OUCH!!!

this whole post is making me think of Friends and Smokey McSmokerson. didn't Ross make up xx Mcxx names for all the kids in his class at one point?

(and hello, i wish i could remember the last time my legs were that skinny!)

Ouch! I'm new to the blogging thing, but have found it tremendously fun! I still haven't figured out how to do my own yet. I wanted to share with you a story about a rainy cold Saturday morning, the kind to snuggle up in bed with cats and a good book. I was happily reading along with Yoko on my stomach and Jeffrey across my chest (he is a boy afterall). My bedframe collapsed (bowed sideboards didn't hold the slats)! The launch pad (my chest) was a bloody mess! Much like your leg. I wish you a speedy recovery! And I eventually got rid of the bed!

Carolyn--
I wondered where I got it from -- now I know the origin! And p.s. it's all camera angle.

Kate--
OK, that sounds MUCH worse than my little scratches. No furniture broke during TGCSI2006/

I think it's just perfect that in the last picture, your blinds are askew and Fred (that is Fred, right?) looks completely worn out, as if he had spent the previous hour wreaking havoc.

Unfortunately, I don't have cats to blame for my messy apt or for any mysterious bruises/scratches. No. Just me. Sigh.

Has Ethel been speaking to Sobakowa? Seems like perhaps The Great Impaler is giving catscratch lessons to felines all around the worl, like your once-sweet Ethel ;)

worl, world ... potatoe, potato

I have had scratches like those. Natasha is the skittish one here. I feel your pain.

ooh, sorry! been there.

i have the oddest nicknames for my cats. they just make no sense, although they're usually some abstraction of the cat's name. harlobar, huzzlebutt, samkins, etc. i'm fond of the blanky mcblankerson thing, too, though i tend to use it on my friends and enemies rather than my pets - i once dubbed george bush smirky mcflightsuit in a conversation.

my favorite from a japanese comic i read years ago is Q.T. McWhiskers.

Those cutesy names reminded me of the cuppycake song
http://cuppycake.ytmnd.com/

How happy am I that you quoted the Princess Bride?!

Post of the month!

Aiiieeee! That's my fear when I get felines, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to get them Soft Paws, as they will be exclusively indoor kitties. Yowza!

Yow... Those claws make awful jagged little rips. Wilbur used to express affection by attempting to leap upon my back (from the floor). He got about as high as my hips and dug in. (The stretch marks camouflaged the cat scratch marks nicely.)