Couch 105-The couch with no issues.

With kids how long does it take them to learn about personal space? We have been trying to teach it to my youngest since forever but she is now 12 and still has no idea.

Which is worse jim carrey as the grinch or mike myers as the cat in the hat…go!

jim carrey as the grinch ugh!

Hmm. My middle son was the one who had the biggest problem with this. He has ADHD and a variety of other developmental deficits that I think slowed the process for him. I would just say keep reinforcing and reminding. Try to have her tell you what is wrong in her behavior/space issue when things come up rather than just telling her. For instance, my son used to push his younger brother, etc., and what I finally learned to do was to get him to stop/freeze and then ask him to define for me why I was asking him to stop. He couldn't just tune me out that way; he actually had to think and verbalize the problem and figure out how to fix it. He made a lot more progress once I figured that out, probably because I was placing the responsibility for assessing his own behavior on him instead of me trying to do it for him. By 8th grade things were getting better; just took great patience.

Miss Penelope (the new kitten) is racing around the house at a hundred miles an hour for absolutely no discernible reason and she just leaped up on the cat tree so hard that it rattled against the wall. Then she pounced over next to me on the sofa and I attempted to pet her and she batted my hand away and then took off running again. Ah to have a thimble full of her energy!!

I call that kitty hallucinations.

Appears to be!

Ahh, kittens When I was about 13, we got a kitten, and I remember that I had to lay very still at night so he didn't attack my toes. haha. I also had to be wary of corners for that very reason.

My cat that I have now was pretty good as a kitten. I tried to exercise him as much as I could (I taught him fetch! Which he still loves), and luckily his crazy rampages never lasted too long while I was in bed.

Also, once, he saw a bug high up on a wall while he was a kitten and was meowing pitifully at it, so I held him up so he could try and swat at it. BAD IDEA. 7 years later, he meows pitifully at me whenever he sees bugs in the room and expects me to cart him around, so he can reach this bug.

*i may still do that, because i find it cute*

This one has started attacking my toes at night. She's so funny though because she doesn't bite them, she just pounces on them and then runs away again. And comes back to pounce again a few minutes later. I don't even wake up every time - h has seen her do it and I've slept right through lol

Well I'm back to my normal early hours at work tomorrow, it was nice going in later for training for the past 2 weeks. Then Friday I'm working 6-10 am, and then our overtime starts on Jan 1.... they've already got us scheduled for 10 hours of OT for the first week. Since I got my promotion/raise recently, suddenly overtime isn't sounding so bad anymore.... night couch!

Can you imagine what he tells other cats about this? Theyre all like, no way! And hes like, Way!

An interactive self-care guide that I found today. Page title is literally "You feel like shyt."
Edit: ugh, can't link the url due to the word shyt

Edit 2: http://goo.gl/Va8ui6

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who imagines cats having conversations among themselves.

She gets the energy by sleeping 16 hours a day (if she's like every other cat I've known).

Ah, to sleep sixteen hours a day...

I 2nd that! I imagine my 3 holding meetings while h, son and I are out of the house to discuss the folly of humans.

I'm going in this direction myself. It doesn't matter when I go grocery shopping, Christmas or 6 am or whenever, there is always someone standing in the middle of an aisle blocking the way through while staring into space or yammering on their phone.

And don't get me started on the people who stand right behind you in the checkout line. Do they really think this will gain them anything? It's like drivers riding right on your bumpe to gain maybe one second of time.

Never mind girding the loins. Full plate mail armor and a lance are more like it.

I totally do the same thing!!

It is absolutely pouring down rain here today. The puppy is going bonkers in the house.

I would suggest a girded loin is the best way to protect against some serious armor chafing.

Morning, couch.

I am up and awake. I woke up about 6am, decided it was too early to get up and forced myself back to sleep. Then I woke up again about 8:45. I need to shower this morning as I did not last night. I need to be clean for work today. I wish I had a clean Christmas shirt to wear, but alas, I do not. I could buy one, but do I really need another?!? No.

I am glad that I got cut to 5 hours today from the original 9 I was scheduled...even if it does mean working on Christmas eve. Though it is only in the morning/early afternoon, so I will still have the rest of the day to chill and finish Christmas shopping. Yes, I am going to brave the stores on Christmas eve...or maybe I can just finish it at CVS after I am off. I am so lazy...but it would beat going to Walmart or somewhere like that. And I only have my dad left...I can find something small for him. They have men's aftershave sets, I could grab one of those. :-P

All this kitty talk make me miss the cats I used to have. But, I felt bad that I was not caring for them properly, so I re-homed them to better homes.

Well, I need to hop in the shower, so my hair will have time to dry before work. Be back later, couch.

Once we came home early from a trip to find our 3 cats sitting in the hallway in a circle like they were having a meeting. It still weirds me out when I think about it...

Sometimes when my oldest dog and the cat are snuggling together in my bed - they look startled when I walk in the room and the cat scoots over away from the dog and starts to groom himself.
I don't know why they can't use the pet beds for their illicit affair.

When I was the crazy cat lady, we would often find 5 or 6 kitties in a circle in someone's room. We called them The Coven. Now that we are down to 2 kitties, I find I miss their antics.

"Illicit"? Pretty harsh language coming from a lawyer. Look on the interwebs - often such interspecies "affairs" are celebrated, not disdained or relegated to the pet beds. Why arent you using your legal acumen to i just woke up, thats all i got!