Cat People Sleep Better...or at least maybe, more.

[vulgarweed]

So yesterday I was in a FOUL FETID FUNK of a mood - money, what else? - and cussed my way home from a frustrating shift...

...only to find out I can't stay in a foul mood when I come home to this little shnuckafoo:









Kind of makes up for her running around like a little meth-head ass-goblin in the wee hours.

Also, sarahsan tagged me for a meme: Post your Desktop!

Why not?



(Stormclouds at dusk over Kuala Lumpur)


When I slept, my mind decided to distract me from my stress with a wondrous bit of political/fandom WTFery. I can only conclude my subconscious was doing something artsy with the aural similarity of the names "Adama" and "Obama" (a Freudian typo at least one person at Democratic Underground has made publicly, in something that was attempting to be a serious post.)

Comments

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

Awwww, she's so cute: you can almost hear her saying "please don't take my comfy, comfy little cat cover away".

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

That's an Indian tapestry thing I bought at a yard sale with high hopes of using it as a pretty rug, but she thinks allowing it to lie flat and uncrumpled on the floor is an abomination.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Kitty! Be not as are the ass-goblins; for they are rank with the bitterness of undigested coffee.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

For those who are blessed with the goofy little tortie face are absolved of many sins, but the sleep of She Who Openeth the Cans shall be held as sacred.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Aww she's adorable!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Ain't she? She OWNS me, it's pathetic. :)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yeah cats can do that :P I've given up on trying not to let mine sleep on my bed and resigned myself to just changing the sheets more often.

[sarahsan]

Now that is a desktop! Gorgeous. Thanks for doing it, dear, I know I rather jumped you. <3

Also, that kitty face would make up for any transgression, really...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. That picture's meaningful to me because I took it myself out of a hotel room window (with a brand-new digital camera I was just barely getting the hang of)

I don't want Madimi to think she can do anything and get away with it, but truth is.....sssshhhhhh.

(Coming off of 14 years with a frat-boy cat who never quite got the hang of that litter-box thang, and I loved him nonetheless--at least Madimi is a lady in that respect.)

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Oh, that adorable face just BEGS for a macro . . .

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

The face that launched a thousand web pics....

[qtheallpowerful.livejournal.com]

Sneaky!cat is sneaky!

She is so.very. cute. And your desktop is spiffy.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

She's always at her cutest right before she does something casually and profoundly evil. :)

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Awww. Cute!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Ain't she? Little stinker. ;)

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

Cute kitty!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

That's what she wants you to think. ;)

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

Dad used to say, "God didn't make no ugly cats." :)

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

*Pets the kitty* Heh, I'd pick up the meme but my desktop is a very boring blue and silver graphic ganked from an AOL interface of halcyon yore. The dude who works on my PC asked me why I didn't just get a Mac. XD

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had the default Mac blue swirly thing until I got around to uploading a whole bunch of pics to this computer. (A lot of them were on my old clamshell iBook, which still works but I don't use it much anymore).

[fyrdrakken]

Ooh, kitty! Indeed, the cute is a survival mechanism...

And desktop meme -- I posted my old desktop long and long ago, but now I have a different backdrop (and a different computer system) and can't really post a cap of my home computer desktop from work. (My work desktop is the image I gacked from this post.) I only finally got around to uploading some images to my phone over this weekend, and I haven't settled on a desktop I'm really happy with yet (largely because the phone display wants to use white to fill in around the edges if the proportions don't match the screen, and I find that glaring when a dark image is letterboxed in white) but I'm kind of leaning towards the carousel walrus.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Awww, love the icon. I have no doubt that kittehs have co-evolved with us to trigger our "instant forgiveness" reflexes.

[fyrdrakken]

Well, partly co-evolved, and partly selectively bred to hit all the triggers that evolved so that we don't get fed up with babies. But, yeah -- cats are definitely one of those species that are self-domesticated, here because they find living with us convenient and not merely because we found their ancestors useful. (Much like humans, in one hypothesis -- the idea that humans basically self-domesticated ourselves via selection for individuals happy living in a group society and ejection of individuals too ornery to fit in...)

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

She's indeed too cute to be angry with! And you really chose her name well. ":-D

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I can't even give her time-outs anymore since she's figured out how to open the bathroom door. Her new thing is attacking my feet through the bedspread. XD

This is one of those things I don't mention much, but a year or so after Marlowe passed, I dreamed very vividly and matter-of-factly that I had a black-and-orange tortie named Madimi. After that it was just a matter of finding her.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

she's figured out how to open the bathroom door. Her new thing is attacking my feet through the bedspread

Awww. So cute! (Yet... If cats were any larger than they are, they'd be truly scary animals.)

dreamed very vividly and matter-of-factly that I had a black-and-orange tortie named Madimi

Foretelling! *picks up torch* Witch!!! *ggg* Actually, I do believe in prophetic dreams. Probably there's a scientific explanation somewhere.