This weekend’s cat comes from Jan F., who writes: “Have you heard of RTA, AKA Red Tabby Attitude? Well, here’s Mike, who buries the needle on the RTA-O-Meter. He does not believe in sitting on a cat tree in a dignified manner like some dumb Persian cat. Nope, he must drape himself artistically and show off that ridiculous red tabby tail. Mike is tall, young, strong and quite the leaper, which makes him pretty much of a brat around the house.”
Mike knows he is fabulous! This picture reminds me of a Far Side comic; there’s a fence with a sign reading “Boneless Chicken Ranch” and there are limp chickens laying around, including some draped over the fence!
I love that Far Side example (among many, many others).
Me, too – and the Peanuts strip with, I believe Frieda holding a “boneless cat”.
Cat Mike: “Bones are for squares, Daddy-O!”
Last day of 2016!!!! I have no fancy plans for New Years Eve – I am going to make some appetizers and watch a movie with my mom and dad, I think, after tie-dying a t-shirt this afternoon (just because). I will probably be in bed before midnight. There’s apparently a leap second to account for this evening so don’t forget! This holiday break from work is almost over. There is part of me lookijng forward to getting back to routine. I’m certainly looking forward to my own bed at my house (I’ve been staying with relatives for the holidays). Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year’s Eve. Here’s to the cute in 2017!!!
It’s Not that Mike The OTHER Other Mike!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Tonight I will be spending the last evening of 2016 and welcoming 2017 with dear friends. We have been getting together to celebrate New Years Eve for over 35 years, and even if the celebrations have gotten tamer through the years and even if some of us have to fight a little harder to make it to midnight, at heart we are still the same people who used to say “it’s great to be young and insane!”. We just say it a little more quietly now and drop the first part ? ???????⚾️?
I wish every Cutetropolitan healt and happiness for the New Year ❤
And what a fantastic tail it is! It deserves to be shown off!
[Side note: Do I now get to be “Not that Jan the other Jan”? 🙂 ]
Lily and I are headed to my parents’ house across the water for sparkling cider and b-day cake, but we wish you all a safe and happy New Year!
First NOMTOM’s wonderful place and presentations, then Cat Mike’s glorious colors, draping and catitude, now this beautiful face snuggled in with such a coy manner!!! How to go on?!?
Coy to the world1
Peekaboo!
I might not make it til midnight tonight to watch the ball drop, but I wish the best to everyone for the coming year.
This is just further confirmation of the essential bonelessness of cats, of which I am firmly convinced.
This puddle of cat liquid has turned me into a puddle. Too cute!!!!! Not much going on today, heading to a friend’s house for a New Year’s Eve party later. Should be interesting, everyone is either Mexican or Filipino so the food is awesome and plenty of it – probably gonna be a whole roast pig, Filipino egg rolls (lumpia), fried noodles (pancet), and more goodies. Let’s see if I make it to midnight as I’ve kinda been under the weather with a stomach bug for the last few days. Oh and I finally unveiled my Cutetropolis calendar, love January’s photo. I’m trying to be good and only flip to the new month when it’s time so I don’t spoil the surprise for the rest of the year.
Happy 2017!
I’m watching season 3 of Sherlock, and then The Abominable Bride, to get ready for tomorrow’s new season! New Year’s Eve isn’t a big deal for me, but New Year’s Day is my fave holiday.
Somewhere, once upon a time, I heard about a New Year’s superstition in which everything you did on New Year’s Day, you did every day of the year. So I plan my Jan. 1 very carefully, with things I love to do and things I need to start doing (ahem, exercise!). It’s like a 24-hour resolution period and celebration all at once.
Happy 2017 to all the Cutetropolitans from me, Ursula, Josephine, Arabella Figg, Albus Severus, Fred & George Weasleycat, and Scorpius!
Sherlock reminds me that if you can get Acorn TV either as a channel or thru the internet, Season 10 of Murdoch Mysteries is starting to stream tomorrow. Can’t wait!!!! If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out, it’s an early version of CSI with some Sherlock thrown in set in late 1800’s/early 1900’s Toronto. Fabulous series. Also another cool series I found on Netflix streaming is Rescue SOS about a wildlife rescue center outside London. They help all those typical British wild animals – hedgies, foxes, badgers, various birds of prey, etc.. Very very good.
