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[July 18th, 2009 @ 11:21pm] |
Thanks to everyone for their advice on food in this entry. I ended up going with Wellness Kitten, and Benji seems to really be enjoying it!
Quick question: I'm getting Benj a playmate when I move to my new apartment. Is integrating a kitten with a 1.5 year old cat any different from two adult cats? Benji seems fine around the two resident cats here that aren't mine, and the foster mom of the cat I'm adopting says he's super laid back and gets along well with all of her cats. Any advice?

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| Trianglefest '09! |
[July 18th, 2009 @ 11:03pm] |
This year's Trianglefest will end sign-ups in 12 hours. We're a fic exchange for love triangles of all shapes and sizes. Be it het, slash, femslash, nextgen or crossgen, you've got a love triangle of any kind? We've got a home for you.

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[July 18th, 2009 @ 4:51pm] |
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Hiya

Daniel Radcliffe posed for Blag magazine's HMV's My Inspiration campaign (designed to advertise new Harry Potter film box set releases.
Please click on the pic, thanks!
Hope u like it!
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| Injured kitten - accident or abuse? |
[July 18th, 2009 @ 2:59pm] |
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I'm involved in a weird situation right now with a kitten I was supposed to be babysitting for a week, but arrived suspiciously injured. I'm asking everyone I know who may be familiar with cat injuries and possible abuse, because I'm trying to figure out if the owner's story makes any sense. Sorry it's so long, but the situation is turning ugly and I need some outside thoughts on the situation.
( The whole long crazy kitten saga here... )
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[July 18th, 2009 @ 10:41pm] |
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Am back from London. I think I should maybe just get married to this city. I love it so! Here a synopsis of what we did, and I'm not cutting, sorry.
Day 1
* Great breakfast at our hotel, which was by the quite inconveniently situated (our previous hotel was near Russel Square, so we were spoiled), a busride away from Earl's Court.
* Charles Dickens house/museum. It was very interesting, and oh my god I want that house, it's gorgeous. I have never read a Dickens novel but I bought a used copy of Great Expectations so I will do so soon. I can recommend the museum if you're interested in the man. Very neat.
* British Museum. To be fair I have to say that we only briefly entered it to have lunch, but in the end we didn't. It looks gorgeous on the inside though.
* Harrod's, where I bought season 2 and 3 of Supernatural for only £17 each. In Holland, they cost €18 for half a season. I also bought 4.1 for Carolien, for which I have received abundant love declarations over the phone. Oh, and I bought The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson that I couldn't stop reading on the bus or on the tube or anywhere really. I totally recommend it, it's incredibly witty and I laughed too many times to count.
* Hyde Park. We did this awesome thing, I'm not sure what it's called in English, we paddled (?) on the lake there in the sun for half an hour. It was totally random but I loved it.
* Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, where we saw The Importance of Being Earnest. I had never read the play but I'll do so now. It was incredible, an experience I can truly recommend. The play was very good and hilarious at times but what was really great was just sitting there in the sun and later in the rain, watching an Oscar Wilde play in London, seriously, can it get any better?
Day 2
* Oscar Wilde house. It was boring. It was just a house with a blue plaque saying he had lived there at some point. You couldn't get in the house or anything. Apparently Johnny Depp owns an apartment a few streets away. We didn't go there though. Too much trouble.
* Notting Hill. Finally discovered Portobello Road (we couldn't find it last time - we didn't try very hard either). There's an awesome secondhand bookstore near the tube station, we spent too much time there and bought too many cheap ass books. I finally found Vox by Nicholson Baker, it was actually very good (read it today). Anyway, Portobello Road is quite charming, nice cosy shops.
* Sherlock Holmes Museum. It looks good from the outside but I found it very boring. It's just so pointless, a museum in the house of a fictional character, come on!
* National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed with the old paitings of Queen Elizabeth especially, oh god, so gorgeous. We skipped half the museum as usual because I have limited tolerance for them in general. It was nice though.
* We walked by the theatre where Jude Law was at that moment performing Hamlet. I could only just barely refrain myself from throwing myself in front of a bus. Still, I have never been that close to Jude Law, and I fear I'll never get any closer either.
* Delicious ice cream in some sort of hall-thing at Piccadilly Circus. The place is called Baskin Robbins, their ice cream is heaven.
Day 3
* Saw Big Ben and London Eye and all that. Still as gorgeous as the first time.
* Shakespeare Globe Theatre. On a whim we decided to see As You Like It the same afternoon. It was quite the experience: the play was hard to follow but very good none the less, the atmosphere was FANTASTIC and I totally want to go back to see Romeo & Juliet. GO THERE, I beg you. You won't regret it.
* Tower Bridge. I just love that bridge.
* Covent Garden. Walking around, having dinner at some Indian restaurant, it wasn't fantastic but then we have an impressive talent for finding shitty restaurants.
Day 4
* Victoria & Albert Museum. It was nice.
* Stress
* Stress
* Did I mention that we almost missed our flight?
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* But we made it, thank goodness.
And then I would like to recommend the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. And also The Lost Continent of Bill Bryson, and Vox by Nicholson Baker ( stains_of_blue, I think you might like that last one).
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| Clingy Cat is wayyyy too clingy |
[July 18th, 2009 @ 2:51pm] |
Hello--new to the community. I'm looking for some help with my nine year old tabby, Dottie. That's her in my icon. Kitty and I have both just experienced a big upheaval in our daily schedules. I'm a freelance bookkeeper, and used to work at home, mostly at night. Last week I started a nine to five day job. The abrupt change in schedule has been rough on the whole household, but Dottie is really acting out.
The big problem is her yowling and clinging. She's always been a talker, and loves to curl up on my arms when I'm sitting in front of the laptop. This is ok when I'm just watching tv, but when I'm doing work I have to scoop her up and put her on the floor. This week she's not having it. When I wake up in the morning, she's entirely underfoot, yelling the whole time. She doesn't want food--she wants me! I'm told she doesn't stop yelling until an hour after I leave. The yowling starts up again the minute I come home. I'm trying to hold down the day job and keep some of my bookkeeping accounts, so it's very important that I be able to get some work done in the evenings, but this is impossible when there's a cat sitting on my pile of papers, yelling at the top of her little kitty lungs. I've lost more than a little sleep this past week because of kitty, and she's fraying my last nerve!
So my questions are-- 1) How can I lower her anxiety level? She also suffers from feline herpes, and I'm trying to head off an outbreak. 2) Should I make a rule that kitty's now allowed on my work table at all? I spend a lot of time here (it's my desk and the entertainment center), so it seems cruel to not ever let her up, but I'm worried that some times being ok and others not might be too confusing. 3) Are there any other solutions to the clinginess? I've read that getting another cat can be helpful, but Dottie's never been very tolerant of other cats. She loves dogs, but I don't have the resources right now to care for another animal. She's never been interested in toys, but she will play, and I've tried to add more play time, but so far it's not helping.
Thanks so much for answers/advice/suggestions!
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| Abusive |
[July 18th, 2009 @ 1:49pm] |
My cat thinks I nearly killed him yesterday. See, I'm selling off my saltwater tank. We had to catch a clown fish and meet someone halfway. I placed the cats in the bedroom while trying to catch to fish. Bedroom has water and a litter box.
So, we finally catch the fish, go make the exchange, and get home within an hour. And then I realized I forgot to let the cats out of the bedroom. I opened the door and the "kitten" (He's over a year) just starts crying as though I'm beating him and runs around the house. Buddy has found a nice sleeping spot, opens an eye, closes it, and goes back to sleep.
Heh. I'm so mean.
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