Laura

Apple is very good at being insane, especially when teased with a feather toy.

Now, I go to bed.

1. Really, really impressive hockey goal (won the game for them, too): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-x0PNiuGVg

2. Game tonight. Have to meet someone at parents' house to clean it tomorrow night. Not really here until Friday except in brief moments (like this).

3. Game tonight. 7th Sea. MUCH MUCH fun. My character took someone who was supposed to be blocking us and basically convinced him there was no point to it, made socially nice to him, planted some seeds that maybe we aren't what his trading house has been told, and turned him loose. (He has no idea how happy he is about this, as other members of the group might well have hurt him if she hadn't pulled this off.) She also sent a politely obnoxious note back to his lord and master, basically poking at him without ever crossing reasonable boundaries. And I was probably the least cool member of our group. One character, the Vodacce character, told a tale to one of the Winter Court (yes, the Sidhe)...and rolled a 55. Roll and keep. Gorgeous roll. Absolutely gorgeous. He's now a bard of the winter court. Sometimes, making a good impression is an iffy thing.... The Captain almost got trapped in fae. The admiral neatly negotiated his place and got out with minimal fuss, and I think made a decent impression (not spectacular, perhaps, but I'm not sure of that). And the Ussuran...well, learned some things about her past. (She's an amnesiac....) It was wonderful. It was just wonderful. Thank you, terram.

4. Heard a radio ad for ODS health insurance. I gotta say, Oh-Dee-Ess is not a good name for anything you want me to buy, let alone anything so dependent on service. Sounds too much like "odious". But amusing!

5. Babe. Babe, our clumsy overweight kitty, is dropping weight and being less clumsy. Tonight, she was on Ron's chair and she jumped to the floor and up to my chair. One maneuver: chair to floor to leg, bouncing, not pausing to gather herself. Startled the heck out of me but the only injury was a scrape on my hand that was in the way, not claws sunk into my leg to catch herself. (When she jumped to Scott's chair from a standing-on-the-floor position later, all I can say is he's lucky he was wearing medium-heavy pants.)

And now I am off to bed because, well, it's late!

Christmas morning snow at our house. Unfortunately, conversion to YouTube made this less neat and obvious than it was on my computer, but, it's still visible. And yes, that's Scott at the very end, admiring the snowfall from under the safety of our front porch roof. (And talking to his relatives about the snowfall. I think his parents, but it may have been his aunt and uncle, I'm not sure.)

First, a verbal funny. Apple just now mrrrred and then walked out of where she was hiding, between the blinds and the sliding glass door to the deck. Scott, laughing: "We have growling curtains!"

This is on the longish side, at just over 2 minutes. But it's hysterical. Apple the acrobat. And a few cameos by Babe, who appears a little disgusted with the whole affair (or possibly with the attention Apple was getting). It's a pity that Apple camouflages against the beanbag so well, it was even funnier in person (and would be funnier still against a pale beanbag, I suspect). The toy is a fishing-rod type pole, very flexible, with a cord on it, the cord having a little denim rectangle tied to the end of it.

This one was on the dark side (very) so I lightened it, so if it looks a little overprocessed...well, it probably was? *meek*



Now, it's bedtime for me.

And frankly I think this is too, too cute. It's about 30 seconds long, and yes, she's playing with a toy while I hold her with hind legs dangling. (Watch the hind legs - they twitch occasionally. Hee.) Not once did I have a serious concern that she'd hurt me - no clawing, nothing. She is so gentle. There's no sound, btw - don't think it's your speakers. I wasn't saying anything interesting (except at the end when I told Scott how to stop the recording - this was done with my point-and-shoot still camera, which has a video mode), and the radio was on.