Rosemary's happy place

we have a new bloggie now

2007-04-16T10:37:00.000-04:00

Here is our new bloggie.
Come and visit us.

http://thecornishkitties.blogspot.com/

Love <3, Caesar and Princess

my fuzzysweet babies are 16 today

2007-04-15T12:32:00.000-04:00

Happy 16th Birthday
Caesar and Prinnie

Caesar and Princess were born on this day in 1991
We brought them to our home in early June.
They were 8 weeks old.
Blizzie was 4 and Christina was 7,
and I was extremely young and fashionable; hubby had lots of brown hair...
the world was brighter and more in focus back then.
The days did not go by so faaaast
Life was realllly good!

Blizzie named Princess.
I named Caesar.
These two were really cute and very naughty as kittens.
They had very long legs and they were very very wild, always running and climbing.
Their behavior has always reminded me of monkeys
I had to keep them in a room at night because they were always getting into things.
Once Prinnie went behind the washer in the laundry room and came out all black.
Caesar used to jump up into very high places and then cry
because he couldnt figure out how to get back down.
Once he jumped up onto the water heater
and then onto the ceiling joists in the basement.
Then he howled and howled and sobbed
until I got a laundry basket for him to climb into.
He was trembling...

Caesar and Princess never go outside.
Once when we lived in Maryland, I was painting a treehouse I built for my daughters,
and Prinnie managed to open the screen door and both cats were wandering around the yard.
I had a huge can of green paint in my hands and a big paintbrush.
I freaked... and then I got them calmly back into the house

Once, I was standing at my front door blabbing with my neighbor (also in Maryland)
and Prinnie eyed the neighbor's cat,
that always ran loose and killed butterfies and praying mantis.
Prinnie ran out the door and chased after that cat.
They ran under the neighbor's huge ground level deck....
I had to crawl under that spiderwebby buggy deck to get Prinnie.
It wasnt until I got home that I realized I was covered in webby buggy ick,
leaves and sticks too....
Anyway... yeah, lots of memories with these two.

Pleeease... Help me. My mom is starving me!
Caesar is a mommy's boy.
He needs lots of reassurance and reminders about behaviour.

I like to keep myself in good shape... just because.
Prinnie is in love with Blizzie.
but now with the Blizz in kollig
she has allowed hubby and me to pet her and love her.
well, sometimes

I hang out with the wild animals. This is my buddy Samson.

I am in charge of him... See, he loves me.

I'm mommie's helper.

My brother is a huuuge idiot...

Yeah, wellll... I do have some minor issues...
l-l-let's not talk about this.

This is my wonderful home.
I have maids... and servants.
I am The Prrrrrinncesssss,
The extremely beeeyoootiful and rare white Bengal tigressss

In the morning room, of my favorite of many, locations for relaxation and rejuvenation
...and to get away from my silly brother
who is so dependant on me for his grooming needs.
Then I get double hair balls...
Wel-l-l, I chew all of his whiskers off so he looks like a goof
Check out the "moms helper" pic.... no whiskers

Two kitties laying around in the sun.
What a life....

Happy Birthday to my sweet fuzzy babies!
the fun continues...

Birthday Frootbats Fridaaaaayyyyyyyy

2007-04-13T09:00:00.000-04:00

Yay and yippppppeeeeeee
It is our 16th Birthday partyweek-end
our actual real birthday is on Sunday the 15th
and the party starts right now at our >new blogggggie<
Everycat and peeple are invited
We are still getting the place set up, but come by and visit!
Mom gave us our very own bloggie for our birthday!

You are only young once,
but you can be immature for a lifetime.
hey, that is great news!

Wordless Wednesday :-)

2007-04-11T20:48:00.000-04:00

>click to biggify<

"To achieve the impossible,
it is precisely the unthinkable
that must be thought."
-- Tom Robbins

CAESAR:
psssss: look at prinnie's eyes and eers). Does she need an attitude adjussstment?

MOPEY Monday. . .

2007-04-09T14:56:00.000-04:00

Prinnic: Well, it was a fun week-end with Blizzie home... but she went back to kollig and mommie and Caesar and I are just hanging around the house feeling sort of bummy.

Caesar: Yeah, we are bummed....
Oh! here is a tiny picture of Blizzie playing the piano at "her ferst gig". She gave daddie her ferst check so he can skan it and frame the copy... for memories. "Blizzie's Ferst Gig" (sorry you cannot biggify it. we snagged it from her facebook profile picture. Isn't she kyoot?
<..... Blizzie is playing JAZZ. She plays nice jazz. This was taken at her very very ferst "gig" at the art show thing on Saturday the 1st of April. She plays myoozik like Liz Story and George Winston type stuff, Duke Ellington, Rogers and Hammerstien... also that guy, what's his name... Jim Brickman!!!

Prinnie: at least the sun is out. So, we are going to get recharged
Hopefully we can get mommie to help us do a good bloggie update soon.

Caesar: yeppers, at least the sun is out. you know, I have noticed some of us have size issues.
I have been on a diet for a month and I am not this chubby anymore... honest and reely.

Prinnie: I have a high metabolism so I do not have weight issues...
Later kits
Love, Prinnie

Life's greatest treasures
are life's simplest
pleasures.

Frootbat Friday

2007-04-06T11:05:00.000-04:00

Princess:

I think I am still pretty froot batty even though I am going to be 16 in one week.
I like this picture of me <3

Caesar and I hope you have a wondrifical week-end, full of frolicsome enjoyment
Enjoy all of the fun and festivities, bat those eggies around, inspect those easter baskets!!
My Blizzie girl is home from kollig and I am so very happy about that ... I think Caesar mommie and daddie are happy too (the big girl can not come home for Easter because she is at a different kollig and she is bizzy)

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Your ears shall hear a word behind you,
saying "This is the way; walk in it."

Isaiah 30:21

The meme going around

2007-04-04T17:16:00.000-04:00

Princess: What does meme mean anyway?
See how hip we are?.... not. hey we are from the 90's kitties (prehistoric almost)

Well, we were tagged by Willow for the latest thingie going around and we are going to try to give it a go here: Boy, this was a toughie!
How Do you Achieve Balance in Your Life?
Princess: Here are the major things that require balancing:
upstairs and downstairs,
napping together, napping separately,
getting into things, leaving things be,
eating, snacking, nibbling.
drinking from the sink, the shower room, the various bowls,
playing with our old boring toys, or stealing socks, chewing on plants or plastic
on top or burrowing
when and where to groom
groom yourself, or help eachother
and finally making full use of the two litter boxes.

Caesar and I achieve these things on a daily basis by communicating and keeping checklists to ensure that all major requirements are covered daily (I am a lists kind of kittygirl).
I also have a very good sense of time, so I know when things need to be accomplished.
Caesar is a great teamplayer. we work together to accomplish these simple life enhancing priorities.

