Kitties!

I'm digging through pictures from the last few months ... really need to get back in the habit of posting photos regularly.

The required glamour shot:

Sunshine and shadow by Angela Boyko

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Charlie enjoying one of the mermaid pillows that my aunt Cheryl made for me:


Hermione luuurrrrrves it when one of the bigger kitties gives her a baff.


Hermione and Chloe, just chillin'.

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Those crazy kids

I work with a lot of young people. The latest craze, according to them, is hadoken "Which is like Japanese planking!"

What it really is, is posing as if you're in a video game, and one person in the middle poses as if in a video game, blowing everyone else away. Everyone else jumps away at the same time as if blown away.

Which explains this:


They decided we would do it that day! Obviously I didn't know in advance, or I would have worn something sexier and more hadoken-worthy (I'm on the far left). That was our tenth take, I think.

The cast of The Good Wife is also hip:



The Chive has more examples.

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Photos

The fallen tree by Angela Boyko

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The innocent look by Angela Boyko

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The guilt

When I was packing to go to Red Deer a couple of weeks ago, Hermione knew what to do. Sit in the suitcase and give me That Look, so that I wouldn't fill up the suitcase and leave.

It didn't work. :-)


Don't leave me by Angela Boyko

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Hermione on a quilt

Hermione on a quilt by Angela Boyko

My grandmother began making quilts when her grandchildren started getting married. She made a quilt for each if time permitted - sometimes she bought a quilt if there wasn't enough time.

When it came down to three grandchilden and one great-granddaughter, all of marrying age and single, she decided to make quilts for us anyways. As she put it, she wasn't going to be around forever, and she wanted each of us to have a quilt. So this is how I came to have this quilt. Gram made a pink one and a yellow one, and my cousin Julie (the great-grand-daughter) was engaged so she got first choice.

With time and maturity, I've gotten over not having first choice. Because after she made the quilts, Gram had a stroke, and her quilting time was over. When she passed away in 2006, I slept with this quilt for a while, to have her energy with me. Then I put it away, because I had two cats with sensitive stomachs.

This Saturday, I was at a stitching meetup and met a woman who quilts. She told me that she doesn't make quilts for baby gifts anymore, because nobody uses them. They only display them.

I'd been thinking of changing my bedding for spring. So I went home and brought out this quilt. My current cats all have good stomachs (except for the occiasional hairball). And they have all investigated this quilt and found it worthy.

This picture is available on 500px and my SmugMug store.

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The moon and Jupiter

The moon and Jupiter, a photo by angelamermaid on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
I haven't been able to find the comet PANSTARRS, I missed prime viewing thanks to snowy skies, but I was able to capture this tonight

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Staycation Day 1

I went to another knitting meetup. Two of the women I met last week were there, plus a woman I hadn't met before. We had a nice time of sitting and talking. Now we're all Facebook friends.

One thing that came up is how we don't share deep stuff on Facebook. I have a lot of coworkers friended on Facebook, so I'm careful about what I post there, for example. (And here!) ;-)

The subject turned to TMI stuff other people post. So I didn't share this story of a guy live-tweeting while at the hospital for having a dildo stuck where the sun don't shine. And the battery lasted nine hours.

Then I went and got groceries. My brand new bottle of olive oil fell out and broke on the sidewalk in front of my house. The Internet helpfully told me that I could absorb it with kitty litter. I conveniently had half a bag of unused litter - I'd tried switching brands and the cats and I and my petsitter all hated it. So I sprinkled it all over the pavement and warned the neighbours walking by so they wouldn't get olive oil on their shoes.

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The Country of Zirconic

My nephew Andrew has a micronation, the country of Zirconic. He's put a lot of work into the constitution amongst many things. He very specifically made the country accepting of sexual orientation and religion.

As the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, I can now extend to you an invitation to join this fine nation. There are two steps to the process:

1. Recite the Oath in the comments of this entry
2. "Like" Zirconic's Facebook page

Have I mentioned he's 14? :-) It's been fascinating, watching him work out the politics of the country. At one point he described it as being similar to the Roman Replublic "but without slavery because that would be wrong".

MicroWiki entry on Zirconic

The oath:

I pledge allegiance to the country of Zirconic.
I pledge to fulfill all responsibilities and duties of a Zirconian citizen, such as voting and running in the bi-yearly elections.
I pledge to respect all the rights of all my fellow citizens, including those who cannot speak for themselves.
I pledge to make my country proud.

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