Please Happy

Yes, more gratuitous cat lady pics of the allergy muffins.

Here’s one of ours.

Then, last night, we went to see The Spinto Band play in L.A. (They’re here on tour from our homeland in the mid-Atlantic.)

And, they opened for a band called Miniature Tigers.

I guess they thought Kittens didn’t sound poetic enough.

We only spent 30 minutes cooing for him, arms outstretched in We’ll Catch You Encouragement before he figured it out himself and plunged head first down the trunk. Good lesson in rearing little ones. Let ‘em go.

After 10 months of wheezing and exhaustion and steroids and not exercising to my full capacity, I am finally going to see a professional non-university health center specialist. I asked Yelp to recommend a doc who could do something for me and my aching lungs. Yelp gave me the website of a pro. A personable, nice, knowledgeable allergist in Century City.

This is a pic from that doc’s site. I’m hoping that the inhalers the doc gives me will make me as happy as they did this girl. Jake thinks she’s high.

I’ll take it.

These two are so different in personality. One hogs all the food, the other walks by it. One needs constant cuddling, the other comes in only for the occasional butt/back rub. One is bulky and coarse, the other is skinny and soft. But, they also act like they’re one organism — cleaning each other’s heads, wrestling, weaving in and out stalking moths. I often can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.

And I can’t stop snapping striped pics.

In high school, I painted a self portrait that ended up in the literary magazine. It was a neck down, topless with jeans painting on an unglued paper bag. My friend Isabelle titled it Essential Parts. Hands on jeans, hair hanging down. Very artsy.

These days, my essential parts are more literal. The two pictured here enable discovery (radio equipment, computer cords, camera cards) and love (kitty!). And, this is also an ordinary photo of the kitchen table. At any give time, it has on it a pile of cords and at least one cat.