What is your biggest challenge in balancing your life?:
Caesar: well, basikly, our biggest challenge is mommie and daddie. They are pretty erratic and completely unpredictable!!! Princess: agreed

What are your Priorities?:
Caesar: My priorities all depend on mood, same with Prinnie. If we are in the mood for something we go for it without a second thought. You never know what happens in the future so you have to go with the present, or next thing you know, while you are simply tossing the idea of a snack in your head, suddenly you hear doors slam and then just like that, the peepul are no where to be found!
Princess: One thing we learned from gramma and grampa... if you have the desire and the energy, then do the thing you want to do. You might wake up dead tomorrow. For instance, gramma and grampa eat cookies as if they might die tomorrow (like 20 bajillionsquillion a day, in all styles, shapes and flavors)! >click on this one to biggify the cookie nibblers in action!!<

How have your priorities changed over the time and why?:
Princess: Wow, this is a great question. Of course things have changed! A lot has changed here in the past 15 and a half years. We are older and a lot wiser. Caesar and I work pretty closely together on this. We have our set plan every day and try to make the rounds every hour or so. Our priorities are fresh water, a variety of snacks, clean, cozy environment, and for me, selective petting, Caesar is a lot more liberal with the touching. I am not too interested in lap time... mommie is too fidgety, daddie is very warm, I prefer his lap. Caesar loves mommie, but he is much more easy going, he is also a glutton for praise. I miss Blizzie. She really was my girl and I used to spend all of my time with her... so it has been a huge adjustment for me since she went to kollig. I would say this has been a year of changes and I particularly feel as though I am still adjusting and I am not sure what my priorities are. When we were younger, we were like wild monkeys and if we could dream it we did it... (once, I climbed up the insulation in the basement, and got behind it, that was great fun until mommie cut me out. Caesar was the jumper, nothing was impossible, using the stairs was for sissies. He used to get in the pantry and chew boxes of food open and eat it, didn't matter what it was). But now life is different, really different. We are not so busy investigating and inspecting everything every day.
Caesar: mommie did not go to kollig and I am happy about that, because if she did, I would be peeing everywhere!

What advice can you share to help all of us balance our own lives?:
Caesar and Princess: State your desires. Purr often. Appreciate the little things. Be patient and tolerant. Always give unconditional love to the beans.

We hope this was fun to read and somewhat helpful!

Tagging:
I blindfolded myself and picked these 5 names out of an olde easter bonnet of Blizzies:

Have fun!!

==>>>Now Caesar will go around and inform these lucky chosen on their bloggies!

Don't forget to have a look at our bloggie below.... especially our baby picture!

Happy happy Wednesday

2007-04-04T12:00:00.000-04:00

Caesar:
Yesterday was a sunny day. Me and Prin had a lot of fun with mom, she gave us a teeny bit of terkee when she made her sandwich and we also got Temptations too. We did a lot of napping in the sun. I helped mom make the beds. Daddie shut himself in the offis room for about three hours and talked to the silver boks. He said is was a konferincecall. (he werks at home) The boks was talking to him too. so, we had to not be loud. Mom made us be good and quiet and we were. It was exsausting being good for so long.

tonight we have video-chat with the grandma and the grandpa... a very sad thing, Grandpa's friend, Calvin, the guy that had the radiation poisoning? He died on Saterday. My grandpa was reely sad and he emailed my mommie and told her how sad he was. We felt bad for grampa.
He has to go to a fyoonerul today where they say goodbye forever to the tennis buddy, Calvin.
I am going to be extra good this evening with the video-chat. Maybe I will sit up really big to make him happy because he will see me on the screeen.

yesterday I was helping mommie dig around in some bokses of old pictures in her room... the olde fashoned kind of pictures and she found 2 cool ones to put on the blog today.

Here is one of Blizzie the piano player when she was 6 yeers old (long time ago)
You know what? she had her very ferst "gig thing" ever in her life this past Saterday. They gave her green papers after she played the piano 4 hours. I remember Blizzie sinse she was 3 and now she is big and at kollig. She was bad when she was three... she threw some wild tantrums back in the day... hoo wee
I need to find an olde picture of my bigger sister Chrystabelle now.

Then, mom found this picture of me and Prinnie.

This picture was taken when we were 10 weeks old! so maybe around the middul of May 1992.
The breeder took it... and we were laying on a indian kind of rug... so that red you see is not blood.. it is rug yarn... Prinnie and I were ten weeks olde here. aren't we kyoot kit-tens?

I better skoot. Prinnie is mad that I beat her to the blogging again today. Oh boy she's miffed.
<- look at me. I am being really nice to Prinnie in this picture. I am loving her.
Headbutts ~ Caesar

To have a right
to do a thing
is not at all the same
as to be
right in doing it.

G. K. Chesterton

ManCat Monday

2007-04-02T18:25:00.000-04:00

Caesar: Guess what? GUESS WHAT? GUESS WHAT!!!???
I heard mommie telling a seekrit to the kollig girl, Blizzie. I just heard it!!!
***Mom is giving us our OWN bloggie for our birthday!!***
I know I heard it I know it!

Mom is home all the time this week, because the rinks are too crowded to skate this week with the neighborhood kiddies off from skul. Today she went out for a littul while but I mostly helped her do stuff today around the house... I helped her vacuum (I am not afraid of the vacuumcleener), and do the laundry and clean up stuff and I snoopervised her when she cleaned the showerroom where they stand and get rained on. Helping is exhausting!

Here is a manly-Cat picture of me (well, actually just half of me), looking like a big tiger.
See my fangs?

I better frolic off now.
The sun is going down here on the easst coast and I better soak up the last bits!

~~Caesar

You can do anything,
anything you want!
There is only one thing
you must do...
pay the price.

we have been tagggggged

2007-03-31T17:19:00.000-04:00

Princess:
Caesar and I have been tagged by several of you kitties... Dragonheart tagged Caesar and Jeter gently tagged me and so did Luxie. You boys are so sweet to think of us and choose us to share our wealth of fuzzy knowledge and curly cornish rex wisdom. So, here we go!!
"Five Reasons WHY I (we) blog:"

1. Princess: I am very new to this blogging thing. One chilly, but not too chilly, day late last year, around Thanksgiving, mommie and I were looking at Cuteoverload.com and we saw some cute kitties dressed up in clothing! so we clicked on that link and suddenly arrived to a site called Catster! Mom and I looked at many many pages and then we found some kitty blogs!
I asked mom if I could blog... but she said that first she would blog and visit the kitty blogs, see if things were legal and legitimate you know? then I insisted that I wanted to have some written interaction with other kitti--- Caesar: I think blogging is kind of fun.

2. Princess: I love learning about the lives and activities and goings on in other kitty homes on Planet Earth. One day I would like to read more ab--- Caesar: I like reading the funny stories.

3. Princess: I love telling other kitties about our happy home and sharing pictures of our somewhat slower paced adventures and day to day ac-- Caesar: yeah, I can do that too. I like that. can I go first now?

4. Caesar: I like to blog because I lern about important things I didn't know. I did not know there were such floofy kitties out there, for instance. Princess: I love learning new things and meeting kitties and their people.

5. Caesar: We are old kitties. We will be 16 yeers old on april 15 (I think we are older than gramma and grampa now, how about that?) and we want to have a huge party at my house and everyone in the bloggiesphere is invited! Oh, I also did not know that kitties wore sherts. I didn;t no that.
Princess: I am really happy to read about kitties that are so young, maybe only one or three or six years old. I can remember way back in the days of the dinosaurs, when I was frisky and very wild and risky. So, reading about your adventures brings back so many happy memories. Now when I take my naps I dream about those old adventures, so reading your blogs brings those memories back to life, like they were only yesterday. We won't "tag" anycat, but if you have not been tagged, consider yourself tagged if you are here reading this!
Today is Saturday and we hope you have a happy and restful Saturday

Caesar: Look: mom made these cool eggs yesterday and took my picture with my favorite toy and me. neat-o huh? *klick to biggify*

~ Caesar and Prinnie
and the qwote . . . .

Some people drink

from the fountain of knowledge,
others just gargle

~Dr. Robert Anthony
really. it's actually true
that is what they do! ... just gargle

FROOOOOTBAT Friday

2007-03-30T12:30:00.000-04:00

PRINNIE <3
Good morning!
Today it is my turn to do the blogggie and mom is home to help me.

