Ruki is a little punchy today. Here she is attacking her bed.
Apr 082012
Mar 252012
Ruki is in crazy stalker mode today. Every time I turn around today, she’s in some place she normally isn’t, eyeing something like it’s going to attack any second. In this case, she pulled the afghan free from the couch to hide between it and the couch, while she carefully watches an evil ball with a bell in it roll across the floor. :P
Mar 182012
Ruki got a new toy today! It’s a crinkle bag that chirps like a bird when you step on it. Plus it has a feather attached. Oh and I sprinkled a little catnip on it. Needless to say, Ruki has lost her mind over it. I’m not even really sure what’s going on here. A lot of chaos, that’s for sure. :P
Oh and here, she’s settled down a bit. Heh.
Mar 062012
It was too cold to go running this morning so I stayed in and played with Ruki. Here she is mid-roll on her catnip covered scratchy box:
Some of the catnip is even scattering to the floor there. And whoops, I cut off her foot. I have to work on that. :P
Mar 042012
You know it’s cold in my apartment when Ruki lets me cover her with a blanket:
I think we’ll both be happy when we get to move out of this place later this year. Counting down… Woot! :)
Mar 032012
Ruki loves to hide under chairs, especially if they are covered with a blanket—or in this case, my bathrobe. And when she does this, I always think of it as if she’s playing fort. :) Usually she sits on the floor and gets very angry if anyone peeks in to see what she’s up to. Forts are for secret plannings and what not after all….
Today she shimmied her way up into the seat itself, but remained under the bathrobe. There’s a little bulge where she’s sitting, but it’s hard to see in this pic. If I reach out and pat said bulge, she cries and squirms, annoyed again. She is hiding after all. Silly me for disturbing that. :P
Mar 022012
I got a new camera for Christmas and have still haven’t had much time to tinker around with it. I’m trying to rectify that now. I’ve been researching some tips for taking better pictures and have noticed a lot of folks posting about 365 day photo challenges. The idea is to post one picture every day of a moment in your life, all the while working on taking better pictures. It sounds fun, so I’m going to give it a try. I’m a horrible blogger, but I will try to remember to come post the pic over here every day. I’ve also set up a Facebook album for it.
I took a quick pic this morning to get started:
Here is Ruki sitting under my work table. She was in such a mood this morning. Her body looks so tense by the way she’s sitting. I reached down to pet her and she grumbled. I dare say my cat may not be a morning cat. :P
Dec 162011
Bring it on! :P
Nov 272011
I hope you had an amazing holiday weekend! Mine was excellent, and I’m sad to see it over. Boo to that part! Anyway, here are a few of the highlights:
Plus, I caught up with family and friends. And I hit a new distance record in running for me — 5 miles. Woot! :) I got to play lacrosse some. Oh! And I applied for school to get the math degree mentioned in my bucket list. Yay!
The big thing I did this weekend though was to take time and reflect upon the year and mull over the direction I am going. I’ve got my graph paper out and will be building my Character Tome, thank you Nerdist for that idea! I’m still fussing with what to call it. So far I’m leaning towards Project Vohm. And I just got sidetracked while I was writing that thinking of a visual map on the wall made out of scherenschnitte. Ooh, that could be fun. But also perhaps a little too time intensive. :P Regardless of how I set up the map, I plan to have something sketched out by the end of the year so I can hit the ground running in the New Year. Woooo!
I also took some more time to reflect upon what I’m thankful for. It’s been a difficult year so it was nice to pause and think about positive things. I’ve tried all month to write a post reflecting on the things I’m thankful for, but it ended up being to hard to write. So I’ll just share a clip from the ramble I posted on Facebook on Thanksgiving:
“I kept meaning to write a blog post about what I’m thankful for but then I just kept getting all weepy…I’m a spaz like that. So I’ll just sum up, thankful for family and friends. Love you all! Thank you for all your love and support. Thankful for the happy expansions to our family this year too. Woot! Also thankful for finally finding doctors who actually understand PCOS and are nice too. And for music that makes me feel alive like Zoe Keating’s magnificent cello playing. And thankful for discovering the zen that comes in running. And so damn thankful to be able to use my lacrosse stick! I can go on and on. I’ll end with being thankful for the quite moments with Ruki. Sure, she’s included in family too already but so what. :P”
Rambly yes. But fitting too.
So, all in all, one awesome weekend.
Hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend! :)
I’ll leave you with a song by Robyn that I found myself hitting repeat on a lot while I was running:
Enjoy!
Oct 312011
Happy Birthday to my Ruki, who turns 5 today. She came to live with me a few weeks before her 2nd birthday and my life was forever made better by that. :) Here’s a pic from this morning which shows my typical view when I first open my eyes. Doesn’t matter what direction I’m facing either when I wake. She always sits right in front of my face and roars out a meow that says, “Get up, woman, and feed me!” Heh. :P
