Ready for the library again…

We went to bed around 9:30, and I woke up at 3:15 to the beeping of my low-battery cell phone. Grrr. I’m filled with adrenaline because today is the baby shower and couldn’t go back to sleep. Finished this week: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – Two people in my small group mentioned this book [...]

Weekly review and cat update

A quick note to say that Nutmeg has some vaginal bleeding. It’s only been for the past two or so hours, but it’s consistent. I have an appointment with the vet in about two and a half hours. Now I just need to figure out how to transport her and the kittens….! But it’s time [...]

It’s All Too Much – book review and notes

I re-read It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh and made some notes of things I want to remember. In the grand tradition of The Simple Dollar, I decided to try my first detailed book review. Introduction Summary: The introduction talks about how many people — and specifically a sample case study of “Jared and [...]

Way too many cute kitten pictures.

Are you ready? Photo journalism story: Brawl at the Milk Bar Our story starts with all the kittens squirming about for position at Nutmeg’s belly. Kitten the Determined (aka calico or tortoiseshell kitten) found a nipple and latched on.

Web site v1 – Experiments in color

Now that I’ve picked a logo and have a business card order placed, it’s on to revamping my current web site. I’m going to treat myself like a client and come up with at least one other design idea — but here’s a peek at the first one and my experiments with five different colors… [...]

5 Little Kittens

All the babies are cleaned and suckling. Nutmeg, absolutely exhausted, falls asleep: On closer inspection (now that the kittens are dry and fluffy), it seems that there is only one ginger tabby in the mix. There are three light cream ones (white?), and one multi-colored dark one. Tiny kitten face! Closeup of the paws: Nutmeg [...]

Kitten photos (so far)

Closeup of the kitten face: Five little kittens, so far: Nutmeg looks like she’s done. But then again, she looked like she was done after #2. Four of the kittens are orange, the fifth one was a dark color. They are awfully adorable.

Cat in labor!

Our cat is in the first stages of labor. Today she meowed pitifully practically all morning while intermittently going into the closet to tear up some of the newspaper that I had laid in a cardboard box. Then she tried to tear up the cardboard box. I think it was too small, so I took [...]

Baby carriage baby shower favors

This Saturday is the second baby shower that I’m throwing this year along with a few other organizers. The invitations had a baby carriage theme, so I carried the graphics on to the guest favors. I made custom tea bag envelopes using a pale shade of the lime green from the invitation graphics. Here’s a [...]

Ahem. This is an award-winning blog.

Let me correct myself. This is an award-winning blog twice over. If you’re shocked, well, so was I. But without further ado, I’ll jump onto the excuse to link to other people bandwagon. Penny sent a Thinking Blogger Award over quite a while ago, so you could say that I’m batching my award posts. Now [...]