poor kids in Enterprise, but we got nothing but wind and rain here.
I hope that’s true in Smallville as well – I’m about to head out there to work and clean all day. Then I think I’ll come home and pack some boxes. Fun!
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Check out
this cool link, sent to me by awesome reader Pam.
We should totally do that in the foster kitty room once we get it built, dontchathink?
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The other night we were watching TV (
Deal or No Deal, our new addiction –
Anya is my favorite model, I think she’s just button cute) and I decided that I was a little hungry, so I went and dug through the pantry to see what little snack-type thing I could find to eat. In the very back was a little packet of walnuts, and I decided that would fit the bill quite nicely.
So I put them on a little plate (I hate having to dig to the bottom of a little plastic bag to get the remnants of food) and sat down on the couch and resumed watching TV. I tossed several pieces of walnut in my mouth and began chewing.
And then Fred laughed and said “What’s that face for?”
Since the walnuts had pretty much liquified in my mouth, I had no choice but to swallow.
“UGH,” I said. “I think these walnuts are REALLY FUCKING OLD. I think they’ve gone rancid!”
“That bad, huh?”
“Yes, they’re AWFUL. They taste like my grandmother’s attic*!”
Fred guffawed “I thought you were going to say they tasted like your grandmother’s ass.”
Needless to say, I tossed the rest of the walnuts in the trash.
*Actually, they tasted like my grandmother’s basement smelled. You know that antique store smell? These walnuts tasted exactly like that smell. I like the antique store smell, but the taste leaves a lot to be desired.
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At Christmas time, when I was in Pigeon Forge with my family, my sister and I were watching TV in our bedroom one evening, and I think that some “news” show was on E!
I don’t remember what they were talking about, but they said something about Christian Slater.
“Christian Slater,” Debbie said. “Isn’t he dead?”
“No,” I said. “You’re thinking of ————–.”
“That’s right! How the hell did you know who I was thinking of?” she asked, amazed.
“I don’t know, I just did!” I said.
A few weeks later, I told Fred of the conversation, leaving out the name of the celebrity she’d been thinking of. I asked if he knew who she was thinking of, and he knew immediately.
So my question here is, how many of you know which celebrity she was thinking of? Leave a comment if you knew immediately.
I’m just curious.
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You’ve got questions!
I would also like to know what all the caulk is for. I’m worried that I’m missing out on caulk that I didn’t know I needed.
and
What exactly are you caulking for all this time?
I’ve been caulking at the point where the baseboards and the shoe molding meet. Also, in some places I’ve been caulking the place where the coves and the baseboards meet. In addition to that, I’m caulking the cracks around the doorways and windows. I haven’t even really touched the caulking that needs to be done, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to let some of it go, or we won’t be moving into the house for another six months.
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So I guess the Smallville house now has both caulk and balls?
Ho ho, it does! ::snicker::
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ok, i am so addicted to the jewelry site!! i’ve already ordered 4 things. not sure how you can go there and NOT order anything Robyn.
I adore
that jewelry site. I leave the site open all the time, and when something new goes up, there’s a little musical chime sound that plays, and I always click over there as fast as I can. I’ve actually ordered a ring and a pair of earrings (don’t tell Fred!!!!) and am waiting for them to arrive. I have one hell of a time not ordering EVERYTHING, but I really don’t wear that much jewelry, so it would be pointless.
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How long is the commute from one house to the other?
20 minutes from one door to the other, depending on traffic and such.
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So is the lady on the iams multicat food commercial right? She says that “Cats are like potato chips and you can’t have just one.”
I think I’d find it easier to eat just one potato chip than to have just one cat. I find it pretty rare that anyone has just one cat; most people who have cats seem to have two or more.
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Why are you moving to Smallville before Fred and Spud?
Because we need to get as much furniture as possible – and all the cats – out of the Madison house so we can touch-up paint and recarpet it. We wanted the spud to be able to stay in Madison as long as possible, so she won’t have that drive from Smallville, and the cats and our belongings can’t really stay in Smallville alone. Originally, Fred was going to move to Smallville and the spud and I were going to stay in Madison, but it makes more sense for Fred to stay in Madison, since it’s closer to work for him. On the weekends we’ll probably occasionally switch, with him staying in Smallville and me staying in Madison.
