A Veryvery Late Friday Five

Singing Owl from Revgals writes:

Yesterday I had two separate conversations in which people were musing about how much change is occurring. The WW II generation, of which my mom is a part, went from horse and buggy to automobiles, saw the lessening, or even the end of many diseases, went from widespread use of kerosene lamps and outhouses (in the country, and most folks were rural)) to a totally electrified and plumbed society. The fastest means of communication was a telegraph. The second conversation--gulp--was about MY generation and how much change occurred in the last half of the 20th century. The person said his 13 year old had not seen a vinyl record album until a few days before, couldn't remember a time without cell phones, and on and on. As for the questions!

1. What modern convenience/invention could you absolutely, positively not live without? GoG's skooshy bed. It has water in it or something. But you can't see the water, or feel it. But I don't care, cuz it's a grrrrrrrrrreat place to sleep.

2. What modern convenience/invention do you wish had never seen the light of day? Why? The Electric Dust Suckers. They are eeeeeeevil... they chase me all over the house...

3. Do you own a music-playing device older than a CD player? More than one? If so, do you use it (them)?
No... I'm a cat... I just listen to the Talky Box or GoG's laptop. (the picture is the Talky Box)

4. Do you find the rapid change in our world exciting, scary, a mix...or something else?
I dunno... A mix I guess. I don't follow the changes of the big world. I just concentrate on my kingdom in my house.

5. What did our forebears have that we have lost and you'd like to regain? Bonus points if you have a suggestion of how to begin that process.
LEAVING KITTEHS ALONE WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE TOUCHED!! NO matter how many times I tell GoG to let me down, she just won't leave a poor kitteh alone...


Tiria
The Shadow Princess

Cats and heaven

I don't 'zackly like it, but sometimes GoG comes and hugs me. I usually escape and hide under the bed.

Tonight she picked me up and wet me with her face. Her face but not her tongue. Strange. What's up with THAT???

ANYWAY...
She said something about Cub and og-day heaven. I guess it must be my RevPetBlogPal, Cub, cuz he's been sick and had to go to the et-vay a lot recently.

Now I am not big on barking, scary, hairy things (also known as "og-days") but I do know that some people have og-days AND cats, so I guess I have to admit there are nice og-days out there somewhere. And I think Cub was one of them.

So to his thumb-havers, as he calls them, I send purrs and the teeniest little tail twitch farewell. And I think that we'll meet him again where there's fields of catnip and greenie bones. Though GoG insists there will be chocolate and strawberries...

Tiria
The Shadow Princess

Is it legal?

I just wondered...

GoG has been putting out green stuff that isn't greenies for me. It's like dirt but it's not dirt. She calls it "kitty crack" and it is WONDERMOUS!

But T.O.C. sez that it is her medicine and it is ill-eagle to eat someone else's medicine. She sez its fur her heart. She sez if I eat it any more she will Cat Nip me.

I'm kinda liking this green stuff. Is it legal? Should I risk the Cat Nip?

Kinda mellow....

Tiria
The Shadow Princess

takin the pledge

You can too.

A Million Dollar Friday Five

Lingering effects of a cold have me watching more television than usual. There appears to be a resurgence of the old daytime staple--the quiz show. Except they are on during prime time, and a great many of them offer the chance of winning one million dollars.

I think it started with Regis Philbin and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" but now we have a half dozen or so.

My husband and I started musing (after watching "Deal or No Deal") about what we could do with a million dollars. I thought I'd just bring that discussion into the Friday Five this week. It's simple. What are five things you would want to do with a million dollar deposit in your bank account?

Well, I don't have a bank account, so I'll just pretend I do.

1. I would buy a lot of Greenies
2. I would buy a nice, big house for me and my humans. And maybe TOC, if she's nicer to me in future
3. I would put part of it into another account to save it for later
4. Lots of that good, wet tuna food I get in the mornings
5. I would give a little to all my humans in return for their services

Tiria
The Shadow Princess

Grumble

Grumble. Grumble. Grumble.
The good-smelly-things are gone. My humans ate them. Grumble.
They ate the yummy things! Before I even got to taste them! Does anyone know how they taste? 'Cuz if I'd known that they taste good, I would've eaten them while I had the chance.

Tiria
The Shadow Princess

BAD THINGS.

I don't like them. They keep coming. GoG sez that cuz of her alligeez that she has to stop doing it herseff. So these people come and they run the loud dust suckers and scare a cat.

They look like aliens. They scream and growl and make my ears hurt.

They come upstairs. I run into another room.
They come into that room. I run downstairs to the chair wif a skirt. It's my favorite hidey-hole.
They come in THAT room. I run to the basement.
But that's really scarey cuz the basement, that's TOC territory. And she hisses and sez nasty things at me under her bref. SO I hide in nother part of the basement. And it's cold. And i can hear them dust sucking everywhere.

Then it is quiet and they leave.

And GoG is happy and I get Greenies for being a good cat.
But will they be back?
I don't like their noisy dust sucking things.

I need help...

Tiria