So... I am putting this picture up of a frootbat... this is my brother.

His ears do not look so frooty here ... but trust me, he is a frootbat!
Lookie here: Actually this one would be perfect for WIDEBODY Wednesday as well!
Caesar has been on a diet.... so he is not this wide anymore... this is Blizzie's new ruggie that she took to kollig so this was taken last August (*sigh*, I miss my Blizzie)

Today I get to help mommie all day, and she said we are going to bake some oatie-meal cookies. YUM I get to lick the cookie crums from the trays!!

I hope you have a groovy Friday!
Oh boy!! we have been "tagged" by Jeter and Luxie and Dragonheart! so we are going to go and complete that with mom whilst the cookies are in the uvin or when she is resting from being a "blur of activity" today!
She has to practice the piano too times today because she did not practice yesterday (oh the suffering we will endure, those scales are so... monotonous)

Purrrrrrrrrs ~ Princesssss

just so you know, (incase you didn't) one of the minor conditions to mom allowing us to take over her blog here (most of the time lately) is that we must post a witty qwote! because.... the woman is a qwote freek.

Anyone
can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing
at the moment.
-Robert Benchley

Thoughtful Thursday

2007-03-29T14:29:00.000-04:00

Caesar:
Today I was a good boy. so far.
Mom even went out with her bag of skates and I was really nice about it.
She told me that she loved me... before she left and I always let her give me a kiss on my "sweet little head". So then, while she was gone. I was really good. Prinnie and I did some napping. We are littermates, so we are used to hanging out together. Actually, okay, I love hanging around Prinnie because she loves me, but sometimes she thinks I am a pest.
Here we are in our kitty bed in our paradise room with the heeter and the big bowl of water and all of our softest blankies. Prinnie shares her bloo blankie with me. Last evening was video-chat night. We had a hard time connecting because our rowter kept crashing with mom's new laptop. Mommie was very unhappy and going crazy! Finally daddie figured out what the problem was and then we had video-chat with gramma and grampa (mommie's mom and dad). can you see me in the small box on the left? you can biggify it if you want. I am smiling and being a good boy....
My poor grampa's best tennis buddy Calvin is really sick. He had a thing removed from his lung... and then the doctor wanted to give Calvin some radiation and Calvin got really sick from the radiation something called "radiation poisoning!!! grampa said his friend is really sick and he might die soon (whimpers)!!! my poor grampa is very sad. He said his friend was always happy and upbeat and now he is going to die because of the radiation poisoning! I feel bad for my grampa and his friend. I am going to purrrr really strong and loud for grampa and his friend.

I got to show off for gramma and eat some Temptations out of mommies hand, right in front of the camra! Gramma was very happy. I could hear her saying I was really great :-)

When mommie got home today, she fed us our yummy stinky meatglop and then she started talking about her skating today (with daddie, he works at home a lot). She said she had a very tiring day skating because the tree pollen is making her feel woozy and weak. She said her head felt like it was going to explode!!!

This is all I have to report.
I hope you are having a good day too.
Headbutts, Caesar
(did you see me in the picture up there???)

Real strength
is not just a condition of one's muscle,
but a tenderness in one's spirit.

~McCallister Dodds

Wordless Wednesday :-)

2007-03-28T13:55:00.000-04:00

>click to biggify<

The distance you have gone
is less important
than the direction you are going.
~Tolstoy

Tuesday already?

2007-03-27T16:12:00.000-04:00

CAESAR
Hi kitty friends!
Mondays and Tuesdays mom is so busy getting ready to run off to ice rinks, she will not sit and help me blog! Yesterday morning she was not paying attention to me so I peed on the carpet! I love doing that.. but I always wait a few months and act like I have gotten over it... and then surprise! It is a very effective tool, even if mom gives me dirty looks for a while, I just look back at her and blink a lot. So, maybe in May...

Since mom got the Fancy Feest, I have been eating better! and my poops aren't like concrete. so maybe the food change was good for me ....heh . . .

Prinnie and I have been snuggling together. She makes a great pillow!

She tried to get some "alone time" in the tent, but I showed her that we can both fit in and be snuggly.

So, what have you kitties been up to?

Everything has its beauty
but not everyone sees it.

~ Confucius

Prinnie again! @-->-------

2007-03-25T19:22:00.000-04:00

Happy Sunday eve to every cat and peeple too. I hope all of you had a delightful week-end.
Friday turned out to be a dreadfully drab and rainy day... I felt drowsy and woozy all day and Caesar and I slept the entire day. Mom and dad and Blizzie were supposed to come home around 2pm but they did not return until 7pm!
Saturday, mommie felt so guilty about abandoning us, she asked daddie to take Blizzie back to kollig himself and mommie went out cat food hunting. She was so upset about the Iams recall and the Priority brand recall, that she is planning on returning all cans (even though none that we have are suspect) mostly because Caesar has been such a finicky eater lately. She purchased a whole lot of Fancy Feast: Chicken chunks (our favorite) and chicken and beef.

mmmmmyummm yummmm Well. Well (and furthermore, well!), what a delight. Caesar and I have been gobbling this food up like hungry tigers! We have been very happy with the new menu!

Here is a photo memory of the past week. We enjoyed a lot of jazzy music and happy tunes from Blizzie (she plays much, much much much better than mommie) and it was great to have my girl home. She even let me hang around in her bedroom for a while.

Purrs and snuggles! ~Princessssss

Real strength
is not just a condition of one's muscle,
but a tenderness in one's spirit.

Prinnie's Thoughts for Thursday

2007-03-22T16:44:00.000-04:00

Hello kitties everywhere.
I hope every cat is having a delightful day.... Caesar and I got a lot of napping done in plenty of our favorite sunny patches this morning. This area is one of our favorites, because it is in the room that goes with the kitchen and it is very nice to nap near the kitchen. I like to keep apprised of all the activity and preparations. My assistance is frequently required for cleaning dishes! A few days ago I had the most delightful chore of cleaning the dish that had the banana blueberry cake in it. I got it all clean.

Yesterday mom and Blizzie went shopping and bought us some chicken flavor Temptations. They were yummy. We have never had them before. ever. really!
We loved them!! Mom took some pictures of Caesar gobbling them, which is really wonderful because he is a terrible eater. Sometimes he does not finish his meatglop and mom has to hand feed it to him, other wise I go into my "assistance mode" and help him eat his food. I can't help it. That must be a girl thing.

Every one is so busy here. They have been going out, coming home, going out, coming home and yesterday when they went out, they came home late, they did not eat dinner here. I did not have any dishes to clean and I did not know that was the plan. The family can be so. frustrating!
Oh yeah, and Blizzie has been playing a lot of piano and working on "papers".

I heard my daddie saying they are leaving tomorrow morning to go visit a geddyzberg kollig... what ever that is... so they will not be home until the afternoon!
Gosh, if I have known this earlier, I could have planned a party!
<-Here is what I am talking about... visualizing. This is just a photograph of one I found on the innernet. Doesn't that look like frolicksome fun!?! I think we even have that game upstairs in the closet. Maybe we could plan one of these some day and somehow get mom to buy a lot of those Temptations too!! I better jump out of here now. I see mom is heading for the kitchen. Maybe she needs my guidance. So, what are your plans for Friday? Anything good on the picture box? (((hughugs))) and purrrrs ~ Prinnie

No matter how old you are,

there's always something good

to look forward to.