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Can we have a Maddy update? Also, do you think the recipe requiring the tortillas would be just as good with whole wheat tortillas?
Maddy’s a hellion who’s making life miserable for everyone she comes into contact with, I hear –
Nance puts up pictures of her all the time, you can see them on her site.
Probably the
recipe requiring the tortillas would be fine with whole wheat tortillas. What I like about that recipe is that the tortillas take on an almost cheesy texture when you cook them.
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I have to admit, I got a little teary-eyed when I read about Joe Bob going off to the pet store to be adopted. Maybe I’m hormonal, I’m not sure. But I really don’t know how you can stand to spend all that time loving on those cats and then let someone else have them. Too bad you can’t get all your readers to adopt your fosters, like Nance and Rick did!
It’s hard to give them up, I won’t deny that – but keeping in mind that they will undoubtedly go to a really good home (the adoption counselors for the shelter are very careful about who they allow to adopt the cats) helps a lot. As does the admonition from Fred that if we ever adopt another foster cat we’ll never be able to foster cats again!
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Have you ever used one of the Super Suppers, Let’s Dish or Dream Dinners?
There’s a Super Suppers in Huntsville, and I’ve eyeballed their web site many times, but never actually gotten anything from them. Mostly, it’s a lazy thing – I don’t want to drive all the way to Huntsville and pick up the meals. Also, it’s a money thing – it’s far cheaper to do it at home, even if it’s a pain in the ass and takes up most of the day.
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I’m going to miss all the Joe Bob pictures. Has his sister found a home yet?
and
Did Princess Screecher (Joe Bob’s sister) get adopted?
Myrtle hadn’t been adopted as of Monday. I still have hope for her, though – people definitely look at her, and she’s such a sweetheart that I have a feeling she’ll eventually be adopted. Sometimes it just takes time – Fantine was a total sweetheart, but it still took a month before she got adopted.
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‘god willing and the creek don’t rise’…..?
Yes, we don’t want the creek to rise because… it would flood out the road and make life difficult? I guess? I don’t know, it’s a saying I picked up somewhere, I don’t question it.
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Are you and Fred gonna give a name to your new home? Kinda like in the old Southern Plantation Tradition? (forgive me, I watched “Gone With The Wind” yesterday and I have “Tara” on the brain….)
We’ve considered “Horseshit Alley” (I always said that if I won the lottery, I was going to buy a huge mansion and name it Horseshit Alley to horrify the neighbors), but at this point we haven’t really decided if we’re going to name it. I guess chances are good we’ll just call it “home.”
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When I buy a new house, will you and Fred come to Texas to help me fix it up before I move in? I’ll… um… I’ll… let you take pictures of my kitties!
I would be SO TERRIFIED to try to do anything to anyone else’s home, afraid that I’d fuck it up. I’d have to make you sign a contract absolving me of any damage done, I suppose, but hell! Sure, I’ll come to Texas! I’ve never been there!
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Are the hinges on your cabinet doors adjustable? Ours (European style hinges) have little adjustment screws to raise and lower and move them in and out so they can be perfectly aligned.
As far as I can tell, they’re not adjustable, but I’ll have to look closer when I’m actually out there. That would rock, if they were!
