Wordless Wednesday

Supervisor Sookie

As I've mentioned, I've been very busy with work recently working long hours and weekends too. The good news is that it was all for a good cause as I went for a promotion and found out this week that I got it! 

It's been quite exhausting but Sookie was on hand to remind me when I really should take a break. Let's just say subtlety isn't her strong point...

*click click clickety click*

"Mama four hours without a break is unacceptable!"

"I have disabled your internet... it's for your own good."

(She really did disable my internet as well... it took me an hour to work out how to get it back - she'd make a brilliant computer programmer!!)

Friday Flashback - Last Christmas

Last Christmas was our first with the cats. I know that not everyone understands it, but for my hubby and I Darcy and Sookie are our children and the best thing on Christmas day was of course giving them their present! We had found a toy called 'Panic Mouse', which is battery powered - you turn it on by twisting the mouse's nose and the fishing rod starts flicking about randomly. We wrapped it up and let them sniff it and do the usual 'head rub and chew' investigation, before opening and setting it up for them.

As you can see Mr Darcy and Sookie fell in love with this toy immediately and set to work trying to catch that fidgety bobble at the end of the stick!

In fact they went properly nutso over this toy and were leaping, rolling, stalking and diving in equal measure!

"Must... catch.. the bobbly thing!!"

"Gah almost had it, swat faster Sookie!!"

"1...2...3..."

"...Swat!"

The above photo is one of my personal favourites of Sookie even though it's not in focus or anything - it just makes me laugh every time I see it!

"Best toy ever!"

...of course by Boxing Day, Mr D and Sookie decided that it was just as fun to simply lie down and watch the toy flick back and forth and made no further effort to actually play with it ever again! Eventually it was relegated to the back of the cupboard. But for one day it was their favourite toy in the world!

We have already sorted out a couple of presents for this year's cat stockings...but you'll just have to wait until Christmas along with Sookie and Darcy to find out what they get! :)

Almost Wordless Wednesday - Feather

Oi Sookie - Come back with my fevver!!!!

Vitamin E - Part 2

 Mum = Climate Control = Chief Blind Upper/Downer Controller

Vitamin E - Part 1

Sookie has been in a particularly mischievous mood this week. My hubby is a bit of a film and tv geek and has a collection of figures from Star Wars and Transformers. Sookie is obsessed with them and keeps climbing onto our shelving unit to play with them. It's quite funny to see my 30 something hubby shout to a cat to "get off Optimus Prime, he's not a toy!!!"

Sookie also had her yearly check up and booster jabs this week. All went well and she's a healthy weight. She gets quite upset at car journeys though and meows constantly. This time though I decided to try putting on a cd and would you know it, she settled down in her carrier and took a nap - I've never really thought about animals and music before but I think she might have found it soothing... do your cats show any interest in music??

 

You might also have noticed from the photos that Sookie is following in Darcy's footsteps and floofing out for winter - her mane seems to have sprouted from nowhere!

Happy weekend everyone!! :)

We are not amused

Oh hai, Darcy and Sookie here. We're not impressed at mummy. These are our unimpressed faces:

1. She has been A.W.O.L. all week and left us with our daddy - something about her sister being pregnant and them having one last girly week together before the baby comes blah blah blah. We don't like to wake up daddy, we save it for mummy only. Plus daddy never wakes up when we bug him at 4am so we don't get our tap water. We've been soooo dehydrated. (okay so we have a water fountain downstairs and a water bowl upstairs too, but that's not the point!)
2. She didn't do her usual blog visits and comments. Again something about not having internet access apart from her phone and the battery running out blah blah blah.

When she walked in we were tempted to roll on our backs and ask for belly rubs but punishment was required, so we had to look away.

Talk to the tail, cos the face ain't listening!

Well... we managed this for about 30 seconds, then we couldn't hold it in any longer and had to run up to her and purr and meow and request a weeks worth of cuddles. She's still trying to catch up... we're very demanding!

Oh and we woke her up at 4am this morning bang on time - normal service has resumed!
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