This is Sassy cat, who lives up to her name. It’s winter here in Brisbane and my laptop is the perfect place to sleep. The moment I leave the computer to make a cup of tea, she jumps up, adds her on input to the manuscript – a string of gibberish – and makes herself comfortable. She protests when I remove her.
What would writers do without cats?
Awwwww 🙂
Yes, I think we need more of these moments in our lives.
Me I’d have $2000 in my pocket without our lovable bundles of joy. But seriously that’s a cute cat.
I had a ‘million dollar’ cat. She was grey and was asleep on our driveway and you can imagine what happened.
After surgery and more surgery, she was never the same. She’s passed on now.
She’s beautiful! What breed is she? (I’ve been living sans cat for over three years now. I think it’s finally starting to kill me.)
She’s just a moggy, Deb. We do have one cat that appears to be half possum. Even the nurses at the vet commented. Not sure how this happened.
Good to consolidate your pets we have possums and cats
She’s amazingly bad tempered, Sean. She’s never been treated with anything but love. Yet, when we go to move her off our bed after she’s done nothing but lie there all day, she’ll scratch.
There are days when my Bailey’s gibberish reads better than my manuscript 🙁 And he is a harsh critic, always with a look that says ‘you need to edit’. The dogs on the other hand will wag their tails at my worst efforts 🙂
Hello Yellow Lancer (I wandered all over your blog and couldn’t find your bio)
Dogs are much easier to please. And they will sleep on your feet and keep them warm, where as cats think they have right to your lap and then you can’t get near the keyboard.
My inside cat chews the laptop cable, is he trying to say something?
I just wanna sneak my cold fingers under her and see if I can type – that way I’d get warm hands, and she’d get to stay put (of course, judging by the chill in my fingers, I don’t think she’d stay put for long)!
Cats make very good feet warmers in winter, Zena. :->
Hmmm, I could do with one of those at the moment #ResistingUsingHeaterDuringMay 😉
Zena: OMG, YES! I was gazing at my heater with longing today! But but but…it was really HOT, just last week! None of the deciduous trees in my garden have lost their leaves yet!
(My cat is really old and pees everywhere. She’s not allowed inside. But as I recall she had a distinct preference for sitting on face > sitting on feet).
(Yes, this is the same cat I forced into a Darth Vader costume for Best Fannish Cat, if you recall that conversation on Saturday. Here she is: http://www.thoraiyadyer.com/indexSept10.html )
(Rowena, were you too busy actually being productive to come to the Aurealis Awards?)
(I think this is probably enough irrelevant stuff in parentheses.)
Thoraiya, I have been ridiculously busy. And just when I think I have done the impossible and gotten on top of things something new turns up that I have to deal with. Wonder Woman has nothing on me!
I just saw this and thought of you, Rowena – scroll down to the laptop section!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/what-you-see-vs-what-they-see
Very good, Zena. It even had the laptop/comfy bed scenario!