Stripey and Loathing Collars

/ January 29, 2010

This is Cheyenne. I generally call her Kitty. You’ll see reference to her here, on Twitter, and Facebook as The Stripey One, or Stripey for short. She was my first non-imaginary or non-fish pet and I love her, even though she’s stand-offish and prefers to stare at you from across the room or attack your feet from underneath the bed.

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The Stripey and White Ones Plot Will Fail

/ January 26, 2010

You’ve seen the stares. The strategically placed cat toy. You know what your cat is thinking. You’re not alone in this, as my cats think the same thing. I took a quiz to see if the cats were plotting my demise, and it turns out that they are. It explains why Stripey won’t let me trim her claws and why

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Baby It’s Cold Outside!

/ December 16, 2009

Today’s post was going to be about my office reindeer, but sadly there is no time. However, it’s truly winter here in Boston with very cold temperatures from the Canadas on the way. What’s the best way to warm up? Tea?Hot Chocolate?Sweaters? True, those all help in the warming department, but the most important thing is to wear proper outwear.

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The Stages of Loss According to Lucky

/ November 23, 2009

This is Lucky. We call him Bud. You’ll see reference to him on Twitter as The White One. This is one of my most favorite pictures of him taken with my crappy little camera phone. Cute, isn’t he? It wouldn’t be so far a stretch to say “adorable.” (Provided you like cats. I acknowledge that there are anti-cat people out

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How I Spend My Twitter Time

/ October 27, 2009

Instead of doing prewriting during office downtime today, I opted to play with Wordle. I first learned about this awesome app from my friend Danielle. Since then, it’s been popping up in the tweets and blogs of people I follow. Courtesy of TweetStats, I found out that I can make a word cloud with my Twitter account. What a terrific

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