Wednesday's with gramma + grampa

2007-03-21T16:30:00.000-04:00

Every Wednesday evening at exactly 8:00 pm we have video chat with my gramma and grampa that live in Annapolis Maryland. Well, last week.... mom was remembering it all day. She has a sign in the kitchen that says "Video-chat 8:00 sharpie" and she puts it out to remind her. My mom knows her parents (my gramma and grampa) love video-chat. They are 84 years old... that is like a bazillion-jillion in cat years!
Last Wednesday, Blizzie was playing the piano, daddie was sitting in his comfy chair in the library looking at pictures of cars on the computer, and mom was forgetting about the time. All of a sudden... aat like 10 minutes paaaast 8:00, Blizzie said "Hey aren't we supposed to have video-chat tonight?" and mom said "oh my gosh!" and started doing a lot of things very fast, and then next thing we were chatting with the grandparents.... better late than never, right?

I really like my gramma and pa. My gramma sometimes meowwws to me, and I like that.
Here is a screen shot of video-chat. Can you see me in the corner with my mom? My dad and Blizzie were on the screen too, but mom moved the camera so that they could see me and say hi.

They have a darker picture because they are using an older mac and it is not so powerful.

Tonight we have video-chat at 8:00 sharp. I hope mom does not forget.

This is all I have to report today.
=>Oh, if my mommie has not added you to our bloggierollie... be sure to let me know... and I will give her the what for... and make her add you spitspot!

~Caesar

Whatever you are
Be a good one

Hey, how about Tuxie Tuesday

2007-03-20T08:54:00.000-04:00

Caesar:

Hello everybodee.
This is me with some pretty flowers my biggest sister got from her boyfriend. I really wanted to chomp on them, but she let me sit next to them for a minute.

Have a restful day.
headbutts and tail flicks
~Caesar

Spring is nature's way of saying
~Let's Party!

My turn.

2007-03-18T14:29:00.000-04:00

Mom told Caesar (finally) not to blog today. It was my turn.
Well.... here's me.
Princess. mom calls me Prinnie, and Prin-rin.

I have not been up on top of the cabinets, like I am here, for a few months now. My back legs are bothering me and I just do not like taking chances. Once I tried to jump up onto a bar stool and I missed and fell! That was so upsetting, I have just stopped getting up on most things.
Mom made me some steps to get to my favorite places though.

Today is a sleepy Sunday, and it is a sunny Sunday too.
I spent most of this morning up in my room (that I am forced to share with my silly brother) in deep snooze. This is me with my favorite bloo blankie. Sometimes mom, for no reason at all, swipes my blankie away from me and puts it in the noisy shaking machine and makes it all wet (just awful) and then puts it in the heat machine for a really long time. On these days I walk all over the house and cry really loud until I get my blankie back.
I have my blankie here, sometimes I share it with my brother.
My other favorite thing to do is get in the shower room with mom... I do not get all the way in, but I stand at the edge and let the sprinkles get on me. Then when mom gets out, I carefully get in and lick the tub. Sometimes my mom fills a little cup with water and lets me drink while she is in the shower room. I love fresh water!

Downstairs in the eating room, if my water is not fresh enough I use my paw and dump my bowl. I love doing that! Mom got mad so she finally put my bowl in a tray!

The little girl, Blizzie, used to be my very very favorite, but now she goes away from home for a long time... so now I have been very close to mom and dad. A long time ago, I used to sit on Blizzie's lap while she played the piano. I loved that too. . . and while she did her homework.... *sigh*

Here is something bad I did.....once or, maybe a couple of times. I um.... when I was a kittengirl, I ... chewed off all of Caesar's whiskers, . . . . andthey, nevergrewback!! O_O

:::blush::: I didnot know that would happen!!! (if you click and biggify the picture in his blog beeelow of Caesar, you will see... not a stub)

I am going to end here because :::yawn::: I need a nap.
I think that all of you kitties in bloggieland are really pretty and special. I love reading your blogs and reminiscing the fun and games Caesar and I used to get into when we were kittens.
*blinks* and purrs~ Prinnie

Love is, above all else,
the gift of oneself.

Frooooootbat Frideeeeee

2007-03-16T12:00:00.000-04:00

Caesar:

Hello and tail flicks from me again.
Prinnie really wanted to be in the Frootbat Friday but too bad. I barged in here, and put my picture up before her. If you click to biggify it gets really huge and you can see my tiny furs in my huge guybert ears

Prinnie is very mad at me now, and mom is still in too much of a daze to notice anything going on. Here's why:
1. She got her blades sharpened and skated yesterday... and all she talks about is "edges" and how wonderful her skating is and more skating skating, edges and skating...
2. the big girl came home from college to visit, and she and mom talk a lot. Prinnie could not get her attention to inform her that I am using the computer, haha. (4 years ago I made the big girl promise to take me to college with her, but she broke her promise so I never got to go to college)
3. the little girl is coming home from college today.
4. and then, more attention to her wonderful sharpened skate blades ad nauseum... so, I barfed on the stair landing last night just to warn her of her obsessive behavior

I hope you have a wonderful sunny Friday.
here it is raining... no sun! and I thought I heard the man on the tv say "snow"
Meeyowls and headbuts: Caesar

Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you only have one life
. . . unless you are a kitty, then you get 9 . . .
And one chance to do all the things
you want to do.

A polite request from Caesar

2007-03-13T20:00:00.000-04:00

Um, mom.....

Could you please move your stuff?

I would really like to lay around
in the sun... uh, um... right here.

much better.
Thanks mom <3

Hi everycat. I know, Prinnie wanted to start blogging, but
guess what?
Meowwwwww I beat her meeee-owwww
In one month, just about (April 15th) I am going to be 16 years old. (Prinnie too, she is my littermate)
Can you believe it?
Look at me. don't I look great?

I hope you have a great day.
Mom has been busy. we have been really making a mess of the place, but that big green ball is not mine.

Bye for now.
purrrrrs and headbutts, Caesar >^..^<

Here is a quote, as promised - deal made with mom... because she is a quote freak. Really... she is.

~Set lofty goals~
then
*achieve them*

Sunday Evening

2007-03-11T21:07:00.000-04:00

Such a busy week-end... and the Daylight savings time change (spring ahead) is a huge adjustment for me. I have a hard time getting up in the morning and I am still too peppy at night... I need to go to bed early tonight!

Friday, hubby and I went to my mom and dad and we had a great time all day and even stayed until dinnertime. Then we all went out to dinner to a Greek restaurant in downtown Annapolis. Hubby and I dropped my parents off at their house after dinner and came home at around 7:30. Caesar and Princess were very happy to see us home again. The house was dark but the classical music was playing on the radio.
Yesterday... we did a lot of chores and a few errands and we also went for a long walk in the neighborhood.
Today, we did not go to church... instead we went for a drive (drive church, we call it) and we looked around the area of Fairfax, McLean, and Falls Church areas very close to us, closer to the city. We drove around for about 3 hours (yes, we looked at houses and neighborhoods)!! then we came home and rested and had snacks and then I went to bell Choir. We play in church next Sunday...

tomorrow I am going to Cabin John rink to see my friends, oh yeah, and skate too.
My bruises are okay. The knee one is feeling much better and the elbow one is numb ! Both of them are only a little purple.

here are a lot of pictures of a fun day on Friday.
Lunch with mom and dad
yes, I had a half of one of those salty herrings and two pieces of bread with butter and chocolate.

That is just how you eat it.
Bread with chocolate is really really good.

a nice fuzzy picture of my dad and the cookies.
Mom is in the background
LOOK AT ALL OF THE COOKIES!!! 4 types!

Last picture. My dad took this of us at the Greek place. This is before my dad and I got very very very very tipsy, redfaced, loud and downright silly.

