Thankful Thursday

We're still adjusting our routine after tax season. It takes a lot of practice to get our new normal just right...

We do have something to be thankful for. Isabella was re-tested for her hyperthyroidism after being on meds for 50 days and her results were fabulous! She went from 3.4 (4 is the upper limit) to 1.2! I won't be tested for several months since I'm no longer on meds for my hyperthyroidism because I'm allergic to them. I am finally no longer itchy all the time and for that I'm thankful. We're both thankful there is no room in this chair for Lexi...

The biggest thing we're thankful for is that we just endured our last tax season! Yep, we're officially retired as CPA Cats! After 20 tax seasons, Mommy's body just can't handle sitting for so many hours for so many days. She's also worked really hard to become healthy and lose quite a bit of weight the past 1.5 years so sitting for 25% of the year is counterproductive to that. It was just time for her to retire. Plus she's been saying to the Universe for the past five years that she wanted to retire at 50 so that's what she did! We're all happy and looking forward to not being stuck in the office next year and for whatever the future may bring!

What are you thankful for today?

Hope you have a great day!

Angel

Thankful Thursday

Recently we won purrsonalized socks from OurSock.com for our mommy from the Kitties Blue at The Cat on my Head. Mommy just had to choose one of us to put on the socks. Guess which one of us she picked?

Yep, me! She said she picked me because she wasn't sure how Tortie colors would show up on the socks but I know the real reason is because I'm so cute she can hardly stand it...

Oh my Cod! You're on socks, Angel? This better not go to your head!

Get it? I told her it better not go to her head because it's her head on the socks! MOL! I'm so funny! Anyway, these socks are kinda cool even with Angel on them. You know, if I stare at her face intently, I see her face everywhere kinda like seeing spots after staring at a bright light...

Much thanks to the Kitties Blue and their mom too! Mommy loves her new Angel socks and will wear them a lot since it's her footwear of choice when the weather is cooler. 

What are you thankful today?

Enjoy your day!

Angel and Isabella

Finally Friday

It's close enough to the weekend so we're going to kick it off with a prize we won recently from the beautiful Truffle and Brulee from Sweet Purrfections. It's a Bavarian Cat Toy Pillow filled with Valerian, Catnip and Spelt (aka the good stuff). As if that wasn't awesome enough, Truffle and Brulee included a couple of treats for us too...

We received the Patchwork Pillow and oh does it smell so awesome...

Angel, this is going to make you crazypants in 3, 2, 1...

Yep, I knew it.

OH. MY. COOOOD!

Angel, shush! The neighbors can hear you!

You are so weird, chica...

Bella, why are you upside down?

Seriously Angel, you're not acting very ladycat like...

Ahhh! Such a fabulous scent...

Mucho thanks to Truffle and Brulee and their mom Paula! We appreciate this very much! We love the Bavarian Cat Toy Pillow and the yummy treats! Yes, they will be shared. Maybe.

What makes you go crazypants?

Happy Weekend to you!

Angel and Isabella

Weekend Wrap Up and PSA

We hope you had a good weekend! We had a recuperation weekend around here where we all took it easy and napped a lot. Isabella napped because she looked after me last week so was up more hours than normal. Daddy napped because he was sick. Mommy napped because she didn't sleep last week, she had to take care of Daddy and she was sick too. We were all so tired that I even watched birdies from bed...

Thankfully both Mommy and Daddy are on the mend. I continue to improve and am feeling like myself today. Last week I was sluggish in the mornings and clumsy when I jumped. As of yesterday I'm my perky morning self and can jump gracefully and effortlessly again. This is a good thing because I'm slow at eating my meals so Isabella cleans her bowl and then mine. Because of this my meals are served on a closet shelf since someTortie can't jump up there. One thing she can do well is keep me warm so I've been snuggling with her a lot...

