Pets.

I have 2 cats who are sisters (they are orange tabbies) and I have a Gordon Setter dog.
My cats are named Bella & Toffee, and the dog's name is Katy.

Now, my kitties DEARLY love to play the game "Let's Attack Each Other And Try To Look Really Mean While We Do It And Then 10 Minutes Later We'll Groom Each Other's Ears Like Nothing Happened". So they pounce on each other and chase each other and seem to have a lot of fun.
But neither of them give the memo to Katy.
Which is where it gets funny.
So Bella & Toffee get to the part of the program where they are biting each other and mock clawing each other, and Katy stands a few feet away with the most concerned look on her face like, "What are you two crazy felines doing??? Where is the LOVE??? It's the season for family, not strife! Let's make up!!".
Then, when they are all done their playing, they saunter over to Katy as if to flaunt that while yes, they were fighting, they are okay now, and she worriedly smells them all over to make sure they don't have any undiagnosed owwies or any fur out of place.
So, she licks them as if to give them a benediction (a doggy benediction, LOL), and then the kitties retreat to some part of furniture to rearrange what damage Katy's tongue has wreaked.

And it's all over until tomorrow.

Holy Memory Loss, Batman!!

Wow. That was actually... painful for me to remember my password in order to blog. (Wow. That sounds really brainless of me, doesn't it?)

Well. It's been ages since I last blogged. Let's see...
Since July, when I last blogged, let's list the things that have happened... Shall we? It'll be like a macabre game of "Look at all this cool stuff I didn't let you in on". :)
Okay. Focus. Since July, we have
- gotten kitties (Bella! Toffee!), they've gotten VERY hairy, and they are big girls now who barely ever fall into the toilet or walk into walls anymore.
- said kitties have gone to the vet a few times (vaccinations! Spaying! Credit card now loves me and said vet!). All is well now.

- my kids have started back at school, then had Christmas off, and are now back IN school again.

- I started up my dayhome again. What a growing experience THAT'S been! :P

- Hubby got a tattoo. It's so hot! I can't believe how teenage-girlish I feel around him now! He's a geek and a nerd - but he's a BAD boy too!!! EEeeeeee!!!!!

- I've had a ...... not-so-good experience with a bunch of women that I do a study with. Let's just say it put a sour taste in my mouth when it comes to females. :(

- I think I know what I want to do when I'm grown-up. I think that I want to work in a library. Think of it - surrounded by books, finding information, and encouraging literacy - my main loves!! So, in order to do that, I need to go back to skool. The program I'm eyeing is a 2 year diploma, and I can do the majority of it from the comfort of my own home. (yay!) So yeah. Lots of decisions I need to make in the next bit (like timing of courses, and figuring out grants/bursaries/loans and how to pay for the courses). Secretly I'd LOVE to get my Master's in Library and Information Science, but one step at a time. First a LIT diploma, then we'll look into more schooling. (Because a Master's is 6 years! And the cost! Oy vey!) But it would be awesomely cool to be the first person in my family with a Master's.

- And I've made this stupid New Year's resolution to knit my very first cardigan. I'm chickening out already. I will be knitting it FOREVER!!! Do you know how long it takes to knit something??? Like, eleventy thousand years!! (And I'm having a really hard time finding a pattern I just adore.) (And I shudder to think of how much I'm going to spend in yarn)

So that's me! That's what I've not blogged about in the last *counting silently in head* 6 months.
I'll try not to leave it so long next time!