Attention, viewers of Sister Wives – there was a Sister Wives special on Sunday night. I didn’t know about it and my DVR didn’t catch it, Amy just happened to mention it on Facebook, and I ran downstairs to see that I’d missed the first 45 minutes of it. Luckily, it was on again a few hours later, so I set it up to tape. It’s on again Wednesday night, and so are all the shows. I actually missed show #6 (where Christine stormed off the set), so I’ll be taping that to watch, even though I think I’ve seen it all through the clips they showed on Oprah and the ones they showed on the special.
I watched the special yesterday, and it was interesting, though I certainly didn’t learn anything new. The whole idea of polygamy still boggles my mind (did I mention I don’t like to share?), and all the women seem likable enough (Christine seems a bit high maintenance), though I do wonder why on earth they took up with Kody, who I think wants to come across as an affable dork but I believe has a bit of the asshole about him.
Here’s a note to all men with receding hairlines – growing your hair long and poufing it out does not, you may be amazed to hear, disguise your receding hairline. Cut your damn hair short and embrace your receding hairline, goddamnit.
Sister Wives has been signed for a second season, and you know I’ll be there with bells on.
Not only was Sunday Halloween, it was also our 12th anniversary. To be honest, if sweet reader Loretta hadn’t sent me an e-card Saturday night, I probably would have gotten to about mid-day Sunday before I remembered. We don’t, I guess you can tell, make a big deal about it most years. We went up to Tennessee to the Dog Days Flea Market, came home, hung around, had meatloaf and mashed potatoes for Sunday dinner, I did laundry, Fred took a nap on the couch, and we snuggled with kittens.
A pretty good way to spend our anniversary, if you ask me.
I suggested to Fred that we start saving up to go somewhere special for our 15th anniversary. The last time I started saving to go somewhere for our anniversary – our 10th – I had a nice amount socked away, and then we bought this house. We ended up spending all of that savings I’d put away on renovating the house, and I certainly don’t regret that. This house ended up being a good 10th anniversary gift to ourselves!
I’d love to go to Scotland or Australia for our 15th anniversary, but I think I’d be lucky to get Fred out of the state, let alone the country. Maybe I could talk him into a trip to the Northwest. Or Canada! (Yeah, it’s another country, but it’s not THAT far.)
I do love my Canoodlians.
Saturday, we went to Big Lots to see if they had It (the TV miniseries from 20 years ago) on DVD (Fred’s rereading the book, and has become obsessed with seeing the miniseries again), and while we were there, I wandered over to look at the Halloween section. All the Halloween stuff was half price, so I bought a few things. Then when we got home, I tossed the Halloween stuff on the counter and ignored it, as is my way.
Then late Sunday, I set up a fancy studio and began snapping pictures. Please do not be jealous of my fancy photo studio.
Apparently the best way to get a picture of a kitten wearing a hat is to wait ’til the kitten falls asleep and place the hat on his head so gently that he doesn’t realize it’s there. I’ll be keeping that in mind for next year.
You know who I hardly ever get pictures of, and who is the sweetest, friendliest, most adoptable, should-be-snatched-up-in-10-seconds-flat cat in (temporary) residence? Rhyme, that’s who. I’m going to remedy that this week. In fact, maybe I can get enough awesome pictures of his awesome self for tomorrow’s post, and maybe someone will be mindlessly surfing the internet and stumble across the post about him, fall instantly in love, and set about adopting him.
Wouldn’t that be cool?
Loony Jake seems none the worse for wear after being shoved into that chicken costume. Over at Flickr, Christy called him “El Pollo Loco”, and I laughed out loud.
Previously
2009: “I heard they was servin’ chocolate pudding at the Senior Center. Outta my WAY!”
2008: No entry.
2007: How’sabout you win us $100 billion in the lottery and we’ll negotiate the terms after that, foolio!
2006: No entry.
2005: He’s a class act, that Vincent Gallo
2004: “Squee!” it reiterated. “Squee! Squee! Squee!”
2003: No entry.
2002: No entry.
2001: Is it just me, or do you get pissed off when you’re the victim of unexpected pain?
2000: No entry.
1999: Damn that Halloween candy!
Sleeping kitten with hat = my new favorite! I am a little concerned about Loony Jake though, he has 5 feet and two tails. He’s mutating! Run for your life!
After falling in love with Jake and Elwood, we rescued a grey kitty and I have to say, that loony thing is inbred into all of them. Part of me wants to call it a character defect, but it is so damn endearing. Chance has no fear. He loves everything…carries an adorable smile. And is definitely Loony. A bit of a troublemaker too…but it makes me think that like the orange cat/stinky poo relationship, there is a grey cat/loony factor.
Oh, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Thanks!
That’s Reacher standing behind Loony Jake. There’s nothing the Bookworms like as much as a butt to sniff, which they do often and vigorously.
Happy anniversary!
Come on up to Canoodlia! We’d love to have y’all for a short visit, eh? Scotland is really nice too – we went there for our honeymoon.
I love the cat pictures with the hats, etc. The last picture with the sleeping kitten and the white cowboy hat is adorable. The thought of you tiptoeing around the house placing wee hats on all the sleeping cats made me laugh so hard I almost spewed out my tea on the monitor!!!
