Weeklyish thingy and ANOTHER kitty.

Painting cats, it’s a lot of what I currently do.

This is specifically my parents’ cat (so my adopted brother?) Skippy. They just had to say goodbye to him; he had congestive heart failure and any intervention strong enough to keep him alive would not have given him any quality of life, so it was time.

Skippy was a CHARACTER. When they first adopted him he was so skittish he hid under the bed in the guest room for weeks and was only slowly lured out into the house. (He also left that room trashed enough that they had to totally rip out flooring and KILLZ all the walls before it was habitable again.)

But once he bonded with my father he bonded hard. He constantly wanted his full attention and had no time for anyone else. I’m usually good with skittish cats, I visited regularly, and I knew they only way I’d get to touch him was if he was in one of his safe spots and I did NOT dare to sit down or settle into any comfortable position.

He looked like a little wildcat and climbed his scratching tree like one too.

He liked leaving toy mice in his dry food dish.

Places to buy stuff!

• The Gamecrafter: your home for the new and slightly improved Neurotic Owl Tarot. AND Neurotic Owl’s Faerytale Tarot! https://tgc.link/Faerytaletarot
• TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products.  Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to $14!
• REDBUBBLE: Just, I don’t know, a ton of different stuff.  T-shirts are more expensive than Teepublic, but there are a lot more options.
• AMAZON: Home of the Geeky Gals Coloring Book!  Daydreams and Whimsies!  AND NOW, The Neurotic Owl Compendium!
• ETSY: paper dolls, a knitting bag pattern, and a bunch of vintage dolls of various sorts from my collection

Did I miss something?  I think that’s everything.

What’s making me happy this week:

Got to hang out with Magical Sparkle Muffin and her family, and she VOLUNTEERED to watch several more Buffy episodes so maybe sometime in the next five years we’ll progress to the point that I won’t have to constantly worry about dropping spoilers!