I LOVE Murdoch Mysteries! Thanks for the tip about the new season.
That’s for the heads up. I’ll definitely check out Rescue SOS. I don’t know that I can get Acorn TV but I’ll look that up too.
I think I can get all of Murdock Mysteries on Netflix. Thanks for letting us know it’s worth it?
Thank you to Cutetropolis and the commentors for getting me through this horrendous year. At times, you were the only bright spot in some pretty hard days.
Wishing everyone health, prosperity, and happiness in 2017.
Happy New Year to you, Boosmom!
Happy New Years Eve, everyone! Tonight, as usual, I’m going to my friend’s house. We watch a lot of Disney (used to watch the Twilight Zone marathon until her daughter got old enough to pay attention to the TV). They’re going to PA this afternoon and said they were going to pick up chicken and potatoes from the Amish market on the way home, and I made mini chocolate pudding pies for dessert. Just need to pick up some whipped cream. We do our Christmas presents and hang out and it’s quiet, then I leave shortly after midnight before all the idiots get on the road.
What a prosh puppy!
Wow, I am breathless with all of the “doings” of my fellow Cutetropolitans. I have an exciting day planned cleaning our oven – apparently what I made Christmas day boiled up all over the bottom and the next time I turned the oven on we had a kitchen full of smoke.
However, tonight is a really fun party with lots of food and music – and musicians always make it to midnight – and beyond!
Best wishes to you all for a Healthy and when possible Happy New Year. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – “Keep Yer Pecker Up!”?
Happy New Year everyone.
If I don’t fall asleep, I will be spending it watching the livestream from Cornell University Lab of Ornithology in Peru. A couple of green and white hummingbird chicks are about to learn how to fly. Here is the link to the Youtube livestream, for anyone who is interested.
How sweet – they’d better learn how to fly soon, they’re STUFFED into hat nest!
Very cool, thanks for the link!
Just looking at that photo makes my back ache…
I hope everyone has a better year next year. Drive safely tonight, take a cab, designate a driver who doesn’t drink, crash at the party host’s house, just stay out from behind the wheel, and watch for people who make the decision to drive drunk.
I don’t drink, and NYE has not been a highly celebrated holiday in my family since 1981 turned into 1982 with my family watching paramedics trying to revive my sister, who collapsed at the stroke of midnight, in the middle of singing Auld Lang Syne.
In recent years my brother hosts a NYE party, and I usually go to his party (he has a camper in his yard for drunks to crash in). This year I have been sick for going on 3 weeks, was diagnosed with bronchitis yesterday, and do not feel like going anywhere.
The DNA results on my daughter’s foster baby’s father finally came in, and come February 1st, he will be going to live with him. The parents are not bad parents, they just made some bad choices, and doing jail time for probation violations makes it difficult to take care of a newborn. Since the mom is my niece, I will still get to see him on a regular basis.
“and watch for people who make the decision to drive drunk.”
This is why I leave shortly after midnight. I don’t drink on NYE; I’ve never been a big drinker to begin with and my friend isn’t, either. Her husband might have a beer. I got a bottle of sparkling cider (peach, actually, but I’m pretty sure it’s mostly apple juice anyway) so we can pretend be grownups. 😉
Hope you’re feeling better soon and that things work out with the baby and his dad.
Patty! My father died on New Year’s Eve, 1990, – ’91! He was at a party, had walked a neighbor home and come back – my Mom asked him if he’d like his dessert, he said yes and he dropped! They wheeled him out on a gurney just as the bells and whistles began. His official time of death was New Year’s Day because they revived him briefly. Boy, it does change New Year’s when that happens. When my Mom moved in with us we couldn’t do anything except maybe host a small gathering. It’s a good death for the one who’s gone, but devastating for those left behind.
Sounds like reasonably good news about the baby. But I hope you feel better pronto.
Yeah, June’s official death date was Jan 1, 1982. Mostly because she had a pacemaker that led the paramedics to keep trying, “She has a heartbeat!” Mom is trying to explain she has a pacemaker, but they weren’t listening. Turns out she was likely gone before she hit the floor. While the pacemaker extended her life by 4 yrs, it masked the irregular heartbeat the myocarditis would have caused. Untreated myocarditis can lead to sudden death, heart was too damaged to work properly. Bad thing about it, the next year on NYE, her BIL was shot to death in a robbery at the store he worked at.