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Robyn, I need your cat advice. I haven’t raised a kitten in twenty years, and I seriously do not remember the last one being half so naughty as this little black monster. He’s about in his catly teens – say, ten months old? (I’d have to count on my fingers, but that’s close.) But SUCH a hellion! I’m really ready for the ankle biting and the leaping and grabbing to stop already. Your air-can trick worked wonders with the Christmas tree, but the three of us can hardly carry those around with us in holsters in case he zooms around the corner to accost our knees. Or faces, in Seamus’ case, which I do not find amusing. Please tell me it’s just a phase…
It’s just a phase! Okay, I don’t know that, but it sounds like it’s probably just a phase. Young cats are of The Debil and always run around like their asses are on fire. What I would advise you to do is teach the little hellion what “no” means. I started working on it with Maddy before Nance and Rick whisked her away from me. She was a biter even back then (I tried to warn them!). Anyway, she’d go to bite me, I’d flick her on the end of her ear (cats HATE that) and either say “no” or do the “uh UH” noise. She was starting to “get” it – I swear she was! – but it’s something you really have to be consistent with. I’d teach your hellion what “no” means and after a certain point he’ll understand the word. I don’t know how realistic that advice is, though, if he stalks you and attacks you when you’re not expecting it. Maybe snatch him up when he does it, flick his ear, and say “NO” very sternly?
I bet he’ll start to calm down in a few months, though. I hope for Seamus’s sake he does!
Also, if he jumps on you guys and digs his claws in, I’d recommend you either go with SoftPaws or
trim his claws.
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I’ve been playing a LOT of diner dash and diner dash 2 lately and I was struck by how much you look like Flo in the pictures included in this entry. Crazy!!
I didn’t know who this Flo was, so I Googled her up, and I have to say, I can see a resemblance! I think it’s the sideways smile, mostly.
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Best picture of Spanky, EVER.
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Previously
2006: I call him Bob.
2005: Bouncing like that just can’t be a good thing.
2004: “DAMN it’s cold in here, give me some ass!”
2003: No entry.
2002: No entry.
2001: Let’s just hope she wasn’t preparing him for the slaughter.
2000: No entry. ]]>
I thought of River Phoenix.
Have a great weekend!
River Phoenix.
My first guess was River Phoenix, too!
River Phoenix here too 🙂
Yes, River Phoenix for me too.
River Pheonix for me too!
I thought of River Phoenix right away too!
River Phoenix!
River Phoenix for me, also.
Add me to those who said River Phoenix.
I was thinking River Phoenix. Am I right?
River Phoenix!! Great minds think alike. : )
My cat is a biter too. She will be sitting beside me letting me pet her and she will be purring very loudly and all of a sudden she will grab my wrist and bite me and won’t let go. I have found the only thing that really works for me is to hiss loudly and put my tounge between my lips and spit a small spray of spit at her, she moves like a fireball is under her butt. It sounds nasty but it really is just a small spray.
River Phoenix is who comes to my mind….
Without looking at the other answers I’d say River Phoneix.
Jack Nicholson. 🙂
Definitely River Phoenix. They look alike (only Slater’s the uglier version).
River Phoenix.
Yep, River Phoenix. I wouldn’t look at the comments until I figured it out. 😛
another River Phoenix guess here.
I totally think you should make your cat room like that – with perches all over the place. Not so much the rest of the house, like they did, but that one room – perches all over the walls, wow, the cats will feel like they died and went to kitty-heaven!
River Phoenix??
River Phoenix
River Phoenix here too.
I wonder if we did the cat walk for our cats if they’d stay off the china hutch I used to put my crystal on. Ask me why my crystal is boxed up and put away now! 🙂
River Phoenix was my first thought too.
Two popped into my head: River Phoenix and Jon Erik Hexum (shot him self accidently with a prop gun). He was in a really short-lived series called Voyagers.
I always thought that Jon looked a little like Christian Slater.
Spray bottles filled with plain old water are a great way to train a kitty the word “no.”
First thought River Phoenix
Another River Phoenix guess, first thing that popped into my head. Wow I can’t believe that there is someone else that remember Jon Erik Hexum, I remember seeing him in this movie with Joan Collins and this tv show way back when. He was hot!
Actually I was thinking more along these lines for your kitty room: http://www.thecatshouse.com/
You can name the new place Gum Ball Gulch.
River Phoenix was my first guess too. Then I get to the bottom of your entry, and WOAH!
That indoor cat walk is AWESOME!! Man, my cats would go nuts with something like that. What a great idea, if you have the space.
Yes, poor River Pheonix. Wish it had been Christian (sorry).
River Phoenix.
My first thought: River Phoenix.
