on presents

[xparrot]

*yawn* Kitties woke me at 7 AM, a couple hours before I had to be up - they'd somehow gotten into a bag of Christmas ribbons and bows, and Anna was coming and depositing bows on my chest. Christmas ribbons are surprisingly loud when pushed into your face by an eager kitty. After the second or third one I staggered out of bed to find the bag and stash it in the closet where I thought it had been all along (how they found it now, months later, is one of those feline mysteries.) I should consider myself lucky that they weren't just eating the bows (Anna especially loves eating shiny things and plastic. We have to be very careful about not leaving plastic bags around because she will, given the chance, tear them up and devour them. Unsurprisingly her digestive track does not appreciate such avant garde gourmet.)

...Also am lucky that we don't have mice. Or tarantulas. Because I suspect Anna would want to share those spoils with me as well, and that would be a much less adorable way to wake up.

In mostly unrelated news, in the pre-cat morning I was dreaming that I was reading/playing Homestuck. It actually made significantly more sense...

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[bard2003.livejournal.com]

my cat gave me a mouse as a present first time when she was 5 months old. First dove - 1+ years old. i was very happy they were both dead!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah - growing up we had a cat who didn't really know how to kill so used to bring live mice and birds into the house (including a full-grown healthy but terrified blue jay, on one memorable occasion!)

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Tarantulas?? O_o

It's kind of adorable that your kittens woke you up by decorating you with ribbons. I wonder what goes on inside their little heads. :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

...Well, we don't have tarantulas around here, but Anna loooooves chasing and eating wolf spiders, so I'm pretty sure she'd enjoy a good tarantula~!

I think she was sharing her "prey" with me...can't say for sure, though, the cat mind is indeed an enigma! ^^

[ezazahaz.livejournal.com]

D'aww... that's an adorable picture, kitties covering you in bows. :) Reminds me of a time with my sister's cat--I woke up to rustling, and saw he had found a package of pipe cleaners. He decided to take one out at a time, play with it for a few seconds, and go back for another... The floor was covered in half-bent pipe cleaners!

And yeah, I can see Homestuck as one of those few things that makes way more sense in dreams than RL...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee - kitties do love the pipecleaners! (they somehow got into a package a year ago, and I'm *still* finding them tucked about the place and played with occasionally...)

I only just started reading Homestuck (just reached the end of Year 1) - it is VERY SPECIAL. I think I like it, but...!

[immicolia.livejournal.com]

I think Very Special is the best way I've heard Homestuck described yet. Now that I'm finally up to date on it I admit I'm addicted as hell to the updates. But oh god trying to get into it the walls 'o text wore me out to the point where I'm sure I missed a lot due to skimming. XD

I dig the hell out of the music though. I'm trying very hard to not buy every single album and only get the ones I really, really want (which is two of them so far)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm getting into it a lot more than I thought I would - it seems so abstract at first, but there's enough underlying sense to keep me reading (and I'm a sucker for a good time-travel mind-screw!)(also for friendship, which it actually plays almost as hard as YGO, just in a different mode...)

And the music is awesome. I keep being surprised by how good it is!

[sholio]

*giggles* Oh, CATS. Years ago I had a roommate with a cat who would go tearing through the house in the middle of the night, take a flying leap into someone's closet (hers or mine, didn't matter) and land on the hanging clothing like a velco-wall-jumper. Needless to say this encouraged keeping our closet doors shut, since it was hard on both our work clothes and our ability to sleep!

I've tried Homestuck a couple of times but just can't get into it. It tends to leave me feeling very, er, old and out of touch. *g* My gut-level reaction to it is very "Kids these days! Get off my lawn! Back in MY day, our comics didn't look like this!" ... I can't seem to cope with the (seemingly?) interactive and disjointed nature of it.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahahah oh, cats! The tearing through the house is normal (ours go crazy like that at least once a day) but the clothes-hanging - heee!

Heh...I was a bit, erm, intimidated by Homestuck myself. But then I sat down and started reading and after a while I couldn't stop. It might help to think of it not as a webcomic at all? A lot of the basic structure is more a directed old-school text adventure - illustrated, but it really depends on clever writing (and the writing is very clever, don't let the chat-speak fool you.) The story is more coherent than it seems - extremely confusing and quite surreal, but there's an underlying order that slowly emerges.

(It also has a strong friendship theme, and a knack for characters who are more likable than they really ought to be, so yeah, worth reading for more than just the twisty narrative structure!)

[snarkydame.livejournal.com]

Awww, kitties. <3 Mine keep all the shiny treasures to themselves, pirates that they are.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee - but your boys are so cute they can get away with it~! ^_^

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Funny, that's the topic of this week's cat vs human. XD

My cat likes to bring me presents, too, but fortunately she leaves them on the floor. One morning I woke up to discover she'd dragged a mousetrap (yes, with a dead mouse in it) into my room. ("Thank you, but please never do that again.")

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Whahah to the comic! And heh to the mousetrap - when a mouse alone isn't enough! Yeah, we're lucky we don't have mice; the only live prey they get is little moths and spiders, and Anna eats those before she can present them ^^

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Mice: one of the hazards of living in a basement. :/

I just imagine Wednesday being SO proud of herself ("Look what I found! Look what I found") bringing that mousetrap to me, haha.

When I lived in Japan, Choco was really good at catching cockroaches. (Which is sort of awful, but sort of good.) But spiders and moths are beneath her, I guess. XD

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

She probably thought she was doing you a favor, bringing the mice right to you! Isn't she a thoughtful kitty? ^^

[nextov.livejournal.com]

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