I do feel better already, 3 doses of Bactrim seems to have helped. I was really feeling bad yesterday, worried that maybe it was pneumonia instead of bronchitis. Still not going to a party though.
Patty, I have been, and am still, thinking a lot
about you and hope that things will improve for
you in the year coming. You have been a very
strong person, and have given a lot to others
who needed help. I am wishin g you love and
care for yourself. Consider yourself hugged,
big-time.
Aren’t all cats brats at heart? My tortie is. ?
I’m not doing much. Just being lazy since I can be. Happy New Year to all my fellow Cutetologists! May the study of teh Qte move ever forward!
Happy New Year to all here at Cutetropolis.
I have Tika marinated chicken breasts and baked potatoes for dinner.
No plans except playing with Millie and holding back one of our regular daily allotment of kisses for midnight.
Millie had her next to last shots on Thursday. In consultation with the vet and after research online, it turns out she is not a Deer Head Chihuahua! She is mostly miniature Dachshund. She is long, has turned ankles, long snoot, floppy ears. She may have some chihuahua in her as her tail curls slightly, her legs are medium long and her ears, while floppy, are smaller than Dachshund ears.
The more Millie matures and the closer I look at her the more Dachshund characteristics I see. The vet called her a Chiweenie!! A designer breed. I looked at pics. And yup Millie is a floppy ear version of a Chiweenie for sure.
I love the adventure of finding out who Millie is. And no matter what I love her more every day.
We wish you all a safe and happy New Year!
And thank you so much ntmtom for Cutetropolis.
I suspected some doxie in her! And some moxie!?
I’m sure you couldn’t love her anymore if she was a prize winning pure-bred Deer Head Chihuahua! And anyway, wawas and wieners are the cutest so with a Chiweenie you get the best of both!
Millie knows who she is, I’m sure.
Lol! Yes! She a pure bred Millie. Best of that breed by far. ??
Happy 2017 from Ani and me! I believe that someday the number “2016” will strike dread and unease in people who see it, much as the numbers “13” and “666” do now. Street numbering systems will be altered to avoid it, just as tall buildings skip the 13th floor. Perhaps even now, people who live at 2016 Elm St. are trying to get their address changed to “2015 1/2 Elm St.” or maybe “I Have Gazed Into the Abyss that Consumes My Soul For All Eternity Elm St.”
I want to thank all of the readers, tippers, sender-inners and commenters for making 2016 so much fun. We’re going to need each other more than ever in the strange days ahead, so drive safely tonight and always. Happy New Year!
Here’s to you, Mike – you made 2016 bearable for us all.
Hear hear!
All the best to you and yours Mike!
Thanks Mike for your New Year’s wishes and the site. Happy New Year to you and Ani!
All the best to you and Ani!??
Mike, Thank You for creating this site–a life saver many times over!?
YES!!!
Happy New Year’s Eve, Cutetropolitans! We’re heading out in an hour and a half to celebrate with friends who are lucky enough to have a penthouse apartment. A perfect place to watch the fireworks at midnight over Vienna! Tomorrow is the New Year’s Concert, which they show live on Austrian TV. This is my favorite time of the year!!! Wishing you all peace, happiness and nose boops for 2017!
Well, that sounds like the best New Years Eve in the world! Have a great time.
I second the motion!
OMG fireworks over Vienna! Sounds like heaven. Funnily enough, I’m just now knitting with some yarn I bought in Vienna some years ago–you’re bringing back even more happy memories, N. Fritz!
DebG, do you remember where u bought ur yarn? I have a couple of favorite stitchery shops here and since we have so much in common already, it would be interesting to see how far the connection goes!
I love the Strauss New Year’s concert! My New Year’s Day ritual is watching the Rose Parade on TV with the sound off, and listening to the concert on the radio.
Good concert this year, with a dishy young director. Enjoy NTMTOM and everyone else who plans on listening to the concert today or watching it on PBS this evening!
Happy New Year, everyone, very soon — although it’s already Jan. 1 for a friend of mine in New Zealand. The International Date Line does make for some interesting confusion — like the time I flew from Japan to California and arrived before I left. That’s when jet lag turns into brain scramble!
