Look Away

Translucent Ears

Whatchu Lookin At?

Bright Eyes

Wrapping Help

Yawn

I know, I know. I'm sure you are sick of seeing photos of Roxy. But until she stops doing ridiculous things I can't stop taking pictures of her.

Spazz

I was sitting on the couch in our sunny living room eating lunch when Roxy noticed the reflection that my butter knife was making on the ceiling. She immediately spazzed out and went into hunting mode. She showed her teeth and growled. Then she looked at me and gave a pathetic meow, trying to get me to help her get it down, then went back to growling. She paced for a good hour after it was gone.

Here's the proof. Beware, some of these are scary.

Darn Paparazzi

The Queen

Catfucious say...

humans keep bowl of crunchies full, they live long and prosperous life.

Loungey Kitty

Mirror Image

Enjoying the View

Cracks me UP

This is my new favorite photo. You have to click on it and view it larger to get the full effect. I took this with the basic lens that came with my camera but it's such an odd perspective and it makes me laugh when I see it.

Window Dweller

Lounging

Roxy has finally come around to the carpet in our apartment. She has only known hardwood her entire life so the first few days she wouldn't lay on it. We would find her napping on a wooden chair or bookshelf. But now she loves it. As you can see...

New Scenery

One of her new favorite spots to hang out

Hide and Seek

I took these last week as we were still packing up our condo in Chicago. John got a box from school that was filled with one long piece of brown paper. If stretched from end to end it probably would have been about 25 feet long. So we put it on the floor for Roxy and it was hours of entertainment.

Everything is going well in Omaha! I've got so many photos to share that I can't keep up with them. I'll send out an e-mail soon to everyone I know with our new address and home phone number. And there are a lot of people I need to catch up with by phone too, so expect a call.

On the Deck

Cat on a Window Sill

The Paw

Imagine

This week Thursday's Theme at Picture This is "Imagine". Here's my take on the theme:

*As always, click on the image to view it larger.

Curiosity

As I was trying to get the spinning penny shot from the last post, I got this one of Roxy who thought we were playing a game on the window sill.

This is my pick for My Best Shot Monday.

Diagonals

Tracey is talking about diagonals over at Picture This. Including diagonal lines in a photograph can make it more dynamic and interesting. Even though I know this is true, I often forget to break away from the norm and tilt the camera. I dug up two examples that include diagonals but they were accidents and fairly subtle.

(I don't know this kid, but he sure is cute)

I remembered that Tracey talked about diagonals last July when I first started reading her blog. This is the example I came up with then.

Thanks for the reminder Tracey, I needed it!

Distracted By Birds

Waiting

Roxwell

In this one she was looking out the window at a bird making weird growling noises

His Girls

Behold...

It's here! And it's fabulous! My new camera has arrived and I wish I could take about a week off work to play with it and learn what every little button does. I haven't had tons of time with it yet, but so far, I'm in love.

It's a Canon Rebel XT with a 50mm 2.5 compact macro lens. Hopefully I'll have more photos to post soon. But in the meantime, who do you think I've been practicing on?

I am choosing this series for My Best Shot Monday over at Picture This.  

 

Not Interested

On Tuesday, since it was so nice outside, I took Roxy out on the deck on her leash. Usually she roams around sniffing things. But that day there was loud construction next door and she was too scared to move off the step. She kept tried to push the door open.

Leave Me Alone

I know that's what she's thinking.

Happy Birthday CrapWeasel

Roxy's first birthday was yesterday (it's an approximate calculation). Because I am a crazy pet owner, I helped her celebrate by sprinkling catnip in the bathtub and letting her roll around in it. While it was pretty funny and cute at the time, I wouldn't recommend it to other cat owners because it was a total mess.

If you wanna see the little stoner in action click here.

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In other news, GO BEARS!!!

Tired

Frog

Roxy got a toy frog for Christmas from my mom. She loves froggy because he's filled with catnip and crinkly paper. My brother's cats have the same one.

This is what it looks like when it's not being attacked:

This is what it looks like the rest of the time:

*notice the back claws

Roxy in Space

The other day I had too much time on my hands so I recorded Roxy meowing a few different times, mixed them toghether and added an echo. It resulted in a very scary sound bite. Sorry for any nightmares you may have tonight.

Download roxy.mp3

Last week John was in Peoria doing some painting work for a relative. As usual my mom had a bag of fun things for him to bring back for me. It turned out that there were 3 black items of clothing in the bag. Because I wasn't thinking, I set it down on a chair and left the room for a few minutes.

When I returned I found this:

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Thank goodness for lint rollers.

The Allure of Shiny Red Ribbons

"Ooooh ribbons!"

"Tasty"

Irresistable

Newest Fascination

Life is Rough

Walk the Cat Week

We have a special guest on the program today folks. Her name is Lucy and she comes all the way from Peoria, Illinois. She can be seen here in a full-on bench to cheek kiss. She's enjoying her outdoor visit so much her eyes are rolling to the back of her head.

Apparently Lucy's sister Shadow was not as interested in going outside. According to her owner she "came outside only briefly, then hissed and refused to be photographed. She immediately went back to bed." Excercise isn't for everyone Shadow.

Sunday Stroll

Happy Halloween!

Oh I'm sorry. Did you think I wouldn't dress up my cat for halloween? Yeah you were wrong.

Baaaaaa.

According to Ryan's comment here, Roxy resembles the cougars he recently saw at the Portland Zoo.

I don't see the resemblence.

Nine to Five

8:57am - Driving to work

11:00 am - My desk

3:30 pm - View of my office building

5:05 pm - On my way home

5:07 pm - Pass the King Tut Sign

5:11 pm - Nice clouds

5:12pm - Clouds still look nice

5:20 pm - Arrive home

5:21 pm - Greeted by Roxy

Couch Potato

Sushi Cat

New Bed

Well, John went back to school on Tuesday so I got some new school shoes. Is it wrong to love a pair of shoes so much you want to drizzle them with chocolate syrup and eat them?

Shaking Things Up

Okay, so I have been neglecting Look Away a little bit lately but I intend to change all that! My HUGE audience deserves better.

Roxy does not seem to be getting any less cute, so I am going to continue obsessively posting pictures of her. However, I am going to give you more photos of things that are non-feline related.

To start things off, I give you...

Four Yawns in Four Minutes

Believe it or not, those really are four seperate yawns.

Okay, now on to our non-Roxy photos. On Saturday night John and I went to a party at a local pub where John demonstrated his best air guitar.

And was even so kind as to share his air microphone with Mark.

A Little Portland Love

Two weeks ago my brother and sister-in-law came to Chicago for a visit. Roxy got more attention than she knew what to do with. Fun was had by all.

I'm Busy Okay!

I'm back from all sorts of vacations but I am still too busy to post photos from them. They'll be coming soon though!

So in the meantime I am attempting something new. I'm going to post a short video clip of you know who. It's a couple of months old but that's just too bad.

And yes. That's a potato she's playing with.