Anyway, I know I'm very lucky to be here and also that what happened to me was very rare. On the radiograph taken when I first arrived at the emergency vet, it showed a mass in my stomach that was blocking my esophagus which is why I could hardly breathe. Later a radiograph showed the mass had moved farther into my stomach near where it goes through the process to exit out the other way. It was believed this was a hairball until Mommy discovered this Saturday:

Of course we're not telling which one of us licked off Rosie Rat's fur but it is something that has never happened before so Mommy thinks this may be what was in my tummy. It's now in the trash. Anyway, because of all this, Mommy has a few tips in case anything like this ever happens to you - which we truly hope never ever does:

• Check your pet's toys! Angel loves Rosie Rat and has at least five throughout the house at any time. Never has the fur been licked off. I doubt that happened at one time so I need to be more vigilant about noticing any changes in their toys. They never get any toy that has parts that can come off or be pulled off. I've been known to perform amputations on toys that have loose pieces as long as the rest is secure. Otherwise the toys go straight into the trash.
• Trust your gut! Angel sounded different when she started choking and I immediately checked on her and noticed something wrong. As soon as I saw whatever was causing the distress wasn't coming out, I didn't think twice about taking her for help. Seconds count so it's far better to err on the side of caution.
• Have a carrier ready to go. We have two carriers in a closet ready to grab and go but only one was unzipped and open so I could put her in and go quickly. The other one hadn't even been taken out of the packaging but that has now changed.
• Make sure your car keys are in a spot you can find easily. I had no spare moments to find my keys so thankfully I keep mine in a spot where I didn't have to search for them.
• Be sure you know how to drive your cars. Okay, I know this sounds like a weird tip but we have a 2017 Toyota Prius that only J drives. It has a weird gear shift and I've only driven it once for a short distance and he put it in gear for me. On January 4th, he went to a meeting on the coast so he parked the Prius behind my car so he could take his other car. If this incident had happened on that day, I would've lost precious moments trying to figure out how to drive that Prius. So now I need to learn how that gear shift works (he says it's easy) or he'll need to put the Prius in the garage after pulling his other car out so mine isn't blocked. This whole theory goes for not only hybrid cars but stick shifts or any car that you're not familiar with but may need to drive in an emergency.
• Have your vet's contact information with you. We have a home vet so she's not easy to get ahold of nor is she equipped to handle emergencies which is why I took Angel to the emergency vet. I didn't have the emergency vet's info in my phone so was unable to call ahead so they were prepared for us. They are in my phone now though!

If you can think of other tips that could help save a pet's life, please be sure to share! The whole incident is a blur but thankfully everything worked out just fine. Thanks so much for all the purrs and prayers too. We do believe they helped us have this outcome and for that we're so grateful.

Hope you have a great start to the week!

Angel & Mommy

Happy Thanksgiving!

We want to wish Happy Thanksgiving to our friends here in the U.S and say how thankful we are for our friends throughout the world!

We have many things to be thankful for this year including...

A loving, furever home

Sunpuddles

Our good health

A cabinet full of foods

Our toys and scratchers

And warm cuddles on a comfy bed...

We hope your home is filled with happiness, your heart is filled with love and your tummy is filled with goodies!

Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

Isabella, Angel and our Mommy

Tortie Tuesday

I'm grateful it's Tortie Tuesday and I'm also grateful for a rare sunpuddle on a rainy day...

I'm really grateful Thanksgiving is two days away because of turkey and whipped cream. Oh, and, because we'll all be together for a long holiday weekend too.

Will Thanksgiving dinner be at your house this year?

Happy Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella

Thankful Thursday

The noisy strangers finished the deck yesterday. It took longer than expected so we're very thankful to finally have peace and quiet restored during our hectic work days in the office...

We're also thankful that after we get done with work today, we're off until September 5th! We have an exciting week coming up with a birthday (frosting!) and a visit from our Grandma from Las Vegas! We have a lot to look forward to!

Do you have anything exciting planned as we near the unofficial end of summer?

Hope you have lots to be thankful for today!

Angel and Isabella

Thankful Thursday

Recently we won a giveaway from our friend Phoebe and her family - a package of thirteen toys crocheted by her mom!

So many goodies!

Isabella woke up to see what all we got...

She even played with them too...

I loved bunny kicking the banana...