I am going to end here.
I hope you had a beautiful week-end.
This is going to be a very busy week.
<3

Be well, you are loved

Happiness is a grateful spirit,

an optimistic attitude,
and a heart full of love.

A better day, sort of

2007-03-08T14:46:00.000-05:00

I was hoping to wake up happy and peppy but oh well. I was hopeful, anyway.
I did force myself to go to the rink, even though I was feeling grumpy, tired and lazy. I skated okay. The new pattern is easy. I was showing something to Edwin and next thing, I klinked my blades and went straight down (footwork is annoying). This time I banged my elbow into the ice. I have never done that... my elbows just do not get in the way... but wow that hurt for a minute... then it was okay. Now I can not tell which bruise is bigger today, my knee (from Tuesday) or my elbow. I think the knee wins. Anyway, nothing serious, but I hardly every fall. Falling is good though. The more you fall the better you fall... or something like that. That sounds believable anyway. Yeah, you fall better...

I am still mad, but I will get over it. I go through this every 6 months. I take hubby with me because I do not pay attention.

This morning, I woke up early so I had lots of extra time before I had to leave for the rink. Yesterday was such a dreary gray day. We had snow all day... just fine snow and then in the afternoon it started to pile up... but we only got around three inches... Anyway, Caesar and Princess were not happy with the sunless day. Today it was great to see sunshine again and the kitties were very happy to lay around in the sun coming into the family room. I found some cosmic catnip (have to hide it in the cabinet in triple bag) and sprinkled some on Caesars favorite toy and rubbed some on his fur. Prinnie came downstairs later and hahahaha it was very funny to see those two. Even though they are getting old and they are kind of slow... they like catnip.
Here is a shot of catnip boy. When I came home this afternoon, both kitties were konked out on the couch.. didn't even open an eye when I stood over them... until I yelled "Hi kitties, what's new?"

Thank you for your understanding and caring thoughts. It is very comforting to know I have people I do not even know that well, care. I really really appreciate it. Most of the time I am very strong, but sometimes I am impossible.

Yes we had video-chat last night even though I was tired and grumpy.
My parents love video-chat every Wednesday night. These chats last a long time, sometimes waaaay over an hour. We have a good time.
That is me and hubby and Caesar in the corner, wow I do look tired!!

I have decided that I am going to drive out to see my parents tomorrow. They live an hour away, in Maryland.

I was all ready to put up a Frootbat Friday pic, but I can save it for next week...
I hope you have a lovely rest of the day and a
groovy Friday :-)
I love all of you. I love reading your bloggs.
Your kitties are adorable.
I love tiny tigers.

Most of the time,
the only way out
is through.

tired and bummy

2007-03-07T16:49:00.000-05:00

I do not know really why. Probably because this medical stuff makes me anxious.
The tests are "the same". I wish the doctor would say, "you are fine, you are dismissed of my care" but he doesn't, he didn't and he did say "You and I, we are connected forever" or something like that. Dr. Rajendra is a really nice doctor but he needs to clean his saltwater aquarium. Aren't they supposed to be really clean? There were as usual lots of cancer people in the waiting room. They always look brave and confident.
Anyway... the tests are the same. All of the cancer markers are good/okay, but there is something called immunoglobulin M that stays really really high. So... it has been two years since I had every part of my body x-rayed (except my hands, feet and head), so I have to get a ... oh yeah, a sonogram of my liver spleen and kidneys lymph nodes and whatever just have an sono- fest... and I have to get a chest x-ray and more blood tests (every six months) I am sorry to depress you with all of this news. For me it is better to unload. I know there are other people suffering that are far worse off than me... Sometimes I joke around and say "I'm a walking time bomb" Like isn't everyone, sort of, in a sense? Anyway... I am feeling tired and bummy now, but I am the sort that snaps out of it eventually. Right now I am still heart poundy...
I do not know when I will get the radiology tests done. Dr. Rajendra said no hurry, just before my September visit... so maybe I will wait until it is warmer out. I don't know. I do not want to think about it.

Prinnie has been asking if she can have a blog. (Caesar has no interest in sharing his certainly not profound thoughts with the "innernets") Prinnie cannot type. She has a very difficult time expressing her feelings but she is a smarty. Is there a good "typing for cats" tutorial around? I have not been able to find anything for her. At first I thought she was interested in my comfort and company because she missed Blizzie so, but now I realize she has just been hanging around me to learn about my MacBookPro. I should get some pics of her in photobooth some day. anyway... I will think about a blog for her, this might be a whim, so I will see if the interest persists.

We have a camera and we have video-chats every Wednesday evening with my parents. They are quite computer savvy. My hubby taught them quite a lot but my dad is very intelligent.
So, I usually take screen shots while we talk. I must try to get happy and peppy for the chat this evening.

I hope you had the very best day.
I think tomorrow will be a better day for me. I just know it.
I know I will go to the rink and practice the new pattern. I do wear kneepads (because I love my knees very much) but yesterday I fell right on my left knee and I guess the knee pad shifted (not so good huh?) during the lesson. It did kinda hurt but I went on as usual. When I woke up this morning I discovered an owwie bruise. Maybe I need tighter fitting knee pads....

<3 you are loved by me
Be well

Life is divided up
into the horrible
and the miserable.
~~Woody Allen

2007-03-06T20:29:00.000-05:00

I am going to uppie~date tomorrow. today... I skated (again) had a lesson with Nick (it was easy/hard), then went to Trader's Joe (that's what my dad calls it :-D) and bought a whole lot of carbs and goodies (the girls are coming home next week for springggg break [yippie]) played very bad piano for 90 minutes, did scales for 20 minutes, danced to jazzy music for .... 15 minutes... and now I am here on the couch in a sweaty tired heap.

tomorrow I have a doc appointment at 9:30. I have to go to a cancer doc because they found some cancer floating like flotsam in my blood, so I have to go and get my blood checked every 6 months. It is scary and even though I am a nurse (totally retired since dino-days).... I am in that wonderful safe place called de Nile. Hubby comes with me to my appointments so I do not have to pay attention to that awful stuff. I usually do sudoku's while they talk about treatments and drugs and icky stuff. So far... they cannot find anything to treat. Anyway... that is a big worry... so when I come home I will uppppp date and hopefully be feeling much more at ease, because right now, I feel like throwing things.

I just want to say... I love you. All of you make me so happy. You kitties and beans are just the most wonderful thing I have discovered and I am happy I did.
<3 <3 <3 Rosie-mary

>oh! if you would like me to put you on my bloggie roll... please tell me. Say, "put me on your blogggrollll"
*please send me some good vibes*

When you are through changing,
you are through.
~Bruce Barton

Busy busy Day

2007-03-05T10:48:00.000-05:00

I love Mutts:

I just completed a zillionbillion slave duties around the domicile.
Now I am grabbin' my stuff and going to the rink.

have a happy Monday.
You are loved
<3~ Rosemary

Frootbat Friday

2007-03-02T09:10:00.000-05:00

Caesar is always in my face, ... or on my lap, at my heels, on my chair, or inside my fleece jacket...
He knows he is loved.
<3

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable,
because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
~C. S. Lewis

Happy Thursday Eve

2007-03-01T18:52:00.000-05:00

Yep, it is after dinner here.

I am tired, but not too tired. I skated three days this week and I am satisfied with that.
Tomorrow I will do all of the things I needed to do this whole week, haha

Now, the words for the post below. Rarely, will I allow Caesar or Princess to just come into the drier, but sometimes, after they have been sitting on top of it, while it was working and warm, I will open it and they are ready to climb in. That is why I made this sign.
One steadfast rule in this house is, if you open the drier and do not empty it, this magnetic sign must go on the door. It is held by an elastic string and the other end is attached to the wall.
Also, every one in our family knows to check the drier no matter what before closing.
We have never tumbled a kitty, how dreadful that would be.

