How do you feel today?

Post by **matrixman** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:22 am

Lord Foul has become a cat? Well, this changes the complexion of the Last Chronicles.

Post by **lucimay** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:51 am

drew wrote:
drew wrote:Just had to do one of the hardest things I've had to do as a parent so far.

Had to tell my eight year old that his cat is probebly NOT comming back home.

Rosie was more like Isaac's puppy, than his cat. She'd follow him around the yard, sleep on his bed-on his Pillow-every night. She would even comfort him if he was sad, angry or hurt. Honest, she'd hop up on his lap whenever he wasn't feeling wel, and start purring at him.

Normally, she doesn't wander too far away from the house; she may go into the woods for a little while, but she always came home after a few hours.

She's now been gone since Sunday.

I saw no eveidence on the road of a hit cat, luckily; there is always a possibility that she was killed by another animal, we do live right on the edge of a forrest...I told Isaac that she probebly just go too sick. She DID catch a bat a couple of days before she left; I don't know if that made it any easier on him, but the fact the doing somthing she loved (hunting) was what killed may have kept him from going completely to peices.

I tried to time it right--I let him pick out a movie from the store, something funny-then before we put it on, I took him to the bathroom while I bathed the baby, and told him that I don't figure she's comming home.

Of course I received pretty much the reaction that I expected, but I had to let him go to wash the baby, then I let him go watch his movie....right now, his laughing at it, but everytime he looks at me, he starts welling up again.
He DID thank me for being honest with him, so I guess I did it right.
The movie will be on past his bedtime..then I'm going to read him a chapter out of his book, so hopefully if he's late going to bed, he'll fall asleep easier.

Ah poor Rosie...we will all miss you.

Damelon wrote:You never know about cats, drew. When I was young, one of my cats came back after being missing for four months.

He smelled like a manure pile too.

Seareach wrote:Drew: hope the cat comes back! I'm with Damelon on this one. When I was a kid we had a cat called "Little Cat". She disappeared (we lived in the country on a farm). Weeks went by...months.... About a year later, my sister and I were playing down near the creek and who should turn up and stroll up to us but Little Cat! Who knows what had happened to her...but she went on to live until the ripe old age of 20

-The cat came back.

good ending.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:04 am

By Harry S Miller (though there's loads and loads of versions):

Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own
He had a yellow cat which wouldn't leave its home;
He tried and he tried to give the cat away,
He gave it to a man goin' far, far away.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The man around the corner swore he'd kill the cat on sight,
He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite;
He waited and he waited for the cat to come around,
Ninety seven pieces of the man is all they found.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a little boy with a dollar note,
Told him for to take it up the river in a boat;
They tied a rope around its neck, it must have weighed a pound
Now they drag the river for a little boy that's drowned.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a man going up in a balloon,
He told him for to take it to the man in the moon;
The balloon came down about ninety miles away,
Where he is now, well I dare not say.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a man going way out West,
Told him for to take it to the one he loved the best;
First the train hit the curve, then it jumped the rail,
Not a soul was left behind to tell the gruesome tale.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The cat it had some company one night out in the yard,
Someone threw a boot-jack, and they threw it mighty hard;
It caught the cat behind the ear, she thought it rather slight,
When along came a brick-bat and knocked the cat out of sight

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

Away across the ocean they did send the cat at last,
Vessel only out a day and making water fast;
People all began to pray, the boat began to toss,
A great big gust of wind came by and every soul was lost.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

On a telegraph wire, sparrows sitting in a bunch,
The cat was feeling hungry, thought she'd like 'em for a lunch;
Climbing softly up the pole, and when she reached the top,
Put her foot upon the electric wire, which tied her in a knot.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The cat was a possessor of a family of its own,
With seven little kittens till there came a cyclone;
Blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around,
The air was full of kittens, and not a one was ever found.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The atom bomb fell just the other day,
The H-Bomb fell in the very same way;
Russia went, England went, and then the U.S.A.
The human race was finished without a chance to pray.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

Post by **balon!** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:14 am

That was one of my favorite songs to sing at camp as a counselor.

Post by **Damelon** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:43 am

Lord Foul wrote:I feel like a cat trapped in a man's body. I'm not sure how I can reconcile these feelings, as everyone gets disgusted when I lick myself or sit in a litter box. On top of that, there are no cat hormone pills.

I just--meow...just--! Meow! MEOW. Ah! Don't look at me!!

It sounds like someone needs his chin scratched.

