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the woogies


Good, full weekend that I’ll need to reserve some time to catch up and non-blog about in the next day or so.

In the meantime I’m late out of the gate this morning to get to…….. work.

We no longer have a kitten on our hands… Loki has reached the feline equivalent of “kidhood”… and all the funny, silly, awkward and infuriating challenges to authority all that represents.

I don’t know if she coined it, but we learned a new term from Elise.

“The Woogies” : The sporadic, temporary episode that people, (usually children), go through when they have more energy than things to do…

This usually results in crazy behavior… We’ve seen it in Andrew. *especially after he sneaks a fist-full of Pediacrack from our cupboard when mom’s not looking.

Well.. apparently this state isn’t exclusive to humans.

Little Loki’s day could be described as one long chain of disconnected woogies.

Anyway… Dad sent us some fancy tomatoes to plant which came packed in a box full of those corn-starch packing peanuts..

With no encouragement from us… one of the critters favorite games now is while in the throws of a woogie-attack, he’ll run around the house a few times, leap and DIVE into the box of peanuts and proceed to have a life and death wrestling match with…….. nothing.

Thanks to Kevin and a Sharpie, we now have “The Woogie Box”…

and ya wanna know something? – IT WORKS!!!

When Loki woogifies – we simply pick him up and throw him in the box where he can freak-out freely…. He loves it.

The other cats simply look on and wonder why we don’t tape up the box and call UPS…

…meanwhile the one human in the house grabs his taking camera device, takes photos, coos and denies blogging about the whole thing.

scratch-plex


This has been one hell of a sinus infection… I think I’m over it – but now I’m at that socially awkward “spews rubber from face” and “prone to random Peckinpah nose-bleeds” phase of recovery.

Regardless, I grabbed a roll of paper towels and we headed out to enjoy a beautiful Sunday which included a stop by PetsMart.

The cats have been using the same nasty scratch post that moved here with them from Cleveland five years ago.

Now I’m not sure how we went from replacing the 1.5 foot scratch post they had with the 5-foot kitty jungle-gym we wound up leaving with…. but… they sure like it.

Funny – they knew the moment we brought it through the door it was for them.. and proceeded to climb all over it, scratch it, bite it and shoot us random looks of deep appreciation…. (alternate photo opp)

All of which made it worth while… We would have spent that much this month on cigarettes anyway.

I wouldn’t have blogged about it though.


Spent most of Saturday dinking with projects inside and trying to explain to little Loki that it’s NOT APPROPRIATE to climb my bare leg when he wants to sit in a lap.

He’s starting to get it now.

Meanwhile I’m still not blogging.

CS2


My wednesday off – however I’m spending some time this morning studying the wisdom you wonderful pixel-geeks took the time to share yesterday….. I’m GOING to get my head around this.

Meanwhile – considering my “mastery” of PhotoShop dates back to version 3… (I never really learned 7’s capabilities, nor did I ever own it “honestly”)….

I ordered PS-CS2 yesterday… After playing 20 questions, the nice customer service rep was able to track down my original serial number so I could get the upgrade price… *choke…. skims down grocery budget for next month*.

Guess it’s time to stop resting on the skill-set I mastered… urr.. uhhhh.. a decade ago and EVOLVE.

Speaking of evolve… While ordering I read more about the Adobe / Macromedia merge…. Not sure how I feel about this… That there will now eventually be only “ONE” source for creative / design software. What will that do to the design industry? to the Art? Granted – everyone’s vision is their own… But… If “everyone” is using the same tools, techniques, filters, etc… doesn’t that create a DANGEROUS potential for homogenization?

Meanwhile – With a kitten around the house – you’re never short excuses to take and share pictures…. and I don’t have an image relative to this entry…..

which doesn’t exist.