Caesar and Prin are usually not interested in the drier on sunny days or on warm days... but on those dreary drab winter days, they are always looking for a warm place. I have experienced a few times when I have opened the drier to empty it, and Caesar has barged in. He will stay in, until the last towel is removed and he is standing there in the empty drier.

Below.... .... he just looked soooo happy in the drier.

Here is one of Prinnie's favorite places:
Under the couch in the living room.
There is a heat vent under there.

Caesar loves to sit over the refrigerator when the heat is blasting out of the vent up there,
but Princess cannot get up there anymore.

What we are
is God's gift to us.
What we become
is our gift to God.

~Eleanor Powell

Word~less Wednesday

2007-02-28T18:20:00.000-05:00

Caesar
(click to biggify)

<3>

2007-02-27T15:15:00.000-05:00

I just returned from Fairfax rink. Skated. I skated okay.
I think I might skate tomorrow at Cabin John... because, I need to skate more.

EDIT: good grief. It took me forever to get that profile pic up.
I am really really not so good at this blogger thing yet.
I am sorry.
I am learning.... sorry
I am a super fabulous figure skater/ice dancer, but this tech stuff... hurts my brain. *whimpers* I can't help it. I'm stooopid

<3 style="font-weight: bold;">I will update in a minute... things to do, litter boxes to clean

If you want me to add you to my bloggie roll... just lemme know and I will put you on my blogroll fast as lightning.

see what I did? I did that. I figured it out--->>>

Even dummies can do Blogger, I am living proof

Someday, I am going to learn how to make a "blog roll" give me some time...

2007-02-26T17:36:00.000-05:00

What a day.
I did not skate today because I was grumpy and.... and stiff.
We received 7 inches of snow here (it does not look like it in these pics because... I took these this morning after some sleet last night and now it is melty) and clearing the driveway and the sidewalk (sidewalks - state law) was a lot of work, but you know. I love doing that stuff, sweating, and slaving. It makes me buff and I get more snacks, extra chocolate and huge mus-kles.

look, you can see the "funny" morphed houses across the street

I did some laundry. goodie.
Hubby and I went for a long walk around the neighborhood. Everything is melting quickly and it is puddly everywhere. We wore our snow boots and klomped around - mostly in the woods.

One reason I did not drive out to Cabin John was that I just got my car all cleaned ($10 carwash) and wonderful, shiny on Friday and then this snowstorm came.... Hubby wanted me to take that dopey purpleygrey Buick Car ^ up there. It is a "courtesy car" from Saab, because the Saab is getting a whole new transmission and will be in the shop for a few weeks.... anyway.
I drive the Mazda now because the seats are softer and cushier for my super athletic butt and the added benefit is the Mazda does not drive like a rocket, which keeps me out of trouble (personal choice there). I did not feel like driving that stoopid courtesy car!!!! It looks oooglie and I did not feel like driving a rental car. grrrrr. So. I did not skate. I know. I am still an impossible crab.

Sometimes I even amaze myself. If I had driven this purpleygrey bomb to the rink... I would have had a fun time.
You see, finally in the end... hubby said "go ahead and drive your clean car, it is okay"... but I could not do that because, after so many years of marriage, I have acquired his clean car obsession.

I have more snow pictures but they will have to wait for another time, because I have to create something for dinner now.
Tomorrow... I am going to the rink. I have gotten so bad about skating. bad bad bad
Today would have been fun, and totally worth a dirty car... oh well.
Caesar mid-blink.

Prin in her bloo cave

Okay. Now I really need to go.

The world is round
and the place which may seem like the end
may also be only the beginning.
~Ivy Baker Priest

2007-02-24T20:49:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, I went to Iraq, Greece and Egypt.
I love Google Earth. What a fun waste of time.

Sometimes... I hate being a girl. The suffering we endure.
I feel like someone whacked my back with a board. Just ow. I have taken a zillion ibuprofens today too.

We are getting more trash weather tonight and tomorrow.
We have a winter storm warning... I am so mad about it. I just want nice fluffy snow.
I hate ice

Did I just say I hate ice?

I hate icy weather.

I am feeling like a lazy slob, but really it is just, hmmmyeah, see above. ow
I forced myself to finish sewing the last valence for our bedroom windows. It looks nice. I am so glad I am done with those windows...
now I have a few other sewing projects but *sigh* I will wait. Hubby said we could drive out to the fabric store this evening, (he would hang around the book store next door) but really... I do not feel like it (quite frankly, I feel like eating an entire chocolate cake). If the weather is crummy tomorrow, I won't feel like sewing. I will make some more of those cinnamon rolls, and play the piano.

Christina's boy friend is coming over tomorrow (I will discourage him if the weather is really that bad)
He is going to talk with hubby about some job offers he has received. Jason is a good guy.
Hubby is glad to help with all things US Government.
I am looking forward to seeing Jason tomorrow (weather permitting).

Knowing that tomorrow is going to be messy, hubby and I were encouraged (yeah right hahahaha) to go for a walk today. brrrr it is chilly out, but we walked two whole miles. Hubby walks faster than me sometimes *pant pant* and it kept me warm moving quickly, and I even had a hot flash

I have not heard anything from my parents... my mom in particular. I have a feeling that she tore the meniscus in her knee, when she told me about her injury last week. She refused to put ice on it because it made her feel cold, but after one bad night after having a heat pad on all day, she finally did the ice pack thing and dad told me she felt a lot better. she has called the ortho/sports doc and she has an appointment for Monday. I am keeping my fingers crossed that she is behaving today like I gently asked her (I am not a bossy child) and also hoping and praying that she is going to recover from this. My stomach started churning when she told me she could not stand on her injured leg
That does not make me feel good, mom....
My mom will go insane if she must be immobilized for a long period of time.

Anyway... Here are a few Google Earth pics, of my travels around the globe:

First I went to Crete.
Wowwwwww. Is that cool or what?

Look at this. I want to run away... let's go.

here is Baghdad...
Thaaaat's the Tigris River. Cool huh?

I do not want to run away to here.
They have bad traffic!!!! yeeeesh

Okay, one last picture.
this is Alexandria Egypt.
I would like to visit this place. How about you?

I must end here. Things to do, piano's to play, butts to kick - No, I mean I have to do my exercises too.
be well
you are loved

Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.

-- Anonymous

Wednesday ~ ah so happy to see Wednesday

2007-02-21T10:22:00.000-05:00

Everything is dripping outside. It is 45 degrees. We even had pouring rain last night.
still, the concrete snow is out there.... however... I am so happy to see this stupid impossible mess melting .
This was horrible... 6 inches of the most miserable icy snow ever. You could not shovel it.
The plows made huge mountains of chunks.

