Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Greatness From Shelly

Dear Human Mum, 

Thanks for all the toys, you get me from the shop, 
But, my favourite toy is a clear and plastic bottle top.  

I'm glad that I can call you "Meouwm" and you brought me to live in your house. Your bed is really comfortable.  The brown leather-look cube that sits in the corner is a great place to perch or flop on. The box with the cushion that you put in the wardrobe is okay, but I prefer to sleep in higher places. Under your bed is a great place to hide and that blanket with the puppies that drapes over your chair, is warm and soft. It's not only great for curling up on at night, but the way it hangs down makes it a perfect hiding place!  I can crawl under your chair and hide behind the quilt without you even knowing.  Your house is great!! 


It isn't just the furniture and the boxes and the suit cases and the clothes that you let me play with - it's like a kitty cat playground - but you do an excellent job of looking after me.  I can go poops in a litter tray in the house and play outside.  Sometimes, I get so hungry that I think my tummy is going to shrivel up into a raisin, but you are getting better at feeding me before that happens.  It isn't that hard you know, Meowm - my hungry song is loud and long and ends with a nip or two.  I know you're only a human, but surely that isn't too hard to decipher.  

I do love you Meowm! You're soft and squishy and get excited by the cutest things.  I mean, it's a piece of string for goodness sake.  But if that keeps you occupied and stops you from wanting to pick me up and carry me around the house like a teddy bear, I can handle that.  I can play along with that game.  But the ribbons... you can give me ribbons whenever you like!!! 
Anyway, it's time to go outside and roll in the grass before bed time. 
Love ya Meowm! 
Tag, you're it. 

Monday, April 21, 2014

Continuing the Silliness and Fortunes from Cookies

The BFF and I enjoy this Silly Song from Veggietales!




The Veggietales are a great source of silly and serious all rolled into one.  It just depends on which video you watch.  ;)

Have a great day!






Friday, April 11, 2014

Great Apps for Silliness

Holidays are a great time to embrace some silliness. Although, I must admit that I have been embracing quite a bit of silly throughout the school term as well.  I have found that a small dose of silliness every day seems to keep my chuckle chuckling.  The big old binge of silly on the holidays doesn't hurt, but it certainly doesn't last for 10 weeks of serious.  If you are making sense of this you probably need a good dose of serious yourself.  So, here are two apps (I'm sure there are plenty more) that can give you a daily dose of giggle so you can be serious without morphing into a serious monster.  I was a serious monster once - I didn't care for it.

Application #1 LOL Cats
On my Surface Tablet, I have downloaded a free app from icanhazcheezeburger.com.  Simply open the app, click on the button that says "i can heif the funniez" and a LOLCat image-complete with caption- will appear on the screen.  Then I can use the SHARE charm to show all my friends, but emailing them a link to the picture online.  Great Stuff!! I also love the fact that you can press the button as many times as like each day, so if one picture isn't enough silly to keep you going, all you have to do is press the button again and you see new LOL Cats material.  Love it!!

Here's a sample of today's silliness from my LOL Cats App


Application #2 Fortune Cookie a Day
This one is also available in the Surface Store.  Each day you can literally 'crack a fortune cookie' -well you click the fortune cookie and it makes a cracking sound- and out comes a fortune that has appeared in a real life fortune cookie in the world.  All the Wisdom of the traditional fortune cookie without the calories! 

Not to mention the great feature that allows you to save the fortunes that you like or that tickle your funny bone.  You can also click on a location button and see where the original fortune cookie was cracked open,  When you buy the real thing, you can upload the fortune that you received so others in the world (with the app) can see your fortune.  Whether useful or not, each time I've used this app, it has given me a smile.  So, that's worth it.

Both Apps are FREE and the opinions in this blog are my own, I'm not getting any compensation for sharing my APPreciation.  WOW... that was a really bad pun. 

That's that then: I'm about half way through my  holidays... scary thought. 

Love!

Great Books - The Shortlist for CBCA Book of the Year 2014 has been ANNOUNCED!!

It's that time of year again!! I love Book Week and now I have another list of books to check out!  Hopefully I will get to them before August!

Lots of exclamation marks!!!! :D

Kids' Book Review: CBCA Book of the Year 2014 SHORT LIST ANNOUNCED!: Congratulations to all the shortlisted and notables authors and illustrators, from all of us at KBR! See the Notable Books right here . ...

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Great Contemplation Part 2

Another thought that meandered through my mind recently was about how life tends to turn out.  I certainly never envisioned a life for myself that was anything like the one I am living. 

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor, playing with Shelly.  A plaited length of wool and her long tunnel were keeping us both enthralled. Then, it hit me.  This wasn’t the plan - there was a day when all my dreams looked very different!  They included a husband, a baby (or more) and a house of my own.  They didn’t include a gorgeous kitty stealing my heart.  It reminded me of those lyrics The Beatles sang,
"Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.”  
Carrie Bradshaw (in Sex and the City) said that:
"In New York, life is what happens to you when you’re waiting for a table.” 
Remember the episode of Seinfeld when the gang are waiting for a table at a Chinese Restaurant – it was eventful (click to see the video).  In our family home, “Life is what happens during the commercial break.”
Now, I’m going to watch The Block!