started like it would any day, we hit the YMCA for a little workout and I did my Pilates. Then the "stay-cation" began! There was a new movie out that Mister really wanted to see, but I was a little skeptical. Many of my friends who had seen it were giving it rave reviews on Facebook, so I decided to give it a shot. That movie people, was "Zombieland," and would you believe that it was AWESOME! Woody Harrelson was absolutely hilarious as the twinkie-loving Zombie fighter, and the main characters "rules of survival" were so basic and laughable! While I could have had less oozing from the zombies, I don't think I've enjoyed a movie like this since "Shaun of the Dead" (another Zombie comedy classic!) But the best part of the movie, was that I was enjoying it with Mister on a Wednesday afternoon!

Thursday was a little more subdued; unless you don't consider a trip to the gun range and firing off some rounds into a piece of paper relaxing! There was one guy there using paper plates with little red dots on them as targets. He was telling me that he hadn't shot his gun in over a year and his accuracy was way off. I watched him fire a handful of rounds into the paper plate and thought to myself "if that guy's accuracy is way off, then I don't know what I'm aiming at!" I'd be lucky if I could group my shots to the size of a paper plate! Afterward, Mister and I decided to hit the bowling alley, since we haven't done real bowling in a long time. When we got there, I learned what the senior citizens of Peachtree City do to keep themselves occupied during the week - there wasn't a single lane open! Each and every lane had teams of people over 40 bowling their little hearts out!

On Friday, Mister and I decided to adventure out of the house and visit Callaway Gardens. Every since our trip to the Tennessee Aquarium's butterfly house, I've been wanting to see the Gardens'. This trip also marked my first meal at a Wa-ho (i.e. Waffle House for those who don't know); I consider myself more of an IHOP girl, but in a pinch, I think I could do Wa-Ho again. Once there, we started with the botanical gardens at the Sibley Center. There were flowers and plants of all different shapes, sizes, and colors as well as creatures and animals too!

After the beautiful flowers, we drove the long and winding forest road to the Butterfly Center, where there were more colors! This time they were flying around us like an aerial ballet. When we first walked in I saw a huge spider way above the door had caught a spider in its web. Unfortunately, it was too fuzzy to make out on my camera; and by the time we came back the butterfly had (fortunately!) escaped.

I also got to see Mister at his best. He seems so natural and relaxed with a camera in his hands. We tried our hands at fishing too, but no luck.

Sunday happened to be one of the best day of the stay-cation. Yeah I know, I skipped Saturday, but that was a real lazy day for Mister and I; we decided to follow the "stay" in "stay-cation"; we didn't really do anything or go anywhere. Anyways, Sunday we took another trip down south to see The Great Georgia Air Show at Falcon Field.

After such a wonderful weekend, Monday came, and so ended the Great Stay-cation of 2009. I hope this post has inspired people in the blogosphere to look closer to home the next time they have vacation time.

On a separate more artistic note, yesterday I finally got back to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens; this time I brought my spiffy paint box with me! At first I thought the subject I chose to paint was going to be a real challenge, but I think I did a pretty good job!

Recently, I finished my second "box project," too. This time, I used fabric instead of ribbon and created a Spring scene. Ironic since Fall has arrived here with a vengeance. We haven't seen the sun in three days and we may have a freeze warning Sunday and Monday mornings! The trees and flowers were each individually cut and glued together. I used the same weaving pattern for the lid, using the light green, dark green, and brown to make seem like you are looking down into the top of the tree.