My Places...

I need more pillows. Lots more. I need a couple of body pillows. That would make for a happy Kitten.
Even though I don't have quite enough pillows I am hereby referring to my bed as "the nest". With all the kitties, the electric blanket (thanks mom!!!!) and the pillows I do have it is quite the cozy little home spot.

Other places in my Chicago life...
The Fishtank- The den of cherrybomb70's and Mr. cherrybomb70's house. They have a fantastic glass brick bar with a soft blue light in it. There is an ultra comfy couch and I LOVE sleeping there. It is very soothing. I need to get one of those rotating fish lights to add to my mermaid dreams while I am there.

Kedzie- That is just what I use when I am anywhere in my apt other than The Nest.

Monster Central- That's work. My chilly office for the Monster industries.

Yeah, can you tell I am really kind of stir crazy from the last 4 days in bed? A little time at the office before they send me home each day and then wonderful quality time on my bathroom floor just doesn't offer the feeling of being "out".

My Kids Vol 2- Tikki

The Mystical Miss Tikki is prepared to grant you one wish...


This is Tikki. Full name Rikki Tikki Tavi. aka Miss Tikki, Tikkibug and Tikki-Wu.
Tikki is first generation domesticated. She reached optimum cute size and stopped growing. Tikki was acquired in the few short months that Paul and I were separated in the spring of 1995. Yes, that precious baby is almost 12 years old and only about 6lbs and smaller than Isi who isn't even a year old yet. I was working at the Emory Animal Clinic. We had a client who realized that she had several feral cats living in the woods near her house. She was slowly trapping them all and bringing them in for vaccines and to get fixed. She brought one in that was already pregnant. She opted not to terminate the pregnancy and instead shut the pregnant, feral cat up in her garage to await the birth of the kittens. The cat HATED this. She would climb the shelves in the garages and jump on the people's heads and attack them viciously when they tried to go in there.

When the cat went into labor the client called us. Of course we told her to just let nature do its thing...and it did. About two weeks later she called and asked if we could take mommy and kittens in and board them until they were weaned and we could fix mommy and place kittens. It seemed that having the kittens there made mommy cat even crazier and she was destroying the garage and the people. One of our techs went to her home and failed miserably in retrieving the felines. A few days later I went. I sat on the floor in the garage. The mommy cat hissed and fussed and yowled. Then, she got quiet. She looked at me for a bit. Then, she chirped, walked circles around me and showed me the kittens. *beam*
I AM THE CRAZY CAT LADY!!!!

Mommy and kittens were loaded into my car and taken to the office. A couple of weeks later all kittens were placed except one. This one kept getting out of her kennel although we had no idea how. Everytime she would get out she would hide at the front desk where I worked either behind the printer cabinet or the patient files. Then she started sleeping on my bag that I kept under the desk. So, one day bag and kitten went home with me.
Her favorite toy was a little rubber snake. She would stand up on her hind legs as tall as she could- weave around for a bit- and then pounce and kill. So, she was named for the famous literary mongoose.

After Paul and I got back together we lived in a shitty little duplex in Grant Park which had a large dirt basement. The basement was rife with cave crickets. Tikki became the great white (well, tuxedo-ed) hunter of these things. She was only about 4 months old at this point and some of these things were bigger than her head. This did not stop her from catching them and bringing them inside(with their frantic legs flailing out of her mouth) to torture and kill them.

She is still a tiny precious baby.She still likes to find caves and hide. She is still very skittish but when she decides that she wants affection she will come and demand it from you. And once she has warmed up to you her favorite thing is to curl in your lap in a tiny ball and nap and trill. But, for the most part, if she doesn't know you then the most you will see of her is her brilliant green eyes glaring at you from around a dark corner. (I always figure she is the most like her mommy...her flesh mommy that is.)