We have no plans for tonight. Since we’re both former drinkers, we stay home on Amateur Night, as we call it. Better safe than sorry! Besides, the idiots will be out setting off fireworks. So it’s a good night to stay home and make sure nothing burns down.
For those of you who will be out on the roads, please, *please* drive as defensively as you can! The problem with drunks driving is that too many of them don’t realize how impaired they are. So do be careful — you all matter to this wonderful little community!
And last but not least, feline Mike has an awe-inspiring tail! I often wish I had a lovely long prehensile tail. How much fun would that be?
I have always called it amateur night too. Especially when I was working the night shift at a very popular restaurant. So many drunks, so many fights, and so much puking. There was one NYE where the parking lot was covered with snow, and one table made a loud racist remark about another table. They went outside, followed by all the other fighting drunks, and soon the lot was full of drunks sliding around trying to beat each other up, but missing. It was our very own slapstick comedy. I always loved the reaction when my favorite night time cop showed up, he was about 7 ft tall, weighed like 300 lbs. Silence spread from the front to the back of the restaurant as he walked from the door to the table in the back.
A very good story! That would be a great scene in a movie or TV series.
Happy New Year to all here. Here’s hoping a new start will be good for all.
BTW, I’m Laura’s daughter, and I want to thank you all for how awesome you’ve been with her recently. I don’t know why I don’t comment more, but it helped me too, quite a lot. This is a lovely spot with lovely people and I think you are all awesome.
And I, too, want a prehensile tail.
Hi, Laura’s Daughter Rachel – good to hear from you!
Happy new year to all of you! I have a lonely NYE this year, but at least my white cat added some excitement to the afternoon. I spent 1-2 hours looking for him, only to find him hiding in plain sight – lying on a white shopping bag, I passed him about 528 times while i was looking for him, of course he did not move 🙂 I noticed him only when I saw the white shopping bag blinking at me. Cats… 🙂
Hugs to you, Emsthemonster and I wish we could all be together for New Year’s. Glad you found – noticed – your tease of a cat!
Thank you, Murray C, it is really kind of you. Yeah, that would be a really nice party!
Actually I am sure my tease of a cat was discreetly laughing under his whiskers while I was frantically looking for him 🙂
Hope the new year finds some less loneliness for you.
I have to let you know that, from similar experiences, I have tears of laughter in my eyes from the line, “I saw the white shopping bag blinking at me.”
Gees, I got em again from retyping the line! ?
Thank you, Haha.
My other cat decided to hide in the almost closed boot of my car last week. At least he was easier to spot as I did not quite believe that my sweet lil’ car had grown a furry tail in preparation for winter.
Remember those “Tiger in Your Tank” tails you could attach to your gas cap?
I havent heard about it, but obviously my kitty has 🙂
Or as soon as I left them alone with the computer, my two cats might have been google-ing for “how to grow up to be a mighty tiger” and they found this idea – they couldn’t climb in the tank so the boot remained 🙂
I’m glad the little mischief-maker turned up safe! I’m flying solo too this New Year’s. Got the chores done this morning (laundromat and the dump) so now I’m nerding out with the Twilight Zone marathon. No booze, no driving – a nice pizza today and something healthy tomorrow.
2016 suuuuucked big time, so I’m wishing everyone a happy & healthy 2017!
Let’s hope both you and I will spend the next one with a pleasant company of humans (although the TZ marathon does not sound bad at all)
Watching Twilight Zone Marathon as I type.
My favorite of all time is still William Shatner seeing the goblin on the airplane wing. Scared the bejeezes out of me as a kid.
The little girl rolling out of bed into another dimension creeped me out. Her bedroom was like mine. Yikes.
The best filming in my opinion was the beautiful lady who was considered ugly by the pig faced people. They kept you guessing.
Faye, I love those episodes, and also the Shatner one where he falls under the influence of the fortune-telling machine in the cafe.
And the one where the old guy persuades his grasping relatives to wear masks at a New Year’s party (gee, what could go wrong…?)
Smartypants. Yes the Shatner fortune teller episode is another favorite.
One of the most stark is the dolls stuck in the waste basket.
