Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Beware the zombie cows.



In semi-related news, I don't like Wendy's chili. I did successfully get in and out getting only a "plain" potato (yet they put butter and sour cream in the bag, sigh), chili, and a diet soda. Unfortunately the chili was full of beans, so I ate maybe a quarter to a third of it. The potato was meh, until I ended up using the butter ("butter", fake stuff) and the "lite" sour cream with it. I figured since I wasn't eating the chili, those would be fine. (40 cal for sour cream, 50 cal for the "butter spread" -- I'm surprised by that, I thought the sour cream would have been more, you got three times more of it than the spread.)

Still hating the CPAP machine. It wakes me up constantly. I haven't had a full, unbroken night's sleep yet in the two weeks I've had it. Blah.

Ellie New Cat has a new favorite place to sleep. It makes me snicker:
( Semi-big picture. )

She puts just her head under the bed, the rest of her sticks out into the room. So silly!

I finally taught her a new trick, trick #3. The first one was high-5 (she has to tap my hand to get a treat), second was sit up and beg (like a dog does), and the third is 'wave'. It's almost a combo of the first two: the 'beg' position plus she lifts one paw (but doesn't make contact with my hand). She learned it really quickly, which isn't too surprising since it's so close to the others.

Cats with no other animals around get so little mental stimulation that I wanted to do something to keep her little kitty brain engaged. In my previous apartment, at least I had a bird feeder/endless birds for her to watch, but in my current apartment there's nothing but an occasional dog or kid outside the window, thus the tricks.

It's surprising how easily cats can be trained and how well they remember their tricks.

Ellie New Cat doesn't like many things, among them having her paws touched. This is quite the issue as I'd really like to be able to clip her nails. A couple weeks of working on it every day and I can now hold her paws for a limited amount of time and stroke them or let them rest on my hand for an unlimited amount.

Slow slow, it started so slow. I stroked her head, her favorite spots, and touch her paw. She ran off. Next day do the same. And the same. And the same. Eventually she stopped running, just moved out of reach. Eventually I think it clicked in her little kitty brain that the pattings stopped when she moved out of reach, so she grudgingly let me handle her feet with one hand while I pat with the other. And now, finally, she seems mostly okay with it.

She's learned that all sorts of things are okay, though she's still sometimes skittish about two hands coming at her, and I need to work a lot more on getting her used to being picked up. If I "scoop" her up (so she's hugged tightly against my body and can't move) she puts up with it for limited time, but if I lift her with my hands, she doesn't like that at all.

Exciting times, huh? :P

In WoW, Haken got the HH mount. I was worried I'd go the whole darned thing and not get even one. So now I'm down to only seven alts a day needing to do it. (Haken is the last alt I'd want it on, I like his ground and flying mounts, but still better to get one on him than none at all.)

I'm also pondering sending him IC again. (Then I spend the night wandering SMC looking for random RP and scoff at such ideas.)

After much wandering, I found non-random RP (on Thistle), but I probably should have turned it down. I don't know what is wrong with me, but all RP feels wrong lately. I want to RP, I really really really do, but it feels so forced. It feels like: Thistle has X, Y, and Z traits. I've mentioned X and Z so far in the scene, so I better mention Y now! I've been trying to think of how to describe it since yesterday, but I can't put my finger on it. It doesn't feel organic, kind of. I thought maybe I needed to play an alt for a while, so I jumped on Keen, but that was just as blah. Whatever it is, I hope it goes away soon.

And the last set of random images:
Really cool artwork, I wish I had a bigger version of it. Warning: naked people (nonsexual).

More cool artwork(?), I have no idea what this is, but I love it.

A Russian comic strip about a rat.

Some of the strangest Pokemon fanart ever -- NWS! NWS! Cool, but NWS. Naked "human" male bits.

Very, very cute HP fanart.

Wizardmon... as a pirate! There's a limited audience for this one, I know. PokeMUSH folks! I don't remember Wizardmon ever being a pirate! I guess Delee had done this wonderful alt. (For non-MUSH folks, Wizardmon was our website AI. She was supposed to answer questions about our game, but she learned from the people she talked to, and so she became perverted mighty fast.)

