Lately, my cat, Scrappy, has been following me around like an extremely pompous thing.  When I first got her she was prone to hiding under my bed for hours on end, only coming out when she was hungry or needed to use the litterbox.  Now, she is used to the house now (I got her about a month ago, click here for that entry), and she follows me around EVERYWHERE.

Here, this is the look I get every five seconds when I turn around, and have to look down as to not trip over the cat, Scrappy.

No, that’s not a trick of the light, her left eye really is purple - she scratched it when she was itching herself, and now the vet figures she can see, but her eyes will always be that color because she scratched the cornea.  I think that is why I call her, affectionately, “Genius.”

Most of the pictures are of her meowing while in that sitting position, because she loves to meow when she wants attention. Do you have ANY idea how long it took me to figure that out? The first 500 times she looked up at me with this exact same look and meowed it was like this:

MEOW

“What?”

MEOW!

“What??”

MEOW!

“Timmy fell down the well?”

MEOW!

“And he needs my help by bringing a ladder and some rope?”

MEOW!

Then, once I realized that she wanted me to pick her up and give her attention, the meowing stops for a few hours while she goes and contents herself by staring at a wall or whatnot, then comes back for more attention a little while later.

Normally that is the position I get after I get a shower or get up after I sit for awhile on the couch. And sure, it’s cute the first seventy times I turn around to see her sitting/laying there, and most of the time I say with affection:

“ARGHHHHHHHH!” Right before I sprain my ankle trying not to step on her.

Yeah, cute, right before she tries to kill you by taking up the ENTIRE FLOOR SPACE with her body.

Lately she has also been amusing herself by staring at walls. It must be hard to be a cat. All of that wall to stare at and not enough time in the day. Of course, as SOON as I make any sort of sound, her head turns so fast I’m afraid it’s going to crack right off.

This time, I made a soft clucking noise to get her to turn and then I snapped this picture. Pretty much how she always looks, especially when she is lying on the stairs and she hears me moving around, I see her head pop up between the railing boards as if to say “DID SHE MOVE?! Pet me now??”

And finally, I give to you a movie that I made today. No, there are no camera tricks, that is the actual size of one of my cats (Scrappy, the Cat-Shadow), although some might argue that the camera adds 10 pounds, the last time I took my cat to the vet it was 9 pounds so the camera can’t add that much!

And in case you are wondering, she ACTUALLY does that thing where she “hops up” when I am petting her. You can see it really well when she launches herself at the camera, meowing right before she plops down. This was about the 7th take and I haven’t picked her up yet, so at the end you can see her just staring at me as if she wanted me to spontaneously burst into flame if I didn’t pick her up after THIS time with the camera.

I’m giggling a lot too because, as I said before it took SEVEN TAKES to get her to lay down. Usually she does it after every time I pet her, but she didn’t want to do it for the camera. When I finally got her to do it I just laughed at how ridiculous she looks, and yes, she really does push her way across the floor after she plops most of the time. (I think she itches herself this way)

And yes, I did pick her up after we were finished and gave her attention, even if I was thinking about all the times I almost sprained my ankle trying not to step on her as she was following me around at my heels.

Cats are cute.

…and counting. This past weekend was fun; I spent over 2 grand buying new furniture, and then I had a hernia and no one was surprised. I mean, are you? No? Exactly.

Lately I’ve been feeling like “eh” when it comes to homework. Yeah, I’m taking 13 credit hours and yeah, I’m working 20 hours a week (more than that come to think of it), but it seems like I have all of this time on my hands. Gee, I wonder if that is because I’m waiting until the last minute to study for stupid tests and then wondering why I received a C on them. I’ll have to get back to you on that though.

Has anyone else noticed car commercials? I mean, REALLY noticed them. They are all over the radio, and when I turn on the TV I’m smothered by them. Not to say I’ve already picked out the car that I want once I start making money, because I have, oh yes. The Lexus GS Hybrid.

For a mere 58K, the 2008 Lexus GS Hybrid had better come with the mountains in the background. I assume that the GS stands for “GOOD SHIT”, and any otherwise I’m afraid I won’t take it.

So, this entry started out about the commercials and then Google overtook this entry because I found a LOT of pretty pictures of Lexus cars. In any case, I’m afraid I might be showing the analyzing/notice everything side of myself (my mother will show no restraint in blaming my father for this), but in either case:

You notice how in EVERY car commercial they paint over the license plate of the car? No, I’m not kidding. EVERY. SINGLE. COMMERCIAL. I don’t know how I came upon that knowledge, so don’t even ask. You either 1. Don’t see the license plate on purpose on the car (they cut away from it) or 2. It’s painted over. Usually a combination of both. I’ve actually seen a few car commercials where there is a black bar specifically photoshopped in (or whatever you want to say) onto the car license plate.

Evidence:

The only time that it is not painted over is when it is an international commercial.Exhibit C:

Feel free to sing words of praise in the comments section.