Isabella imitated it...

MOL! I crack myself up!
Anyway, many thanks to Phoebe for all the toys! We enjoy them very much! 

What are you thankful for this Thursday?

Hope you have a happy day!

Angel

Happy Thanksgiving!

We want to wish Happy Thanksgiving to our friends here in the U.S. and say how thankful we are for our friends throughout the world!

We have many things to be thankful for this year including...

A loving, furever home

Our good health

Sunpuddles

Snuggle buddies

Lots of toys to play with

Lots of comfy spots to nap

I could go on and on but it's time to bring on the turkey...

That's not quite what I had in mind.

Hope your home is filled with happiness, your heart if filled with love and your tummy is filled with yummy goodies!

Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

Isabella, Angel and our Mommy

This and That

Thanks to everybuddy for the birthday wishes yesterday! You helped make my 10th birthday a special one! I was spoilt treated just as I deserved to be. In other words, I was treated like I am every day - like royalty! 

Do you remember how something happened earlier this year that stopped me from jumping on the counters? Well, despite hesitation, I jumped on the bathroom counter to get scritched every day our Grandpa from Kansas was here in June but I've only jumped up a handful of times before and after then. I make Mommy and Daddy pick me up. I do want to jump up there really bad but for a reason I'm not saying, I just won't.

In other news, Mommy had a great time with her friends in San Jose! They stayed in downtown San Jose and the weather was perfect and the city was beautiful with lots of trees, parks and art including this under the highway overpass...

This was the same overpass lit up at night after the concert...

Speaking of the concert, Mommy said Adele put on an incredible show. She was beautiful, funny and she sang songs from all three albums. She sang with just guitar and cello backup...

Full band on a big stage...

And also by herself on a stage in the middle of the floor...

The screens were raised after the first song she sang on that little stage so Adele could interact with the crowd. Her image was still projected on the screens so everyone could see her.

Anyway, we're glad Mommy had a good time but we're really glad she's home with us now and no more trips are planned for the entire month! 

That's about all I have for today. 

Hope you have a fabulous day!

Angel

Thankful Thursday

Our friend Sandee from Comedy Plus posts what she's thankful for on Thursdays so we thought we'd give it a try here too. One thing we're thankful for is that we're going to meet Sandee in purrson this summer! I will even probably come out of hiding so she can pet me. Isabella loves company so she's thankful someone else is coming to spoil her too.

Another thing I'm thankful for is our daddy. He works really hard for us to have everything we could ever want and then some. When he has rough days at work I make sure and give him extra purr therapy...

I know he's thankful for it too despite his even louder than Mommy's complaints about numb feets.

We're thankful our gingerbread house is still out and that we have a box full of toys.

We're also thankful tax season is over and Mommy has more time to play with us. We're thankful she has an awesome boss now too. She put up with way too much negativity and stress at her old job so to have a job and boss she enjoys has changed all our lives immensely. Even her new boss lets her know how good she has it now! Hee hee!

What are you thankful for?

Hope you have a lovely day!

Angel

Tortie Tuesday

It's been nearly a month since my dental surgery to remove all my bad teefs so imagine my surprise when Mommy told me I got a gift from the Tooth Fairy weeks ago...

She claims she didn't tell me earlier because my mouth was healing and also I had a kitty cold and she didn't want me to get germies on the gifts which could get my little sisfur sick since the card says I should share. Whatever...

Anyway, I did get the Tooth Fairy's gifts and they are lots of fun!

They even turned me into an upside down Tortie wiggly worm...

And per the Tooth Fairy's request, I even shared with my little sisfur...

Many thanks to the Tooth Fairy (aka Ellen and her 14 kitties)! 

I appreciate you thinking of me and I love the toys! 

I hope your Tortie Tuesday feels as blessed as mine does!  

Isabella

Finally Friday

We hope all our US friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving! I slept through it. All of it. Well, I did get up to eat but other than that, I slept. I'm up today just long enough to see what's on the Birdie Network. As you can see, I also got rid of that awful cone. I'm a good girl so I don't need it...

