Happy weekend, Cutetropolitans! Today’s cat comes from the camera of sender-inner Hilda K., who writes: “This shot of Simone always makes me think of her going for a medal in the most extravagant yawn competition in the Catolympics.”
Weekend Open Thread
Happy weekend everyone! Maybe kitty needs to go back to bed with a yawn like that. I’m kinda feeling like that too. It’s still early and my body wants to sleep in but my brain is fully alert and going “let’s get up and get going!” I wish body and brain would learn to get along, sigh.
Not much planned for the weekend. Had a our home opener for the local hockey team last night. Very exciting and everyone all pumped up but team just couldn’t make it happen, lost 2-1. Have a rematch tonight so maybe we’ll split the series. Aside from that I think it’ll just be laundry, cleaning and errands.
Have mixed news on the family front – Momma fell about a week ago then suffered some more mini-strokes. Went out to see her last weekend and she’s not doing good, not really eating, doesn’t want to get up, sleeps a lot. Me and my brother are just preparing ourselves for that phone call but at the same time, we’ve been expecting it for a little while now. She just seemed a little lost after Dad died 1-1/2 years ago. Plus my niece’s partner suffered a major stroke and has been in hospital for almost 2 weeks now. So prayers would be welcome.
On the good news side, my nephew and his wife had a beautiful baby boy on Wednesday. Almost nine pounds, 22 inches long and a name he has to grow into -Blaise Zachary Anastasios. Seen a few pics and he’s adorable!!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Sorry for all your troubles, AJ – good to have a new life to give some balance.
I realized that I’ve been sort of MIA today, worried about my brother and his wife who evacuated from their home Monday morning in Santa Rosa. I hadn’t heard from them since Wednesday and I’d emailed them again a couple of times and nothing in return. So I tried calling them and lo and behold, they’d moved from where they were but have no internet so didn’t have my phone number. I am to say the least VERY relieved. And their home seems to be out of harm’s way, so they are very lucky. Sad, but Charles Schulz’s home was burned to the ground with all his memorabilia – his widow apparently still lived there and she is safe. Other beautiful historic structures have been lost – this fire is a tragedy. But so is Puerto Rico – even worse there since the people are so poor and seemingly being ignored by their gov’t. These tragedies certainly force you to set priorities!
I am so glad your family members are safe, Murray C.
Great news about your brother.
Thanks, guys.
Surely the kitty channeling her inner tiger and is letting out a mighty “MEOW!”, not doing something as mundane as yawning!
AJ, sorry to hear about the troubles in your family. It’s so difficult to watch our parents grow old and frail. On a happier note, congrats on your new grandnephew!
I am excited because I am taking myself on a “date” tonight to see a touring Broadway production of “The King and I”. It’s being performed in a newly opened auditorium that I haven’t been in I yet, only seen pictures but it looks beautiful. (The predecessor to the new building was flooded several years ago.) So I intend to dress up and make an evening of it!
Happy weekend, everyone!
AJ also sorry to hear about your family’s health concerns.
Amyliz, my parents went to that performance last night. I’ll be interested to hear all about it!
There’s a fair in my village today, so I’m trying to get motivated to walk through it a second time. Gonna eat crepes with savory fillings (stinky cheese, sauerkraut and beans) and wash it down with newly fermented grape juice (basically the first step in the wine-making process). All while listening to folk music and dodging the street vendors selling barking toy dogs and knock-off athletic merchandise.
Just another weekend in Austria! Have a good one, everybody!
N. Fritz, that fair sounds wonderful – and I’m a fan of stinky cheese, too!
Have fun on your “date”, Amyliz. A funny story – my husband is a member of the grammar police and I was referencing the show “The King and I” with the title of the show as the object in my sentence and before he really thought he corrected it to “Me”! Ah, yes, that wonderful broadway smash, “The King and Me”.
Somehow, “The King and Me” just doesn’t have the same ring to it! 😀
See, now, I thought it was going to be something about OPERA before I scrolled down and saw the entire picture! That IS a colossal yawn!?
