"What happens to one of you affects the other, you must understand this."

[lumy12]

I set my alarm an hour earlier in the hopes that I'd get up and do yardwork.

Ha! I just snoozed the alarm for the whole hour. It's Monday - what was I thinking? I'll try again tomorrow. I will never do it any other time because it's too damn hot. Last year I did better during the summer because my neighbor would clean up my yard if I didn't, and that made me feel guilty. But now my brother lives there, and he doesn't care what my yard looks like (or if he does, he's not going to bother cleaning it up!).

In other news... last week I joined swficchallenge - it looks friendly and laidback, and focused on shorter stories, so it seems like a good place for me. I SWEAR I don't have to just write Anakin/Palpatine but you know, the first challenge tickled the A/P muse. *sigh* Rated G, though. Get your minds out of the gutter.

I'm going up to the mountains again this weekend - finally! I missed the last 2 trips for various reasons. My plan is to go up Saturday morning and come back Monday night, as long as I can get Monday off.

People! Gah!!! Yes, I know I have a weakness when it comes to taking in cats, but that just has to stop. It's not fair to the cats I already house. Five is, admittedly, kinda pushing it. I joke about becoming a crazy cat lady all the time but really I don't believe in animal hoarding; I'm really not psycho, I promise. (at least not about this)

Remember the guy I persuaded into keeping the kitten he tried to push off on me? He doesn't want her now. She's messing up the house. She's too playful. "We can't handle it," he says. OMG! Do you not remember what kittens are like? Why did you want her in the first place? And thanks for telling me that if I don't want her, you're taking her to the pound. Real fucking nice. I generally can't stand it when people value STUFF more than an animal's life. My house is proof of this. Even when it's clean, there's evidence of cats everywhere you look.

Dear self: Repeat after me - It's not your job to save every cat in the world. She's a devil-cat, yes (she's the one I posted pictures of after I had her for Memorial weekend), but she's still a kitten, she's quite adorable, even if she does get taken to a shelter someone will surely adopt her. And if not... I really don't want to know. Because I'm already tempted to take her. Gryffin got along really well with her, and he's sort of an outcast from my other cats because he's a terrible bully, mostly.

I sent a whiny email to Dad and he responded with the appropriate DO NOT TAKE THAT CAT!!! email of doom. I told Aaron and he just laughed and said I need professional help. Heh.

That's right - "A" is Aaron! He doesn't care if I put his name on here now. In fact, he doesn't remember ever making a big deal about it in the first place. It had been several years since we discussed it, but still - I clearly remember him being paranoid that people were going to somehow find him through me in various online things that I do... he has this weird thing about not wanting to exist. He hides behind family members on all official government-related things. I don't fully understand this paranoia of his. Maybe he's a murderer! Eeeek!

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[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Short, I think. Not entirely sure.

Verushka spawn? hehehehe.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

She's so cute!

Here (http://lumy12.livejournal.com/79539.html#cutid1)'s the post containing the buttloads of devil-kitty pictures. She of course is much bigger than that now. I haven't seen her since that weekend.

So... you want another devil-cat?
*passes on the guilt-tripping*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Logistically difficult, this is. I'm suuuuuuure someone will adopt her. *sigh*

Re: more kittyspam

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, cute!

I want a little black devil kitty.

Wait, no I don't. *sigh*

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

My house has been taken over by one cat, but, if he scratches that plasma tv I'm going to be livid. In fact he HAS scratched it, I can't see it when it's on, which is the only reason I haven't throw a true fit yet about it. He ignores it when it's off, he likes to chase the images on the screen, apparently. I hope he outgrows all his energy soon. Right now he's crashing around the first floor with the toy I bought him last night.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Well, all you have to do is leave it off all the time, see? Problem solved!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

That would mean I could never do a SW marathon then because why would I want to watch SW on the small 2o" screen?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I watched on my "small" 27" screen!

Ohhhh - this reminds me of my annoyance with the way NBC broadcasts their primetime shows. Which reminds me of ER. Which reminds me that I should let you know there's no Clooney in the finale. So you could just watch the retro hour and be done with it if you want. Though the episode itself was good!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Ah, good to know. I wouldn't enjoy the episode because I know nothing about what is going on.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

And Sunny is still fascinated by the TV, although not as much now that he's got his climby thingy. I do wish he'd lose interest in the curtains however!!!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

LOL - you still have these comments in your inbox? (why do I even ask?)

I have no curtains for anyone to be interested in. The blinds, however... ugh, they're so beat up!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

No, these aren't, but the entry prior to this one was in my bookmarks to go back to. I just hit "next entry" to see where I'd left off, since I haven't a clue at remembering any more!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, you DID skip some long ones, I believe. The playground ones. Which I can envision your comments for already... something along the lines of WHINE WHINE WHINE!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have the playground ones bookmarked. I should start from those since I think I skipped those to keep moving forward on the shorter entries. Then again, I can see how many more comments I can rack up on the prior reviewed comments because sooner or later I'm going to run out of comments to post on, especially if Nam gets too far ahead of me.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you could save those for when you run out of stuff to post on. Unless you want to go back and re-read everything and re-comment. HA!!!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Is this a dare?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yes! (if you can remember what it was by the time you respond to this!)

Last comment. Since you notoriously leave all the comments alone for 6 months until just before stats update time, I'll probably forget where I left off icon-wise, but I should start with the K's.