Friendly Fill-Ins and Elegant Eddy

Hello and happy Friday, friends! We're ready for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, and we'd love for you to join us. My amazing co-host Ellen of 15andmeowing came up with the first two, and I came up with the second two.

1. A word to describe my life right now would be _________.

2. _________ drives me batty.

3. When it comes to _________, I'm most known for _________.

4. _________ is my idea of cozy.


My answers are below in bold.

1. A word to describe my life right now would be chaotic.

(This is probably a pretty normal situation for most people. Sometimes, life is just crazy. Between work, my aging furry babies, and life in general, I'm just in one of those crazy seasons right now.)

2. Technology drives me batty.

(I really enjoy and appreciate a lot of what technology has to offer. It can save lives, not to mention it simply makes life easier and more fun sometimes. But, sometimes it doesn't. Between device errors and breakages and my own lack of technological savvy, I often get really frustrated with technology. It's a running joke in my family that I'm the person who can look at a technological device and it'll pretty much self destruct.)

3. When it comes to going to our vet, I'm most known for being the lady with the paralyzed cat.

(Perhaps because my special needs boy Evan is at the vet so much, even if it's just for his regular sanitary shaves, everyone there knows me by sight. And they mostly associate me with my sweet and special orange boy. When I occasionally show up with my other kitties or pup Astrid, it's like some of the staff there forgets I have other furry babies, because they're always expecting to see Evan. It's not that they're unhappy to see my other furry family, it's just that Evan is very well known at our vet.)

4. Home is my idea of cozy.

(As I've mentioned many times, I'm a homebody. I love nothing more than being home with my kitties and pup, and home is simply where I'm most cozy and happy.)

Now it's your turn!

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It's time for your Eddy fix! Unfortunately, this busy girl was busy spying on wildlife, so the view you get of her is this classy one here:

Elegant, right? In case you can't make heads or tails of that, Eddy's heady is over at the right, staring out the window. You can barely see her ears poking up thanks to the sunlight and the used and abused cat tree's sisal rope dangling down. Her bum is so politely facing the camera.

Eddy and all of us here hope you have a wonderful day!

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

I found another old doodle I forgot I'd scribbled up in a past series of spooky summertime drawings. So, I might as well share it now, right?

I honestly have a number of new doodles of all sorts I still haven't shared with you all. I simply need to get them scanned and uploaded. Hopefully this weekend I can work on that and start sharing all of those new ones next week.

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Tip of the Day

Today's pet parenting hack tip is a simple yet important one. Especially if your furbaby is a known chewer, do consider getting covers for power cords and other cables. I'm sure you all know the dangers that chewing on a cord can pose to our furbabies. So, to prevent this, cover up those cords and cables. There are a variety of cord and cable covers available on the market. There are covers that encase cords so that they are safe yet still able to be easily moved, and there are ones that essentially pin cords safely and securely to the floor. Of course, those are just two examples as to how you can make cords and cables safe around your furbabies. Perhaps do a bit of research, and, depending on your home and technological setup, determine what kind of cord and cable covers would best work for both you and your furbaby. As we always say, it's better to be safe than sorry.