Anyway, I hope everyone is well and happy.
Yesterday I skated at Cabin John rink and it was great, considering I have been a huge slacker on the ice.
I am getting my hair cut this afternoon (yes, I wear it short and sassy).
I think I will go with out a coat today :-D

Here are my two sweet old kitties Caesar and Princess.
They are 15 (almost 16, shooosh unbelievable)
They enjoy sleeping on the deck chair cushions in the sun room.
Caesar frequently uses Prinnie as a pillow
Be well

Life is like a taxi.
The meter just keeps a-ticking
whether you are getting somewhere
or just standing still.
-- Lou Erickson

Happy Friday

2007-02-16T18:36:00.000-05:00

This has been a busy and exhausting week.
Monday was the only opportunity I had to skate. Tuesday we had a snow storm, and I hung around the house, no... first, I drove to the fabric store in the morning to get some fabric to make some cute valences (knowing that I was going to be stuck in the house for a while) when I got home, hubby and I just watched the snow... and I sewed.
I did not shovel the driveway, because we were expecting ice over night (so it is better to let the snow stay on the drive and side walk) We did get a lot of ice and snow over night. It was freezing and very windy. So then the rest of the week, we just cleaned up the snow, I did a lot of cleaning in the house and e-mailed my parents and basically kept in touch with them after they lost power at 5:30 Tuesday night! They live an hour and a half away in Annapolis and the roads were even too horrible here for me to go and rescue them! Besides, they are tough and would not want to come over here anyway.. they like to be with their own stuff. My dad said this was not a big deal, because they lived in Holland during WW2 and went for two years with out electricity. Well, that is great dad, but... you and mom were only 20 years old then, not 80!

Today my oldest daughter took the train home from college (William and Mary). It is nice to see her. We just returned from eating dinner at the Clyde's restaurant in our neighborhood. I am really really full of food.

Here are the latest pics of Caesar and Prinnie.
They are old and very spoiled.. that is what happens when the girls go off to college... Caesar and Princess get way too much attention.. and they adore it.

Caesar loves the heat vent over the fridge
and he is still agile enough to jump up above the cabinets.
I have a few old towels up there for him to lounge on. Sometimes he sits up there for hours.... look at him up there glaring at me :-D mom, I did not give you permission to take my picture in such a drowsy state *snap* Heyyyy!

Okay well I still do not get the whole thing with putting pictures on. I guess this looks okay.
Prinnie loves fleece. she also loves being snuggly.

I am going to end here and wish everyone a super wonderful sunshiny week~end.

You can do anything, anything you want;
there is only one thing you must do...
pay the price.

I am sorry

2007-02-12T18:56:00.000-05:00

I have been a terrible blogger. I have not been blogging much on my other bloggie either.
I am been busy, and a little bit lazy, but mostly busy.

I love Google Earth. Do you have it? I have several addresses that I have looked up, places that I have lived. Here is one, where I lived when I was 6 years old, until I was about 9.
You can click on it to make larger for easier viewing...
This is France!
I am very fortunate. Both of my parents are from the Netherlands, and then my father got a job in the US with the State Department... so we traveled a lot to visit relatives and lived in many places in Europe as well.

I dragged this screen shot into photoshop so that I could mark on it... then I sent it to my daughter in college.
I remember this house. It was a duplex. We lived on the left side. The front door was on the side of the house, and there was that garage in the back yard. I do not remember if we put our car in there. I do remember we had some huge spiders... I hated that.

Presently we are getting a little bit of snow here. I am not sure how this storm will go here. It is tricky to predict winter storms here on the east coast... especially around Virginia and Maryland.
The "jet stream" can be unpredictable, but I think there is a good possibility that we will wake up to three inches of salt and sand... because that is what those trucks like to do at night when there is winter weather in the forecast.

Here is a nice picture of Prinnie in the sun. She is a quiet sweet kitty, sister to the loud and spoiled Caesar that loves his mom. Prinnie. She handles things on her own.

I will try to blog more regularly. I have just had a zillionbillion things going on.

I absolutely adore reading your blogs.
The kitty blogs are wondermously sweet,
and the peeple blogs are lovely too.
Be well
<3 Rosemary

Oh wellllll. Soooorrrrrry?

2007-02-07T18:21:00.001-05:00

You Are 32% Abnormal

You are at medium risk for being a psychopath. It is somewhat likely that you have no soul.

You are at medium risk for having a borderline personality. It is somewhat likely that you are a chaotic mess.

You are at low risk for having a narcissistic personality. It is unlikely that you are in love with your own reflection.

You are at low risk for having a social phobia. It is unlikely that you feel most comfortable in your mom's basement.

You are at medium risk for obsessive compulsive disorder. It is somewhat likely that you are addicted to hand sanitizer.

How Abnormal Are You?

here's me.
I am doing "butt kicks" (strength training for skating)
Caesar is helping me :-)
okay... so maybe 32% is spot on....

pee-esss:
I think "blogger" needs better servers.
pictures virtually disappear on my bloggie
:-( this makes me sad sad sad and sad

Friday ~~~~ finally

2007-02-02T12:24:00.000-05:00

I am deeply saddened that sometimes I visit my very own bloggggg and the pictures are not showing up. That makes me quite unhappy.

I have been "awake" since 7 am. Blizzie and I took a little trippie to the University of Mary Washington. We left early. It was kind of icey out but the main roads were just fine, and I married "Mr. AllthingsCarExpert" so I have fabulous snow/ice tires... (I even tested them on the 1/4 inch of icey driveway, backing out of the garage).
So, I dropped Blizzie off at the college. She is going to hang around there with her friend Sarah, (and also check out the music and French departments) and then I will pick up both girls this evening and bring them back to A-burn. It is about a 90 minute trip from door to door. Not bad.
Actually, at this point... I am hoping hubby will pick up the girls this evening... because he loves driving anyway, and he will be back around 5:00 from his business trip to California. I am pretty sure he will want to drive and do that. I need to pick him up from Dulles later.

This week~end should not be too busy. I do have bell choir practice Saturday evening.
Sunday we need to bring Blizzie back to Messiah College.

I have a few pictures that I recently removed from my camera.
The first one here are the yummy cinnamon rolls I made a few weeks ago.

Yes, these are gone now. Hubby and I ate a few and I froze four of them. Blizzie and I each had one yesterday. They were very good and very sugary. After you eat one... you feel very full of sugar :-)

This next picture is Prinnie.
She looks like a little mouse sometimes.
I think she might be part mouse... maybe her great great grandma was a mouse

This last picture is Caesar.
He does not have a snaggletooth but he does here :-P
This is really only half of him.
I hope you have the very best week~end <3

How about Tent Tuesday? :-P

2007-01-30T16:04:00.001-05:00

Well, happy Tuesday anyway... nice try huh?

This is Princess. She is a very sweet kitty.
I bought this little "pet tent" at Target for $1.
I found it in that one$ section in the front of the store. Prinnie is not the boss kitty (or maybe she is). Caesar thinks he is.
If Prin is somewhere that Caesar decides he wants to be, he will will give her a gentle swat or maybe threaten her with a mild chomp... sometimes he is rough, but not usually. Princess leaves immediately to avoid a fight, but sometimes... not quickly enough. Caesar can be pushy and then I hear her scream and hiss and run off.
I always scold Caesar for being so rough.
Caesar loves his mom, so he always feels guilty when I scold him... haha
I think Prinnie is smarter than Caesar.

Prinnie is mostly attached to Blizzie, who is at college now. Hubby and I try to give her lots of attention and encouragement. She loves salad dressing. After dinner I always let her lick my salad bowl.

I have looked around this Blogger planet... and there are a few things I do not know.
∞ I do not know how to make a "blog roll".
∞ I do not know if I am old blogger or new blogger
This morning, I discovered that somehow my computer had signed me out while I was sleeping! How tricky is that? So I had to figure out how to sign back in.
∞ Do I sign in with my email address and then enter my "password"? I am not sure how I finally got onto my blog again but I was in a little bit of a panic over that this morning. I believe that is what I finally did this morning...
∞ The "word verification" thing. Why are the letters so curvy, stuck together and/or distorted? sometimes I cannot tell if one letter is a j or an i or an l or a q or a g or a u or a v.... why do some blogs have this word verification and some not? Is it a test for stupidity? because I have trouble with it. sometimes it takes me more than one try. uh-oh. I must be ....schtoopid
∞ is it my imagination... or are the Blogger servers reeeeeeeealllly slowwwww

It is just me and the kitties here for one more day and night. Tomorrow I am leaving at 9:30 to get Blizzie from college in PA. She is home for four days. My other daughter, Christina, is finishing up her very last semester at The College of William and Mary. Presently, she is slaving.
I hope everyone is having the very best day.
here it is drab and dreeeeeeary. Goodnesss. I hope it does not start snowing until tomorrow evening. I do not feel like road tripping in the snow.

