You need a kitten update!

Tabitha is sleeping in my lap, which makes it difficult to type but oh, the preciousness.... the preciousness...
Luna is asleep at my feet, she trusts me more every day, she loves being skritched and skratched, she is sleek and velvety smooth.

The introductions aren't going well. Galahad is curious and annoyed, he keeps trying to barge in the kitten's safe room. Gem is just curious, she wants to inspect but the little girls will have none, or very little of it. Zerena ocassionallly wanders near their door and has hissed at her sightings, but is the least interested (actually a good sign.) We have done sock, toy and bed exchanges, to familiarize scent, but introducing two kittens to three cats, five distinctive personalities, is daunting at best. Such a hard road still, over a week after everyone has been vaccinated, Tabby and Loony (nicknames of the day) are still in their safe room for 95% of the day.

Today I got the book CAT VS. CAT by Pam Johnson-Bennett, I ran through three chapters on the subway already, it is good, useful, insightful... if only Ms. Bennett knew our crazy situtation. I have also ordered Feliway, a product that has been around forever that I knew nothing of! Cat pheremone (synthetic) to calm cats and solve litter/scratching problems. Please let it be the miracle I have read it to be.

If you haven't guessed by now, it looks like we are keeping the kittens. This is my worst (best) rescue yet.

Which Heroine Am I?

What a great way to waste time~ internet quizzes. I liked the results very much.

Your turn:
http://http://www.quizilla.com/users/prettyblondeprincess/quizzes/A%20well%20made%20and%20well%20thought%20out%20Disney%20Princess%20quiz%20(graphic%20included)/

Leg Lift On Ice

Nothing for me to add... I could not do it justice.

Background Music

Funny to listen to the various high pitched "Yeeaaawws" and "Sing it" and "Yea Yea" and other indiscernables in Joy to the World by Three Dog Night. Were they really having that much fun? I'd like to think so.

Tabitha and Luna tested positive for exposure to the FIP virus, just exposed, they don't have it. However, we have to get Gem and Galahad and Zerena tested and probably vaccinated to be safe... which is another six trips to the vet! Yikes! Getting kitties into carriers can be very hard and such stress on them.

Grumble grumble grumble... just more crazy life of animal lovers. This is the latest version of normal. So many steps yet to crazy up.

The Faerie Library

I am now finishing GRANIA by the great Morgan Llewellyn. She has chronicled most of Irish history in so many grand works of fiction that reading one will only make you want to read another. I have read about six of her books thus far, BARD and DRUIDS were most compelling. GRANIA reads more like a romantic adventure (worthy of an embarrassing mass market paperback genre fiction cover) than her other books. GRANIA is about Grainne Mhaille, more commonly known as Grace O'Malley, the infamous "Pirate Queen." It is doubly fascinating that she was a contemporary (and enemy) of Elizabeth I, another historical obsession of mine. Both women of strength, flaws, and many stories.

Now I hear the same Grace O'Malley is coming to Broadway in a new musical, The Pirate Queen. I will have to see this.

Prior to this I was in an obsessive Henry James and Edith Wharton phase. Fun to read the books and then pick at the movies. (Daisy Miller? Oh my...)

Next I decide between THE WHITE RAVEN by Diana Paxton (possibly the only Tristan and Isolde left on earth for me to read) and A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Dickens (we just got a lovely new copy~ rereading old school books is so much fun) or THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker (glad admiration bestowed) or THE DARK HILLS DIVIDE (surpise gift from my true love, he thought the cover looked like something magical I would like... awwwwwwww)

There are at least three other books in the stack, cannot recall but only more fun decisions to make. Be well, you lovers of all tales told.

In Praise of Vegan Lunchbox

Divinely inspired. Fair warning, this will make you hungry.

http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/2006/10/tofu-pt-shells.html