Be vewwy vewwy quiet!
Who is behind Jake being all up in his stuff?
Am I missing something? What is the miniseries?
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Stephen King’s It – Fred’s rereading the book, which is making him want to see the miniseries, even though he admits it wasn’t that great. (The miniseries isn’t that great, I mean – the book is pretty awesome.)
Sleeping kitten + hat = lurve!!
Come to Scotland! You can visit me, a Canoodlian, and have the best of both
That picture of Hutch SLAYS me. I want to grab him and squeeze all the cute out of him.
Happy Anniversary!
Us Canooooooodlians would LURVE to have you and your Mr. Fred visit!
STOP TEMPTING ME ROBYN !! You know I would love to come and pick up Reacher & Rhyme & Corbett & Bolitar to join my boys. They are just SO beautiful and sweet … must.not.adopt.4.more.repeat.repeat.
How about just two of ’em, then?
I’m kidding! (Maybe!)
Happy Anniversary. I hope you get your trip. I always tell people to go when the money is there and not fixate on a number. You never know what curve ball life might throw you so if the money and time are there when it’s 14 years I would go. We had an opportunity to go to Key West with friends right after our 24th anniversary. I’m so glad we did because both my in-laws became ill and died the year of our 25th. If we hadn’t gone when we did it would never have happened.
Ofcourse I watched the Sister Wives Special and I did learn a few new things-didn’t know wife #2 was married before to wife #1’s brother- a little strange. Also when Kody said he is more animated and they made him “dial it down” (paraphrasing) I thought wow what a bafoon he must be because he’s a lot to take as is. He said he is an enigma and no one “gets him”-poor baby! I don’t like him but it is interesting. I don’t think they should be prosecuted. They are supporting themselves so I say live and let live. The lifestyle is not for me but seems to work for them. I think Natalie Morales said they estimate 35,000 polygomus families live in the US. That seems like a lot doesn’t it? My husband is bald and was prematurely. He did the man perm thing in the eighties and now he insists on wearing it longer in the back. A former very funny co worker of mine obsessed with mullets called it a bullet. I LOVED IT. I can’t talk him into cutting the back. He only will go to the barbers who go along with it. I love him bald and his grey shaded hair and beard with his green eyes but he’d look so much better with the back short. Stubborn men!
Jake’s grin is adorable! He is uber cool!
Annette, I forgot to mention in my entry that I wonder if this is going to be the thing that allows polygamous families to come out into the open. Because if you prosecute this family for it, you’ve certainly got to prosecute others for it, and does the court system need to be bogged down with prosecuting families who aren’t hurting anyone else? Though I’m sure there are lots of people who’d disagree, I think that situations like this, where the women are free to go if they want to (and I think Meri often has one foot out the door) are, well, I don’t get it, but I don’t have a problem with it. It’s not for me, but there are lots of situations that go on in other marriages that wouldn’t be for me.
BULLET! LOL!!!
OK, I have to share this with you:
I write for an online magazine called LovetoKnow, that displays ads on its side bars. Apparently they are running one from CafePress right now, and it shows your calendar at the very top. I was just checking out the layout of the Tattoo channel, and there was Elwood and Jake in his chicken hat!
No idea how you feel about that, but I got a kick out of it!
Betsy, I surfed somewhere (I don’t remember where) in the last couple of days and saw the calendar too! That’s really pretty neat.
I’d love to go back to Toronto (and eventually LIVE there….). It’s a great city and the people were always friendly. Plus there’s the Eaton Centre, the CN Tower, the SkyDome, Lake Ontario, the City Hall and the little skating rink in front of it……sigh…..
Happy (belated) Anniversary, Robyn and Fred!
The best part about the “It” miniseries is Tim Curry as the killer clown. Damn, he was scary. Any part of the movie without him in it was just your run-of-the-mill TV fare with mediocre acting. I’d buy it if I found it in the five dollar bin.
I think you should go to Las Vegas for your anniversary because that’s where we always spend ours. Then again, we got back from Hawaii last week and that was pretty awesome too. The flight home felt about a million years long, though. Can’t even IMAGINE a flight to Australia.
Whiskery, sleeping kitty with teeny hat on…priceless!
LOVE the wee hat on the wee cat!!
Sister Wives. I get the feeling Meri is in charge of the others and that No. 2 is a pill. No. 3 doesn’t bug me. Yet. Why No. 4 was necessary I will never understand and the husband is a complete tool.
Ooooh, I totally dreamed about you last night! Well, not YOU exactly, but your house o’cats. I dreamed that the adoption business really tanked and NO kitties were being adopted. Then, in a crisis, you took in a litter of 7 baby meowsters of unquestionable adorability followed by three more cute-to-the-max kittens. There were cats and kittens everywhere and yet, you were totally happy and dealing with it. The only thing you worried about was when adoptions would start up again. i seriously hope this is not a ‘premonition’ dream. Those adorable babies need forever homes, even though they are waaaaay spoiled at your place. Maybe you are just too good with fosters????
If you find yourself wandering around the Northwest (eastern WA state to be specfic)- let me know because I’d love to treat you both to meal.
I love Looney Jake! Its just so interesting that he and Elwood started looking so identical and now they look so different in size and expressions.
Oh oh oh come to Australia!!!!