Anyway, I'm going to sleep through the rest of the day and probably the weekend too. I'll feel better soon though. Mommy says I have to, there's no other option.

I do want to thank everyone for all the purrs and prayers for me during all this. I can't begin to express how much it all means to me and my Mommy and Daddy!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Isabella

PeeS: Mommy here: Isabella is eating very well despite losing all her teeth but she started sneezing Tuesday, the day before her dental surgery. We told the vet this on Wednesday but she said her lungs were clear and even sounded better than they had at the initial consultation several weeks ago. By the time Isabella got home on Wednesday her nose was very runny and she was sneezing a lot. Yesterday her eyes were watery and the sneezing was pretty constant. We started the antibiotics Wednesday evening so she's now had four doses and it seems to be working a little. If she's not better by tomorrow we'll take her in but we're trying to avoid another car ride. Also, we noticed they cut her nose in two places which is very upsetting and we have no idea what would have caused this. This has been such an ordeal for all of us but hopefully she starts improving and that Angel doesn't catch whatever she has either. Angel won't even be in the same room as Isabella so at least that's one good thing right now.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We're recycling our post from 2009 but the sentiments are the same. We do want to add that we're very thankful we're together today after our day yesterday which you can read about here in case you didn't see our update. Enjoy this rerun and especially enjoy your day!

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We want to wish Happy Thanksgiving to our furiends here in the U.S. and say how thankful we are for our furiends throughout the world!

We have many things to be thankful for this year including...

A loving furever home

Plenty of food and treats

Lots of toys to play with

Sunshine on our furs

Sisfurs (and beans) to snuggle with

Windows to watch the birdies through

I could go on and on Mommy but it's time to bring on the Turkey!

That's not exactly what I had in mind.

Hope your home is filled with happiness, your heart is filled with love, and your belly is full of yummy foods!

Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

Angel, Isabella and our Mommy

Weekend Wrap Up

The weekends go by way too fast!  Yeah, okay, so every day is a weekend for us and although we declared this to be a three day weekend, Mommy had a long to-do list for her and Daddy so we napped inside alone while they worked in the yard.  They finished up most of the new side yard....

Well, the veggie garden is done but the flower garden isn't, trees and bushes need to be trimmed, grass needs to be mowed, the deck needs to be cleaned and well, you get the idea.  Anyway, they worked outside since last week was rainy and dreary and nothing much gone done inside or out.  Since the sun was finally out and we were up from our dreary day naps, we got a packaged from Phoebe, her mom and the other 14 at 15 and meowing...

One guess what I'm about to do to this...

Did you guess right?

I turn into a crazy kitty when I can bunny kick things!  I also enjoyed the little maraca...

Isabella took one of they toys and tossed it and carried it all around the house...

Can you tell we can't sit still for photos when toys are involved?  Sorry about that but we just got too excited!  

See, I told you!
We loved the pressies Phoebe!  Much thanks to you and your mom!  We appreciate them very much!

What did you do this weekend?

Hope you have a sunny week!

Angel

Summer Smile

It's been rainy, dreary and cool so we've been doing a lot of napping lately.  Well, more than usual napping let's just say.  Anyway, despite the cooler temps, Mommy opens the windows during breaks in the rain because she thinks the fresh air will make us less sluggish.  

Mommy, what we really need is Summer...

Little did I know but we have Summer!  She's a dotee doll made by our friend BumbleVee in Canada.  I was so happy to see her I gave her a little kiss...

Summer was so surprised she fainted...

Maybe she's tired.  Okay, maybe it's me who's tired but I let her to join me in my favorite napping spot on the bed thisclose to Mommy's pillow...

Oh Summer, you're so cute! I just love you!

While I napped, Summer met Angel...

She also got to hang out with our husky doll named Sadie...

Thank you BumbleVee for sending us a little Summer!  She brought us some much needed sunshine and she put a smile on Mommy's face which we appreciate very much!  

We hope you have a smile on your face today too!

Isabella

PeeS:  Summer was not injured in any way from her fainting incident or my show of affection.