Thursday Thirteen err eight

Our mom has come down with a cold so she is sleepy and blowing her nose a lot and sniffing. We are trying to take care of her but she whines an awful lot when she is sick. Mom's cold is affecting her creative part of her brain but we said we'd help up and come up with 13 random things to say, mainly responses to comments.

1. Thank you Whicky Wuudler for telling us about your ear. We are sorry you had a rough feral life before but are glad that you have a nice place to live now.

2. We are so excited about getting mail and we have gotten more cards than our mom and dad this year. Mom thinks the mailman might think we are crazy but oh well.

3. We are also excited about secret paws. Mom was checking our email constantly until we finally got our names and can't wait to go shopping.

4. We can't believe there are so many people as crazy as us out there that there is a whole cat blogosphere. Who would've thought that people would help cats blog.

5. Related to above, mom does not go advertising that she does this because she knows she will get strange looks but most of her Internet time is cat related.

6. We do have a boogie mat. The only bad thing is the zipper is broken so we have never put new nip in it. We can still smell the nip and will go crazy. Mom says she will eventually fix the zipper but we don't believe it.

7. Nemo says he will need to get some more business attire to work for all those who requested. He has a neck tie and a bow tie. If the work environment is casual enough he can wear his bandanna.

8. We are usually told to get off the laptops but when they are not looking we sit on them. On many occasions we have made mom and dad say bad words because we have erased parts of papers or added pages and pages of random gibberish. Patches usually manages to make new folders on the desktop and once she used hotmail to chat with someone for multiple messages back and forth.

I guess we aren't as good as this without mom's help that we only had 8 things to say today. We saw that we were tagged for the 6th picture meme. We have done it once but since we have two computers with two sets of pictures we will love to tell another story. Dad is playing on the computer now so we can't bother him until later. We will also post our award tomorrow when our mommie is rested and has her head on straight. We picked a random pic for today so you wouldn't forget what we looked like after one day.

Wordless Wednesday

Tummy Tuesday

We are sharing our tummies today on Tuesday. Nemo's favorite position is on his back. He also sleeps with his eyes half open most times. As mom was searching through the 11,000 pictures she has on the computers she realized how many pictures of Nemo and his white belly she had and how few there were of Patches. My sister is in the background looking out the window at something.
This is the closest thing of a tummy picture for me. I am a lady cat and don't like to let it all hang out and show off all my spots. My mom says I have fat sacks that are empty. My tummy grew so I have lots of extra skin but nothing in them. I guess that's a good thing. Mom says I cannot get a tummy tuck even though it is very embarrassing, especially when I take a bath and it is very obvious.
Just another reminder, sign up for the Christmas card exchange. We'll send cards anywhere because its furry exciting to send mail and receive mail. We've never done this and we are excited to give our cards to the man wearing blue pants to send out.

Mancat Monday

Nemo here reporting. It was a very busy weekend. My dad put up plastic on the windows because its furry cold outside and our house is old and leaks a lot of heat. I did my part by being the best snoopervisor. I would be wearing my business tie but it was the weekend and all. That is my mancat rule for the day. Whenever work is being done, do your best to be involved without actually doing any work.

Sometimes we needed to ask the consultant Patches where to put things so she had to be called in to help place the caulk in the right place.

Mom mentioned that the weatherpeople are saying we are going to get a big storm tonight through tomorrow. Maybe lots of snow. When we lived out of town this meant that mom and dad couldn't go anywhere so we got to hang out with them all day but now we live only a few blocks from their work so they probably could make it. Mom might be home early though, shes hoping at least. She always hates Mondays and asks where the weekend goes. Hope everyone has a good start to the week.

Lazy Sunday

As you can tell it is lazy Sunday at our house and that is why we are so late at posting today. It has been a rough week for our mom and dad and between the two they have had doctors appointments everyday last week but Monday. Our dad got his CPAP machine and is now allowed to sleep in the bed again. It was hard for us to get used to that so we kept walking on him. We are all excited that there isn't any snoring and dad isn't having troubles sleeping with the mask on. Our mom went to the doctor and got to see pictures of the baby. She showed us but we don't see what she tells us is in the photo. Mom and dad hoped to find out what kind of baby they were havin but the baby wasn't cooperative. Mom wasn't surprised, shes used to stubbornness. I, Patches, have been very clingy to mom today. We had a nice long cuddle in the blankets this morning and wherever mom goes, I'm right by her side helping. Mom thinks maybe I'm not feeling well because I did throw up last night and this morning but I am still eating and up and moving so who knows. Sometimes I eat too fast and too much at one time, especially my fancy feast and then throw up. Do any of you cats burp? I burp all the time on my mom but Nemo never burps, his comes out the other end. Mom has to get back to decorating for Christmas, we are snoopervising all the things to knock down.

Wordy Wednesday

This is an old picture of us. We never lay together anymore like this and mom wishes we would be more nice to one another. We have some news about our dad that we would like to share. Our mom and dad went to his followup appointment about his biopsy and his sleep study. We didn't get such great news, but it is not all bad either. With the sleep study they found that dad was stopping breathing every 30 seconds. That is not such good news but they are going to give him a CPAP machine that will make him stop snoring and make him get some good sleep. His snoring has been going on for 10 years so we can't wait for him to finally sleep well and allow mom and the new baby to sleep as well. As for the biopsy on his larynx they found moderate dysplasia. Mom says that dysplasia means abnormal cells. There are 3 forms before they are cancerous, mild, moderate, severe. That they found it at all is just a lucky break and our dad is only 25 (which seems old to us) is good. Now our dad has to go every 6 weeks to get the camera thing shoved up his nose and down his throat to keep an eye on it. If anything returns they will take it out. Most people who have this type are heavy smokers and when they find anything on the larynx it is later in life. Our dad does not smoke but did grow up around smoking. We would like to encourage anyone who smokes to stop and think about what you could be doing to your body but more importantly, look at the others around you, especially kids. Enough of the doom and gloom. We will need continuous purrs from everyone through this but we are glad that we have the ability to know this early and to keep an eye on it. As for our mom, she goes to the doctor today to checkup on the baby and hopefully schedule some sort of picture taking of it inside her. This sounds weird but we'll let you know how it goes. Oh, and its snowing again. Maybe another 4 inches by tonight. Mom will take a picture to show later. Sorry for the wordy post.

6th picture of the 6th folder

We saw this on whiskers & purrs blog and thought it would be fun to pawticipate. Mom finds it hard to help us blog during the week because she is so busy and she couldn't get any pictures of our toes to show off because we were uncooperative. We thought we would do this fun little game for today. So here it is.
Mom doesn't really put photos into folders that often so luckily she had 6 folders that had 6 pictures in them. This is a picture of me, Patches when I was little. Many of my pictures are not on the computer because mom says I'm old and I was around before they had a digital camera. I must be as old as a dinosaur! This picture is from 2005 of me cuddling with my mom. Me and my mom are very close and I prefer to cuddle with her over anyone else in the whole wide world. I even cuddle her every morning in the bathroom. We were watching TV and trying to stay warm. Both me and mom are cold a lot so we like to stay warm with blankets. We aren't going to tag anyone for this but if you like to play along here are the rules.

1. Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.

2. Go to the 6th Folder and then pick the 6th Picture.

3. Post it on your bloggy and tell the story that goes with the picture.

4. Tag 5 other glorious peoples to do the same thing and leave a comment on their bloggy tellin' them 'bout it.