Aww, yay men dancing! Yet another image from a Russian LJ, so I didn't know the story behind it. NWS naked men (nonsexual).

And this is the last of the 40 38. Goodbye! (NWS for... waving! For real! NWS!)

I miss the old days where I used to post tons of random images. Unfortunately LJ has changed; the spam posted on the Russian side of things is beyond belief. If I bring up a page of the 200 latest images posted,
easily 180 of them are spam. It's just not worth sorting through them looking for interesting stuff anymore.

I was looking for one image, but I had no idea what I named it, so I downloaded every image file on Catlove and spent a mostly enjoyable couple hours looking at every single one. ("Mostly enjoyable" because it was a shock and then sad to see pictures of my previous cat, photos I had totally forgotten I had, when she looked so young and active.) Very early in my search, some pictures started catching my eye. They were good enough to deserve reposting.

No picture here is later than 2009, and the oldest ones are from 2001. Some of these will be NWS. Some of them will not be to certain viewers' tastes. I'll place as fitting warnings on them as I can. Please believe them or you might end up unhappy. :)

...hours later. Man, it took a long time to arrange this. Saving file names (without file extensions, oops), then having to recreate the URLs from various directories. Turns out 40 in one post is kind of overwhelming, so I'm going to do 10/night for four nights. I have them arranged in groups (truly random, animals, naked people...) , but I think I'll pick a few from each one, just to continue with the 'random' theme.

One day I was shopping in a Japanese dollar store and found this... costume for your crotch? One, two, three, four, five.

I needed this bumpersticker in 2008, and I need it even more now. (political, sort of)
And this license plate (also fitting for a number of DKs).

Tiny baby hamsters: One, two, three.

FFXI had the best sigs, poor Dragoons used to be so unloved.

Thistle and Squall sitting in a... no, wait. It's sad when you have so much outstanding commission art that you lose track of it! This is FFXI (and MUX) Thistle, pre-WoW. He and Squall were (at best) friends, nothing more. Done by the wonderful ani_mama.

Don't ask me to explain this, no one could. NWS, nakedness.

Old joke, but good one.

Three Avatar the Last Airbender fan pictures. I bought the middle one (it's a magnet, it's currently on my fridge). As un-religious as I am, I still really, really like this image. He deserves peace and happiness in the end, for all life threw at him.

Would you believe I totally forgot I did this, that I ever cross-stitched at all? It's beautful! I wish I knew what became of it.

And non-random:
If you're looking for a Crimson Deathcharger on WRA-H, there are currently two on the AH for 42K. That's less than a third of what I paid! D: D: I'm seriously tempted to get one for mount collector/Dalaran AH mule, but... ground mount. What's the use? :/ There's also a Reins of the Spectral Tiger up for 210K. That tempts me even more, but... ground mount. (Edit: Hour later, all are gone. One of the horses was relisted at 150K, the price I bought mine for. Maybe I should have tried flipping it. Sigh. Stupid rooster.)

Speaking of, anyone want to buy a damned magic rooster? I'm never going to sell that thing. Every time I think about buying something expensive to flip, I think of that damned rooster.

Flipping cheaper things tickles me though. I bought 8 stacks, 200 per stack, of things for 4-5 gold per individual item, I'm slowly selling for 13+ gold each. *happy AH person eyes* So much profit! /Ferengi

On the RP front, it was a nice evening. Three quiet, mellow scenes, lots of downtime in between. Wild, crazy, Deeply Meaningful RP is nice, but quiet nights are nice sometimes, too.

Tonigh's chicken breast came out yummy. A little dry (will I ever stop overcooking things! I'm so paranoid about undercooked meat and my thermometer is broken). Soy sauce, worcestershire, and a heaping spoonful of garlic, in a ziplock bag for 24 hours. I wanted to try the 'scoring the meat first' idea, but I hadn't wanted to handle raw chicken last night. Oh, oops, and I forgot to try adding the olive oil, too. Oh well, it was still yummy.