Mornin’. Today’s my mom’s 73rd birthday so we’re going out for dinner. Other than that not much going on. I think I need to do dishes seeing as I have literally zero clean teaspoons left and I had to wash out a mug to make hot chocolate. I am using the last clean teaspoon from my drawer, which is this one [picture is not my actual spoon]:
It is probably at least 35 years old. 😛
OMG, South of the Border! Been there way too many times during drives to FL. Such a kitschy tourist trap but I still love it.
We’ve had those spoons* long enough that I don’t actually remember ever being there. I have a kid-size Cookie Monster fork (part of a set; I might have the knife somewhere, too, but the spoon was lost years ago) from Sesame Place that I got when I was 7, and the South of the Border spoon is older than that. (I’m guessing we probably got them on a trip to FL when I was 4.) I actually used the fork to mix up some cinnamon sugar earlier; I keep it in a little 4oz mason jar and I discovered the little fork is the perfect size for mixing it in there. 🙂
*(we had a couple, though I only have one; I don’t know where the other ended up)
lol…the internet really does have everything. Here’s my fork!
Here’s mine!
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I have 4 or 5 Mickey Mouse spoons that came through ordering from the back of a cereal box – the image of Mickey is more towards the “Steamboat Willie” version of Mickey, not his more modern look. I use them all the time – I’m guessing they’re over 65 years old.
65 years! That’s amazing! I’m horrible on poor inanimate objects. I can’t keep anything long term.
? I have a toy from when I was about 8 – it’s a little tin washing machine with an agitator turned by a tiny crank – looks like a petite allen wrench – and I still have that! I always took care of stuff for some reason. That doesn’t necessarily apply to, say, my house! Oh, and I still have my baby spoons that were probably used for my brother (5 years older) and I use them for cat food, stuff like that.
Speaking of cat food, I think I’ve become a nut case. We have our cat on a diet, just to keep her weight down as she gets less active. I buy the tuna and some other flavored cat food from Trader Joe’s. I have an ice cube tray with ten heart-shaped molds in it and distribute the cat food evenly into each heart (that’s when I use my baby spoon) Then I put a dollop of Fancy Feast on top of each heart to fill up the molds and freeze them, then dispense them into a plastic bag and microwave a single one for the cat’s dinner. Do I need to get a life?
My parents have a baby spoon from my brother that is the perfect size for scooping out grapefruit sections.
I love that we find uses for things like that totally different from what might be intended. But they are with you for your entire life and it’s good, if you’re going to keep them, to find a use for them. Gives me a great deal of pleasure – perhaps I’m easily amused?????
Sounds like you have a wonderful life. You treat your cats with love and affection. You watch over things that are important to you. Those are rare qualities.
Aw, that’s sweet, Jerdeyan – I do love my critters. Sometimes as I treat my rabbit for glaucoma and at the moment for head tilt – vestibular disease, 6 weeks of antibiotics twice a day – and my cat for thyroid issues I think WHAT! they get better medical treatment than I do!? But as most of you Cutetropolitans know, we love our fur babies.
I’m glad your life includes such care for your cat, that can only be good. Do not let our cat Watson find out, he’ll be meowing for similar treatment. We have recently begun feeding him “classy” food, which he likes much more than the previous stuff, but hearing about this might make him want a further upgrade. Hubby actually might take it on, he caters to the sat already!
AJ, sorry to hear of your family’s health concern. Knowing the call was coming at any time didn’t make it easier for me to get the call.
I’ve almost survived the 2 weeks with the knee stabilizer, although apparently 4 weeks with a broken leg gets tiring for other people who want you to do stuff for them. Every day I get a call or text asking if my leg is well enough to take the stabilizer off and drive them somewhere. I had my daughter’s van all week, which made it possible for me to drive, but I was not about to use it to take my siblings anywhere. The only reason I had it was so I could take her kids back and forth to school since her husband was out of town. I’m not even going to start on the impatience of my husband, who complained about cleaning the cat food dishes for me. This, from the guy who broke a bone that needed a cast, but couldn’t be casted because of an ulcer on his foot, so he laid on the couch for 6 wks while it healed, and I waited on him hand and foot. Not to mention other medical issues he had (an ulcer for a year, an amputation, the time he spilled boiling tea on his lap, and blistered his thighs, and every thing in between) that I nursed him through, and did everything (IV antibiotics, burn cream, stuffing dressing into a deep hole in his foot, emptying his portable urinal) for him. I can’t get him to do anything without complaining about it.