Week-end Uppie-date

2007-01-27T19:23:00.001-05:00

Okay. I finally figured out how to put pictures up.
It seems that the only thing I was not doing was "accepting the terms of the agreement"
Sheeesh I am so dumb sometimes :-P I did not realize I had to put a little check in the box....
I like the way these pictures are all framey, that is cute!

Anyway. Today was a nice day.
I am helping hubby pack up his stuff for his travel trip to Cali-for-nya.

We went for a 3 mile walk this afternoon. It was 50º today, that is pretty nice for Northern Virginia.

I also watched the Figure skating Nationals, ladies short program on ABC.
I can do that foot work. I am not into jumping or spinning. jumping is so yesterday, and spinning makes me barf. So, I can do a lot of that foot work, but I do it much slower because... I am not 18 years old, haha.

Okay... the photos above are my olde kitties. I love them. Caesar and Prinnie (Princess) are almost 16 years old. They are litter mates. They are the chubbiest Cornish Rex kitties you have ever seen I bet. Well, they used to be slim and trim... but *sigh* they are moving kind of slow these days.
We got them when they were 10 weeks old. I have some pictures upstairs in a box of when they were kit-tens. They were soooo cute. I will scan them some time... They used to get into everything. They used to be quite terribly wild, but now, they sleep most of the day, and follow me around the house.
Caesar is the rotund two-tone one, and Prin is the all white not too tubby one.

Caesar still jumps to the top of the fridge... Prinnie does not jump up on much of anything any more... Prinnie once went behind the washer when she was a kitten and made herself all black, eeew. It was funny, but she needed a bath, STAT. Caesar... used to be like a monkey. He used to jump down from the upstairs to the downstairs, about 12 feet. They still run around the house... but not very often. They are very vocal. Caesar has quite a vocabulary!

This is all I have to say today.
I have to do some more helping with packing. Hubby is not a very good packer... he forgets important things.

I hope you are having the very best day ever!

<3 Rosemary

It has been a while.

2007-01-26T12:55:00.001-05:00

Over a week in fact.
I am just sort of going through an end of January schlump. I do not have seasonal affective disorder, but it has been dark and windy.... and besides, nothing fun is going on... It is cold here. 20 degrees today, and windy. Hey, what happened to global warming... I was kind of liking that :-)

I have been skating one day a week... mostly because it has been so cold... brrrrr, even Fairfax rink is very very cold. I skate at a rink in Maryland, that has heaters over head, very nice. I have not been there this week.... but I am planning to go next Monday.

I have been doing a lot of little frippy things here... little, simple cleaning projects mostly, because I do not feel like doing any BIG cleaning projects... such as . . . the basement.

I am working on a collage of Prinnie. Neither of my kitties enjoy having their photograph taken. I guess I should have started earlier... but you know, we only had those olde fashioned cameras back then and you had to be very picky about pictures. So, I need to also dig around in the boxes up stairs and scan some of those old kitten photos.

I must end here.
I will try to put something here more often. I do not know how to put photos up here anymore... how puzzling. I have some on my other bloggie, you can look over there, if you like.

Now, I must go and practice some piano while I have the time.
~be well

Tooz~dee - already

2007-01-16T20:43:00.000-05:00

I will try to think of something to write/type here tomorrow.

One daughter called from Maine. She is on a college field trip... at Sunday River Resort learning to ski. haha
Second daughter gave her very first three minute speech at her college, and had a chance to practice (piano) with the saxophone guy for her performance engagements in March. I am glad she dropped that drippy one credit course.
Presently, I am pooped.
whadda day... :-P

Saturday

2007-01-13T14:09:00.000-05:00

Well, I live on the east coast... and we are having a very warm winter.
It is usually in the 20's or 30's this time of year... and we have snow.
Today is it 60 degrees outside, cloudy and drab and dreary.
We have not had more than 25 snowflakes here... and that was last November!

Today: Hubby took Christina (Chystabelle) back to college. He just called and he is on his way home.
It is a three hour drive each way. I do not enjoy sitting in the car anymore for three hours... so I get to stay home and do the cleaning thing. Christina is a senior there at W&M and I have driven that trip many many times over the past three and a half years.

Elizabeth (Blizzie) is the little one. She is a freshie at Messiah. She is there right now, stretching herself and growing every day. She is brave... *sigh* I am tooooo

Presently I am listening to The Count Basie on my MacBook Pro (iTunes)...I have it hooked up to my cheapo $25. speakers. It sounds okay.
I am cleaning the house... I am a cleaning machine today. haha. I have already done a zillion loads of laundry and vacuumed and sanitized the kitty room upstairs. It is sparklie now. I know the olde kittycats will be happy to have all of there fuzzy blankies back and smelling like flowers.

I started a blog on xanga about 3 and a half years ago when "Chrystabelle" went off to college at William and Mary. I never knew anything about blogging then, but I just started a silly blog and figured it would be a fun thing to do with my daughter. She is very computer savvy... I am not.
I know all things medical and I am a figure skater (and I know all things fluffy too).
I do not know much about "Blogger". I have not learned how to do everything and I am sorry for that.

I better end here. I have been avoiding the bathrooms all morning and I think it is time to attack the toilets... bleh. I have done everything else. The entire house smells like Mr. Clean.

->I have been reading several of the bloggies here on Blogger and I am very impressed. I just thought I would share that.
All of you are just so wonderful. There are so many negative things going on in our lives and in the world and I believe that we must always look for the beauty and the goodness in life.
There is a lot of good in this world. We must constantly try to spread the love for mankind, and kittykind, of course!
Be well <3
Love, Rosemary

later Thursday

2007-01-11T19:51:00.000-05:00

Here is a silly thing I made about my kitty boy, Caesar.
He is 15 years old.
He has a sweet sister, Princess.
I will try to make a silly thing for her too... sometime soon

Caesar eating snacks ~~Laying in the sun~~ lounging with the White Bengal tiger

~ Save The Whales ~

Eating the pla.. hey, get your nose out of there!~~ pumpkin pie lover ~~ "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful"

After I returned from the dental visit, which went o-kay, I was exhausted and I had a mild headache, bleh.
I have to go back for some sealants or something, on about 9 teeth :-(
Anyway, I took Chrystabelle to the ski shop to get some goggles for glasses people. She is a glasses girl... then we came home and I just had to go for a walk.
I put my wind pants over my jeans and hubby came with me. We just walked about three miles.

Last week Thursday, I sprained my left hamstrings, so I have not been skating.
I have finally been able to walk comfortably these past three days.
I used to skate four days or five days a week... now I only skate two days a week. I decided last September it was time to do some other things besides skateskateskate. So now I am skating less, and I think that is one reason that I had this sprain. Oh well.

I will end here for now.
<3

2007-01-11T12:22:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone.
I am leaving for the dentist in 45 minutes.

When I return, I am taking "Chrystabelle" shopping, and then I am going to do some other stuff.
I like cookies, but I better not eat one now... you know, the dentist in 45 mins.
maybe I'll just have a grape.

bye for now
<3~Rosemary