The saddest thing about Twilight Zone was and is watching Rod Serling smoke himself to death.
It is so surprising to me that quite a few of you have mentioned drunk driving. I was thinking about what is so strange about tonight – there are no cars in our normally busy streets. It seems my nation consists of conscious alcoholics, people know in advance that they want to drink so this could be a national “rest-eve” for cars 🙂 The street is full of pedestrians, but it is like a journey to the past seeing empty streets and not hearing any traffic-related noise.
My city is known as the DUI capital of the world. Once we had tee shirts that said “Salina, KS, DUI capital of the world. Come on vacation, leave on probation” Things are improving on NYE, there are companies who offer free rides home, and even individuals who have posted their contact info if one is too drunk to drive. 90% of our booking page on a weekend will be charges of driving under the influence.
Happy New Year, all.
It will be an interesting one, I am sure.
Those who are in mourning over the
past year, please have more faith in our
nation, in its systems, its Constitution.
We, you will survive. . . . to quote
Mammy Yokum, “Ah has spoken!”
?
Phred’s Mom, I heard a good quote this morning by one of the TV pundits – he said “Values unite people, issues divide (them).” I think that’s encouraging – we can work together starting from the values that we share, rather than the issues on which we differ. Wishing you a happy New Year!
Sounds good, but it can be tricky defining each and telling the difference.
That’s where it can get sticky. Oir values are nicely set out in our important
documents: when in doubt, that’s where I go. And then there’s Gary Larson
and Steven King when all else fails, take them with a nice hot cocoa, and
all’s well in my world.
I spent the day winter bird banding for my local MA Audubon center. It’s loads of fun, and you know how much I love doing this since I HATE the cold but have been doing this in all sorts of chilly to downright frigid New England weather for 12 years now.
It’s so much fun to see our visitors enthralled with seeing the birds ‘up close and personal’. The Blue Jays are really funny, because when we go to release them, they sit on your hand and need a bit of a ‘nudge’ to get them to fly away.
Late lunch of some homemade turkey meatloaf and then it’s the traditional tapas/small plates/tidbits/munchies routine for dinner.
Tomorrow will be a repeat with the bird banding and the yummy snack type food. Can’t wait!
Sounds like a great way to spend the holiday weekend! I’m in MA too – hope your weather for Day 2 is as nice as it is here (sunny, mild-ish, no wind).
So many thank yous running through my head –
NTMTOM – thank you for providing such a wonderful respite from the difficult parts of the world. I think I’ve only survived this year with multiple check-ins on this site, enjoying not only your wonderful posts but everyone’s comments. Which means, my next thank you is to everyone else. Thank you for being such a kind, compassionate, wonderful and hilarious community. xo!
I’m not partying tonight either as I have a deadline for an article due tomorrow. Yes! Tomorrow! And I know there will not be anyone around to check on it but there is that pesky email time stamp. Ah well. I spent a glorious week in California with family and totally ignored this deadline. Well, not entirely ignored – I thought about it a lot – but then got distracted by cute nephew. So staying home one night is a small price to pay I think. 🙂
Wishing you all a fun and safe New Years Eve and a very happy New Year! Here’s to improvement in 2017!
Happy New Year to all Cutetropolites! I hope 2017 is a better year for us all. The last 6 months of 2016 have sucked for sure. There’s an Irish(?) blessing that seems appropriate at this time: May best of this year be the worst of the next. I wish that for everyone!??
Good one. There’s a parody of another Irish Blessing that ends with “…and may the wind at your back be your own”.☺️
IN the News.
Chinese Man Used a Hand Grenade (WW2 type) to Crack Walnuts for 25 Years,not knowing what it was.
A stick type with the grenade on a stick handle.
Life.If it not one thing its another.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!! WE DID IT!
Happy New Year!
May we all be truly thankful for all our blessings!!!
Happy New Year! Wooooo!
I’d say, “How’s it hangin’, Mike?” but the photo tells the tail.
Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
My friend got me a crock pot for Christmas. We were talking about them last time I was there and I said I was debating getting one but couldn’t decide. Guess I’ll be looking up recipes tomorrow.
As I was leaving about 1:00 I couldn’t find my purse…thought I left it in the car. Nope…left it at home. Which means I drove all the way there and back without my license. Oops.