I’m sorry Patty for your medical woes. And I hear you about men wanting to be waited on hand and foot while they’ve under the weather but god forbid you’re not feeling well and would like some help or TLC. Sending hugs and hope things get better soon.
Ooooh, Patty, I hope you remind him of these things! Maybe subtly, with a little chart/checklist left out for him to see. Then, if that doesn’t work, amp it up. But wait ’til your foot is healed – which you won’t tell anyone else about. Milk it! “I’m sure you won’t mind doing [chore of your choice] for me since I so kindly did [name grossest thing you had to do for him] when you were laid up”. Put your foot down – the good one! Hand out the number for Uber to your sibs – you can do some research while you’re resting. Good luck!
Lily would just like to point(!) out that she too has an Olympic quality yawn!
Lily is a mighty athlete! What a fierce kitty she is!
I see a bit of light in there!
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From “slowrobot”
Murkle, I desperately needed that laugh.
Bad weekend all around. Won’t depress anyone, but for Christmas I’m asking Santa for an umbrella!
I am glad it helped you.Hope things go better!
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Murkle46 – that was hilarious!!!
AJ and Duckie, sorry to hear of your woes, hope happier days are ahead soon.
I wanted to share a track from the music I’ve been listening to lately. It’s from the soundtrack of a new video game titled “Cuphead,” inspired both visually and musically by the bizarre Max Fleischer cartoons of the jazz-age 1930’s. The entire soundtrack is on YouTube, but here’s a little samba-on-amphetamines number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjatOy7teKA
Wow, that’s some pretty high energy stuff! I felt like i’d had a couple of cups of caffeine after I’d heard that!
Just got home a bit ago. I had filet mignon, which I ordered medium but was decidedly rare in the middle (it was a thick filet). I find the texture of too-rare steak gross. Rather than send it back, however, I ate around the rarest parts (since the outside part was perfect) and when I reheat it tomorrow maybe it won’t overcook (any tips on reheating steak are welcome). It was a 12-oz. steak with a ginormous sweet potato, so I had plenty leftover for dinner tomorrow. Then I had a molten chocolate lava cake (well, half of a molten chocolate lava cake) and ice cream. My mom took the other half of my cake home (with at least half of her apple crisp). I liked the lava part better than the cake part, so I decided the leftovers aren’t worth the calories. Then we went to my parents’ house and played cards. Now it’s 10:00 and I still haven’t done the dishes. 😛
IF you haven’t eaten the steak yet I’d just put a little butter in an iron skillet and give it a good sizzle at high heat – depending on how rare it is maybe as much as 2 minutes a side.
Sounds like a nice dinner – you have such a nice relationship with your folks.
Thanks. I’m saving it for dinner, so no, I haven’t eaten it yet.
And yeah, I picked some pretty good parents.
I don’t have an iron skillet but a little butter in a nonstick pan worked just fine. Came out more medium-well, but not overcooked and chewy like the microwave probably would have done. Thanks for the tip!
Oh, yeah, the microwave would’ve been awful, especially for meat like that. Glad it worked for you.
Hi everyone. I have been vacationing in Florida this week with friends who have a lovely house near Kissimmee. We just got back from a delicious crab dinner and I’m about to get into their nice warm pool to de-butter from the food. It’s been so nice to be here this week – felt like an overdue escape from some stuff on the home front. The week is almost over and I’m already feeling sad about heading home. Although I miss my bird and it will be nice to be home if just for him. Sorry I haven’t been posting as frequently lately – I am still here, often reading everyone’s funny posts.
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Nice, Birdcage – glad you’ve had a nice time. And nice to have a sweet bird friend who awaits your return!
Happy birthdays and best wishes to all who are hurting, physically or emotionally. Can’t believe I didn’t post yesterday–the day just got away from me!
I finished sweater #17 on Thurday night, so I met my 2017 knitting challenge. Now I’m working on something much more intricate, since it doesn’t have to be done by December (though it probably will be)!
Congratulations, Debg! That’s amazing and terrific. I do wish I were more of a knitter but I’m cowed by it because I don’t know how to fix errors like dropped stitches. I have tried and I always manage to get the stitches back on the needle in the wrong direction even though I think about it and really feel like I’m doing it right. Sigh.