River Phoenix.
first thought, River Phoenix
My mind went straight to River Phoenix.
LOL – just read the rest of the comments… seems like I am not alone in my thinking. Too funny!!!
We’re all psycho, er I mean psychic!!
River Phoenix (*chiming in*).
River Phoenix, of course. 🙂
River Phoenix. They both rocked the floppy hair in the late 80s, were in the same type of teenage angsty movies, and dated Winona Ryder-esque actresses!
I thought immediately of River Phoenix (prior to seeing all these comments, I swear!)
I guess people would stop giving me grief about my “cat room” if they saw that link you posted. Don’t get me wrong, I’d LOVE to do that in our house but I’m afraid I’d end up divorced 😉
Add me to the chorus of ‘River Phoenix’s up there! I instantly thought of him.
It’s bizarre, but my first thought was also River Phoenix…
Um, seriously, my first thought was River Phoenix too!
What if we are all wrong?
Damn. I felt all smug when River Phoenix came to mind, until I scrolled down to the comments section. Oh well, at least I got a good laugh out of Faith’s remark. (Jack Nicholson! Hah!)
River Phoenix 🙂
I immediately thought of River Phoenix, too. I think it’s because Christian Slater always had that dirty blonde hair that was all “skater” back in the early 90s, and that was totally a River thing.
yes, I knew immediately.
and the water from the fountain at work tastes like a musty basement smells. Ew.
Pickle knows what “no” means. He’ll usually stop what he’s doing, say – swatting at the blinds – but he always talks back, too. Brat.
I thought River Phoenix too! I felt really smart. . . until I saw that you all guessed the same.
🙂
River Phoenix.
Thanks for the hell beast advice, Robyn. I do trim his claws, and he’s pretty good about not actually drawing blood with them even if they’re sharp. And lord, does he know what “no” means! But he’s got the soul of a lawyer, I swear, and will find any loophole he can. Sigh, he’ll grow out of it…
River Phoenix!!!!!!!!!
I see great minds think alike. River Phoenix here too.
Joaquin Phoenix’s brother. Have you ever read about their upbringing?
Ha! I too was feeling all smug about my immediate guess of River Phoenix. Oh well.
Oh, and right after that I thought River “Pa-hoe-nix”. I will probably never get that out of my head.
Closing eyes to previous commenters! I say River Phoneix. Wonder why… both addicted to drugs or both in the same movie at one time?
I thought of River Phoenix. Is this one of those pscyh you out test like the red hammer test?
I thought of River Phoenix immediately, too. Are you going to tell us tomorrow whether we’re right? No, you’ll make us wait until Monday! Argh! 🙂
Oh you’re all wrong…it’s not River Phoenix, it’s Alfred Hitchcock!! Silly readers…. 😉
my first thought was River Phoenix. Sending good karmas to Joe Bob and his sis so that they find a good home and get out of jail soon. And good luck to the lady with the kitten brat. They just are. Boys seem worse in their youth than girls, why would they be different than humans?? In my experience it takes 2-3 years for the boys to calm down. And then they go the total other direction and get incredibly lazy. Whis is, of course, adorable. And we don’t declaw but I find trimming the nails greatly impedes their ability to hang on you with the tips of their claws, cuz then there are no tips. In our house claw trimming is a two person operation. I have several cats I could do alone, but a couple of lard asses that come to life and freak when it is kitty beauty shop time, cuz you know I always pinch and pull and hurt their neck. Whatever!
FREAKY! My first thought was also River Phoenix, but then I thought, “No way. People will laugh if I post that.” So I wasn’t going to say anything. Then I opened up the comment section and lo and behold, we’re all of one mind. If said a different name to Debbie, we’re all going to be so upset.
I, too, thought of River Phoenix.
I haven’t read through the comments yet, but I’m guessing River Phoenix. For the record.
River Phoenix
Hey! I didn’t read your noters before I answered. CS looks like RP with his head in a vice…
I also thought River Phoenix. But the thing that really brought me to the comments was to see if anyone else was concerned about the cat hanging out over the ceiling fan in the cat walk pictures.