And a video! The Walken Dead ! Found by lives_this_life.

Oh hey, earthquake. Woo! Big enough that there were little noises in my wall! My stomach always gets upset after them, as if I were really dizzy.

Both from Russian LJs.

What amazing, beautiful pencil drawings! Totally work safe. All of them are stars, but I can't place who this is! First person who comments with the right answer gets a cookie of their choice! He's so familiar, it's right on the tip of my tongue...


Aren't these the bestest earrings ever? Not really practical, but so cool and fun!

Seems like I haven't mentioned WoW in a while... But before I get to that, a random picture for all non-WoW people! Floating cat is coming to get you!


In WoW news, I'm leveling a mule on the Alliance side, to get ready for Cata. itsbacon is going to take some gold to A-side for me when he switches a character back, so Thistle-the-worgen won't be broke. I'm leveling the mule to 20 because horses are the best mounts in the game and I've never had one! (I don't like the one from jousting, though the DK mount is pretty darned close to perfect.) I wanted to pick an amusing name, and with worgen/werewolves coming... Welcome Dogcatcher! His name sometimes makes quests amusing:


In other news, Haken got a new hat!

Yay! He loves hats that look like animal heads, so this is great for him!

While we were farming for that, the most wonderful staff ever dropped!

It licks! It's even better than that tentacle staff! It's only too bad that DKs can't use staff, so I have to vendor it. D:

We're also farming for the white hawkstrider/phoenix pet, and as the pet has a higher drop rate than the mount, we're all going to end up getting the pet eventually. :D Yet another one dropped tonight!

This just... I have no idea what to think about this:



Um, good? I guess? I... um... well...

My brain hurts.

Never in my life have I saved so many images with "poop" in the file name.

Related to that fact: Most of the images behind the cut are from Japan.

Related to those facts: NWS images behind the link! I've mentioned 'Japan' and 'poop' so far, so you can decide for yourself if these will risk breaking your brain. Only the brave should click!

( Lesbian quad-amputee poop love leads to the end of the world... )

None of this namby-schamby meme 'random' image stuff for this post!

I'm not really into Harry Potter much anymore, but I think the movie is coming out tomorrow. So, the star of this post is this really, really hot HP image. Gah, that's almost enough to draw me back in! I've never been a real Draco fan, but *drool* he looks SO good there! And Snape (of course!)! And the sexy wild insane woman whose name I forget (Black's sister! Bela-someoneorother)! I love the lack of robes. Of course it works on Snape, but the guy on the far right? Love his coat! And Draco's suit? Mmmmmmm. And her dress/coat thing? Gah, wow! The whole image just so totally works.

NWS! But very colorful! This is one way to prevent shrinkage?

Eeeeee Avatar! I found this image on DA somewhere. The artist says they sell magnets of all their work (I collect magnets!) so I messaged her asking her if I could get one of the center image from that. I haven't heard back yet, alas. Zuko! With wings! And naked! *paws at him* Eeee!

Great cat picture! Looks like a little lion! :D

I want to meet the person who has this in their car. Heehee!

House: I finished season three! The second half of the season was SOOOO good! Gah, that darned Tritter arc had nearly made me forget how good it could be! So many outstanding eps! I was sad to see how short season four is. Must have been the writer's strike, I guess. I wish I could risk spoilers because House/Wilson is just the sweetest, hottest thing ever! I NEED FICS! Eeeee!

I usually avoid memes like the plague, but one that involves posting (sort of) random images? I'm so there!

The rules:
1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
4) You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

Rule #1 amuses me -- I found the first nine images in one single folder, let alone having to go to Google. For number ten I looked in other folders just because I knew what I wanted for it (though I ended up not finding it and went with another).

I'm going to ignore #2, so there all-caps!

( Ten images back here! Most are reasonable sized. No naked bits, though one has an adult theme -- I'd call it work safe, but YMMV. )

Edit: 1) I resized the two large images because side scrolling sucks! 2) No one's life can be summed up in ten images, so I hope no one feels bad about being left out or something we used to do (or currently do!) being left out!