SUNDAY CAFE, 12 Feb 12

Hi MC & Kilroy – Just fed the woodburner; Leela is happy. I’ve got some things to do, much of which I probably won’t because I’m lazy and it’s too cold to stray too far from the heat source.

Here’s a dose of cuteness to brighten/warm up your day: http://cuteoverload.com/2012/02/11/caturday-sleep-over/

Kitty in the middle has no sense of modesty – eek! 😛

Hi ONB & Deb. Kilroy, that is soooo cute! Hope you can take it easy today Deb, even a minor accident will give you (more) aches and pains. So what happened?

ONB, thanks for setting me straight with the time difference. 🙂 Napping with cats is great! Comet usually won’t nap with me, but Leela sometimes does.

Phoebe has 2 new babies this morning! My mom loved to watch this too. So many great memories. ♥

http://www.ustream.tv/hummingbirdnestcam

Hummingbird Nest Cam

http://www.ustream.tv

Hummingbird Nest Cam @ Ustream.TV: Phoebe is a Channel Island Allen (S.s. sedentarius) hummingbird in Orange County, California. She has been laying 4 to 5…

Oooh, I love hummingbirds! Years ago I heard that they like red, so I made a hanging basket of red impatients. Outside reading and a hummingbird joined me for quite a while (initially thought it was a really big bug!) – what a pleasant experience! Hope you stay relatively ache-free Deb.

Congrats on the job MC! Try to convert your nervousness into excitement of something new! In some ways that’s what I’ve had to do (trying to do, actually) to survive where I am – getting lots of new stuff pitched at me. Same office, same people (almost), new tasks.

Hi AV! *waiving* Brrr, 50s is quite chilly for you – your winter meal sounds fabulous! My beef stew/soup was delicious last night. Hubby took some Omaha Steaks that he got for Christmas (thank you, Mom!), so he will grill, I’ll make baked potatoes and tossed salad. I’m thinking of making some brownies. Tuesday/Valentine’s Day is going to be another day of the week for me, so why not celebrate today? 🙂 Hubby has been known to give me flowers, though, so that will be nice to look forward too. I got him a giant Hershey’s Kiss.

Oh Deb! I’m sorry you got hit, and I really hope you’re OK. From years of working with personal injury attorneys I can tell you you’ll probably hurt tomorrow, hope the Aleve staves off the worst of it. {{{Deb}}}

Hi GD!! (I know, you’ve probably disappeared by now). I feel like I haven’t seen you in ages, and I’ve obviously missed something; what’s this about no more gym?

I quit my job at the gym two weeks ago and my last day was Friday. EBL wouldn’t give me the 12 days off that I needed for the tournament and since I’d gotten a nice position during the week-and-a-half tournament, I wasn’t about to turn it down. So I quit. It was a total power trip for EBL not to give me time off as we have interns who could easily cover for me – she just didn’t feel like giving me the time off (unpaid, by the way, and my only “vacation” every year).

I figured I’d do my pet-sitting and try to step that up. Told the lady I walk the dogs for that I was quitting, in case she wanted to change her times since I can have more flexibility when I don’t have to go to work. She told me she hasn’t had the time since she moved in to hire a personal assistant as she’s always had in the past and offered me the job. It’s “a little more than part-time”, $2 more an hour than I made at the gym, flexible time, and she’ll still pay me to walk the dogs. This gives me the time and flexibility to run and grow my pet-sitting business as well as work more normal hours. It’ll be quite the change, but I think it will be good for me!