Post by **Seareach** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:20 pm

sick as a dog.

Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:22 pm

Seareach wrote:sick as a dog.

Awwwwww

I hope you feel better!!

Post by **balon!** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:31 pm

A little disturbed. We found the rotting remains of a dead cat next to my house today.

Post by **emotional leper** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:47 pm

Balon wrote:A little disturbed. We found the rotting remains of a dead cat next to my house today.

I don't think that's something to be disturbed about.

Now, finding the rotting remains of a live cat... That's disturbing.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:13 am

Wow, last night was simply wonderful. I hooked up a laser finder to my telescope's finderscop - so orientating to stars/planets was very fast. Anyway, I observed the moon at very high magnification, marvelling at the craters and maria. Then I observed Jupiter, finally seeing cloud details and the Great Red Spot. Then I viewed Antares (without its companion, due to low magnitude stars being almost impossible to view as the moon was too bright).

Great night!

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:58 am

I'm not happy...
Not happy at all...
Hyperception just told me about an hour ago that FIL is coming to stay overnight tomorrow.
The house has not been ready for company since we moved.
And he tells me now???

..arrrghhh!!!...

Post by **kevinswatch** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:15 am

Recording online lectures until 3am isn't fun!

And I'm likely going to have to do it 3 more times this week!

Argle gargle.-jay

Post by **Lorelei** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:23 pm

Slipped down the stairs this morning getting my first cup of coffee. I'm home from work today but hopefully I'll be back on my feet tomorrow. Too bad the whole incident wasn't recorded as I'm sure I looked hilarious.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:33 pm

*owie!*

Warm showers alternating with an ice pack, no more than 10 minutes at a time each, as frequently as once an hour on the affected areas, Lorelei.

...so says the former chiropractic assistant

Post by **Cail** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:29 pm

Lorelei wrote:Slipped down the stairs this morning getting my first cup of coffee. I'm home from work today but hopefully I'll be back on my feet tomorrow. Too bad the whole incident wasn't recorded as I'm sure I looked hilarious.

I hate doing stuff like that. It was like when I dropped the bike back in July. It wasn't my banged-up elbow, it wasn't the damage to the bike, and it wasn't the thought that either Cailette or I could have been seriously hurt.

My ego hurt the most, 'cause it was so damn stupid and clumsy of me.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:32 pm

Oh, Lorelei, that sucks. I have had several serious battles with gravity and lost.

I think the most memorable of which was Halloween of '86.

I was a sweet seventeen year old, just a few weeks before my eighteenth birthday. One of my friends , Jim was living in Jamaica Plains, in Boston and going to Berkeley School of Music. He invited me up for a Halloween party. I gleefully dressed as satanspawn in a strapless, spandex black gown. The party was great. A bunch of us were hanging out in Jim's room around 2am when I was elected to go for refills. At the top of the stairs, I suddenly found out why hardwood stairs and nylon stockings don't mix. At the very top, both of my feet flew out from under me and I fell back landing on the middle of my right buttcheek against the edge of the top riser. Gathering momentum as I slid, I finally reached the landing and flipped over and went down the last four steps chest first. At this point everyone in the house had heard me thundering down the steps so of course everyone came running. I don't think there is any more embarrassing moment than lying facefirst on the floor in the hallway with your dress in a tube around your waist while 20 or so guys try to make sure you are ok....

My casualty was a grapefruit sized lump that raised up on my buttcheek and turned solid black. I couldn't sit for two weeks.

I feel ok today. I had a quiet Jenn time weekend. I lounged, I watch movies until way late, I slept late, I read, I wrote, I worked on some drawings. I played with Moose and sang with Bird and took a nice long bubble bath in the deep claw foot tub with some Burt's Bees, Milk and Honey foaming bath gel.

Me time can be really nice.

Post by **Seareach** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:31 pm

flu. flu. flu. flu. flu. Catch everyone on the flip-side when I'm feelin' half human again.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:44 pm

Poor Sea, feel better, lots of fluids and rest. The flu totally sucks.

Post by **Damelon** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:53 pm

Great to hear you had a good "me" weekend, Jenn

Sea, I hope you get over that flu soon!

Get your rest, and some soup!

Post by **Seareach** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:57 pm

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhccccccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooo!

'dello my watchie freinds...di 'ave da fluuuuuuu! Still. SHOOT ME NOW!

I really haven't got the time to be sick, and my partner has suddenly decided we're going to buy a house. I don't wanna buy a house.

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How do you feel today?